A Tea-potted Garden

“The air was fragrant with a thousand trodden aromatic herbs, with fields of lavender, and with the brightest roses blushing in tufts all over the meadows…” ~ William Cullen Bryant

I don't have that much space for an herb garden, so I bought a rack and different pots and placed it in a little alcove on my deck.

 

Starting at the top, I have lavender and rosemary--the lavender in a teacup pot.

 



There’s rosemary and rue. These keep
Seeming and savor all the winter long.
Grace and remembrance be to you.”

~William Shakespeare

 

 

Basil is on the next row down in the flag teapot.  The next row down has mint in the yellow pot and thyme in the little red teapot.

 

 

I know a bank where the wild thyme blows,

where oxlips and the nodding violet grows,

Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine,

With sweet musk-roses and with eglantine.

~William Shakespeare, A Midsummer's Night Dream

 

Oregano is in the blue pot next to a dill filled teacup with butterflies.

 

 

 

I have one last pot on the bottom that looks like a red flower, with curled parsley.

 

How I would love to be transported into a scented
Elizabethan garden with herbs and honeysuckles,  a knot garden and roses clambering over a simple arbor ….

~ Rosemary Verey

 

 

I linked this post at Home Sweet Home~ http://thecharmofhome.blogspot.com/