Alliums
  • Chives - Allium schoenoprasum - Perfect sprinkled over scrambled eggs, flowers are edible too.   
  • Egyptian / Walking Onion - also known as Tree Onion - Allium Proliferum - Produces bulbils on top of stalks instead of flowers, they grow to around 90cm tall, lean over and root where they touch the ground allowing it to multiply and walk around the garden, hence the name.    
  • Nodding Onion - Allium cernuum - Dwarf, white flowered.  Use as you would chives.  
  • Rocambole or Sand Leek - Allium scorodoprasum - Leaves, bulb and flowers can all be eaten.  Produces purple flowers then small bulbils which can be saved and replanted.  Nice in a wild flower meadow.  Height 60cm.
  • Welsh Onion - Allium fistulosum - A bunching onion producing thick stems and large white flowers.  Allow to self sow for abundant harvests the following year or divide to get more plants.  

Mints - Nothing beats the fragrance of fresh mint!  Add to peas and tatties or make a refreshing tea.  The flowers are very attractive to beneficial insects too. Make sure to dry a good amount of leaves for use over the winter months.  Mints can be thugs in the garden, grow them in large pots as they can take over a small area very quickly. 
  • Apple mint
  • Basil mint  
  • Black Peppermint
  • Bowles mint
  • Buddleja mint
  • Corsican mint - Very small creeping variety up to 10cm tall with tiny leaves and flowers only 2mm across, see image at top of page.  Used to make Creme de Menthe. 
  • Curly spearmint
  • Ginger mint
  • Moroccan mint
  • Orange mint
  • ​Spearmint
  • Strawberry mint  
  
Herbs
  • Anise Hyssop - Agastache foeniculum - Use to make tea, very aromatic with tall spikes of purple flowers.  Grows to around 70cm tall. Short lived perennial. 
  • Basils - Sweet, Lettuce leaved and Cinnamon.  Best grown under cover, they don't like cold weather, even a Scottish summer can be too much for them. Put them in a big pot in the sunniest place you can find and they will produce an abundant amount of leaves, use in salads, make pesto or add to tomato based sauces and pizzas.  Height 30-60cm. 
  • Catnip lemon scented - Nepeta citriodora - Lemon scented leaves and white/purple flowers. 60cm.  Hardy perennial.
  • Chervil - Anthriscus cerefolium - Adds an aniseed like flavour to salads.  Height 45cm.  Annual/Biennial.
  • Curry Plant - Helichrysum italicum - A tea can be made from the flowers apparently.  Pretty silver green leaves with yellow flowers.  60cm.  Hardy perennial shrub.
  • Fennel Bronze - Foeniculum vulgare 'purpureum' - Tastes amazing in pesto!  The feathery leaves can also be used in salads and the seeds in biscuits as well as a plethora of other uses.  Height 150cm.  Hardy perennial.
  • German Chamomile - Matricaria chamomilla - Steep the dried flowers for several minutes to make a relaxing tea to aid sleep.    70cm.  Annual.  
  • Lemon Balm - Melissa officinalis - Leaves are lovely sliced and sprinkled onto a fruit salad or used to make a tea.  Varigated variety also available.  50cm.  Hardy perennial.
  • Lavender - Lavandula angustifolia - Hidcote blue - A great culinary lavender.  Flowers are a deep blue/purple colour.  40cm. Hardy perennial shrub.
  • Lavender - Lavandula angustifolia - Jean Davis - Use to flavour food and drinks, 1 level tsp added to milk whilst heating for your nightly cocoa is beautifully fragrant, strain before drinking for obvious reasons.  Pink flowers, 75cm.  Hardy perennial shrub.
  • Lavender - Lavandula x intermedia - Lullingstone Castle - Best used for fragrance rather than flavouring food.  Mauve flowers on long stems.  90cm.  Hardy perennial shrub.
  • Marjoram Golden shine - Origanum vulgare - Green leaves with golden tips and pink flowers.  Gives depth of flavour to Spag bol and peps up your pizza.  45cm.  Hardy perennial.
  • Parsley - Bravour -  A compact herb with fine curled leaves.  Height 30cm.  Biennial. 
  • Parsley - Italian Giant - Flat leaved variety, make sure to freeze some for the whole year.  Height 60cm.  Biennial.  
  • Perilla/Shiso - Purple or bi-color.  Used medicinally and in Asian cuisine can be found in sushi and noodle dishes, also in pickles.  It is a perennial but best grown as an annual in the uk.  Grows up to 1m tall. 
  • Roman Chamomile - Chamaemelum nobile - Also known as lawn chamomile as it was once grown instead of grass as a fragrant lawn in English gardens.  Hardy perennial.  Height 15cm.
  • Thyme - Caraway Scented - Herba Barona - A creeping thyme with dark green leaves and rich pink/purple flowers.  Height 6cm.  Hardy perennial.
  • Thyme Doone Valley -  Varigated, with rich green and gold leaves and pink flowers.  Height 8cm.  Hardy perennial.
  • Thyme Tabor - Thymus pulegioides 'tabor' - Productive evergreen variety with Pink flowers.  Height 15cm. Hardy perennial.

