Growing Guides: Growing Herbs

It’s great having a pot of basil on the windowsill in the kitchen. It smells amazing and it’s very satisfying being able to pick off the leaves as and when…

A long lasting plant and great addition to any garden, producing delicious herbs for your kitchen delights.

Wild Bergamot is a beautiful North American wild flower with a strong scent and very attractive lavender coloured flowers. It can grow to approximately 1m in height. It normally flowers…

Borage is a delicious edible flower – perfect for adding a bit of colour to your kitchen garden. Borage is an annual so will die back at the end of the…

Bronze Fennel is a superb hardy perennial herb which produces beautiful bronze coloured feathery foliage. It’ll grow quite big, to approximately 1m-2m high, and 1m wide, so give it plenty…

Chamomile produces pretty daisy like white and yellow flowers in the summer, this herb is bursting with healthy vitamins and looks wonderful when in full bloom. It is a hardy…

Chervil is a delicious addition to your kitchen garden. Its is an annual plant and will be happy in the cooler, shady parts of the garden.  

Chives look great in a pot outside the kitchen – they are nice and easy to grow and you get lovely purple flowers from them. Sprinkle them into a potato…

India, Thailand, Mexico…cuisines from these countries really make the best of this amazing herb. It is absolutely delicious and growing your own and eating it fresh is so much more…

Dill is a much loved herb of the kitchen garden. Dill is an annual, but will happily self-seed at the end of the season if you leave it to flower…

Feverfew is the burst of daisy-like flowers that appears in summer. They are great for bees and are good for cutting too! You can even grow them in pots in…

Hyssop produces rich blue, clustered flowers that grow out of one side of its stem. It will flower in summer/early autumn, and it is great at attracting bees and butterflies…

Having lavender in the garden will bring you a lot of joy. It smells amazing, it looks great, it attracts bees and it’s good for cooking too. Lavender will remain…

Lemon Grass is a much loved herb. Lemon grass is a perennial, but does need to be kept in warm conditions. Left outside in the British autumn/winter it will soon…

Aromatic garden herb, great for making your own herbal tea.

Lovage is a perennial plant and should last for several years. It is very easy to grow and suitable for large pots or beds. In winter or early spring apply…

Marjoram is a lovely herb to grow with its pink/purple flowers that come out in the summer. It’s full of flavour and really easy to use in cooking. If you’re…

You can’t really go wrong growing Mint or Lemon Balm – it is almost impossible not to grow successfully. In fact, both these plants can be a little too successful…

Fancy a pizza? A sprinkle fresh oregano will make all the difference! It’s easy to grow, you just need to give it a nice sunny spot.

This is one of the more useful herbs to grow in the vegetable garden. It’s incredibly versatile in the kitchen and grows well in our British climate too. It tastes…

Being a Mediterranean herb, Rosemary needs plenty of sun. It’s a really useful one to have in the garden as it compliments so many foods with its amazing flavour and…

Sage is a really useful herb to have in the garden especially as you can use it all year round. It’s a particularly good winter herb that is great for roasts and stews….

There are two varieties of Savory – Summer and Winter.  

Sorrel is a fast growing herb which produces delicious leaves for salads. It’s not as well known, but it has a strong lemony, our flavour that works brilliantly with seafood…

Tarragon is such a summery herb that adds real flavour to loads of foods. Ours is French Tarragon which we think has the very best flavour. Tarragon is a perennial…

Thyme is such a versatile herb and when it flowers it is very pretty in the garden too. We grow English Thyme which has great flavour. As a young plant…

Vietnamese Coriander is a popular herb in Asian cooking – it’s very punchy in flavour and has quite a striking look. Vietnamese Coriander is a perennial – mulch it in…