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The Herb Garden

The herb garden is often a separate space in the garden, devoted to growing a specific group of plants known as herbs. These gardens may be informal patches of plants, or they may be carefully designed, even to the point of arranging and clipping the plants to form specific patterns, as in a knot garden. Herb gardens may be purely functional, or …  Read More →

Uses Of Herbs

An herb is a plant that is valued for flavor, scent, or other qualities. Herbs are used in cooking, as medicines, and for spiritual purposes. Herbs have a variety of uses including culinary, medicinal, or in some cases even spiritual usage. General usage differs between culinary herbs and medicinal herbs. In medicinal or spiritual use any of the …  Read More →

Culinary Herbs

Culinary use of the term “herb” typically distinguishes between herbs, from the leafy green parts of a plant, and spices, from other parts of the plant, including seeds, berries, bark, root, fruit, and even occasionally dried leaves or roots. Culinary herbs are distinguished from vegetables in that, like spices, they are used in …  Read More →

Medicinal Herbs

Plants contain phytochemicals that have effects on the body. Throughout history, from the Bible, Koran to other old texts, the medicinal benefits of herbs are quoted. There may be some effects even when consumed in the small levels that typify culinary “spicing”, and some herbs are toxic in larger quantities. For instance, some …  Read More →

Religious Herbs

Herbs are used in many religions – such as in Christianity (myrrh (Commiphora myrrha), ague root (Aletris farinosa) and frankincense (Boswellia spp)) and in the partially Christianized Anglo-Saxon pagan Nine Herbs Charm. In Hinduism a form of Basil called Tulsi is worshipped as a goddess for its medicinal value since the Vedic times. Many …  Read More →

The Herbaceous Plant

A herbaceous plant (or in botanical use, a herb) is a plant that has leaves and stems that die down at the end of the growing season to the soil level. A herbaceous plant may be annual, biennial or perennial. Annual herbaceous plants die completely at the end of the growing season or when they have flowered and fruited, and they then grow again …  Read More →

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