To the avid vegetable gardener, a lawn is just wasted space. Why grow grass when you could be growing salad greens and herbs?

But there's a way to have your lawn, and eat it, too - or steep it, more precisely. English gardeners know that chamomile makes a great groundcover, but in the U.S., chamomile is thought of mostly as an herb for tea.

And that's our loss, because a lawn of chamomile is a fragrant, ferny green mat that you can walk on. You can sow it from seed, or plant seedlings; just be sure to plant the perennial kind, Roman chamomile, and not the annual German chamomile (both are fine for making tea, but only the Roman chamomile is suited for lawns).

Herbal tea has an image problem. Without the capacity to give a strong jolt like coffee, it’s often considered boring. But no matter how much you appreciate the wonders of the bean, you have to admit that there’s nothing much more calming than sitting with a steaming cup of percolating plant leaves. Findbliss.com recently did a roundup of the most relaxing herbal teas. Try adding some peace to your day with these mood-altering brew suggestions, radically abridged from Findbliss.