How to create an exciting herb garden

If you want a utility garden that is both beautiful and practical, a formal herb garden presents a perfect opportunity for you. They have a lot in common with the proverbial stone that killed two birds. Culinary herbs will enrich your meals with their rich flavours while aromatic ones will fill your garden with their tantalising fragrance. Medicinal herbs, on the other hand, will provide ready cures to some common ailments while ornamental herb gardens will add to the aesthetics of your garden with their wide variety of foliage and flower colour, textures and artful geometric forms.

Balancing all these functions can be a little intimidating to the amateur gardener. But to create a simple formal herb garden, all you really need to do is choose a geometric shape, like a circle or a square, divide it into sections of equal size and fill each section with similar or complementary herbs. Here are more details: