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Knowing the common plant names is important in order for you to build a good windowsill herb garden.
Plenty of botanical shops handle seeds and full-grown plants using their common plant names, and thus you must be in a position to match these names with scientific names. There are many paths to do such a job. You can use plant databases and plant encyclopedias, as these references would give you pictures of the plants along with the list of all their names. If you have kept any of the seed packets when you purchased your plants, you will see that they tend to name the scientific name with the common plant name.
In most cases, a standard plant name is the Latin version of the name interpreted into English. Diverse common plant names for herbs include Cudweed, Duckweed, Dove, Ammania, Beggarticks, annual, Buttercup, Conzya, Crimson Monkeyflower, among others . For flowering plants, we have got the African lily, Alpine thistle, bells of Eire, tulips, roses, clover, Amaryllis, gerber daisy, Amazon lily, baby’s breath, and masses more.
If you are somewhere within a region where deadly plants thrive and… Continue reading
Posted in Classification of Herbs, Growing Herbs in Containers | 
African Lily, Amazon Lily, Cinnamons, Deadly Plants, English Ivy, Flowering Plants, Gerber Daisy, Grown Plants, making herb garden, Plant Encyclopedias, Plant Names, Poison Hemlock, Poison Sumac, Pokeweed, Seed Packets, windowsill herb gardenThere are literally thousands of herbs with each having unique qualities even within families. Interest in any particular herb or family of herbs should be researched more deeply to understand the care it needs as well as its value and use. But here, I will explain the several ways for the classifications of herb garden plants.
Herb garden plants, like other types, are classified as to:
- Annuals (living only one growing season),
- Perennials (having a life cycle lasting more than two years), and
- Biennials (completing its normal term of life in two years, flowering and fruiting the second year). Annuals, such as basil, cilantro, and summer savory will not survive a frost. They need to be planted from a seed or a young plant every year.
Perennials, such sage and winter savory, will survive colder temperatures and will return year after year. Biennial herbs, such as parsley, angelica, or caraway should be sown in late spring directly in the garden.
Herb garden plants are also grouped by their use.
- Culinary herbs are probably the most useful to herb gardeners. They have a huge range of different uses in cooking. … Continue reading
