Tag Archives: Herbs

Herbs are plants with savoury or aromatic properties that are used for flavouring and garnishing food. They are also used in medicine, or as fragrances.

Culinary use typically distinguishes a herb from a spice. A herb refers to the leafy green or flowering parts of a plant.

Lawn weeds as herbs

Many lawn weeds can be used in medicine and cooking. Some have been used for hundreds of years and their uses have been passed down over generations.

The most famous of these is the Dandelion, although a number of others can also be used. These blog posts are details of the plants found on lawns which have culinary uses.

Hairy bittercress (Cardamine hirsuta)

Hairy Bittercress Plant

The hairy bittercress (Cardamine hirsuta) is an extremely common annual garden weed. It can quickly appear on any bare soil on vegetable patches, flower borders and in any thinner areas of your lawn. The plant is from the Cardamine genus, which is a large group of over 150 flowering annual and perennial plants that are in the Brassicaceae… Read More »

Lesser trefoil (Trifolium dubium)

Lesser Trefoil Plants

Lesser Trefoil (Trifolium dubium) is an attractive little lawn weed which is reasonably common on a lot of untreated lawns in England. Some folk call it suckling clover or Irish Shamrock. It is a member of the clover family. A relative to peas and beans. It is also related to the herbaceous perennial white clover (Trifolium repens) and… Read More »