Gardening in restricted spaces Just about any herb or vegetable can be grown in a container. Look for seed packages labeled dwarf, bush, or small if space is limited. The University of Maryland Cooperative Extension recommends media depth of four to six inches for things like leaf greens, Asian greens, mustards, garlic, radish, basil, cilantro, thyme, mint, and marjoram. Salad greens and some herbs have shallow, fibrous root systems and are well suited to shallow containers with a large surface area. Eight to twelve inch pots are ideal for beans, beets, chard, carrots, cabbage, pepper, eggplant, tomato, squash, rosemary, parsley, lavender, and fennel. Pot
Hume's leaf warbler Hume's leaf warbler Hume's leaf warbler or Hume's warbler ("Phylloscopus humei") is a small leaf warbler which breeds in the mountains of inner Asia. This warbler is migratory and winters mainly in India. The English name and the specific "humei" bird commemorate Allan Octavian Hume, a British civil servant and ornithologist based in India.The genus name "Phylloscopus" is from Ancient Greek "phullon", "leaf", and "skopos", "seeker" (from "skopeo", "to watch"). Like most similar songbirds, it was formerly included in the "Old World warbler" assemblage. Hume's leaf warbler is one of the smallest "Old World warblers". Like most other leaf warblers,