WORNALL HOUSE - DETAILED PLANT GUIDE

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Angelica Angelica is a biennial or short lived perennial plant that belongs to the Apiaceae family, better know as celery, carrot or parsley family. It can grow up to six feet tall or around 180 cm. All parts of the plant have been used as food, spice, and medicine. Artemisia absinthium, commonly called absinthe or wormwood, is a woody-based perennial that is grown for its attractive silver-gray Artemsia foliage that adds interesting texture and contrast to gardens. It typically forms a clump of generally erect, non-woody, hairy, gray-green stems to 2-3' tall.

Basil Basil, Ocimum basilicum, is a short lived annual or perennial plant in the family Lamiaceae grown for itsleaves which are used as a herb. A member of the Lamiaceae family, and cousin to Mint and Sage, Betony is a perennial ground cover that produces beautiful, tubular Betony purple flowers. You may also know it as "Wood Betony." A unique looking plant to dress up your traditional garden, Betony has dark green scallop-edged leaves that have a velvety texture. The blackberry lily plant is also commonly named, not for the flowers, but for clusters of black fruit that grow after flowering, similar to Blackberry Lily a blackberry. Flowers of the blackberry lily plant are star-shaped, with six petals and are about 2 inches across Two species of this sweet-scented plant, Roman chamomile and Germanchamomile, have been called the true chamomile because of Chamomile their similar appearance and medicinal uses. Roman chamomile Chamaemelum nobile is a member of the Asteraceae, or daisy family. It is a hardy, lowgrowing, perennial. Mint plants are mainly aromatic perennials and they possess erect, branching stems and oblong to ovate or lanceolate leaves arranged Mint in opposing pairs on the stems. The leaves are often covered in tiny hairs and have a serrated margin.

Oregano Oregano is related to the herbmarjoram, sometimes being referred to as wild marjoram. Oregano has purple flowers and spade- shaped, olive-green leaves. It is a perennial, although it is grown as an annual in colder climates, as it often does not survive the winter. Parsley or garden parsley (Petroselinum crispum) is a species of flowering plant in the family Apiaceae, native to the central Parsley Mediterranean region (southern Italy, Greece, Portugal, Spain, Malta, Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia), naturalized elsewhere in Europe, and widely cultivated as an herb, a spice, and a vegetable Pawpaw is a small, deciduous tree that may attain 5 to 10 m in height. In the forest understory, trees often exist in clumps or thickets. Pawpaw They may be borne singly or in clusters which resemble the "hands" of a banana plant Rosmarinus officinalis, commonly known as rosemary, is a woody, perennial herb with fragrant, evergreen, needle-like leaves and Rosemary white, pink, purple, or blue flowers, native to the Mediterranean region. It is a member of the mint family Lamiaceae, which includes many other herbs. ...Rosemary has a fibrous root system. Tansy (Tanacetum vulgare) is a perennial, herbaceous flowering plantof the aster family, native to temperate Europe and Asia. ... It is Tansy also known as common tansy, bitter buttons, cow bitter, or gold Thyme, Thymus vulgaris, is a small, perennial, evergreen shrub in the family Lamiaceae grown primarily for its leaves which are used as Thyme a herb. The thyme plant has an erect or ascending growth habit and possesses many woody, branching stems.