A GIFT TO GROW – HERBY-LICOUS

Herbs + fabulous flavours = Herby-licious for 2024.  Both annual and perennial herbs are included, all are top culinary choices…for adding a fresh range of flavours to salads, puddings, drinks and cooking.  Herb flowers are also a welcome food source for many pollinators and beneficial insects.  This flavourful selection contains one packet each of...

Basil Nufar F1 nns ~ both sweet and spicy this vigorous hybrid basil will give you a high yield with the benefit of being disease resistant (50 seeds)

Borage ~ with edible flowers and young leaves (lovely chopped into salads or added to yogurt dip or mayonnaise); this beautiful plant is very attractive to bees. (25 seeds)

Chamomile (Roman/Lawn) ~ for an aromatic green seat, a lawn or a herby path through your garden that will attract pollinators… the flowers have a mild apple-like flavour, famous for making tea, or use for colour & flavour in a green salad or brown in butter and add to hot cereal. (150 seeds)     

Coriander Calypso ~ a British bred variety, very bolt resistant, can be used as a cut-&-come-again & can be grown in pots for fresh leaves over the winter (50 seeds)     

Dill Domino ~ fabulous variety with dark blue-green leaf and lovely aroma.  This variety is vigorous with lots of foliage while remaining compact. Use fresh chopped leaves in lots of dishes: potato salad, herb butter, cream cheese, cold or hot soup, grilled meats and fish (50 seeds)

Fennel, Bronze ~ bronze tinged feathery foliage with a light & airy habit allow you to grow this as a stunning border plant and enjoy it in your kitchen (50 seeds)

Pot Marjoram nns ~ aromatic green leaves form a mat in winter, pink-purple flowers in the summer, a very good bee plant.  Use the leaves to flavour pizza, meat and tomato dishes (50 seeds)

Parsley Extra Triple Curled ~ fresh, deep green, curled leaves. Grows well until late in the season and is happy in containers.  (100 seeds)

Rosemary ~ a fantastic evergreen with a wonderful smell. Essential with lamb and many other seasonings (25 seeds)

Sorrel, Volare ~ with a light taste of lemon & spinach for salads or cooking from spring to early winter, wildlife friendly too.  (100 seeds)

Sweet Cicely ~ this slightly aniseed flavoured herb has many culinary uses… the leaves can be used to sweeten and reduce the acidity in stewed fruits, reducing the amount of sugar needed.  Also chop the leaves into salads, dressings, omelettes or soups. The root can also be eaten as a veg, cooked or raw.

Welsh Onion, White ~ a hardy variety with a distinct yet mild flavour.  Use like spring onions in salads and stir fry.  The leaves can be used like chives.  The flowers are edible and loved by bees too (50 seeds).