"Nick Maclaren" wrote in message
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In article ,
Victoria Clare wrote:

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.

There was a very broad leaved thing that came up in that pot but dried up
almost immediately. It smelt quite strongly - I thought it was basil but
there you go. It coulda been majoram !


I think the one on the right hand side of the 'pot' pic is thyme,

Ok, ta.

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)

Try summer savory. Winter savory looks very like a thyme with white
flowers, and the leaves of the second from right match summer savory.


Ok soo - we got thyme on the right
and summer savoury according to Nick second from right (I think the one with
white flowers that Victoria called a thyme is actually second left, herbno2
as opposed to second right)
But herb1 with longer leaves on the left is summer savoury according to
Victoria.
brain ache !

I wonder what the really smelly little one second from left is then ? It is
very fragrant !
(Futher delving)
I think you're right Victoria - the one with the white flowers - if you
meant second from left when you said that - seems to be Common Thyme or
English thyme http://plantsdatabase.com/showimage/5135/

So we got a thyme on the right and a thyme second left - and summer savoury
is a hung jury. ;-)


My recommendation is to say "sod it", and use the ones that you like
the taste of. NEXT year, try labelling them :-)

Heh heh. In seperate pots too. Are any of these going to be around next year
or will I have to start from scratch ? I've had a lemon balm that's been
around for a couple of years now.

Thanks guys.



Rachael