Herb Garden Design For Any Size Garden

 You may dream of beautiful herb gardens, but your reality is a postage sized fire escape. Don't despair! Gardens come in all shapes and sizes. Herbs are very forgiving, and can be used to brighten up a dreary location, or create any mood you wish. Take a look at some of the herb gardens that others have come up with. Enjoy! 

Container Garden

 Containers make wonderful herb gardens! If you have just a speck of space, you pot up one or more smaller pots, and arrange your new herb garden any way you like. 

Container gardens are great for convenience too. They can be planted up and placed up high, for easier accessibility, and planted close to the kitchen, where it's quick and easy to harvest just what you need. Container gardens make great decorations too.

Plant up a few smaller pots and fill your windowsill with freshness! You can use just about anything that will hold some potting soil and allow your herbs to drain away excess water. Try teacups to old work boots, the results will be so wonderful. 

Spiral Herb Garden

 A spiral herb garden is one of the most magical designs. This one has been made from carefully placed, repurposed bricks. It could be set up finished in just a couple of days. You may be able to do it in a single day if you work pretty quickly, but I would still recommend watering and allowing the soil to settle before planting the herbs. 

It's also a great design for planting herbs that have different watering needs in the same bed.

The dry loving herb can go at the top, while the herbs needing a bit more moisture can be planted as you go down toward the bottom of the garden. Don't forget to add a few creeping varieties to spill over the sides. It's beautiful and doable in any size garden space. 

Formal Herb Garden

A formal herb garden has a much more exact shape and design layout, than most. It's lovely shaped sections take some extra care and maintenance to keep the crisp lines, but oh how pretty it looks.

If you design a formal herb garden, grow some extra plants to replace any that you have growing in  your design. That way, if something goes wrong, you will have a replacement ready and not have to lose the overall design.

 

For more information on how to design a formal herb garden, see: How to Design A Knot Garden

Herbal Wildflower Garden

If formal lines and paths are not your style, why not try an herbal wildflower garden? This somewhat sprawling garden is not just for large areas. You can plant your favorite flowering herbs and allow them to grow in controlled chaos. The results are wonderful!  

 Gardening in pots is a way to satisfy your love of beautiful pots and herbs at the same time. Yes, it's a container garden, but this style if meant to show off the containers just as much as the herbs. A plus for pot gardeners, is that the pots can be small enough so that they can be moved in and out of bad weather, and moved into sunnier locations easily. 

A tip for shady areas, is to plant twice the number of pots you need for the location, and keep 1/2 in the sun and 1/2 in the shade.

Switch them out every week or so, and you have a beautiful garden in an area that otherwise couldn't grow a thing. 

Rock herb gardens are a quick and easy way to get gardening! Lay newspapers (a few sheets thick) onto the ground where you want your garden. No weeding necessary!

Surround the newspapers with rocks of all shapes and sizes. You can place them in any design you would like and any size will do.

Then, fill the rocks with your garden soil and plant! That's all there is to it. The herbs will have little trouble establishing themselves in the rich, weedless soil, and you will have an almost instant garden.

Don't forget to mulch!