Fragrant Herbs for Aromatic Garden

An aromatic garden is analogous to an air freshener that not only purifies the environment, it also fills the home with fresh aromas. A herb garden with vibrant and fresh herbs is bound to spread fragrance naturally with breeze as its career. Found everywhere on the planet, there are bountiful herbs that emanate aromas.  

Owing to these properties, fragrant herbs find ample use in kitchen gardens, religious traditions, customs, and rituals. Prominent usage of herbs in potpourri and lighting fires establish the science and belief of aroma. No cooking is considered complete without the addition of herbs. Herbs are used for seasoning and garnishing recipes while enhancing our taste buds.

Herbs are an asset to a kitchen garden. These graceful additions are going to enhance your home garden with vivid aromas and fill the kitchen with delicious, zesty meals.

Lavender, Basil, Rosemary, Sage, and Sweet Marjoram are some of the popular herbs known for their aromas. You can easily grow them outdoors or on a sunny windowsill in containers. A whiff of fresh air from herbs is what your house needs early in the morning. Moreover, lavender blooms are lovely and make the herb garden quite colourful. A fragrant and pretty herb, it is one of the most prominent aromatic herbs loved by a gardener.

Yarrow - Common Yarrow herb grows well with attractive flowers and foliage, a great addition to perennial herb gardens.

Mint -The plant can easily grow as tall as 3 feet and produces small blooms of purple flowers. Some varieties of peppermint produce white and pink blooms too. Like mint, the variegated species can be invasive also.

Herbs do not require large amount of fertilizers. I have been using organic manure such as used tea leaves, tea sachets and cow dung manure occasionally. They do well in the garden soil without much interference and amendment. Assumption is - your garden soil is not too rocky or filled with clay. Addition of manure and mulch once in 2,3 months will do good to herbs.

The aroma from herbs repels mosquitoes, moths, and other harmful insects. They release pungent smell, herb oils and are valued for these characteristics.

Relinquishing fragrant herbs amidst fetid stenches masks foul smells and ensures eradication of illness as well as airborne diseases.

Bathing with aromatic herbs in ancient era was considered refreshing even in those days. Rejuvenating herbs would remove exhaustion from the mind and body alike. Make your bath time a luxury by including essential oils, salts and herbs in your bathtub.

There are so many variegated varieties available from herbs and each of them has a different aroma and thus based on it utilized in industry.

Lavender herb is best known for the soft and gentle aroma that everyone loves.

Of course, pure lavender is best, its flowers are used for extracting oil. The hybrids varieties of lavender herb are used for candles and soaps.

Due to the strong smell of certain herbs, deers are repelled. It helps keeping away irritating pests also. Many of such herb species find usage as pest repellent.

Mint is another well-known herb used for home remedies.  Peppermint which is actually a hybrid of 2 mint species Mentha aquatica and Mentha spicata (water mint and spear mint) finds itself in various products. A whiff of peppermint conjures up smells of candies and toothpaste. Mint is used for treating cold and cough.

Another herb which is used for treatment of sore throat is Basil. Many herbs are used in infusion of tea such as basil, chamomile, lemon balm, nettle and mint.