Best herb garden design

Beautiful Herb Garden Designs

Fresh ways to make your herb garden both functional and super-stylish

Written by Mike Irvine October 25, 2016

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A world of color

Take advantage of the fact that not all herbs are green and leafy. Local nurseries have varieties in a wide array of colors, textures, and heights, as well as those that flower and bring bees into the garden. Here is a prime example of an explosion of color and varying heights: tall pineapple sage with red trumpet flowers and chartreuse leaves; the mid-sized flowering basils—African blue and Mountain magic—with spires of purple flowers; and a low-growing blue-green German thyme spilling over a rocky border. A feast for your eyes and also your nose!

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Summer, contained

Of course, it wouldn’t be summer without a bushel of sweet basil growing in your garden. But the cluster of vibrant-flavored herbs shown here is just as perfect for the season. Some, like mint and cilantro, are familiar, while others—shiso, lemongrass, and Thai basil—are more exotic. But they all can be used to add bold Asian flavor to a variety of dishes. And thanks to their variety of heights, textures, and shades of green, they make for a winning combination in the garden, too.

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Think both in and outside the box

Don’t feel restricted to growing herbs in traditional in-ground or raised beds. Most herbs, including annual green basils, will grow happily in wooden crates, willow baskets, small pots, and other containers. All they need is good drainage, regular water, and at least 6 hours of sun. From thyme and sage to oregano and marjoram, there’s really no excuse not to spruce up your stoop, windowsill, or balcony with a favorite culinary herb.

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A busy gardener’s saving grace

Perennial herbs are a great solution to any difficult spaces or sections in a landscape—they fill in nicely, overlap and play well with their companions, and don’t need much attention from the home gardener. If they start to get unwieldy or wild, a few quick cuts down to new points of growth will rein them in and leave you with a pretty harvest of herbs to hang and dry. What’s more, mild temperatures in areas such as coastal California allow for continuous harvests of tri-color sage, golden oregano, French thyme, and rosemary through the winter months.

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Herb wall

There’s no need to limit your herb selection to traditional low-lying mounds of thyme and oregano. Experiment with taller, more dramatic selections that will stun you with quick and vigorous growth. Here, the limey leaves of pineapple sage intermingle with licorice-tasting anise hyssop in full bloom—a solid wall of aromatic herbs that delight the senses and attract the busiest of hummingbirds.

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Bee magnets

A mix of three types of flowering basils grows at the base of each trellis. ‘African Blue’, ‘Magic Mountain’, and ‘Wild Magic’, are all grown specifically for their flowers, which, unlike traditional types, aren’t a sign of being at the end of their season. (All varieties of basil available by mail order from Morningsun Herb Farm.) The basils bloom all season and die come frost. They’re still edible (though more astringent than traditional Italian types) and ridiculously loved by the bees.

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Herbal essences

(All herbs available by mail order from Morningsun Herb Farm.) Herbs make fantastic border plants. Seen here: white-flowering lavender ‘Hidcote’, orange-flowered Agastache ‘Sunset’, intensely purple-flowered A. ‘Blue Boa’, lighter purple-flowered A. ‘Blue Fortune’, the green and yellow variegated leaves of ‘Variegated Berggarten’ sage, the chartreuse leaves of pineapple sage, and the green leaves of Thymbra spicata, spilling from the bed onto the path.

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Spilling is ok here

The simplest way to soften a straight edge: Plant a spilling herb. Along the sides of each of our Test Garden’s raised beds, Homestead Design Collective planted herbs that do just that. Not only do herb blossoms look beautiful and attract pollinators and beneficial insects, but they’re also edible. Most herb blossoms, including the French thyme seen here, taste milder than their leafy companions and are great additions to salads, soups, and egg dishes.

