If you look at our
Butterfly Garden plan, donated to the school by wonderful landscape designer
Jenny Carpenter, you will see three pre-existing raised beds down at the end of the garden. Currently these beds are a
holding ground for various perennials that we'll be moving to other spots in the garden.
As the perennials come up and we can see what plants we have and where to move them, we hope to transform these three raised beds into themed gardens that will provide intriguing sights and scents for our kids to enjoy and learn about. With that in mind, we've designed a
lemon garden flanked by two smaller herb gardens.
The lemon garden will be filled with lemon-scented herbs--of which there are many--as well as yellow perennials and annuals to keep it looking interesting and lemony year-round.
Diagonally and to the left and right of of the Lemon Garden, we will plant our two
herb parterres. The first will be filled with herbs that give off delicious dessert-like scents, e.g. chocolate mint, spearmint, lavender, pineapple mint, orange thyme and (not pictured because it only just now came to mind, Fennel with its licorice scent and lovely tall fronds and flowers). Here is our dessert garden plan:
The second herb parterre will be our savory garden with such herbs as parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme. And yes, I hope you DID just sing that. Other savory herbs include chives, garlic chives, dill, marjoram and tarragon. Here is our savory garden plan:
We hope to get some of these plants in the ground on our school-wide Garden Day--planned this year, 2012, for the second Saturday in April--on which parents, students, faculty and friends are invited to come out and work in the garden. Crafts for the kids, refreshments for all and fun in the (hopefully) sun where group effort helps us accomplish large tasks in a short time frame. That's April 14, 2012!
