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<DIV><FONT size=4>What is a Rosa Alba? </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>I have several mints too and have been enjoying making drinks
from them. (ginger, apple, chocolate, spearmint and orange)</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>What is weld? Do you mean wode?</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>I have 5 lavender plants (I enjoy lavender so much) and in
fact I've named my home 'Lavender Close'.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=4>A rosemary hedge? sounds great!! I don't think in zone 6
(where I am) that rosemary is a perennial.... oh well,. I enjoy it while it is
here.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>Phillipa</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT><BR></DIV>> > <BR><BR>I don't have a
medieval themed herb garden, mostly because I have a lot of <BR>pots and a
small plot right next to the house. I have a red currant bush, <BR>a black
currant bush, lots of raspberries, a Rosa alba (which is finally
<BR>flowering, yay!) and lots of mint (spearmint, peppermint, ginger mint,
<BR>apple mint, chocolate mint). I'm trying to grow weld, for dyeing, <BR>but
the raspberries and mint seem to be shading it a bit too much for it <BR>to be
shooting up to the heights. I tried lavendar, and it seems to have <BR>kinda
sorta come back, but it's not doing well against the mint.<BR><BR>In pots I
have a lot of New World stuff--tomatoes and peppers and squash, <BR>and then
peas, and an eggplant, and lots and lots of basils. My sweetie's <BR>parents
are discussing turning a useless bit of his yard into a larger <BR>garden, so
I'm nudging him on that score because then I would actually <BR>have the space
to grow more stuff. At the moment he has chives and the <BR>infamous
bunny-eating sage.<BR><BR>Oh, and I have autumn crocus in the front window
box, which has marigolds <BR>in it at the moment as well because I didn't want
to be looking at blank <BR>dirt all summer long. So we'll see if I actually
manage to harvest any <BR>saffron this fall.<BR><BR>If all goes well with the
auxiliary garden, I may try to plant a <BR>grapevine for verjuice.<BR><BR>WRT
hedges--there's a historical site in (I think) Wiltshire, although it <BR>may
be Somerset) by the name of Donington Le Heath, which started life as <BR>a
13th c. manor and got re-done at various times during its life. It's
<BR>mostly late 16th or thereabouts, at this point. And they've got a maze
<BR>that when we were there, in 2000, was just planted. They've used rosemary
<BR>for the hedge-y bits, and in that climate it grows to huge proportions. So
<BR>maybe rosemary for the hedges? Practical AND
useful.<BR><BR>Margaret<BR><BR>_______________________________________________<BR>Sca-cooks
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