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By DR. DIANE RELF - • . Extension Environmental Horticulturist
• A warning to any enthusiastic gardener with a sense of propriety: Beware of herbs. Herbs are not only attractive, aromatic, and often tasty — they are obsessive! ' With ordinary plants, a container or two on the patio may satisfy your creative drive. Not so with herbs. Two pots rapidly become four, four become eight, and these spill over into the landscape. After all, you may justify to yourself, when there are dozens of different species of mint, how can you possibly be expected to stop with common peppermint? Certainly anyone C|m understand the need to add spearmint and applemint and orange mint and...
They Increase Through
Music and Myth
Actually, adding to the collection within a species is not the major cause of herbal proliferation. Anyone growing parsley and sage must, of course, add rosemary and thyme. Through music and myth, the novice may be Continually lured to new plants. 1 •• Nor does the herbal obsession stop With growing the plants. Books begin to. appear. The history and lore of herbs is the history of mankind. The search for herbs and spices led the Spaniards across the ocean and helped
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