Unusual edibles
  • Buckshorn Plantain - Plantago coronopus - Pick the fast growing leaves to mix into salads and smoothies.  Multiplies quickly so can be divided to produce more plants.  Height 30cm.  Hardy perennial.​
  • Lovage - Levisticum officinale - Leaves add a celery like flavour to cooking and the seeds can be used in bread making.  Cut back in summer to get a second flush of tasty young leaves.  Yellow umbellifer flowers can reach 2m.  Hardy perennial.
  • Marshmallow - Althaea officinalis - Found growing in marshes, where it's name comes from.  The roots were used to make the confectionary marshmallows until the 1800's.  It is a useful medicinal plant and all parts are edible.  Tall with dusky pink flowers.  Height 150cm.  Hardy perennial.
  • Musk Mallow - Malva moschata - Pretty pink flowers look good on a salad but the entire plant is edible.  Unlike marshmallow it prefers a dry spot to grow and has a low growing, sprawling habit.  Height 75cm.  Hardy perennial. 
  • Orpine - Hylotelephium telephium - The fleshy young leaves can be eaten raw in a mixed salad and taste like peas.  Dark pink/red clusters of flowers. Height 45cm.  Hardy perennial. 
  • Red Orach - Atriplex hortensis - The dark red leaves on this plant can be used as you would spinach, raw in salads or in cooking, harvest regularly to ensure plenty of young tender leaves.  Can reach 150cm if allowed to grow.  Annual, 
  • Salad Burnet - Sanguisorba minor - Cucumber flavoured leaves are good in salads.  Height 30cm.  Hardy perennial.
  • Scots Lovage - Ligusticum scoticum - This coast dweller will grow inland too.  Add to salads or use in cooking towards the end of the process.  Height 80cm.  Hardy perennial.
  • Skirret - Sium sisarum - Pencil thick fingers of edible roots that taste like parsnip.  Eaten on our shores before the arrival of the potato a few hundred years ago.  White umbellifer flowers.  Height 1m.  Hardy perennial
  • Sorrel Broad leaved - Rumex acetosa - Add a lemony flavour to soups, stews, sauces and salads.  Leaf height 20cm, flower 1m.  Hardy perennial.
  • Sorrel Red veined - Rumex sanguineus - As above, but with red veins running through the leaves.  Best used as baby leaves.  Leaf height 15cm, flower 1m.  Hardy perennial.
  • Tree spinach - Chenopodium gigantium - A talking point in the garden with magenta pink, glittery young leaves which can be eaten in salads or the older leaves cooked.  Can grow to over 2 meters.  Annual.

​Wildflowers
  • Scottish Bluebell or Harebell - Campanula rotundifolia - A very pretty and delicate wildflower found in woodlands, meadows or anywhere where that there is not too much competition from other plants and grasses.  Height 30-40cm.  Perennial.
  • Yarrow - Achillea millefolium - Named after the Greek warrior Achilles who used it to treat bleeding soldiers on the battlefield.  A good plant for dry ground.   White flowered.  Height 30cm.  Hardy perennial.​

Other plants
  • ​Wode - Isatis tinctoria - Traditional dye plant, produces a blue colour once used during battle as a face paint to scare off the enemy, think Rob Roy.  Wode has beautiful tall yellow flower sprays in the second year it will self seed readily.  Height 1m.  Biennial.   

We sell our plants in 1 Litre pots and the cost is £4.00 each.

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