There are several handy herbs that

Although there are not a lot of herbs that like wet and boggy conditions with poor drainage, it is possible to create a very interesting bog or swamp garden using herbs.

In the wettest areas you can plant watercress, sweet sedges, yellow flag, mints, balsams, and marsh marigolds. Thai mint is especially fond of wet conditions, as is the Asian herb You Yang.

Watercress and duckweed can be grown for people food and poultry food. Almost any herb that has roots that run and spread, rather than go deep into the soil is worth trying.

Back from the watery edge, in the moist areas, try herbal plants such as meadowsweet, bistort, bergamot, and comfrey.

Back even further from the wet and boggy areas you can plant the herbs that like the drier soils, and that attract bees and butterflies.

Herbs like chervil, angelica, parsley, and caraway can all be planted back from the wet area, and enhance the whole concept.

Don’t forget to put taller plants at the back of the bog garden, lemongrass, caraway and similar grasses provide cover and shelter for frogs and for small birds that will come to forage in the wet areas.

More about bog gardens here!

Swamp gardens!

Happy herbing, Patrick