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Herb Garden Designs
Designing your herb garden can be either a bit daunting or a lot of fun. You will have a lot of questions to consider: Where shall my garden go? What plants will I be able to grow? Which herbs do I use the most? Do I want a theme garden? Will it be a formal or informal garden? How much time do I have to care for it?
First of all, settle on a location. Rather than planting your herbs in the garden, look out your kitchen window and see if there's a suitable spot nearby to locate them. By finding a sunny spot near the kitchen door, you will have fast access to your culinary and tea herbs. Another option would be to plant these herbs in containers on a sunny patio.
Now, think about how much time you have to maintain the herb garden. This will help you decide the style and size of the garden. Generally, a lot of herbs can be grown in a small space, if the growing conditions are met. A six to eight foot square or round space will be plenty large, and remember, you can always expand it later. A formal garden will take much longer to design and plant than an informal garden. Think about the type of herbs you use most, and plan your garden around them.
Design a Formal Herb Garden
Formal herb gardens, often called knot gardens can be beautiful additions to your yard.A formal herb garden is generally geometric in shape, subdivided into symmetrical spaces. Low hedges of herbs or box with paths of brick or gravel separate the spaces. Each space usually contains one type of plant, or perhaps one color of plant. You could plant culinary herbs in one section, tea herbs in another, and so on. The overall shape could be circular, square, rectangular or diamond shaped. Many formal herb gardens have a central point of interest - a tree, a fountain, or a statue.
If you decide on a formal garden, plan it out carefully on graph paper. Give your design enough room for both plants and paths. Look in garden books for inspiration, and find patterns that please you. Decide upon the type of garden you would like - devoted to culinary herbs, fragrance herbs, or perhaps a few of each. Think about color, foliage shape, plant height and spread, and how your herbs will fit into the sections of your garden for best effect.
Informal Gardens
More frequently, herb gardens are very informal, with herbs sprawling and creeping naturally. They seem to have a pleasing mix of textures and foliage colors. Do pay some attention to planning as you plant. Learn how large each will grow, both height and spread. You don't want to allow tall herbs to shade or over-grow smaller ones, or to have sprawling oregano overtake your smaller herbs.
You can plant your informal herb garden as a themed garden - culinary, tea fragrance or medicinal herbs. Italian culinary herbs, health enhancing herbs or edible flowers and herbs could be your theme. If you live in a hot, dry location, perhaps a Mediterranean theme would work, with lavender, thyme, sage, rosemary and oregano your main herbs.
Another informal but attractive herb garden could be planted with low growing herbs as a rockery. Roman chamomile, dwarf oregano and sage, winter savory, prostrate rosemary, pennyroyal and thymes are good rock garden herbs. Use local rocks to form the basis of your rockery, dug into the ground so they look natural, and intersperse them with your herbs, and perhaps a few marigolds for color.
Your herb garden, whether formal or informal, will be an investment of time, imagination and money that will repay you for years to come. Take the time to research and plan it and have fun with it.
About the Author
Gardening expert Nicki Goff has over 30 years of gardening experience to share. She offers a free e-mail starter course all about her main passion... herb gardening. For access, visit her website, http://www.HomeHerbGardener.com.
You'll find more great tips, and her new comprehensive e-book on creating, maintaining and enjoying your own home herb garden
right here.
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