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Follow your nose

Your herb garden should not only look beautiful, but should fulfill your other senses as well. Just imagine the rush of aromas that would result in brushing past this bed of flowering herbs—a mild licorice and minty scent from both the flowering purple spires of anise hyssop and the cheery apricot blossoms of the agastache, a sweet perfume from the white lavender, and a hint of Mediterranean spice from the low-lying purple blossoms of the culinary herb za’atar. A garden should be a source of inspiration, and who wouldn’t want to run back into the house with a bouquet of these fragrant herbs to use in the kitchen?

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A perfect pairing

Never be afraid to mix your herbs with your vegetables. Here two chile de arbol peppers, bearing fruit that are fiery in both their bright fire-engine red color and their smoky flavor, are surrounded by a border of herbs, including blossoming thyme, marjoram, and wild magic basil. The herbs are allowed to spill over the bed’s rocky border, while they’re pruned and harvested away from the peppers–giving them necessary breathing room and space to grow. Meanwhile, the herbs also bring pollinators and beneficial insects to the garden–visitors that are essential to the health and production of all vegetables!

Popular Herb Garden Design Ideas for Small Spaces

Thomas Jefferson once wrote, “No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden.”

Herb garden design is perhaps, one of the most delightful activities for the gardener.

Whether you have room for only a container or are blessed with room for raised garden beds, your culinary herbs will delight the senses and give your love for design full expression.

The most successful small herb garden designs combine your favorite herbs and flowers in pretty combinations.

This photo is an example of a great small herb garden design that is very easy to achieve. Individual pots of herbs and flowers are grouped together in baskets.

The baskets are very effective in providing a cohesive look.

The baskets are also portable which is an important design element for a small area since they can be moved when you need to re-purpose the same space.

This pretty design is also very flexible, allowing you to bring individual herb pots indoors while cooking or switch out different flowers and herbs depending on the season.

Container Herb Garden Design

Urban homes often have very limited space for gardening. That’s one of the reasons that container herb garden design is thriving in cities.

Any apartment with a window that supplies plenty of light, or a balcony that has a sunny spot, can support a container garden.

Those containers can be just about anything you want them to be, as long as there are drainage holes in the container.

Without drainage holes, water will be retained for too long, causing root rot for your herbs.

Use unique containers to provide color and interest in the herb garden.

The design of your container garden will, of course, be based on the type of container you use. Just remember that water runs downhill, so if you tier your gardens allow for controlled runoff. Where will the water go, and what will it take with it?

For example, the beautiful strawberry pots are popular with herb gardeners, but, how do you water them? The pockets that circle the pot are hard to water, often overflowing and uprooting the herb in the small space it occupies.

The key, here, is to use a piece of 2″ PVC pipe in the center of the planter.

Drill holes all around the pipe, for the full length of it, and leave the center clear.
Pack dirt around it in the pot.
When you water, pour water into the pipe, and it will seep into the soil, watering the plants from the inside out.

This type of design helps with watering plants in tall containers of any type.

Design your container garden with an eye for diversity. A basket or pot can support 3 or 4 different herbs, and supply plenty of each for most of your cooking needs. Make sure you select herbs with similar light and water needs.

Small Herb Garden Design in the Outdoor Garden

Those with limited space outside may be interested in small herb garden design. You don’t need a lot of space for a great garden – all you need is plenty of sun. Most herbs thrive only in full sunlight, although there are some that can handle shade.

Some of the prettiest and most bountiful herb gardens are grown in the limited alley space behind a suburban fence. Planting against a fence helps to keep the soil warm since sunlight reflects light and warmth back onto the garden.

When designing your small herb garden, consider access. If you have access to the plants from all sides, design the tallest plants to be in the middle.

If you design your small herb garden with access in mind, you won’t have to reach around taller plants to reach smaller ones.

If you are planting your herbs against a fence, plant the taller plants against the fence for the same reason.

This not only creates a pretty layering of plants, but it also keeps you from breaking larger plants as you tend to the smaller ones.

Growing along a fence also protects the plants from wind, if that’s a problem in your area.

If you have limited space for your herb garden, consider going “up” to maximize the space. Use a tall container in the center of a round or square area.

