This year I've started a little herb garden with rosemary, lavender, mint and thyme. Pictured left you can see two lavender plants and a rosemary bush (centre). I grew the lavender from seed about 2 or 3 years ago and the rosemary I bought in early Summer. Slugs and snails don't seem to bother much with herbs (thankfully). I hope to grow more herbs from seed and add them to this area each year. The wood log was washed up along the local shoreline and I thought it would add some interest along with some slate rock. A work in progress really.
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| Above: Some of my seed packs - I really enjoy growing things from seed. |
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| Above and Below: Thyme grown from seed this year. It started off so very tiny (above) however, it has ended up a decent size by the end of Summer (below). |
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| Above: Mint has had its ups and downs over the Summer. It had some sun scorch on the leaves - I suppose from watering at the wrong time of day. I have this plant sunken into the ground in a plastic pot in the hopes that it won't be a thug and take over the bed. |
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| The rosemary thrives even now in December. I used some of it for Thanksgiving Day cooking! I suppose it has been the star herb this year! |
Happy Late Thanksgiving wishes to American bloggers!
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That's great Kelli, I've never had much luck with herb seeds, wish I knew why! The driftwood is a really nice feature.
ReplyDeleteI noticed today that our rosemary is flowering!
ReplyDeleteThat's a great start, Kelli. Before you know it you'll have herbs all over the place, because they are so easy to propagate. I have grown thyme from seed a couple of times, but I get frustrated because it grows so slowly. I usually end up buying a few little pots of it at the Garden Centre. We use such a lot of herbs in cooking that it is hard to produce enough! I have taken lots of cuttings of Lavender this Autumn, in the hope of having a good display of it next Summer. Some of them are obviously growing, so maybe I'll be lucky.
ReplyDeleteLove all your herbs grown from seed. The driftwood and slate pebbles look great. Love the color of the chips and won't that look good when the lavender blooms!
ReplyDeleteRosemary, thyme, mint and lavender are minor herb in Indonesia. Only big groceries that sell them.
ReplyDeleteI bought some herb plants this year, I've never really bothered much with herbs in the past but I'd like to add to my small collection now.
ReplyDeleteLoving the addition of the piece of driftwood to your herb garden, it looks so rustic and just right somehow. I have to say I admire you for having the patience to grow herbs from seed, I tend to rush out to the garden centre and buy a pot or two when the fancy takes me. We have to keep our mint enclosed in an old concrete laundry tub to prevent it from becoming invasive, but it's a small price to pay to have such a useful herb. My most useful herb though would have to be rosemary - you can even use the stems as skewers for kebabs!
ReplyDeleteherbs are such a rewarding thing to grow - and yours seem to be thriving
ReplyDeleteOur winter is a bit more harsh than yours, but I still managed to harvest a bit of parsley from my garden just yesterday. My new tiered herb garden has been a major success, just like yours.
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