Medicinal herbs can be grown in a specialized garden that focuses on a particular illness.
This is one medicinal herb garden for Respiratory Illness.
The backyard is a great place to start a medicinal plant garden.
The aesthetic value of some of these plants may even rival their healing benefits.
Of course this is only one jot down of ailment specific garden, there are many more.
Designing a garden around a theme like this one is simple and utilitarian.
Possible Planting Combinations
Angelica is a biannual that grows up to six feet tall.
It has bushy green flowers that appear in the second year.
It can be used as the backdrop for several other flowers or as a singular space dividing feature.
Betony, when placed in front of the Angelica, can be a show stopper.
A small clump of dwarf white yarrow could easily complete this small planting.
Here the benefits are two-fold, both medicinal and culinary.
A small self wateringcontainer gardencould be the perfect home for a selection of healing herbs.
Perhaps an indoor variety of a raised square foot garden would work.
The advantages to an indoor garden are almost all in the environmental control area.