This will get larger plants up above the garden, leaving more surface area on the ground for other plantings. You can even add more tiers for more planting areas.

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A checkerboard pattern can be used in small gardens. It doesn’t need to be as elaborate as the photo to the right.

Four or six squares would still give you plenty of room for several crops.

This design would be perfect next to a small seating area where your guests could wander along the walkways admiring your garden crops along the way. Plant taller herbs in the center of each square and add in a few edible flowers for maximum interest.

If your available space is long and narrow, consider a trough arrangement.

You can often find concrete or stone troughs that are quite attractive and decorative. Or you can re-purpose livestock troughs as a garden planter.

Place it in the middle of your planting space or along a fence, and plant your tallest, bulkiest plants in this trough. This gets them off of the ground, leaving more ground space for shorter plants.

Believe it or not, a metal watering trough from the farm supply store may be just the solution for this elevated planter.

Raised Herb Garden Design

While these other designs used raised elements to add volume and space to the herb garden, a true raised herb garden design eliminates a great deal of stooping and bending usually associated with any type of gardening. Lower raised beds are equally good in the garden, especially if you live in an area with rocky or clay soil.

Many times a raised garden bed doesn’t add that much in the way of planting space, it just gets the plants up where you can reach them. The one exception is with square foot gardening.

4×4 Raised Bed Square Foot Herb Garden. Photo Credit: Two men & a little farm

Using the square foot gardening approach, here is a space-saving layout for an herb garden.

Square foot gardening is a popular method to minimize weeds, conserve water and space while maximizing the yield in your garden. It is widely used in many vegetable and herb-growing communities.

The square-foot layout is a great way for the very orderly gardener to plant herbs. Ideal for smaller spaces, each square will be designated for a single herb variety.

Want to build your own? Here are 6 easy steps to create your own square foot herb garden.

Square-Foot Herb Garden Setup

Select an area that receives 6-8 hours of sun.
Place weed cloth or thick cardboard on the ground to prevent weeds from growing into your herb bed.
Build or buy a four-foot square garden box. 6-8 inches deep is perfect.
Fill with soil. You can make your own planting soil with equal parts peat, vermiculite, and compost.
Add the grid – measured 12 inches apart, you can use twine & a nail or spare pieces of lumber to layout your squares.
Plant your herbs! Tall ones in the middle & shorter ones along the edges.

The white raised garden bed shown below is a pre-made kit perfect for the square-foot garden method. This is the 4 x 4-foot size and is 11 inches deep.

Vita Gardens 4×4 Garden Bed with Grow Grid

We like this planter since it doesn’t require any tools to set up. It is also made from a premium PVC material that won’t rot, fade or wear out over time.

Two or more kits can be used if you’d like to add vegetables or create a unique design in your backyard. You may decide to create pathways between each square. These pathways are often handicapped accessible with plenty of room for walking aids or wheelchairs.

When designing your own layout, any single planter should be narrow enough so you can easily reach the center of the planter without losing balance – four feet wide is normally a good rule of thumb.

The pyramid planter is a fun design that allows you to create several different planting sections. It is visually beautiful while also quite functional, as the design allows you to reach all sections without needing to step into the garden bed itself.

The Triolife 3-Tier Plant Pyramid

This is a truly unique herb garden design that will surely stand out from the crowd. It’s quite big at about 3 feet wide & 2 tall, so you can grow your entire herb garden in this planter.

Another popular design for the raised herb garden is the zigzag. It’s especially useful in small yards, where there just isn’t room for a checkerboard. With the zigzag pattern, you still have accessibility and can easily reach the centers of the planters, but the design lends visual interest.

Most raised beds feature some type of drainage in the retaining wall. A weed barrier is often laid on the ground, with the raised planter built on top. Drainage for these large areas can be a problem, so it requires some thought.

The drainage hole can be as simple as a gap left between two abutting landscaping logs or can be a perforated drain that channels away excess water.

