A beautiful and robust herb with anise scented leaves and bold spikes of light purple flowers all summer. The leaves can be added to drinks or salads or used to…

A highly aromatic basil with bright green leaves and small white flowers from summer to mid-autumn. This basil is well known for the unique…

A colourful herb with strongly scented leaves and large deep scarlet flowers which bloom over a long period in summer.  The leaves can be added to fruit drinks or…

With leaves which have the faint flavour of cucumber, borage has beautiful intense blue star shaped flowers from early summer to mid autumn.  Fresh leaves and flowers can be…

A mat forming evergreen perennial with finely divided sweet smelling leaves and long stalked daisy like flowers in summer. Chamomile makes attractive…

Chervil's attractive, light green fern-like leaves have a delicate aniseed flavour and are followed by pretty white flowers.  The leaves complement…

A clump forming herb with slender bulbs, cylindrical hollow leaves and pretty pink to purple globe shaped flowers in late spring or early summer. The leaves and…

A clump forming herb with flattened leaves, rather than the cylindrical hollow leaves of ordinary chives.  Garlic chives have exceptionally pretty white star shaped flowers in summer.  The leaves have a mild garlic…

An extremely attractive, erect herb with aromatic leaves and white to purple flowers in summer.  The flowers are followed by pale brown fruits which have a fruity scent …

A very decorative herb, dill has a long stem with lacy grey-green leaves followed by umbels of yellow flowers in summer. Use the leaves and ripe seeds to flavour…

An ancient herb which forms a neat, upright shrub.  It has small, narrow, aromatic leaves with dense spikes of glorious deep blue flowers.  Fresh leaves can be added sparingly to stews or used with…

Lemon balm is an undemanding, neat, shrubby herb with lemon scented leaves and small cream flowers in summer. The leaves can be used to add flavour to chicken, game and fish,…

Pot marjoram has oval, dark green, aromatic leaves with clusters of white, sometimes pink, flowers in mid summer. It can be used as a substitute for golden marjoram…

One of the most colourful herbs and a popular garden flower, nasturtiums have bright orange and yellow flowers throughout summer. Both the leaves, which have a peppery taste, and flowers are edible and can be used in…

Curled parsley has distinctive bright green, curly, serrated leaves.  Umbels of yellow-green flowers follow in the second year.  This herb is widely used as a garnish or to…

This is the golden version of green purslane with leaves tasting of mange-tout.  They are followed by small yellow flowers in late summer.  Both the leaves and the stems…

A very popular choice for salads, wild rocket has oval deeply divided mid-green leaves with small yellow flowers in summer.  The…

A small bushy herb with single, widely branched stems and aromatic oval pointed leaves. Small white flowers tinged with pink appear in summer. …

This is the large or broad leaved form which has a distinctive lemony flavour.  The leaves are excellent in soups and sauces...

An essential ingredient of bouquet garni and many French dishes, common thyme has small mid-green aromatic leaves and pink-mauve flowers in summer…