The most beautiful ideas to imitate

Your design requirements

For the herb bed system, you should first of all keep an eye on your personal garden aesthetics requirements. If you attach great importance to a coherent, attractively designed oasis of wellbeing, a practical herb bed is of course not for you. If you have more functionality in mind, namely clever growing conditions and high yields, you can focus on the practical.

Aesthetically sophisticated variants

Those who do not only want to enrich the kitchen with their herb bed, but also want to beautify the garden, are well served with the following systems:

• Classic herb snail
• Freely designed stone herb garden
• Herbal spaces embedded in the terrace pavement
• Gabion raised bed
• Plant rings

Classic herb snail

It is the classic for Mediterranean herbs and combines aesthetics with horticultural planting skills. Because the spiral, which rises upwards and is bordered by field stones, offers southern herbs in particular warm growing conditions, while in their lower areas also varieties from more northerly climes thrive. A tip: A small pond at the foot of the spiral also allows you to plant moisture-loving herbs such as meadowsweet or valerian.

Freely designed stone herb garden

The herb snail is too conventional for you? Design your Mediterranean herb garden with freely laid natural stone walls according to your own ideas! For example in a curved oval shape or in a figure eight.

Herbal spaces embedded in the terrace pavement

If you are creating a new garden, you can leave out areas in which you put herbs when laying the terrace paving - a truly beautiful sight!

Gabion raised bed

If you like modern chic, you can also create a herbal raised bed with a gabion border.

Plant rings

Practical and decorative at the same time: The plant ring system that recedes upwards. The heat-storing property of the stone rings and the resulting ones are advantageous here Your own planting troughs - so you don't have to worry as much about the herbal neighborhood do.

Practically oriented variants

If you are looking for a high yield and a sensible combination, you can consider the following herb bed ideas:

• Simple raised bed
• Ground-level bed with separate boxes and paths

Simple raised bed

With a little craftsmanship, you can build a simple, rectangular raised bed out of wooden planks. The practical advantage here is obvious: the plants are easily accessible and can be supplied with a richly lined substrate.

Ground-level bed with separate boxes and paths

A bed with recessed boxes and a geometrically clear network of paths can also be created at ground level - this makes care and harvesting easier.

Additional design ideas

The diverse interplay of structures and colors from silvery, deep green to yellowish varnished leaves is in the Herb bed is extremely decorative - you can of course also add other embellishments to your bed Mistake. How about, for example, neat, self-made destination signs? Very appealing between the small-leaved green, they make massive wooden signs with round labels and burned-in lettering.