10 Beautiful Flowering Herb Plants

Flowering herbs are easy to grow and look great in the garden.

Here are 10 low maintenance herbs with beautiful flowers to plant in your garden.

Some of these herbs can be used for cooking, while others are medicinal herbs that can be used to make herbal tea or remedies.

Most of these herbs will grow back for many years, giving you a long lasting supply of fragrant herbs.

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1. **Lavender (Lavendula)**

Lavender is a popular fragrant perennial herb with beautiful purple flowers that appear from late spring to summer.

Most varieties of Lavender will tolerate hot temperatures and humidity but if you live in a cool climate it’s best to plant English Lavender.

Lavender can be grown from seeds or cuttings and blooms best in a position with full sun.

Lavender flowers can be used to make flower arrangements, essential oils, herbal tea or lavender sachets.

2. **Chamomile (Matricaria recutita / Matricaria chamomilla)**

Chamomile is a low maintenance herb with beautiful yellow and white flowers that are similar to daisies.

Roman Chamomile is a perennial, while German Chamomile is an annual, but it reseeds easily so you’ll have lots of new plants popping up.

Both varieties are drought tolerant and will grow in full sun or partial shade.

Chamomile flowers are commonly dried and used to make a calming herbal tea.

3. **Mint (Mentha spicata)**

Spearmint is one of the easiest flowering herbs to grow, but it can quickly take over your garden, so it’s a good idea to plant it in a pot to keep it contained or cut it back after flowering to stop the seeds spreading.

Mint will grow in full sun or part shade and you can pick of the leaves as you need them and add them to drinks or make a refreshing mint tea.

4. **Echinacea (Echinacea purpurea)**

Echinacea, also called Purple Coneflower, is a beautiful perennial flowering herb that blooms from summer to early fall. [1]

It flowers best in a position with full sun and doesn’t require much ongoing maintenance.

The flowers can reach up to 5 feet (1.5 metres) tall, so they really stand out in the garden.

RELATED: How To Grow Echinacea

5. **Chives (Allium schoenoprasum)**

Chives are a popular culinary herb with long upright green leaves and edible pink flowers.

When planted in the garden, chives will form a clump, which you can divide every few years to keep the plant healthy.

Chives can also be grown indoors on a sunny windowsill and you can snip off a few leaves as you need them.

RELATED: 9 Best Herbs To Grow Indoors

6. **Sage (Salvia officinalis)**

Sage has beautiful purple flowers and the good thing about sage is that the leaves can still be used after the plant has flowered.

It’s grown as a perennial in warm areas, but in cool areas it’s grown as an annual.

Covering the plant with mulch will help it to survive during the winter.

7. **Rosemary (Salvia rosmarinus)**

Rosemary bushes produce small purple or blue flowers and the leaves look a bit like pine needles.

It’s winter hardy in warm climates but it can also be grown in cool climates and overwintered indoors.

Rosemary needs to be cut back after flowering to avoid it becoming woody.

8. **Catnip (Nepeta cataria)**

Catnip has beautiful purple spiky flowers and light green foliage.

It’s a popular herb amongst cat owners because it can have a euphoric or calming effect on cats.

Catnip grows 3 to 4 feet (90 to 120 cm) tall and can quickly take over the garden if it’s left to grow out of control.

You can plant it in a pot indoors to contain it’s growth and prevent neighbourhood cats visiting your backyard.

9. **Thyme (Thymus vulgaris)**

Thyme is a fast growing perennial flowering herb that has an abundance of small purple flowers.

It’s best to harvest thyme leaves just before the plant starts flowering for the best flavor.

Thyme grows best in a position with full sun and it can grow up to 15 inches (38 cm) tall. [2]

10. **Yarrow (Achillea millefolium)**

Yarrow is a low maintenance perennial flowering herb that can grow up to 4 feet (120 cm) high.

The flower heads are tightly packed and can be pink, white, red or yellow.

Yarrow helps to attract butterflies, bees and other beneficial insects to the garden and it’s frost and drought resistant.

RELATED: How To Grow Yarrow

So there are 10 beautiful flowering herbs to add to your garden.

Planting these herbs is a great way to have fresh herbs on hand when you need them and you get to enjoy their gorgeous flowers.

The video below is an herbal flower garden tour with some great tips for harvesting and using herbs from your garden.

Which of these flowering herb plants do you like best? Let me know in the comments below.

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This Post Has 11 Comments

Despite Pain March 6, 2020 Reply
Thanks for this. I’d really like to have a few herbs but wasn’t sure which would work. I had lavender once before at an old house but we don’t get quite so much sunshine here. I think I’d be best getting something in a pot, so I could bring it inside over the winter.
Lyosha March 7, 2020 Reply
Garden chamomile and mint are the best to use for tea and the plants are very cute as well. I enjoy looking at them in the garden, however I’d avoid lavender for too much of the smell
Melanie williams March 7, 2020 Reply
I am loving all your pretty flowering herb plant pictures here. It is surprising how many benefits certain plants can have for health too xx
Fatima Torres March 7, 2020 Reply
Chamomile is one of my favorite herbs. It has so many uses. I’ve used chamomile tea to lighten my hair.
Smita March 7, 2020 Reply
I used to have mint in my little garden and you’re right – it did try to quickly take over the whole garden! We kept pruning it and made ample use of mint in our cooking. Now I have rosemary in my garden and it’s one of the least maintenance requiring plants that I’ve ever had – it has braved high heat as well as snow and is still going strong!
Dreams Abroad March 7, 2020 Reply
I was just talking to someone about Lavender a few days ago and how to grow it. Flowering herbs are not only easy to grow but they provide food and beauty all the time. Thyme is my 2nd favorite.
Subhashish Roy March 8, 2020 Reply
Lavender is always my favorite but Chives also looks so lovely. It must be such fun and refreshing living in a house with such flowers around. The colors of Yarrow are so pleasing and calming to the eye.
Sonia Seivwright March 8, 2020 Reply
I love Lavender. A Lavender garden will be a dream. Imagine walking past my garden and breathe in the scent of Lavender. That would be amazing.
Luna S March 9, 2020 Reply
I never knew that many of these herbs produced flowers! It is surprising but they all look beautiful. Great post, thanks for putting this together.
Britt K March 9, 2020 Reply
I LOVE the idea of growing something both practical and pretty – we overplanted some of our herbs here last year for this very reason… using what we needed and allowing the rest to simply flower and look pretty on our back deck.
Ivana Mearns March 9, 2020 Reply
What a lovely selection of beautiful flowering herbs. Yarrow is my favourite and I just could not live without chamomile!