Raised Garden Bed Kits

If you don’t want to build a raised garden from scratch, you can order a raised garden bed kit. Here are 2 types of raised garden kits that work well for herb gardens.

The first is a freestanding version. You can place the VegTrug Raised Garden Planter directly on a patio or deck which is a great way to create an herb garden when space is at a premium. It also is a great solution for anyone with a bad back.

The VegTrug 1 Meter Raised Planter

The planter box is about 30 inches high, so you won’t have to bend down at all while watering or clipping your fresh herbs.

A pre-formed liner and a built-in drainage system. This design will maximize your harvest and is easy to maintain and harvest without killing your knees in the process.

The Three Tier Garden

The second is another good design for small spaces since you can grow vertically.

3 Tier Elevated Garden Bed

This Tiered Garden Kit is very easy to put together and is made from natural wood with no chemicals added. The stacked design lets you plant several types of herbs and vegetables together in a compact area.

Purchasing a raised garden bed kit is a super easy way to start your herb garden without interfering with the rest of your garden landscape. Just locate a corner of your yard that gets great light and is close to the kitchen. Then simply set up your planter, add soil & herbs.

Don’t let awkward or limited spaces keep you from developing a great herb garden design. There is always a way to make small spaces work when gardening.

Sometimes you just need to be a little creative, then you can enjoy fresh, fragrant herbs year-round with your own herb garden.

BigData: fashionable garden 2022 through the eyes of customers

Regular, with neatly trimmed plants and smooth paths – or is it still a low-maintenance natural garden? Together with practicing designers, we figure out what landscape projects are now ordered by the owners of country houses and cottages.

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A comfortable garden – not only in spring and summer

“The garden today is a place of beautiful relaxation, and customers want to use it all year round. They ask to install gazebos, provide a place for a barbecue, a cauldron and a stove; build buildings with large sliding windows,” says interior designer Olga Semyannikova.

“Covered terraces with barbecue and barbecue are in trend. Now I often design glazed gazebos with outdoor recreation areas,” agrees with colleague Anastasia Zvonareva, ZAcreative Design studio.

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“Customers no longer ask for stems, rose gardens, multi-care gardens. The herb garden and the garden, attractive in different seasons, have been dominating for a considerable time already,” adds designer Olga Smolenskaya.

“Plots with curly clipped bushes a la the garden of Versailles and fountains are a thing of the past. Beautiful areas look like a nature reserve: lush greenery, but at the same time, every bush and blade of grass is in its place,” confirms designer Tatyana Shcheglova.

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ARCADIA GARDEN Landscape Studio

The fewer worries, the better

Designer Natalia Azarova: "They ask us to design a landscape project immediately, together with the house, and they want to give the work to one hand."

Interior designer Violetta Nikitina: “The garden should not enslave the owner, it should please. Therefore, we select hardy, suitable for our climatic zone and highly ornamental plants that do not require complex care. ”

Designer Maxim Sevostyanov: “The main request is a lazy garden that does not require maintenance. It is more like the wild, but with all modern systems: automatic watering, automatic grass mowing, hidden adjustable lighting.”

Alena Arsenyeva's landscape workshop

Natural style

“Demands for regular gardens, decorative fills and sheared forms have completely disappeared. When we first added landscaping to our services, clients had to be convinced of the relevance of a modern landscape garden. But in the last year, a garden in a natural style or with its elements is a priority for customers,” notes architect Vladimir Rusanov.

“They don't ask for lions, gold or luxury. They no longer want to simply level the area where there was a slope, but on the contrary, they are ready to beat its relief, bringing the territory closer to nature, ”adds designer Alexandra Chashchina.

Dantone Home

Planning - with clear zoning

Georgy Morozov and Natalia Vishnyakova, GN Bureau: “The garden is increasingly becoming an extension of the house. The pandemic has strengthened the trend when the exterior flows smoothly into the interior and vice versa. The open terrace adjoining the house becomes the main element that connects the interior with the garden.”

