- The leaves are picked in summer and used fresh in herbal teas and in syrups, salads, or stuffing for meat and poultry They can also be chopped and sprinkled over drinks and fruit puddings
a tender perennial herb which grows in our garden during the summer, and on our windowsills during the winter We dry the leaves, which have a very refreshing lemon scent, and add them to our Lemon Verbena soap