From The Herb Garden: Sunny Gardens

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June/July 1993
By Frances Bardswell 
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Many a young child has learned the alphabet of smelling in our herb garden, and there is no plant they enjoy the smell of so much as the strongly scented southernwood. This is not surprising when we remember that the human race in its infancy enjoyed perfumes of a much heavier kind than would be tolerated in these days.

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Balm, with its delicious lemon scent, is by common consent one of the most sweetly smelling of all the herbs in the garden. We like bushes of it everywhere so that it is always at hand; and handled it must be before it shows how sweet it is.

Modern research has proved that ozone is developed when the sun shines on most kinds of fragrant plants, such as scented flowers, fir and pine trees, and sweet herbs generally. This makes the hours we spend in sunny, fragrant gardens more delightful than ever.

In Closing

Nothing would be easier than to add long lists of plants which might go into the herb garden, but what we put into it is really a matter for individual choice. Some like to fill their garden with curiosities; some are mostly concerned in making it as beautiful as possible; others think that a herb garden should be kept entirely for such things as strike the eye at once as herbs. No two people would furnish their herb garden alike. Let each one please himself. One of the best things about gardening is its infinite variety.

It seems to be agreed that the growing of herbs has been neglected for many a long year. Is there going to be a revival now? Signs of this are not wanting.

Excerpted and adapted from The Herb Garden by Frances A. Bardswell. With permission of the publishers, A&C Black and Macmillan and Company.

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