I don't have the wide variety that you do, but I'm working on getting lots of good smelling herbs at the front fence line (chain link) so the passersby on the sidewalk can smell them.
My culinary sage out there got huge and wonderful but then lost its lovely shape and turned scraggly. It also got beaten up by the winter this year. So I cut it back severely and am hoping it comes back out. If not, I DO have seeds.... I started the first one from seed from Seed Savers Exchange.
last year I bought a wonderful smelling plant called 'curry" only to get home, look it up, and find it's NOT the plant that produces culinary curry leaf.
But it does smell good, so I'll move it to the fence line in the corner I can't reach when clipping.
Anything critters might eat goes in pots in the "cage" I built on my deck from 6x6 panels of dog kennel fence. I also put a 5th panel as a lid on it to be sure the groundhogs and raccoons aren't enticed to climb over by the scent of basil.
Almost a decade ago, I started several lavendar plants from seed. I chose the "Lady Lavendar" that flowers in its first year. I let all my small ones go to other people and then I dug up my lone BIG one for someone special thinking I could start over from seed. Haven'e had ANY luck germinating again!?!?!?!?!? Got ONE seedling this spring but I started too early and it languished under the inadequate indoor light while I was waiting for outside to warm up. But I haven't used the whole packet yet, so cross your fingers for me!
I'm daring to do dill this year - I like to cook with it. I have promised myself that I will cut it when it's BABY dill and not allow it to seed all over everywhere. Cross your fingers for THAT, too
There's more, but my mind is half in the yard so I think it's time to get out there and finish this list later!
