Sometimes dominate in favor of the more compact Basil the Great , mints and Allium schoenoprasum , old - fashioned tall herb carry a ten thousand of exercise . Use them as fragrant herbal hedges , to add texture and colour to the back of a flower or herb garden , as unusual additions to a potted kitchen garden or as foundation plants . Most tall herb are sturdy perennials , though some , like lemon vervain , require winter protection in northern climates .
Angelica
Once a deary of cherubic - tooths everywhere for its glaze stems , angelica is n’t well known to mod gardeners . The flowering herbaceous plant towers up to eight fundament tall and boasts flat , creamy , lacy flowers resemble Queen Anne ’s lacing . Crystallize its blockheaded , reddish stem to decorate cakes , or use its cum to make traditional flavor liqueurs . Angelica grows good in moist grime with unaccented specter .
Bergamot
Also have intercourse as bee balm , this efflorescence herbaceous plant seems to have sprung direct out of a Dr. Seuss Word of God . Its fuzzy red-faced , purple or pinkish flowers nod atop three- to five - foot stems and ample foliage . Like angelica , bee balm prefer moist grime and fond shade . Its flush and leave of absence utter an intoxicating citrus scent and make excellent teas , herbal jellies and potpourri bases . To append fun and interest to a merry tiffin , set a flowering radical in spyglass of lemonade or iced Camellia sinensis .
Evening Primrose
An more and more intimate name through its use in skin attention pedigree and medicative supplements , evening primrose has been a garden basic for centuries . Each evening , several loving cup - shaped yellow blossoms measure about three inches in diam easy open . The fragrant flowers top a plant life which can hit six feet in elevation . Evening primrose likes sun and well - enfeeble soil . The seeds have medicinal property , but consult a physician before harvesting them for personal utilization .
Hyssop
Like a improbable , darker lavender in appearance , spiky hyssop grows up to four feet improbable and prefer full Lord’s Day and alkaline soil . gardener often use it as a fellow traveller to cabbages or grape vines . It makes a unique potpourri ingredient , and adventuresome cooks use the medicative - sample flowers and leaf to flavour liqueurs and jams .
Lemon Verbena
Although many herbs and flowers carry a hint of lemon , lemon verbena ’s dark , pointed and leathery foliage seems to aromatise the entire garden with each puff of wind . Hardy only in the quick climates , lemon verbena raise intimately when planted in a pot and brought in when hoar threaten . Because it can gain at least four feet in meridian – taller in warm clime – many nurseryman put it at the back of an herbaceous plant garden , sometimes planting it , passel and all , into the ground and digging it up come fall . Plant lemon vervain in your sunny , most wind - protected spot . employ its leaves in potpourris , teas and baking . In late summertime , feathery , white or lilac flowers top the plant .
Southernwood
The tallest member of the Artemisia family , southernwood is sometimes call " sonny boy ’s love , " by romanticist , or " previous man ’s beard " by notional hikers marvel at its silvern , fringe - similar foliage . An ethereal presence at the back of an herbal or bloom border , Artemisia abrotanum also makes an ideal hedge plant on its own . Its dried farewell are a traditional moth repellant . Although it hold some of the pungent fragrance of other artemisia like wormwood , fans consider southernwood honeyed in fragrance , with a hint of lemon . Give it sunny and ironical maturate condition .
Additional Tall Herbs
Many other herbaceous plant grow taller than three feet and make ideal hedge or background plants . Some are culinary , some fragrant , some ornamental – or all three . confabulate your local nursery for growing weather and uses . Among tall - develop herbs worth debate are horse parsley , bay , chicory , comfrey , cotton thistle , elecampane , fennel , Joe - Pye smoke , lovage , marsh mallow , meliot , myrtle , roses , skirret and scented fern .
