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Comment by Tritox

Level 2 Herb Garden offers:

Placing up to 14 work orders, one requires 5x Draenic Seeds and produces a variety of random Draenor herbs and occasionally some Apexis Crystal. It takes four hours for one work order to complete. Work orders may also sometimes contain Abrogator Stone / Elemental Rune if you are on the respective quest.

10 random Draenor herb nodes per day for gathering without having Herbalism. Nodes also contain sometimes Draenic Seeds and/or Primal Spirit. When gathering the nodes, there's a chance to spawn Disturbed Podling which drops more herbs and has also a chance to drop Nightshade Sproutling.

You can also assign a follower with Herbalism trait to the building. Doing so increases the work order yield (affected by the follower level) and gives the ability to choose to keep on farming random herbs or pick one certain herb to grow. The choice can be made by talking to Naron Bloomthistle (A) / Tarnon (H). Your choices are the basic Draenor herbs:

Frostweed
Starflower
Fireweed
Talador Orchid
Gorgrond Flytrap
Nagrand Arrowbloom

Comment by PriestessAur

You must reach Level 96 before the quest to unlock the Herb Garden becomes available.

Comment by Mertens

If you already picked your flowers that day, additional nodes will spawn after performing the upgrade to level 2

Comment by trest

Requires your character be level 30 (used to require level 96 before the level squish), and your Garrison at rank 2, to access the quest that lets you build the Level 1 Herb Garden.:
Clearing the Garden (Alliance)
Clearing the Garden (Horde)

Then the Level 2 plans, Herb Garden, Level 2, can be purchased from the garrison “blueprints vendor” for 1000 gold. (Alliance: Sparz Boltwist. Horde: Rezlak)

Herbalists used to be able to get skill-up points from picking the herbs in the garden, but that got nerfed into oblivion.

Once you have upgraded it to level 2, you can assign a follower to your Herb Garden. This will allow you to specify a specific type of herb to grow for the next day’s picking — instead of the usual random assortment. This can be useful for things like focusing on Frostweed which is used by the Alchemy Lab Level 1 work orders, among other things.

There is a follower available (used to be restricted to level 90, before the squish), for each faction, that is guaranteed to have the Herbalism trait:

Alliance: Fiona / Shadow Hunter Rala, available from the quest Fiona in Shadowmoon Valley
Horde: Fiona / Shadow Hunter Rala, available from the quest Oath of Shadow Hunter Rala in Frostfire Ridge

Comment by Cerice

I currently have the level 2 herb garden only, so I'm not sure what it's like for the other levels, but I can't help but notice that the horde herb garden bears a striking resemblance to the horde logo.

I've added a screenshot, in which you can see it quite well.

Comment by Eillesthis

You can upgrade from Herb Garden Level 1 simply by buying Herb Garden, Level 2 from Sparz Boltwist/Rezlak for 1000 gold (and of course paying the upgrade cost). No achievement/quest/level necessary.

Also, when you assign a follower to the Garden at your Architect Table, and then speak to Olly Nimkip/Nali Softsoil to start work orders, it says "Follower bonus active!" in green in the lower left of the window. So assigning a follower appears to boost work order output here, as it does with the crafting buildings, even though that's not documented anywhere (except in Tritox's comment). However I cannot confirm the effect because for the moment I'm saving up my Draenic Seeds.

Comment by Tass2012

Tip: Make sure that none of your followers are hanging around your Herb Garden before you start herbing. If a Disturbed Podling spawns, your follower will most likely attack it and then you won't be able to loot it! You can avoid this by simply talking to the follower(s) and getting it to patrol with you.

Happy Herbing! :)

Edit: Seems like this has been fixed!

Comment by ConAir

Submitted the following bug report considering GM's won't (at the moment) respond to Garrison tickets. -- Since patch 6.0.2 I have been unable to successfully get Tarnon to plant specific herbs. While I am able to interact with Tarnon and able to successfully ask to plant a specific herb, Tarnon refuses to plant that specific herb and continues to plant and grow random herbs.

Comment by Maizey

The herb garden (level 2) is also a way to get the herbs used in cooking the Draenor recipes that grant increased stats (like +100 haste for an hour).

Here's one example that requires fireweed: Blackrock Barbecue

Comment by Eido

As of patch 6.1, Blizzard fixed a loophole concerning followers and work orders:

"We closed a loophole that would allow you to assign a Follower to a building right before collecting the work orders, and gain all the bonus even though they weren't assigned to the building the whole time.

The intended functionality (and the one active in 6.1) is that the Follower needs to be assigned to the building as each work order completion ticks for their bonus to be applied." source

Comment by SweetRamona

For Horde:
To pick the plant you want to grow, talk to Tarnon the Tauren gardener in front of the shack. I waited for days and days thinking it was a bug my follower assigned to my herb garden wasn't spawning there and there really wasn't an answer on wowhead. All you need is one assigned to the herb garden.
Also, I stupidly rerolled my traits on Shadow Hunter Rala before I knew what she was good for. If you have the inn, you can select what trait you want in a follower and hire one. Phew!

For Alliance:
I hear it is a Nelf standing by the herb garden, possibly Naron Bloomthistle. Talk to her to pick a plant to grow. It is Fiona that has the herbalism trait, but I'm sure the inn works for followers for Alliance as well.

Comment by Vikinng

I love that you're able to plant what you want when you get to level 3.

Comment by SuperRes7

Got here trough random page, Doubt any1 is gonna see this for a while
If you do please reply

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Herb Garden

A bountiful garden for the planting and harvesting of Draenor herbs.

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Allows followers with the Herbalism trait to work here, granting a unique bonus. Also increases the amount of herbs that can be harvested at the garden and allows up to 14 work orders at one time.

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Buildings for Professions and Crafting Garrison Building Basics Garrison Preset Buildings: Fishing Shack, Herb Garden, Menagerie, Mine Guide to Garrisons in Warlords of Draenor Guide to the Garrison Herb Garden Warlords of Draenor Follower Guide Warlords of Draenor: Gathering Professions Guide

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