Herb Garden DesignAmerican-born gardener Ethne Clarke presents innumerable ways that herb gardens bring new life to any garden scheme. Vivid watercolors complement full-color photos that illustrate a wide range of herb garden design choices, 30 planting plans, and a table of over 200 herbs make this book a truly comprehensive reference. |
Contents
Herbs and their Habits 18 Shaping the Planting | 20 |
Designs for Herb Gardens | 31 |
A Herbal Tapestry | 46 |
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4-8 Division Allium annual Artemisia Aurea Aureum beds biennial blue border BOTANICAL NAME COMMON Bronze fennel catmint chives clipped colour common sage Compositae cultivars Dry soil edging evergreen flower spikes flowers Well-drained FOLIAGE AND FLOWERS FORM AND HABIT Geranium Golden marjoram grass green leaves grey Hardy perennial hedge herb garden Herbaceous perennial Hidcote hyssop knot gardens Labiatae Lavandula angustifolia Lavandula stoechas lavender Lavandula angustifolia leaf lemon balm marjoram mauve Moist soil NAME COMMON NAME Nepeta Origanum vulgare pale parsley pedunculata physic garden Purple sage Rosa rose rosemary sage Salvia officinalis Salvia officinalis Santolina chamaecyparissus sea thrift Seed or division Semi-ripe cuttings shape shrub Silver Posie Soft cuttings soil in 4-8 soil in sun SOIL ZONES PROPA SPREAD FORM stems sun or part-shade sun or shade sun Seed Tanacetum balsamita thyme Thymus Thymus pseudolanuginosus Thymus serpyllum Thymus vulgaris topiary Upright-growing Variegata variegated Viola Well-drained 4-8 Well-drained soil white flowers white-flowered yellow flowers