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Old 30-07-2004, 05:52 PM
Victoria Clare
 
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Default Please help identify these herbs...

"Rachael of Nex, the Wiccan Rat" wrote in
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There's a shot of the group of herbs (to give an idea of scale) and
separate shots of each herb. There are four. In the seed packet were
thai basil, thyme, summer savoury, oregano, majoram and dill, so these
are the likely suspects I suppose (I could have forgetten what was in
the packet though so the list isn't rigidly limited to those I
mentioned.) I don't remember which ones I planted where but I know I
didn't plant all of them so that's why there's only four.



I don't think any of them are marjoram. Sweet marjoram is one sort of a
wider group of 'oreganos' - all your photos seemed to have too small leaves
to be any of the oreganos I recognise.

I think the one on the right hand side of the 'pot' pic is thyme, and I
think the one with the white flowers might also be (another sort of?)
thyme, though I'm less sure on that (thymes are pretty varied in colour and
growth habit)

I think the plant with the longer leaves at the left hand end of the pot is
summer savory, assuming that that is the same one as herbno1.jpg.

Not sure about the tall gangly one in the middle!

Victoria
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