Savory of Crete

Savory of Crete is one of our most favorite recent culinary discoveries and beneficial insect attractors. It is a handsome upright plant, but unlike the other savories it has pink to purple flowers! In Lebanon it is still used as a medicinal herbal tea. In ancient times, Savory of Crete was used as a spice in Anatolia and Greece, and also to aid against digestive problems when concocted into a tea. In Israel it has protected status, making it a criminal offence to harvest it.