Container Design: Rosemary

Credit: By Terry Guscot

Rosemary takes clipping without a wince, and by shaping it you also get a bit for the kitchen.

Take this idea of melding herbs and formality one step further and you have the knot garden: the weaving of mini-hedges of clipped herbs popular in Tudor England. Best for this treatment are green and grey lavender cotton (Santolina rosmarinifolia and S. chamaecyparissus), wall germander (Teucrium chamaedrys), hyssop (Hyssopus officinalis) and curry plant (Helichrysum italicum ssp. serotinum) With more than 30 years experience in horticulture in B.C. – in wholesale, retail and at VanDusen Botanical Garden for a decade – Carolyn Jones brings a wealth of knowledge and expertise to GardenWise and www.gardenwiseonline.ca as staff horticulturist.