Work Herbs into your Existing Landscape

Landscaping with herbs adds interest!

Many herbs make beautiful landscape accents which can at the same time be good looking, fragrant and tasty. Set herbs into your landscape underfoot to enjoy fragrance when walked upon. Plant them where you will brush against them or within reach of the patio for a barbeque or garnish.

Low Growing

• Thyme – Many varieties, from tiny leafed to golden tinged foliage. Great for tucking in around stepping stones or use as edging. great underfoot.
• Mint – Comes in flavors from spearmint to chocolate. Plant in a pot to contain it its rampant growth.
• Oregano – Greek & Italian Varieties available. Pinch it back occasionally to keep it bushy.
• Chives – Grow these spiky little clumps as an accent. The pretty pink flowers are edible, too.
• Trailing Rosemary – Lovely spilling over a wall or pot edge.

Knee high

• Lavender – Dozens of varieties with gray or green foliage; all are colorful and fragrant in your hottest, sunniest spots.
• Lemon Balm – Tidy mounds with dusty purple flowers and wonderfully fragrant leaves.
• Sage – Silvery or multi-colored leaves are a must for flavoring poultry dishes.

Shrubs and Trees

• Lemon Verbena – Tough as nails drought lover is a sturdy shrub. Pinch to keep bushy; pour boiling water on leaves for a lemony tea.
• Upright Rosemary – Tuscan Blue grows to 5′; use as a hedge. Taller varieties have larger leaves and straight stems for skewering. All are tough, low water and delicious.
• Bay Laurel – Use Sweet Bay leaves fresh or dry for later. Grows as a dense, evergreen, dark green hedge or upright tree. Can be kept small with pruning.

Tuck a few herbs in a sunny spot near your kitchen door, within easy snipping distance. Most herbs like good drainage, so amend your soil with lots of Bumper Crop Organic Soil amendment. Or plant in pots and herbs spill over the sides. Many are surprisingly tough perennials, mounding between 6 inches and 2 feet or so, and will live for years. Enjoy truly fresh flavor!