I needed some place to put the herbs that I had been gathering in containers over the last 5 years so I decided a strip next to the back patio (and just outside the kitchen door) was as good a place as any. So far I have spearmint, chocolate mint, valerian, St. John’s wort, borage, chives, bee balm, thyme, parsley, basil, sage, echinacea, calendula, yarrow, garlic, chamomile and oregano. I am sure there are others that I am forgetting.

Also visible in the photo are my two Interlaken grapes in the foreground in half barrels, the blueberries covered for the birds (and the cicadas), and a Miss Kim lilac in the orange barrel.