June Garden

June Herb Garden

You do not need a lot of space to grow a selection of herbs, flowers and vegetables. At the bottom of my garden is a raised bed formed from an overgrown compost heap. The potatoes have sewn themselves, as did the nasturtiums. I have planted beans, tiny chrysanthemums, sweet peas and tobacco plants for colour and scent and roman camomile, dwarf lavender, marshmallow and clary sage to extend the range of my herbs. Nettles, plantain, creeping buttercup, rosebay willow herb, dandelions and various other weeds also lurk when I'm not looking!

The St John's Wort missed flowering on Midsummer's Day by one week and the mugwort has produced side shoots that are about to burst into flower. The Virginian Skullcap is also due to bloom soon and did so on July 9th. The lavender is forming flower heads and behind these plants borage plants have self seeded and are coming up through the layer of compost I put onto the garden to provide a mulch to retain moisture. The three himalayan spikenard plants are surviving and one has flowered. Snapdragons provide summer colour along with a blackcurrant sage.

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