This is a collection of herb and spice plants that we grow for cooking purposes and beyond

Herb garden with basil, mint, thyme, dill, chives, and parsley

The Herb Garden on Arleta Avenue is one of five adjacent thematic parks that comprise the ambitious Visitation Valley Greenway Project. In its entirety, the Greenway functions as an outdoor classroom and recreation area beautifying the landscape and uniting the diverse groups and generations of Visitacion Valley. This parkland incorporates a native plant garden, children's play garden, various fruit and street trees, public art made by school children and community members, agricultural crops, herb gardens, a Senior Pavilion, job training, and horticultural classes.

The Rocchia garden is informal, romatic and creative. Set deep in evergreen forests beside a small river, it is full of lush growth. It is functional in its simplicity, with a grapevine of white Hungarian grapes that yield enough to produce a modest number of bottles each year; a very healthy herb garden; a bog area with hostas and white iris; and a wildflower garden next to the river. There are yellow loosestrife, daisies, evening primroses, California poppies, verbascum, digitalis and hollyhocks. (Source: Mick Hales Gardens Around the World)

Three years after we moved into our townhouse, we discovered we had green thumbs! Who knew? So, out went the grass in the back and front yards. In went every conceivable plant, herb, vegetable and flower we could squeeze in! Gardening has changed my life!

We live on 80 acres of woods,marsh,bog,wild field & pond. We are blessed with abundant and fascinating wildlife. We moved here in '06 to retire and simplify life. I vowed not to be tied to large and numerous gardens as my health is failing. I decided on a veggie garden with small beds and herb borders. I use a lot of fresh herbs in cooking,garnish, and healing. Each bed can be easily worked from a network of mulched pathways and instead of the one acre garden we once had to have to feed our large family, this garden provides enough for fresh eating and attractive plantings. In our front yard there was an existing crescent moon perennial garden we haven't been able to resist adding to until the borders are bursting and it was going to have to be expanded in some way. A new bed was tilled this summer and now we have mirror image gardens in the front yard on either side of a cement bench. We have just begun the plantings. In the back yard a tiny daylily bed has been replaced by a partial sun perennial garden, a small pond and border plantings. I have planted roses which I love but have not had good luck with in our previous home. To the west of the house, against the woods, we have a hosta bed that is beautifully serene. Our gardens are always evolving and quirky and challenge me to find ways to limit the work and enlist helpful hands and minds. I am by by no means a professional I just enjoy the sun, soil and challenge- So welcome to my garden

3 Gardens in my front yard, 2 on the east side of my house, 1 a herb and 1 a flower garden, also a 3rds garden on the north side, mostly roses and day lillies.

An eclectic mix of perennials, herbs (my true love), annuals and veggies. Potager style. I have an herb garden too. I try to grow heritage varieties like peas and lettuce, as my small way to keep more variety on the planet.

A San Francisco backyard changing into an organic vegetable, herb, and flower garden. With a compost pile and worm compost bins to boot!

Veggies are full to bustin this season also lots of flower and herb gardens on the property !!

I live on 2.5 acres and have perennial gardens around the house. I am an amateur gardener and always looking to learn. I have 6 apple trees, two grape vines and a small vegetable garden. I am looking into planting a small herb garden.

50 square foot of veggies and a herb/flower garden plus a few fruit bushes and trees

I have always been brutally awful at keeping indoor plants alive but I believe in the principle of try, try again and I am hoping my children's love and help will....help! As a child my dad would sprout grapefruit seeds between paper towel and a glass, put toothpicks into carrots and potatoes and show me how they sprouted, and it was fabulous. I want to do this too but take it to the next level: grow them the full way with my kids so they can see that even indoors we can grow and eat our own food. My main challenge is being a north-south facing townhouse that I have, really, one good kitchen window with south light: my north window gets virtually no direct sunlight, even less in the winter. So, I figure we will stick to what grows relatively well indoors: container tomatoes, a bean plant or two, perhaps some carrots, our herb pot and, just for fun, I will take on the challenge of growing my own coffee.

I have had raised beds for quite some years, but two years ago I decided to go to square foot gardening. I plant peas, carrots, various lettuces, several different herbs, peppers (jalapeno and chili), garlic, onions, cucumbers, spinach, potatoes and beans. I built a spiral herb garden this summer to plant next year.

The garden is made with Landscape timbers arranges so there are six sides. Landscape timbers are used to divide the garden into six wedges. there is a different herb or edible plant in each wedge. Included are Three kinds of thyme in one wedge, two kinds of Lavender in another. In a third is two kinds of parsley, in the fourth is chocolate mint, the next has nasturtiums and the last has sage.

