A large herb garden & steps near Tenterden, Kent

This herb garden was made to replace a rather useless piece of enclosed bare grass adjacent to the kitchen in a very large property. The owner designed it and it took two of us ages with strings, canes and tapes to get the layout exactly and symmetrically right.

As herbs tend to like well drained ground, I dug a complicated drainage system which incorporates pipes under all of the beds, all linked together, to take water away.

These photographs do not indicate this, but the access steps and adjacent bed and brick and stone patterns are made to match two other bays in the same wall. It took quite a long time to cut all of the bricks to get the right bond. I was unable to find the correct coping stones, so I had to make the coving with carved mortar.

I made a small paved area at each end to support the benches and some 'creative cutting' was done with the privet hedges to make suitable arbours.

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