These seven gardens offer visitors ideas for their home gardens. But in this garden, careful planning has ensured that as each blossom fades, another replaces it to keep the air laden with fragrance. Leaving the shady refuge by the flagstone path, you meet with flowers that perfume the summer air. Fragrant Foliage Herbs, as any cook knows, offer a whole palette of savory odors.
Herbal scents balance the sweetness of the garden's floral perfumes.
Their fragrance is found mainly in their foliage. Sweet woodruff and boxwood furnish other examples of fragrant foliage. Woodruff leaves smell of sweet hay and vanilla. In Germany, woodruff leaves are steeped in wine to concoct the May Bowl. Planted near a terrace or window, this plant can provide a healthy restorative to the returning commuter.