Over 36 beds with flowers, veggies, herbs & shrubs. Very informal with stone walkways edging most of the beds. I make jellies and herb breads with the fresh picked produce and we have a small market store at the property. Very much a spring/summer/fall garden with lots of color.

My garden is in Days Bay, Eastbourne. In the front it is mostly a cottage style garden with roses and lawn. Amongst my roses are fox gloves, granny bonnets, pentstemons and much more. In the back I have rhododendrons and camelias underplanted with hostas, and renga lilies.A small herb and vegetable garden features in the back also. The total size of our land is 1/4 acre.

Initially lots & lots of grass, but since last year we started adding herbs & veggies. Now we have 20 different veg & herb varieties. Hopefully they'll all take off & we'll be blessed with some good crops.

Mixture of fruit trees, vege & herb gardens, flower beds

Home based garden business with a focus on permaculture. Includes chcikens raise dofr eggs and fruit trees plus worm farm and herb production along with seasonal vegetables. Tours of garden and Horticultural advice available bt arrangement.

I have a backyard raspberry, grape, mint soil garden; a tomato, pepper, bean, cucumber container garden; an herb flower box garden; a perennial garden and a winter indoor herb, tomato, pepper potting mix/hydroponic/aeroponic garden

I have an enclosed garden surrounded by stone walls. It consists of two parts, one is lawned with three central flower beds, a further flower bed running next to the wall and three trees, The lower garden is again lawned with a separate vegetable plot and one flower bed, There is a small herb garden and I also have several balcony plants and container plants.

Herb garden, bouganvillia, plumeria, hibiscus, orchids, and asorted green vines and plants

The building of a perennial and herb garden

bio dynamic agriculture.

Three year old amateur flower, herb and vegetable garden, about a dozen old apricot-trees and another dozen new fruit trees. Part of nature reserve (with oaks, olive trees and many others), no fencing (to the North), wild rabbits, stray cats, etc....

1000+ sq metres around my house.Southwards: 'tropicals'and lawn;west:lawn and roses and cedrus pedula;north-west:lawn and new perennial border and shrubbery;north:narrow'Japanese' garden with small pond and patio with raised herb beds.

We inherited the garden when we moved here 2 years ago, it is split into three, main section has 3 large false pepper trees, fig, magnolia and jacaranda trees, surrounded by hedging, some of it lantana other evergreen. There are also shrubs and rose trees and a small pond with fountain. The grass area of sorts is very poor and the whole of this area is surrounded by a gravel path with bench seat on each side. The next area is grass again, with a palm tree, currently receiving treatment for the red palm beetle, no sure if it will survive or not, a large Yukka plant and two sky rocket conifers, also another bed consisting of roses, conifer, and other palm type plant. The third area around the pool is planters, in which I have a lemon and orange tree, bay, plus bedding plants and herb pots. Garden so named because it was designed by the previous owner, Olimpia.

Property is about 5 acres (4 Acres bush and subtropical rainforest. We have a variety of established fruit trees including mandarin, lemon, lime, lychee, papaya, ladyfinger bananas, Percimon, Nectarine, Mangoes, Jack fruit and Nashi Pear. There is also one lonely macadamia in need of some tlc. After living in town for the last few years we recently returned and started a veggie patch and herb garden. I am also a fan of pitcher plants although have only two varieties thus far. :)

Front Garden is a rose and Fir Tree Garden. Back garden is Herb and Various varieties, Long Garden Partitioned and colourfull.

The Merritt College Landscape Horticulture Arboretum supports an educational program designed to prepare students for careers in all the major horticultural disciplines, including landscape design and construction, nursery and greenhouse management, sustainable urban agriculture, floral production and design, turf management and arboriculture and aesthetic pruning. Of special interest are the Permaculture Demonstration Garden with more than 100 fruit trees, perennial and annual plants for food production, companion plantings and herb collection; a collection of more than 500 Mediterranean, South African and Australian specimen plants as well as a large collection of California Natives. For additional information see: http://www.merrittlandhort.com/

Outside spread over eight acres are many gardens featuring perennials, annuals, wildflowers, roses, herbs, and cacti. Some specialty areas include a nationally recognized inspirational Peace Garden, rose garden, herb garden, cacti garden, two community vegetable gardens, lily pond, sensory garden, and the Discovery Pond and educational wetland area. Connecting many gardens is the Western Walkway featuring 170 livestock brands set into the concrete walk. The walkway connects the Cheyenne Botanic Gardens grounds to the Old West Museum, where the vitality, drama and romance of life in the West comes alive. Along the Western Walkway is a unique series of three landscaped plazas known as the Rotary Century Plazas. Each plaza interprets life in southeast Wyoming over the past three centuries (1700’s, 1800’s and 1900’s). Each plaza includes sculpted benches, historic plants and other interpretations explaining life in each century. The Rotary Century Plazas also include Wyoming’s oldest locomotive that is surrounded by a historic folk art fence. Adjacent to the 1900’s plaza is a restored 1928 FarmAll tractor and an educational shelterbelt planting. Source: http://www.botanic.org/More_Details.asp

