Alabama Botanical Medicine

Choosing herb plants for your garden depends actually on what you prioritize for use. It may be a wide range of garden intended for culinary, medicinal or decorative purposes and at the same time will be of great benefit for you. As you start your creation of making a herb garden, the choice of herbs vary, depending on your capability unto what extent to you want to indulge yourself in herb gardening.

There are herbs that are easy to grow and there are those that is very difficult to be developed. If you are a beginner and you want to start planning a herb garden, you can choose from a variety of common herbs that usually is intended for culinary or for ornamental purposes. Some of the most common culinary herbs that can be planted from seeds or cuttings can be a choice of basil herbs, anise, dill, fennel, mint, savory, sage, oregano, thyme and chamomile. These are just a few of the many choice of the most common herbs used for culinary purposes. These herbs that are planted produce a product that is derived from its stems, root and leaves, which is the common parts used to be added to your dish preparation. [...]

Herbs are a wonderful, fragrant and attractive addition to your vegetable garden, but there is a huge range to choose from. So before you rush off to the garden center it pays to take a few minutes to think through the different types of herbs available, and what you want from your herb garden.

Herbs fall into three main categories: culinary, medicinal and fragrant. They can also be perennial or annual, small bushes or large trees. While your use of herbs is obviously the main consideration when choosing which herbs to grow, you may also want to consider the structure of your herb garden, the eventual height of your plants, and their requirements (soil, sun etc.) [...]