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Showy Savoury
Dark, mat-green leaves with a mint scent and flavour. Very showy, bright pink flowers.

‘Frosty’P
Really different. Leaves appear as though heavily and evenly dusted with pale lemon icing sugar. Aromatic with long, true pink sage-like flowers in early summer. Just lovely. Hardy 50cm.

var. tanacetoidesP
Similar to costmary in habit, growing conditions and uses, camphor has smaller leaves, more grey and pointed, with a strong camphor scent. The leaves are used with costmary to make sweet washing water, and to scent linen. To dry leaves for pot pourri, tie the short stalks with string and hang the leaves in small bunches

Grown mainly for its seeds which add a licorice-like European character to recipes.used in cakes ,breads, pickles and many vegetable dishes.

Source of cardamom seeds, the use of which dates to 4th Century BC. Ground seeds are used to spice fruit salads, curries, cakes, breads, biscuits and even coffee! Whole seeds are used to flavour marinades, liqueurs and mulled wines. Medicinally an infusion helps flatulence, indigestion and headaches. A tender perennial which grows from a fleshy root. Related to, and similar in appearance and habit, to ginger. Lance-shaped leaves will reach 1.8 – 3 m, with small, lower growing yellow flowers. Pick the green pods while still growing, and sun dry. Grow in moist, rich soil and protect indoors in colder climates. Many thanks to Bryan Sherman for growing these for us.

CATS LOVE THIS ONE! The scent released by bruised leaves or roots so attracts your cat that you may need to protect your plant(s) until established! Best to have more than one! Protect plants with an inverted wire basket or netting. A mild sedative, tea is used for restlessness, headaches and to induce sleep. Easily grown and tolerates semi-shade.

Much closer to the real lemon than the ‘Lemon Catnip’ we have stocked previously. ‘Lemony’ has a genuine lemon-scent, and is much more pleasant to sip before bedtime.

This plant makes a real statement in the garden! A magnificent perennial if you have the space! Huge, handsome, deeply divided, silver-grey foliage is striking all year round. Stout stems in Summer produce showy, purple thistle heads. Pick just before opening to dry. Foliage lasts well into Winter. 3 x 1 m.

Commonly known as Monkshood, for the striking, bright blue flowers, which have an over-lapping hood. Recognised as poisonous since antiquity, used especially to poison arrows, and should always be handled with care. Contains aconitine, a useful sedative. Use only under medical supervision. Happy in sun or shade with adequate Summer moisture. 1 – 1.8 m.

Creosote Bush
Rare herb effective against bacteria, viruses and other parasites. Used in folk and American Indian medicine for cancer.

Basil’s Greek name ‘Basileus’, means ‘King’, indicating its royal position amongst herbs. The warm, spicy flavour of basil ‘sends cooks into poetic raptures’ and complements salads, most tomato dishes, egg plant, marrow, rice and mushrooms, to name only a few. Basil has a special affinity with tomatoes.

Plant them together in your garden. Basils are tender annuals, and grow best in a warm, sunny, sheltered position. Protect from frost, scorching and mid-day sun. Moist, rich, well-drained soil is preferred.

A forgotten herb which is still used in herbal medicine for inflammations of the biliary duct and gall bladder, such as gall stones. Use internally only under medical supervision. Fresh latex juice was formerly used on warts and corns. Branching stems of bright green, pinnate leaves, and single, 4-petalled, bright yellow flowers. 30 – 90 cm.

Believed to be a traditional European medicinal herb for lack of appetite, slow digestion and stomach disturbances. Useful in convalescence. Somewhat like vinca in leaf form. Semi-trailing, with single, medium-sized, quite pretty, pink flowers.

Famed for Chamomile tea made from the flowers and used as a general tonic, sedative and as an aid to digestion. A hair rinse to lighten and condition fair hair can be made by boiling flowers for 20 minutes. Try an infusion in the bath to relieve sun or wind burnt skin, or a compress to reduce inflammation, eczema or ‘fatigue shadows’. Also valued for its sweet apple-scented leaves. Try a fragrant chamomile seat or a no-mow lawn.

Dyers ChamomileP
Medium sized, golden daisy flowers yield a yellow-brown dye (shades of orange with chrome, and greenish brown with iron).

German ‘Bodegold’A
An improved strain of German Chamomile for commercial production. The large flowers, borne on sturdy, erect plants, contain up to 0.7% essential oil. They are high in bisabolol and other medicinal compounds.

Lawn Anthemis nobile ‘Treneague’P
For no-mow lawns! Lovely apple-scented non-flowering chamomile, very low-growing for a dense lawn or ground cover, or to use between paving stones. Depending on your budget – and your patience – you will need 6 – 10 plants per m2. The plants will divide into 5 – 6 rooted pieces, which should be planted 10 – 15 cm apart. Plant in well-drained, weed-free soil, and weed and water until established. Non-flowering, so it cannot be grown from seed.

Roman Chamaemelum nobileP (out of stock)
Perennial. Traditional groundcover in English gardens and pathways, where it is cut like grass. Leaves are more aromatic than German chamomile.

Double flowered C. nobile var flora plenaP
Same lovely, aromatic leaves with double, pompom-like, yellow-centred, creamy white chamomile flowers on branching stems. The pretty flowers provide late season interest in the herb garden.

SPECIAL OFFER: For Chamomile lawn. 10 plants for
$25.00.