Head-turning herbs
It’s been a busy start to summer. In spring I put in five new vegetable beds and have just converted a tired, overgrown tangle of weedy shrubs into (what I hope will be) a stunning new herbaceous border. Time will tell!
During the epic tidy-up I was stopped in my tracks by a threadbare rosemary which, despite years of obvious neglect, was still blooming its aromatic socks off. We have a wild bees’ nest in the garden and, let me tell you, the rosemary was alive with them. What a joy to watch them flit from flower to flower in their industrious trance. They go crazy for a clump of apple mint too, gorging on its nectar-rich flowers later on in the summer.
HARD-WORKING HERBS
Herbs, you see, aren’t just about a few
