The herb garden.

Planting my herbs into a fresh bed, 2012

My herb garden, 2015

After removing all the wood chip from the retaining wall, I decided to plant my herb garden to one side. The trouble was deciding what to plant!! So, I went with the classics, rosemary, bay, sage in the three different colours, lemon thyme, normal thyme, sweet basil, parsley and of course onion and garlic chives. There was plenty of herbs I just had to plant, as they were different or I had never seen them before! Some didn’t survive, but most did and I have my herbs fresh on hand every day for cooking. Try lemon verbena in drinks, teas or even just to have dried around the house. One of my favourites is French Tarragon.. best with chicken!

I first planted my herb garden a month after we moved in, so 2011 or January 2012. Today, 2015, it has come a long way! As you can see above.