Your Herb Garden. Barbara Segall

      My first encounter with herbs was very early in my childhood when I crawled out of the kitchen door to nose into a clump of mint. Since then my appreciation of herbs has grown, and so has the repertoire of herbs that I grow. I know, use and love herbs as they grow through each season. I have grown herbs in containers, in hanging baskets, on patios, allotments and now, in Suffolk, have a half-acre garden where herbs predominate. There is a circular culinary wheel, an informal herb potager, and through the rest of the garden herbs play an important role as attractive plants in herbaceous borders.

      I love the taste of mint and have two collections of these aromatic but invasive plants. In an old enamel footbath, with holes drilled in it for drainage, I grow apple mint, curly mint and ginger mint. In a large round container sunk into the main herb garden, spearmint and peppermint compete with apple mint.

      I also have upright pennyroyal growing in an ever increasing patch: its waywardness is always forgiven when its astonishing lavender-blue flowers appear. Creeping pennyroyal

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