Which makes both of them as herbs. The second picture is of a two year old French sorrel sending up a seed head. If you do not want the sorrel all over put the seedhead in a plastic bag and carefully cut the seed head off.

zarah Your containers are cute and good that you made sure about drainage holes - how many holes? - you could poke few just to make sure. Are they some kind of plastic? I would point out that with your humid climate you need to make sure about good air flow besides the drainage. I think your plants are planted little deep - especially ones in oblong containers. If you could make sure they are sitting higher, the air circulation would be better. The container should be filled to just touch below the rim. There isn't that much space in your individual pots to raise the level of mix since the handles have openings, perhaps just a little mounding in the middle would help. And what did you use for topping - is that rice husks? It looks pretty good, but I don't know anything about their water retention - but have seen them mentioned few times.If you think they hold water for too long, maybe a pebbles/stones could be used for top dressing, they could be bigger than what you use in the mix itself. The little 'stones' you mentioned that you buy along the road - are they the white particles visible in few photos? (the white granules - they look almost like perlite) - if yes, I think that's good sized grit. Rina

Yes, but it was after I posted in this forum, so perhaps the person with the answer started here and went over there to post? I don't know if there's a way to close out a discussion thread, but I should at least state here that, yes, my plant has been identified. It's a Pandanus. The specific species is still under discussion. Thank you to anyone who started here and posted in the Name That Plant! forum.

Leucanthemum vulgaris, the meadow ox eye daisy type, would have a basal rosette, and they don't grow rhizomes (IME). Symphyotrichum (aka Asters), would be my bet too, I planted/ handled some several times, this foliage reminds me of S ageratoides, only problem there are several species, sub-species and cultivars, so really tricky to be sure which it is, plus I have no clue whether they could prosper without winter dormancy, good luck, Lin