In this dynamic young garden you will find inviting woodland paths, stunning floral collections and exhibits to delight visitors of all ages. Paths meander through the shady woodlands of the Dogwood Trail and the lush fern glade, while native wildflowers quietly populate the Nature Trail. Daylily and herb gardens rival or surpass those of older, more mature botanical gardens. The demonstration vegetable garden showcases varieties of produce and inspires home gardeners. The 5-acre Central Corridor Gardens, featuring aquatic, perennial, and annual displays are ablaze with color from early spring through fall. The Garden of Hope celebrates life and affords a place for quiet contemplation and observation of nature. Source: http://www.hsvbg.org/index.htm

The best raspberry and strawberry patches in the county are right here in the gardens and if you are lucky enough you might even get to taste them. Vegetables of every kind can be found growing even in this harsh environment that usually gets less than 60 consecutive frost free days. The Rose Garden was developed in 2003 for the purpose of testing roses for Weeks Roses of California. Today, the Rose Garden is home to mostly Canadian roses. Perennial as well as annual herbs are abundant in herb garden. Medicinal, edible and tea herbs happily intermingle. Source: http://www.tizergardens.com/index.html

small herb & berry garden

My garden is manageable with roses, lavender, inca,day & clivia lillies, perennial foxcloves & delphiniums, geraniums and a few rose bushes. I also have a zen garden on the east side entrance. I love my herb & veg garden and it is rewarding to pick tomatoes, parsley, mint, sage, rosemary for the kitchen and watch the pumpkin get bigger. Also banana, paw paw & avocado trees.

My garden has mostly containers, but with several fruit trees, and a herb bed at the rear of the house. Spring is the best time of the year, the freesias and roses are beautiful. My lemon tree is admired by all who pass by the house, as is the yellow jasmin over the front garden wall.

front: glasses side : herb back : kitchen garden

Out the front we have many trees and flowering shrubs- one side we have the veg and herb patch- the other side ( sunny side) has the Verandah with exotics and hanging baskets. The back garden is mostly lawn with wild borders

100 ft long 30 ft wide large city garden. Yard with brick herb garden 10ftx10ft approx. Surrounded by evergreen hedging. Two 10ftx4ft brick built raised beds for vegetables in main part which gets the sun from dawn to 7pm in the summer. End one third of garden largly shaded by neighbours trees. Delapidated green house at end of plot. Planning to put in mobile hen house this spring with 3 hens. Garden slopes down and is mainly lawn with plenty of moss. It is beautiful and I love it more then life it's self.

As this is my first year I'm looking forward to the challenge of combining herb, edible and cottage with some container, so my list is long but doable.

Our garden is 23'X10', we grow tomatoes, delecata squash, chard and more. We are also great herb and cooking enthusiasts. Some fruit trees, Asian pear, apple and oh yes, raspberries.

i have flower gardens and a vegetable garden. i am planning a herb garden.

I always plant tomatos but with varying succes as I have no glass house and live in Christchurch NZ. Yams are a perrenial favourite and I treat both silverbeet and rocket (the herb) as essential. I also take pleasure in garlic, basil, celery, chives, Blackboy peaches, walnuts, spuds,radishes, Feijoas, Maori chief potato, Black currant, Raspberries, Strawberries, parsley, to name most of this seasons effort. I also seem to specialise in the unwanted vegetations such as dock, chickweed, shephards purse and numerous other un-named varieties...

I am growing (hopefully) the following in my 18 x 10 x 1' organic garden: Strawberries, Raddishes, Bcoccoli, Watermelon, Cucumber, Corn, Red/Yellow/Sweet Onions, Garlic, Bush Beans, Sweet Corn, Asparagus, Pole Beans, Black Beans, and Gourds. I have various tomato and pepper sprouts. My Herb Garden (which is scattered in pots everywhere) consists of Lavender, Rosemary, Chamomile, various Basils, Verbana, Lemon Balm, Cat Nip & Grass, various Basils and Chives, Dill, Parseley, Thyme, Corriander, and Spearmint. I also have 84 Mammoth Sunflowers lining my property.

