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Herbs are easy to grow, they also look and smell fantastic. They are mainly grown for their culinary purposes, or to add fragrance to your borders.

By growing your own herbs in a window box, or pot by the back door, you've got instant access to a fresh cutting for your salads or roast dinners.

Grown on our nurseries we can offer over 50 varieties of herbs for your garden.

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Oregano Country Cream

Oregano Country Cream

A well-known culinary herb often used in Mediterranean dishes. This ornamental variety is striking for its green and cream variegated leaves.

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Oregano Golden

Origanum vulgare Aureum. Attractive golden aromatic leaves topped by pink flowers in summer. Makes a good ground cover or edging plant. Use in Italian cooking, soups and casseroles.

Parsley

Parsley Plain

A plain leaf, more strongly flavoured form of parsley. Much used in the Mediterranean region. Prefers a rich, moist soil in sun or part shade. Chopped leaves can be used in green salads. Use with fish dishes. Height up to 60cm.

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Parsley Curled

A biennial herb with curly leaves. Chopped up the leaves can be used in green salads, soups, sauces, vegetables. Serve as an accompaniment of fish. Prefers a rich moist soil in sun or partial shade. Height up to 60cm.

French Parsley

Parsley French

A plain leaf, more strongly flavoured form of parsley. Much used in the Mediterranean region. Chopped leaves can be used in green salads, soups, sauces, vegetables. Serve as an accompaniment to fish. Height approx up to 60cm (2ft).

Rocket

Rocket Salad

An annual widely grown as a salad herb in France & Italy. It has creamy yellow or off white flowers with purplish veins. Young leaves add a hot spicy flavour to salads.

Rosemary

Rosemary

An aromatic herb with narrow dark green leaves. Bushy upright growth and blue flowers in spring. Culinary uses include stuffings, flavour summer drinks and chopped in meat, fish and poultry dishes.

Rosemary Prostrata

Rosemary Prostrate

The creeping habit of this aromatic shrub make it an excellent choice for ground cover. The narrow leaves are used fresh and chopped in soups, meat, fish and poultry dishes.

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Sage

A very well known evergreen sub shrub with grey-green fragrant foliage and small spikes of lilac-blue flowers. Plant in full sun in any moist, but well drained soil. Height 80cm (32in), Spread 80cm (32in).

Sage Golden

Sage Golden

This shrubby, aromatic perennial bears attractive golden variegated leaves and provides good value both as a herb and an ornamental plant. Leaves are used fresh or dried in stuffings and meat dishes. Full sun. Ht & Sp 60 x 90cm.

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Sage Pineapple

Half hardy perennial with bright scarlet flowers. Best treated as a conservatory plant by standing outside in summer. Un sportingly flowers all winter though! Pineapple scented leaves can be used with pork. Ht: 100cm.

Sage Purple

Sage Purple

Perennial, purple leaved form of the common broad leaved sage. As a result its culinary uses are therefore the same, for example stuffing. Plant in well drained soil in full sun. Height approx 30 - 75cm.

Sage Tricolour

Sage Tricolor

Half hardy evergreen perennial. Leaves splashed with pink, white and green. Use as common sage in stuffings stews, poultry dishes and salads. Plant in well drained soil in full sun. Height approx up to 45cm. Also ornamental.

French Tarragon

Tarragon French

Aromatic lance shaped, light to mid green leaves. Can be used dried or fresh in a variety of culinary dishes. Perfect for planting in containers and borders. Will flourish in full sun.

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