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Plant library · 5 plants

Herbs to grow in Dubai

Most culinary herbs grow best in Dubai from autumn to spring, when days are mild, and many fade once summer heat arrives. Pots on a balcony or a small kitchen bed let you move plants out of the harshest sun and control the watering. Each herb below shows when to sow, when to harvest and when heat stress begins.

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A sunny Dubai apartment balcony with pots of basil, mint, coriander, rosemary, chillies and a curry-leaf plant

The plants

All 5 herbs

Every plant is rated 1–5 for heat, salt, drought, shade and ease of care, with a month-by-month season guide.
Mint
Mint (Mentha spicata), a clean sprig with green leaves

Mint

Mentha spicata

Part shadeSalt: 1 of 5
Plant
Basil
Ocimum basilicum 8zz

Basil

Ocimum basilicum

Sun/part shadeSalt: 1 of 5
Flowers
Rosemary
Rosemary (Rosmarinus officinalis) plant growing in a garden within the village of Trimingham, Norfolk, United Kingdom.

Rosemary

Salvia rosmarinus

Full sunSalt: 2 of 5
Flowers
Curry leaf
Curry Trees

Curry leaf

Murraya koenigii

Sun/part shadeSalt: 2 of 5
Flowers
Coriander
A scene of Coriander (Coriandrum sativum) leaves

Coriander

Coriandrum sativum

Sun/part shadeSalt: 2 of 5
Flowers

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