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The Thyme Garden Herb Company
~Growing All Natural Since 1990~ ![]() The Thyme Garden is a family owned farm hidden in the magical coast range mountains of Oregon.Our interest in herbs began at our country restaurant which we surrounded with herb gardens. Not only providing our kitchen with herbs and pleasure for our customers, our gardens produced seeds which we began to collect and sell. From these sprouted The Thyme Garden Seed Company. In 1989 we embarked on a new adventure when we sold our restaurant and purchased our 80 acre farm to expand our seed business and start a nursery. Our farm also gave us plenty of space to enjoy one of our favorite hobbies, collecting new and unusual varieties of herbs and displaying them for people to experience and enjoy. Visitors enjoy strolling through our beautiful display gardens which provide the opportunity to experience one of the largest collections of herbs in the Northwest. We are proud of our nursery's selection of herbs and useful plants for sale in our hand split cedar lathe house as well as in our greenhouses, which are also open for visitors to enjoy.
![]() Our largest greenhouse contains a small conservatory with its own little stream and a huge plant in the center called Angel's Trumpet, which may have over 200 ten inch long trumpet shaped flowers at one time! The fragrance from this plant as well as all the other aromatic plants we have collected in this room can be intoxicating. We sometimes call this room the aromatherapy experience.This garden also contains several specimens of Brugmansia, Lemon Verbena, Kaffir Lime, a Dwarf Cavendish Banana, a large collection of scented Geraniums and a Yerba Mate tree just to name a few of its inhabitants. We are in the process adding an exciting new layer of interesting plants to this garden. It will add more wonderful fragrances to the experience as well as some things tasty. We are trying our hand at growing Bananas, Kiefer Limes, Meyer Lemons, Pomegrantes, Papayas, Avocados and Oranges. For the convienence of our customers who have specific interests in different groups of herbs we have our extensive display gardens separated into collections of different herbs as to their uses. These working gardens of all naturally grown herbs are also the very herbs we harvest our seeds from and get cuttings to propagate new plants for our nursery.
The next garden in rotation is the Edible Flower Garden a bouquet of color to liven up the dishes we prepare for our luncheons,
Then there is the Sunken Shade Garden, a nine to ten foot pit that used to be a previous owners land fill. Standing on the edge of the sunken garden and looking down at the native ferns and its little stream starting from a water falls and meandering through before it falls into Crooked Creek that borders our gardens you get a feeling you are looking a hidden paradise. Space and dimensions get kind of scrambled. Scattered through the Sword Tail Ferns are shade loving medicinal herbs like Cohosh and Mayapple, a large collection of Hostas and unusual plant such as Black Mondo Grass. Sometime along the way we created the Butterfly Garden. This originated with our fascination with butterflies, especially Monarch Butterflies. Monarchs are in need of our help for their survival. Milkweeds are the sole source of food for the Monarch caterpillar and they are quickly disappearing with the increased use of herbicides. Munching on their leaves makes them taste nasty to birds giving them a better chance to reach the butterfly stage of their life cycle. Depending on where you live there is a chance there's a species of Milkweed growing near you. Our native specie Showy Milkweed is incredibly beautiful and fragrant and is the star of our Butterfly Garden. Other plants that provide nectar for butterflies, in our case lots of Tiger Swallow Tails, are Jupiter's Beard, Echinacea and Fennel. An excellent way to experience the natural beauty of The Thyme Garden is to join one of our Tours and Herbal Luncheons. Guests start the day out with a guided tour of the separate gardens and a walk through the forest along one of our mountain streams and There are many trails wandering through our 80 acres of enchanted paradise, truly a Pacific Northwest Rain Forest. Tall firs, beautiful waist-high swordtail ferns and huge old growth Broad-Leaf Maples, some 500 years old that dwarf the visitor. The peaceful sound of water is ever present and hypnotizing with two year round streams to walk along and enjoy nature. Hidden among the towering alders is our tranquil reflecting pond home to hundreds of baby Coho Salmon, Cutthroat Trout and Rough Skinned Newts. Our streams and pond are each segments Our plants and seeds are grown using sustainable practices, free of pesticides, herbicides and commercial fertilizers. We harvest our herbs and seeds by hand as they ripen to their fullest in an attempt to provide you with seeds that have the best possible chance to germinate. We also take this a step further and do our best to separate out the fertile seeds as we hand clean each variety. Our bees from our apiary are working constantly as they harvest our Herb Flower Honey from all our herb seed crops. This insures our flowers are well pollinated, producing a higher quality seed. To show our appreciation of our customers we give them a free pack of seeds with every order, plus an additional free pack of regular priced seeds of your choice if your order is over $25.00. If for any reason you are unhappy with your purchase please let us know and we will be glad to replace the item or send a refund.
April 15th through May 31st: Nursery Open 11am to 4pm Daily June 1st through August 15th: Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday Nursery Open 11am to 4pm
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