Designer Nadezhda Smirnova: “The space in front of the house has become more thoughtful: as a rule, the plot is divided into a common guest area and a more private area. Common area - with a barbecue, an open hearth with chairs around, a picnic table; more private areas for relaxation and quiet pastime - with sofas or sunbeds.

Designer Natalya Vasilyeva: “The house has really become a place of power, and the garden is subject to increased demands: we need cozy areas for breakfast, for sports, for a picnic in the garden.”

Architect Vladimir Rusanov: “More attention is paid to playgrounds. And now this is not a sandbox with a slide, but more complex, interesting, individual solutions that will remain in the garden as full-fledged objects even when the children grow up. ”

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Plants for privacy

Designer Nadezhda Smirnova: “Very stylish pergolas and walls appeared – screens with plants that hide the owners from prying eyes.”

Interior designer Violetta Nikitina: “The main request for arranging a garden is to create a private area, closed by plants from outside attention. At the same time, we choose plants that are hardy, suitable for our climate zone and do not require complex care.”

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Live fire is welcome

“A lot of outdoor recreation areas are requested on the modern site: terraces with pergolas or a fire zone without shelter at all,” says designer Olga Smolenskaya.

“Many people prefer to have a fire pit as a special meditation area and a place where they want to spend the evening,” confirms designer Elena Paramonova.

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A vegetable garden is still needed

“Preference is given to the most unpretentious plants and fruit trees. Recently, requests have been received for small greenhouses with a minimum set of greens and vegetables,” says interior designer Valentina Golovchenko.

Landscape workshop "Fantasy Garden"

“We often encounter the desire of customers to set up a pharmaceutical garden in the garden,” says designer Elena Paramonova.

“Less space has been given to vegetable gardens, but it's still rare for anyone to completely abandon them. A lot of attention is paid to fruit plants,” adds Anastasia Zvonareva, ZAcreative Design studio.

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The garden comes to the house

Yana Yarasheva, head of the design studio: “In 2022, a trend began to appear to create small winter gardens right in the apartments. In the conditions of life in the city, it is far from always possible to go out into nature, but a small garden in an apartment partly solves this problem. This decision became especially relevant after the pandemic.”

Designer Svetlana Töpfer: “A large number of large-sized plants in the house are now the norm – people are learning to take care of them. The garden in the house no longer looks like a corner filled with assorted pots; this is an elegant combination of decorative, exotic plants in expensive planters. Also on the market appeared artificial plants, the most realistic in appearance.

Designer Elena Karasaeva: “In the landscaping of apartments and houses, artificial trees of high quality are more often used.”

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Unusual landscaping ideas - examples, photos, description

Do you dream that guests, once in your garden, freeze with delight or become speechless with amazement ? In that case, this article is for you. We have collected the most creative landscape design ideas that are unlikely to leave anyone indifferent.

Green sofa

On a green sofa smelling of meadows and sunshine, it is pleasant not only to dream alone, but also to sit with friends over a cup of coffee or a glass of good wine.

Despite the apparent complexity of the design, the idea is quite feasible. The basis of the grass sofa is made of bricks, all the voids are filled with earth, the brickwork is “coated” with viscous soil and strips of rolled lawn are laid on top. After the sod is laid and straightened, it is generously watered with water. You can use such garden furniture in a few days.

The main thing is not to forget to water and mow such a sofa in time

A lawn with fantasy

A flawless green lawn is, of course, beautiful, but… boring. Whether it's a lawn that resembles a chessboard, as in the photo below.

This effect can be achieved in several ways. Initially, by sowing different varieties of grass in squares, for example, red fescue of the Nimba variety of dark green color and golden green of the Areta variety. The pattern can also be obtained by cutting the grass at different angles.

The zest of the "checkerboard" lawn is given by the "path" of multi-colored ground cover plants - red coleus and yellow loosestrife.

Who said that a lawn can't have a trendy haircut?

