Garden Plants Herb Gardens for Beauty and Fragrance


Herb gardening is a fun, interesting, rewarding and educational hobby. When growing garden plants herb gardens, you get many benefits. You get to get back to nature and work directly with the earth. You get to watch a seed grow into a majestic and useful plant. Herbs are perhaps the most useful of all plants. They can be used for cooking, medicine, cosmetics and more. Some herbs are multipurpose which means they have more than one use.

Lavender is one of the most fragrant, beautiful and useful herbs. This clean, crisp scent is often featured as a single note fragrance or blended with other notes. It is found in ladies perfumes, baby washes and lotions, scented linen waters and home fragrance sprays. It is also found in various soaps and even scented candles. You can also cook with lavender. One of the most popular uses for lavender is for seasoning lemonade.

Mint is another multipurpose herb that is fragrant and attractive in the garden. There is peppermint, spearmint and cat friendly mints like catnip and catmint. Peppermint, for example, is ideal in tea form for soothing the digestion after meals. Peppermint is also very fragrant and its oils are used for chewing gum and breath mints. Peppermint can also be found in soap, shampoo, body wash, lotion, lip balm and other cosmetic products. Various mints are also used for cooking and garnishing foods and beverages.

You can even find special herbs that are grown especially for their fragrance. Some are cultivated to smell a certain way, such as chocolate mint or tangerine daisy. Other examples of fragrant herbs include lemon balm, chamomile, pineapple sage and pine scented rosemary. You can also find flowers, such as geranium, that offer specialty scents. If you cannot find these plants at your local garden center, the Internet can be a great resource.

As mentioned before, there are many ways to use garden plants herb and flower varieties. You can simply plant the herbs and flowers in your garden and enjoy their beauty and fragrance. Or, you can bring them into your home and use them in arrangements. Another idea is to dry the herbs and flowers and store them away for various uses. Some gardeners like to extract essential oils from their herbs and blossoms, but for this you will need a large quantity of plant material.


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Herb Gardening News:
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What's blooming in the Bette S. Walker Discovery Garden?
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It's a necessity in herb gardens for its wonderful smell, taste and beauty. There are four main groups of basil (sweet green, dwarf green, purple-leafed and scented leaf), but today I'm focusing on purple-leafed. This plant does well in Florida, .

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