Love Lavender

Seeing the neighbors, they all like planting flowers or herbs in corridor outside their house. Herbs have been valued for thousands of years for their aromatic, health-giving, and culinary qualities.

If asked to define an herb, most people would say it is a plant used in cooking, but the true definition of the term is much wider. After looking up in library, now I know it includes trees, shrubs, biennials, and herbaceous perennials that have culinary, aromatic, medicinal, and cosmetic uses. In addition, many are excellent decorative garden plants. Some herbs are used for their foliage and flowers, others for their seeds or roots, and some for all four attributes.
In all herbs, I like lavender most. Its flower can be used in baking and jam-making or to flavor sugar. More often, the dried flowers and foliage are used to perfume rooms or packed into sachets and hung in closets. Lavender has been used therapeutically for its calming effects, as well as in the production of cosmetics and perfumes. Though I never try the calming effects, the cosmetics and perfumes function has already been used in my daily life.