Lovage is attractive to a wide range of beneficial insects including lacewings, ladybugs, parasitic wasps, syrphid flies, and tachinid flies. Use the leaves to flavor stocks and stews. Or have fun with crushing the leaves in cocktails or sipping them through "straws" made by snipping off sections of the woody, hollow stems. Here's what Burpee has to say: "A hardy perennial herb, lovage bears the clean, sweet taste of fresh cut celery. An easy to grow stout upright plant amasses 3-5 feet in just one growing season! Use as a summer-long, heat-tolerant supplement to celery flavoring needs. Heirloom lovage plants are extremely hardy and can survive below zero temperatures. They die back to the ground, but re-sprout in early spring. Very few insects attack this plant, and completely resistant to rabbits."