Imagine a plain winter windowsill. How different would you feel in the cold days ahead, if you saw a windowsill ledge full of beautiful and healthy green herbs and wildflowers?
Touch leaf, crush the leaf and release and smell the fragrance. Taste or munch on a fresh leaf. Trim or cut enough for favorite food recipes and holiday cooking. These herb gardens are meant to engage the senses.
We have five human senses: see, touch, smell, taste, and hear. A herb garden is interactive with these five senses especially appreciated in winter months.
You see beautiful green plants.
You touch the fragrant scented herbs plants. You may crush the leaf to release the smell.
You smell the aroma of herbs. Lemony, warm and spicy Thai Basil.
You taste the fresh herbs or munch to make a recipe or tea.
You hear compliments about your herbal peppermint tea or herb party dip from friends and family. Give fresh herbs as gifts.
How easy it is to water plants and watch them grow from indoors. Around the holidays and first of the year is a good time to have these herb gardens. Make herb dips. Drink herbal teas. Just look beautiful and green in reclaimed wood window boxes. Humble recycled containers are the trend. Flea market finds like a collection of tea cups and coffee mugs. Fancy pottery. Whatever you can find. Decorate with holiday season ornaments.
Here is a list to get you started.
Lemon Balm smells like lemon and looks great. Looks Like a mint, has a scalloped edge of leaf.
Thai Basil is a warm spicy tones and fragrant Basil. Strong scent.
Chamomile pretty small daisy flower and popular tea to relax
Thyme the green leaves are pretty and cook with herbs. Include a recipe.
Rosemary this is a pretty plant. Interesting Green leaves. Rosemary chicken recipe
Herbal tea seed balls a great gift for holidays to relax.
Cilantro for Mexican and Spanish dishes. Include a guacamole dip recipe.
Dill. I just like the smell.
Oregona good Italian recipes and pizza.
Parsley, freshens breath. Nutrient rich. Parsleyed potatoes recipe.
Peppermint refresh and tea
Could we have fresh food sage for bread stuffing at Thanksgiving?
Take a break. Lifts moods. Refreshing mints. Releases endorphins. Feel better. Watch plants grow.
Give as gifts.
Science backs up these feelings. Emotions and moods is a parts of the brain that smells are connected. The Swiss Bach aromatherapy and popular aromatherapy today makes strong relationships between our sense of smell and triggers memories and feelings of well-being.