My garden is divided into different areas. There is a small lawn surrounded with borders containing wildlife attracting shrubs and trees, including fruit bushes. There is a bricked herb garden, a small woodland area and a wildlife pond. Other areas are bordering the driveway, which includes mature trees and a grassed area with spring bulbs.

In June of 2009, my husband and I moved into a ground floor condominium unit in sunny Pasadena, CA with a spacious patio area with only its cemented floor and a few patches of open ground to work with. Fast forward a year later, our small, cemented empty patio has now metamorphosed into a beautiful container garden with a vegetable and herb box, a dwarf nectarine tree, scores of potted flowering plants, and a whimsical turtle and Japanese Koi pond.

lots of trees, shade plants, herb garden, vegetable garden, flowerbeds around the house,...

As of right now I have squash, beans, eggplant, and peppers. I also have an herb garden. We are doing some altering of the site for this fall's garden, so right now my large garden is resting.

In my garden 'Sanctury' I try & grow everything for the birds & bees, as well as my chickens. I have made & supply various shelters & homes for all of natures creatures. There is a little woodland area, lawn, flower beds, herb garden, fruit & other trees & bushes as well as a vegetable plot. There is a hammock for lazy days. There is also wooden compost heaps that I love to turn

This is my first small in-ground garden with four types of tomatoes, yellow and red bell peppers, zucchini, cucumber, various herbs and blackberries.

I've used my old broken down hot tube to plant vegetables and other plants. Plus there's a nice herb garden off my deck. I love it!

have a shade garden and am in charge of an herb garden

We are a beautiful garden of raised beds, all organic, with a 7' deer fence, all serving 50 families in our neighborhood. Our garden served as the model for additional community gardens built throughout Bellingham and Whatcom County this past year. CCG functions as all volunteer with an Operating Team of 11 gardeners, each with an area of responsibility. Organizer Dee Andrews serves as Coordinator, also as volunteer. We are a 501 (c) 3 organization. We have just completed our first full spring-summer growing season, one which enjoyed great weather, and we were able to donate many boxes of produce to the Domestic Violence Shelters here. The garden is also open for fall/winter gardening at individual gardener's choice. In addition to 50 raised beds of 64 sq feet each, the garden has spaces dedicated to fruit trees, as well as mature blueberry bushes, raspberry and waldo berry vines, strawberry patches, and rhubarb and flower beds. Harvests from these are shared by all gardeners. Future plans may include bee hives, an herb area, and a pumpkin patch for the entire neighborhood. Our garden is in an open area, giving us unlimited sunshine. We have established a healthy composting operation. The garden is used by many residents in this part of the city as a pleasant place to stroll, sit, and chat with others. We are truly building community, and learning together while producing good organic food.

The St Helens Community Garden is a combination garden, with individual community member plots and a larger production garden for the Columbia Pacific Foodbank. Attached to a city park and located behind the senior Center, the city property is a perfect location for easy access and public exposure. The garden is approximately 9000ft, currently with a water supply, shed and fence, and has 11 individual raised boxes for planting. The garden was restarted in the spring of 2009 after having a brief retirement. Under the new outline, the goals for the garden include: 24 individual plots, an extensive production garden for the foodbank, a berry patch supporting several varieties, an herb garden, flower plantings, a new shed, a sheltered seating area for community gardening classes, an attractive setting with maintained grounds and community created art.

The community garden is primarily a school garden. It is approximately one quarter acre in size on my property. I live across the street from a "high risk" elementary school in an urban neighborhood, approximately 1 mile from downtown Reno. The intention behind the garden is multifaceted. The focus is to support social wellness. We do this by partnering with the Elementary School across the street, other schools, community members, neighborhood residents and local companies. We partnered with the University of Nevada Cooperative Extention, which included the school and garden in a grant to provide a program that meets the state standards of education called "Nutrition in the Garden" to the third and fifth grade classes. Through this grant, we also have three picnic tables and have created a Learning Center. We have created a fun, eclectic garden by integrating the garden "opportunities' with the existing landscape. The garden has fruit and shade trees, flower beds, an herb garden, and vegetable plots. We have raised beds made from recycled goods, wood, rocks and straw bales. In our first year, we extended the growing season all year, with help from students from a Charter High School who built a hoop house for the winter months (normally challenging in the high desert, but we were very successful!).

In 2006, the Cambodian Seniors Nutrition Program of the Asian & Pacific Islander Older Adults Task Force initiated a community gardening project to promote a healthy and active lifestyle for the seniors participating in the nutrition program. The Mt. Camel Cambodian Center agreed to host the garden at their site in Long Beach, California, which has the largest population of Cambodians in the U.S. The garden is tended by senior volunteers from the community. A variety of herbs and vegetables are grown in the garden including many that are native to Cambodia, and aren't easy to find in mainstream markets. The senior gardeners enjoy growing things they like to eat, such as ngo om (rice paddy herb), hot basil, ngo gai (saw leaf herb), basil, white basil, kapucha, cucumber, fuzzy squash (fuzzy melon), and bitter melon.

