It's done.
We had visitors, we had some rainy days, we needed to pick up the stupid rocks. It turned out that a. rocks are really expensive when you want to buy them and b. there are so-called "Steinlesen" everywhere -- designated spaces where farmers can dump the rocks they remove from their fields. One can just go and pick them up there! Very clever, and very for free.
Anyway, so I didn't get finished until yesterday (day 20). But I'm pleased with the outcome:
You see the little bucket pond in the front - it's got a burlap sack hanging into it which wicks water into the area next to the bucket. That's where those swampy plants are growing - water iris, water lily and cowslip and water cress (which I still don't have). I'll get some more smallish rocks today or tomorrow and finish covering up the rim of the bucket. It had been all covered up but then I used many of the small rocks to stuff holes in the larger wall.
The snail circles off the left side and sort of behind the wall you can see there behind the water.
The top is the Mediterranean zone - sandy and warm. The big bush is rosemary, the lavender is already in bloom, and in the front you can see oregano, thyme and lemon balm. The sage is really tiny still and is hiding behind the lavender. Hm. Now that I think about it - is the lemon balm okay up there?
I stuffed some rock garden plants into the holes of the walls - rock cress and saxifraga. Nice little splashes of color, no?
The pond, btw, has two goldfish in it. Our neighbor, who is very green and very nice (or the other way around), has a big garden pond with loads of fish. He loves that we do stuff with our garden and he donated two goldfish. When I told the boys they should maybe name them, the only thing they came up with were "Alan-Fish" and "David-Fish". You would think they could come up with better names!
I also planted some container strawberries and put them next to the pond (we'll just call it pond, OK?), and I also planted a rhubarb. Doug loves rhubarb and so do I - he prefers compote, I prefer my Mom's heavenly rhubarb cake. In any case, we now have rhubarb. Last, not least, I also planted some aquilegia just because I like them. (All of the latter ones are outside the actual herb garden walls.)
So now we have: Parsley, chives, lemon balm, organo, thyme, rosemary, sage, mint, basil and dill. I still want to get coriander, water cress and maybe tarragon. Oh, I can already taste all the herby goodness!
(I just realized that I need to switch the parsley and the chives around. Parsley needs to go further up, the chives need to go closer to the water. Ack!)
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