Planting of the top of the garden

Having gardened on saturday with two Elpm students to start the thyme patch and after discussing with them possibilities for the top part of the garden beyond the thyms, I felt inspired. I used the many medicinal plants dotted around the place that badly needed replanting. During the time I spent cutting off the dead wood and preparing the plants and then planting them in their big holes full of home-made compost, I realised how badly I had gardened up to then and how gardening is about learning and realising things little by little over the years as one spends time actually doing it. I had planted many different herbs and medicinal plants but I had planted them more or less anywhere, spending little attention on where, how and with what each plant needed......in consequence, the plants were in a sorry state and defintely needed some tender loving care. Anyway today I had a planting plan, I knew how large the plants would be at maturity and I knew what type of exposition, soil etc they needed.....things are looking up.