Herbs are an essential part of any great cooks kitchen and curly parsley and many other herbs are beautiful tucked in beside bright annual flowers.
Strawberries are great ground cover and beautiful on a slope or between stepping stones. Raspberries are a great cover up for unsightly fences.
Blueberries are a great shrub to add to your landscape plan.
Filbert and English walnuts will be a wonderful tree and yeild nuts for baking.
Here are some more ideas for edible landscapes:
- Put pots of herbs on the patio
- Include cherry tomatoes in a window box or hanging basket
- Build a grape arbor
- Grow nasturtium, violas, borage, or calendula and include flowers in salads
- Eat your daylilies
- Plant a fruit tree in the corner of your yard
- Grow Red-jewel Cabbage
- Plant colorful pepper varieties (e.g., Lipstick, Habanero) alongside flowers
- Tuck lettuce, radishes, or other short-lived greens into a flower bed
- Replace a barberry hedge with gooseberries
- Put basil together with coleus in a planter
- Try yellow or "rainbow" chard
- Grow chives around the mailbox
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