Bee Friendly Herbs
Planting these herbs alongside your veg plants will be a great way to attract those all important pollinators to your veg patch.
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Chamomile
£8.99
3 Plants (8.5cm bio-pots)Fragrant, tasty and so very pretty
Producing pretty daisy like white and yellow flowers, Chamomile is bursting with healthy vitamins and looks wonderful when in full bloom. This is a German variety, growing upright (as opposed to ground cover) to approx 20cm. It’ll self-seed very easily, so cut it back after flowering if you want to keep it in check.Number of plants: 3 (8.5cm biodegradable fibre pots)
Variety: Matricaria Chamomilla (organic)
In the kitchen: Chamomile works wonderfully in herbal teas, cakes and desserts.
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Chives
£8.99
3 Plants (8.5cm bio-pots)This herb looks beautiful in your garden and on your plate
A delicious herb that will come back year after year producing long leaves with a light oniony flavour. Chives look beautiful in your garden with its pink flowers (also edible), and is very popular with bees too. It’s a must have for any kitchen garden.Number of plants: 3 (8.5cm biodegradable fibre pots)
Organic*
Great for protecting your carrots, tomatoes, chillies and aubergines!
In the kitchen: The leaves can be chopped finely to add to potatoes and other veg dishes. Or, leave them whole and wilt them down with shredded spinach and chard. The flowers are also edible and look lovely when sprinkled over a summer salad.
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Lavender
£8.99
3 Plants (8.5cm bio-pots)A beautiful, fragrant herb
Lavender is an easy to grow, evergreen shrub that produces masses of beautifully scented lavender coloured flowers above green foliage. Most commonly known for its relaxing effects on the body.Number of plants: 3 (8.5cm biodegradable fibre pots)
Variety: Hidcote (organic*)
Great for protecting your tomatoes, chillies and aubergines!
In the Kitchen: Lavender adds wonderful flavour to sweet delights such as syllabub, panna cotta, homemade ice-cream, cakes or shortbread biscuits.
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Lavender – Early White
£8.99
3 Plants (8.5cm bio-pots)Lavender with white flowers through summer
This is an early flowering lavender that produces striking white spikes from early summer until early autumn. The plants are quite compact, about 30cm height and spread, which makes them a good option for pots if you’re looking to grow lavender in a smaller space. Give them full sunshine and make sure they have good drainage as they don’t like to get waterlogged.Number of plants: 3 (8.5cm biodegradable fibre pots)
Variety: Early White (organic*)
Great for bees!
In the Kitchen: Lavender adds wonderful flavour to sweet delights like pannacotta, homemade ice-cream, cakes or shortbread biscuits.
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Rosemary – Trailing
£8.99
3 Plants (8.5cm bio-pots)A trailing variety suitable for hanging baskets and walls
A great choice for hanging baskets (especially if you tend to forget about watering them!) or for trailing over a wall. Rosemary is an evergreen, and this variety will produce blue flowers in spring. Our Rosemary plug plants will arrive ready to plant, in plastic-free packaging.
Number of plants: 3 (8.5cm biodegradable fibre pots)
Organic*
In the kitchen: Spike meat, poultry and game with rosemary. Alternatively, chop it and use in stuffings and sauces for fish, lamb or chicken. Can be used fresh or dried.
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Wild Bergamot
£8.99
3 Plants (8.5cm bio-pots)Bees, butterflies and beneficial insects love this plant
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.Number of plants: 3 (8.5cm biodegradable fibre pot)
Variety: Wild Bergamot (organic*)
In the Kitchen: Bergamot leaves make a fantastic accompanying flavour to meat dishes. The leaves are also wonderful used in herbal tea.
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Feverfew
£8.99
3 Plants (8.5cm bio-pots)Pretty daisy-like flowers
Long used medicinally for making herbal teas with the leaves for fever and migraine, the best thing about Feverfew is the carpet of daisy-like flowers that appear in summer and continue through to late autumn. They are great for bees, and are good for cutting too!Number of plants: 3 (8.5cm biodegradable fibre pots)
Organic*
In the kitchen: Use leaves to make herbal teas
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Lemon Verbena
£8.99
3 Plants (8.5cm bio-pots)Great for soothing herbal teas
Lemon Verbena is a real treat to grow for its lemon scented leaves. We’d recommend growing your plug plants in pots, so you can move them under cover as the weather turns cooler in autumn, and hopefully they’ll keep going. Pick a few leaves and brew them in hot water for the most delicious herbal tea. Great for ice cream and cake baking too!
Number of plants: 3 (8.5cm biodegradable fibre pots)
Organic*
In the kitchen: Great for herbal teas, puddings & ice cream
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Oregano (Greek)
£8.99
3 Plants (8.5cm bio-pots)Delicious in smell and taste, a delightful addition to the garden.
With its lovely bright green leaves and aroma, Greek Oregano is a very attractive plant for the garden.Number of plants: 3 (8.5cm biodegradable fibre pots)
Variety: Greek (organic)
In the kitchen: With a warm aroma, oregano goes particularly well with tomatoes, aubergine and lamb and is generally added just at the end of cooking, so that it retains its pungency. It is a popular addition to many Italian and Greek dishes.
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Rosemary
£8.99
3 Plants (8.5cm bio-pots)A delicious classic
This delicious culinary variety of Rosemary will produce upright deep green foliage and blue flowers. Rosemary can create a fantastic decorative and fragrant hedge if you plant a series of plug plants about 2 feet apart.Number of plants: 3 (8.5cm biodegradable fibre pots)
Organic*
In the kitchen: Spike meat, poultry and game with rosemary. Alternatively, chop it and use in stuffings and sauces for fish, lamb or chicken. Can be used fresh or dried.
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Comfrey
£8.99
3 Plants (8.5cm bio-pots)A wonder plant!
Drawing minerals out of the soil and into its roots and leaves, Comfrey can be used as a compost accelerator, to make liquid manure, mulch, weed suppressant and as an insect attractor. Our Comfrey plug plants come in sets of 3 in small 8cm biodegradable pots, ready to be planted straight away.Number of plants: 3 (8.5cm biodegradable fibre pots)
Organic
Uses: Comfrey should not be eaten. Comfrey is however wonderful used for grazes, bruising and stings. Pick a leaf, spit on it, rub it between the palms till it starts breaking up, then rub on the affected area.
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Thyme
£8.99
3 Plants (8.5cm bio-pots)Thyme flowers are highly scented, and good at attracting bees and other beneficial insects to the garden.
This is the most popular variety of common thyme, with dark green upright bushy foliage with pretty pink flowers.Number of plants: 3 (8.5cm biodegradable fibre pots)
Organic*
In the kitchen: Perfect for use with poultry and pork, for flavouring stews, stuffings, sausages and pies.
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Hyssop
£8.99
3 Plants (8.5cm bio-pots)Bees and butterflies love these beautiful blue flowers.
Hyssop produces rich blue, clustered flowers that grow out of one side of its stem. These flowers are great at attracting bees and butterflies to the garden. The stem has a square shape with long pointed aromatic dark green leaves. Hyssop can grow to a height of 45cm.Number of plants: 3 (8.5cmbiodegradable fibre pots)
Organic*
Great for protecting your brassicas!
In the kitchen: Use the young leaves of hyssop in salads or in meat or oily fish dishes or use to flavour soups, stews, stuffing and fruit dishes. Hyssop is said to aid the digestion of fatty or rich foods.