Knowra Herb garden Herb garden A garden where culinary, medicinal, or aromatic plants are cultivated for their leaves, seeds, or roots. Its plantings may be arranged for cooking, fragrance, healing traditions, or ornamental display.
Culinary herb : A plant whose leaves, seeds, flowers, or roots are used to flavor food. These plants form the core of gardens designed for everyday cooking.
Herb : A plant or plant part valued for flavor, fragrance, medicinal use, or other practical qualities. The word covers the plants a garden may grow for several different uses.
Seed germination : The process by which a seed resumes growth and produces a seedling under suitable conditions. Many annual herbs begin as seeds sown directly or started indoors.
Monastic garden : A garden maintained by a religious community, often for food, medicine, and contemplation. Monastic gardens preserved and cultivated useful plants in medieval Europe.
Basil : A genus of aromatic plants, including sweet basil, widely used in cooking. Its tender leaves make basil a classic warm-season culinary planting.
Annual plant : A plant that completes its life cycle, from germination to seed production, within one growing season. Annual herbs such as basil often need replacing after each growing season.
Kitchen garden : A garden near a home where food plants are grown for household use. An herb garden often functions as a compact section of a kitchen garden.
Vegetative propagation : Plant reproduction using stems, roots, leaves, or other parts rather than seeds. Cuttings and divisions let gardeners multiply herbs that retain desirable traits.
Physic garden : A garden devoted to growing plants used in medicine and the study of materia medica. Physic gardens gave medicinal herbs a dedicated institutional setting.
Rosemary : An aromatic evergreen shrub used as a culinary herb and ornamental plant. Its woody, drought-tolerant growth contrasts with softer annual herbs.
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