Gardening: How lemon grass can add zest to life

Fiann Ó Nualláin is impressed with this fragrant plant that is both ornamental and useful.

Thereare around 55 species of lemongrass native to Asia and warmer climate regions. Many have come to be cultivated around the world as ornamental plants as well as culinary herbs utilised fresh in cooking, dried as a spice and, in either form, as a flavouring in herbal tea and cordials.