When you stand in the herb garden at the Vogel Museum and Visitors Center, you marvel not just at the beauty of the plants that surround you, but also at the garden's stunning setting. Located on the brow of a hill above Teufen, a sleepy village in the Swiss canton of Appenzell, the garden offers panoramic views across a broad rolling green valley to the Alpstein, a low (by alpine standards) mountain range punctuated by the 8,300-foot peak Santis. Toward sunset on a warm summer evening, you can hearthe cowbells tolling quietly as the night settles in, the animals lulled, it seems, by the rich aroma of herbs and the pastoral scene these plants sweeten.
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