Herbs can spice your flower, rose and vegetable gardens Don't typecast herbs into traditional herb-bed roles. These colorful, fragrant, and savory leading players can do more in gardens than just recite the lines that history has written for them. On the edge.
Herbs make great edging plants.
Low-growing and creeping varieties spill over garden paths with wild abandon, softening edges in the garden. Herbs with upright, shrubby growth habits are perfect plants to edge gravel, brick, or bark walkways, as well as beds and borders. Upright growers include santolina, sage, and lavender. Hedging your beds. Some herbs make wonderful clippable small hedges, which are especially nice in formal gardens.