Trying to grow a small oasis in the desert. Well established grass and honeysuckle. Thinking about citrus trees and a small herb garden.

My partial herb garden is a mixture of herbs and greenry that depicts the name "Greenroom Tea Garden" situated almost midway on a 295 ft lot. Greenroom Tea Garden is right in the middle of my back yard garden and my front yard garden. From the "Tearoom Garden" the family can access the big playroom. Different kinds of mints, Rosemary, Sweet Basel, to name a few, now grow in my Greenroom Tea Garden.

A vegetable garden in the front, some flowers and trees for the landscaping, a work in progress, just like any other garden.

Many things contribute to this garden but as in everything, each will take their own view from it. As Persig said, a motorcycle is a sytem, this garden is a sytem comprised of structural relationship and most everything even the 100 ft. spruce have been started from seed. Our mother never spent much for her plants but refused to waste time on any seeds that didn't meet her standards. The lawn is not always green and lush but is tough and seems to live on and have periods when it is like a bed of green velvet. What else can be said.

This is a previously neglected area in front of a parade of shops which is being "renovated" by a volunteer group from the Midleton Transition Town Project. We are a group of like-minded people with an interest in global issues such as Climate Change, recycling and encouraging self-sufficiency by growing your own herbs and vegetables. The object of the gardening excercise is to increase awareness and interest in growing herbs and other beneficial plants in addition to providing colour and interest to an uncared for area. The shoppers and other local people are free to help themselves to seeds and to take and use the herbs, flowers etc. in the hope that they will develop an interest in growing their own produce.

My garden is full of heirloom vegetable varieties, culinary and medicinal herbs, including Stevia, and I grow Chia grain as well. I save seeds of unusual heirloom varieties to ensure their lasting existance on Earth.

The Garden is only 3 years old. It has lawn and various types of coniferous, roses, cycas etc.

Mine is a high desert environment. NOT the sand and cactus that many think of when we say "desert" but the sagebrush-steppe of the Northern Great Basin. We have an arid dry climate also filled with thick stands of Ponderosa Pine tree forests about 12 miles north of our small pleasant rural community. I have loved gardening all of my life and concentrate on herbs, perennials and edibles for thier food and esthetic value. A photographer and writer I also love using my garden and garden products in my art. I also LOVE friends who garden and love to learn about garden efforts of folks in differing climates and environments. Regards, Mari

I live in Japan. I have some herbs. There are a small sand box and a slide for kids.

My garden is a garden full of healing and daily pleasures. Always learning and trying to learn what God has designed so amazingly beautiful and for our use. Love it!!

Herbs & Flowers.

Michelle Obama and local children digging up the White House Lawn in order to create a vegetable and herb garden for the White House Kitchen

Herb Terrace

Herb Garden

My herb garden

Herb Wheel

Herb Basket(Rosemary, Parsley and Caraway)

Another $5 garage sale find - placed in the herb bed August 2009

The far end of my herb garden, with tall hollyhocks, Russian sage, and our beautiful threadleaf Japanese maple in the background.

My herb garden - my favourite garden, I think. I love the scents, and it is an amazing attractor of insects of all kinds. It is simply alive on a sunny day! I have many varieties of thyme ("Doone Valley" creeping thyme in foreground), "Primrose Heron" lamb's ears (coloured golden green instead of silver, and hard to find), santolina, a very old sage (Salvia officinalis), African blue basil, bronze fennel, English and Spanish lavender, and many more.

Our herb garden, we use all the herbs. Even freeze them for use in the winter months.

My new herb spiral.

The finished herb spiral.

Fresh herb bread.

herb garden

planting the herb garden

planting the herb garden

herb garden

new herb/vegetable beds

October snowstorm- herb garden

My medicinal herb garden. Features a beautiful Silk tree, Calendula, a Chamomile lawn that is divine to walk on with the refreshing and relaxing scent that wafts up to meet you. it is the home of my echinacea, Valerian and Hyssop.

Beginnings of the formal herb garden.

Formal herb garden in progress.

The Mixed Herb Patch- left side- early morning and alte afternoon sun.

The Shrubs next to the Herb patch

Another view of my 'herb space' with my pond in the background. Very untidy at the moment but it will soon be well kept.

The herb garden between the two levels of the patio

The herb garden

The herb garden