My herb garden
Growing herbs is one of life's great unsung pleasures: it is easy, it fills your garden with bees and pollinating insects, it transforms your cooking. Once your herb garden is established it doesn't need a lot of your time either. I have been giving my herb garden a bit of attention today, pulling out the odd weed, discouraging the mint from world domination, potting up new seedlings to give to friends and family. The chives in flower are as lovely as any border plant. Here they are jostling with culinary mint. I grow all sorts of mints: lime, lavender, apple and spearmint as well basil mint. You would hardly believe that the leaves really smell of anything other than menthol but they do. The basil mint in particular has taken off. Some are more vigorous than others. In our garden it is the culinary mint and the basil mint which are romping all over the place while the others sit more decorously in their slate lined boxes. ...