Kitchen garden medieval period, monks and nuns acquired this medical knowledge and grew the necessary herbs in specialised gardens. Typical plants in a witches' garden are: rosemary, sage, parsley, mint, catnip, henbane, marjoram, thyme, rue, angelica, bay, oregano, dill, aloe, arnica, chives, and basil. Basil is especially common in these gardens as a strong protection herb. It is said, "Where basil grows, no evil goes!" and "Where basil is, no evil lives!" Kitchen garden "Kailyard redirects here. For the grouping of Scottish literature see Kailyard school" The traditional kitchen garden, also known as a potager (in French, "jardin potager") or in Scotland
Herb herb can refer to a much larger range of plants, with culinary, therapeutic or other uses. For example, some of the most commonly described herbs such as Sage, Rosemary and Lavender would be excluded from the botanical definition of a herb as they do not die down each year, and they possess woody stems. In the wider sense, herbs may be herbaceous perennials but also trees, subshrubs, shrubs, annuals, lianas, ferns, mosses, algae, lichens, and fungi. Herbalism can utilize not just stems and leaves but also fruit, roots, bark and gums. Therefore one suggested definition of a herb is a