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A Surprise Herb Garden

By Mavis Butterfield on October 27, 2016 · 2 Comments
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oreganoDon’t you just love it when you walk outside to do one thing and you end up doing something totally different? Well yesterday I did just that. I went out to sweep off the back porch and ended up creating a new little herb garden.

oregano

As I started to sweep the porch I noticed our little patch of oregano was totally overgrown so I grabbed my favorite pair of pruning shears and gave it a trim.

lucy-puggle-dog

Lucy started to dig. And when she did, I started to see the possibility of a tiny herb garden in that spot.

thyme

So I grabbed a shovel and dug up the thyme plant that’s been hanging out at the base of the espalier trees for the last year and a half.

purple-coneflower

And the echinacea seedlings I started this past spring.

mini-herb-garden

And moved all the herbs {along with some shasta daisy starts and 2 sage plants} to the little patch as well. In the spring I’ll add a few chive plants and a rosemary bush and call it good.

Garden chores are rad. Even when they’re totally unexpected. 🙂

Have a great day everyone.

 

~Mavis

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Comments

  1. Kristina says

    October 27, 2016 at 2:48 pm

    We call this “mission creep” at our house. Love it.

    Reply
  2. Connie says

    October 31, 2016 at 7:41 pm

    In a warm climate here and oregano wants to take over along with garlic chives. Sage and thyme are well behaved. I have a hedge of rosemary, parsley in big pot that reseeds. Lemon balm in shady bed and comes up each year in new spot. I love growing herbs !

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