Top Ten Choices?

I am wanting to create an apothecary garden that includes some larger bushes and trees. What would be your hands-down Top Ten must haves? I already have elderberry, raspberry, blueberry, cleavers, comfrey, echinacea, and parsley. Thanks!

Marisa Majemu wrote:I am wanting to create an apothecary garden that includes some larger bushes and trees. What would be your hands-down Top Ten must haves? I already have elderberry, raspberry, blueberry, cleavers, comfrey, echinacea, and parsley. Thanks!

Comfrey, false indigo, honeyberry, siberian pea shrub, seaberry, hazelnut, echinacea, chives (garlic or), bush cherries, wild plum

Whichever Zanthoxylum is native to your area and a willow.

Common purslane is a good one.  Don't forget cayenne pepper, I think it it one of the most usefull plants out there.

Goumi berry if it's not invasive in your area? Nitrogen fixer plus fruit. (Elaeagnus multiflora) I've got a young shrub, but it hasn't produced fruit yet, possibly because the deer have been browsing it.