Cultivation and Uses
Easy to grow, it makes an attractive border plant for any culinary herb garden. It requires six hours of sun a day in soil that drains well. S. montana 'Nana' is a dwarf cultivar.
Winter savory is now little used, but for hundreds of years both it and summer savory have been grown and used, virtually side by side. Both have strong spicy flavour.
It is used as a companion plant for beans, keeping bean weevils away, and also roses, reducing mildew and aphids.
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