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herb spiral

effort: a weekend

every microclimate of a hillside, coiled into two metres.

stack stone or brick into a rising spiral and you build a dry, sunny mediterranean summit draining down to a damp, shaded base — a whole gradient of niches by the kitchen door. plant thyme and sea kale up top, mints and sweet cicely at the wet bottom, and everything else along the turn that suits it.