Over the mountains, over the valleys

The author of the landscape design project presented below is fluent in hardscape technology - creating an artificial relief using solid materials.

It would seem that only a few retaining walls were built across the lawn. But thanks to their wavy design and different heights, an ordinary lawn has turned into an unusual art object.

Another creative lawn option

Outdoor living room

A smartly terraced slope and Corten steel fence transform the ordinary backyard of a private house in Berkeley, California into a stylish and cozy "green" living room. The combination of a granite platform and wood in the patio paving looks creative. An original touch of design - maple, as if growing through the floors, and ground cover plants, smoothly flowing from terrace to terrace.

Unusual recreation area - view from different angles

Garden path in the form of a zipper

The highlight of this project is the garden path, made in the form of a zipper. On the way to a small lake, it diverges into two parts and beautifully frames the coastline. The choice of contrasting materials - terracotta tiles and massive paving stones - only enhances the overall impression.

Zip path in the garden of the Tao Hotel (Taiwan)

"Nest" in the garden

Nests in the garden are not uncommon. But not so big. Wicker fencing frames a green seating area and creates a cozy, sheltered space. A spacious lounger with birch trees growing through it looks like a landscape sculpture.

“The Nest” is how Australian designer Jamie Dury called his project

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An aquarium instead of a swimming pool

Today you will not surprise anyone with a swimming pool or a picturesque pond. But a large outdoor aquarium in the garden is still a rarity.

The frame of such a reservoir is made of concrete and glass, the bottom is laid out with decorative pebbles. Next, freshwater algae are planted, if there is a desire - floating plants. And that's all - you can launch "goldfish" and make a wish.

If it’s cold here in winter, the fish will have to move indoors until spring

Violin-shaped pool

Continuing the theme of water bodies, you can’t go past the unusual violin-shaped pool that American designers from the landscape bureau Cipriano Landscape Design built for the owner of a country house. at home - a fan of classical music.

You do not have to repeat the shape of the pool in your garden, the main thing is to be inspired by the idea and come up with something no less original.

During the day, the pool impresses with its shape, following the contour of a Stradivarius violin

And at night, with its original lighting

A flowerbed that makes you want to take off your hat

Unusual - not always difficult. To implement the idea presented in the photo below, you will need a large wire frame, fertile soil, geotextiles and a lot of patience.

Geotextile, which is cut for plants, holds the soil and does not allow weeds to germinate. It is not forbidden to experiment with the shape of the hat, as well as the assortment of planting material.

To make the composition well visible, use low-growing plants for planting

Living room

The art of curly haircut is the highest aerobatics of garden skill. Topiary in the form of a living room with "live" sofas, armchairs, a coffee table will be the pride of any garden owner.

Topiary garden not only looks beautiful, but also requires constant care

Clubfoot watchman

But if you are just mastering the art of topiary, and you want to impress your guests, you can get an original landscape figure, for example, a bear. The clubfoot is made of fiberglass, and its coat is perfectly imitated using a rolled lawn.

A clumsy guard will decorate the garden and protect it from night thieves☺

“The lady lay down and beg”

A soft green bed is a great place to lie down, enjoying the silence, or sunbathe in the sun in a secluded corner of the garden.

The design is so realistic that you really want to lie down. Particularly impressive are the “folds” of the blanket, which have found a continuation in the rest of the lawn space. Emerald grass is skillfully shaded by bushes of flowering rhododendrons.

Roll-up turf provides unlimited possibilities for imagination

Green islands

Two bowl-and-hemispheric islands have become the highlight of one of the many British garden shows, but maintaining their shape in real life is quite difficult. But as an idea, it's a great project. For example, if you replace water with porcelain stoneware with a glossy finish, you get a spectacular recreation area.

Lawn like a green island? Why not

Hobbit mink cellar

How to turn an ordinary cellar into a stylish landscape object? Very simple! Disguise it as a hobbit mink - a representative of the fabulous people of Middle-earth.