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The potager garden grows food, flowers, herbs

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Small boxwood hedges can be used to outline more ornamental potager gardens.

SHNS photo courtesy Maureen Gilmer

The subtle brick pathways radiate out from the center of this four-square potager which features a decorative planted urn.

SHNS photo courtesy Maureen Gilmer

This is a traditional French four-square potager with fruit trees within a walled compound.

SHNS photo courtesy Maureen Gilmer

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Romans were major gardeners in a time when most cultures were still hunting and gathering. But when the Roman Empire declined, much of Rome's agricultural development vanished. All that remained of it were ruins of villas in formerly conquered lands. The Roman home was a series of rooms that enclosed a central courtyard. Often this was divided into four equal spaces with a well or fountain at the center.
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    • Small boxwood hedges can be used to outline more ornamental potager gardens.
    • The subtle brick pathways radiate out from the center of this four-square potager which features a decorative planted urn.
    • This is a traditional French four-square potager with fruit trees within a walled compound.
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