Herbs
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Origanum majorana. With a mild flavour it is delicious in stuffings, soups, stews, omelettes, cheese dishes, fish sauces and salads. Sprinkle over pork, before roasting or add to melted butter to garnish vegetables. Recommended by herbalists to lower high blood pressure and combat headaches, and neuralgia. Most often grown as annuals, given that they resent winter wet and are half hardy.
Grow in a sunny position. It will reach a height of 25cm and a spread of 30cm.
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Tanacetum vulgare. A hardy perennial with dark green ‘toothed’ leaves and flat umbrells of golden-yellow buttonlike flowers. A member of the daisy family. Recommended by the RHS to be an excellent attractant and nectar source for bees and other beneficial insects. Will spread vigorously. Grows to approximately 60-120cm tall. Tansy is a good insect repellent. Dried flowers and leaves can prevent the ingress of ants and other pests into your house. Crumpled leaves and flowers, even dried, will keep flies away in the kitchen and larder! Leaves can be stewed with rhubarb. Tasty rubbed onto meat, like rosemary. Can be used to flavour sausages, omelettes, meat pies and stuffing. If the flowers are boiled they will produce a lovely golden yellow dye.
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Artemisia dracunculus. A small, perennial, deciduous herb that is an essential herb for classic French cuisine and will produce an abundance of stems which you can easily harvest. Each stem is covered with pretty, long narrow leaves that have a strong pleasing anise flavour. Use the leaves fresh in salads but avoid cooking it for too long as this will bring out its bitter side. It complements fish and shellfish and goes well with chicken, turkey, game and veal and most egg dishes.
Grow in a sunny position. It will reach a height of 50-100cm and a spread of 10-50cm.
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Price range: £2.00 through £3.00Thymus vulgaris ‘Olde English Thyme’. One of the most useful kitchen herbs for stews, stuffings and bouquet garni. This aromatic, evergreen thyme will grow almost anywhere in containers, rock gardens, borders, and even cracks in paving. Ideal for creating low, matt forming groundcover that will attract bees to the tiny, pink blooms. Thyme is particularly useful in coastal areas where it copes well with winds and dry conditions.
Grow in a sunny position. It will reach a height of 30cm and a spread of 35cm.
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Reseda luteola. Also known as Dyer’s Rocket. An erect biennial with basal rosettes of narrowly-ovate, dark green leaves and erect stems bearing narrowly-ovate to linear, dark green leaves topped with extremely fragrant, spike-like racemes of yellow-green flowers in summer. Traditionally grown for use as a natural dye, it gives a brilliant and fast yellow colour, it was also grown for the sweet honey scent of its flowers which the Victorians used in arrangements and perfumery to cover up unsavoury smells.
Grow in a sunny position. It will reach a height of 1.5m and a spread of 50cm.
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£1.75Satureja montana. A bushy, subshrub of aromatic dark greyish green leaves. Dense spikes of lavender-pink to purple flowers are borne from June to August. A herb with a peppery spiciness and one of the oldest flavouring herbs, it is excellent for salt free diets, excellent for stuffing and for stews, and adds that special tang to a variety of dishes. It is also good for pain relief after insect bites or stings.
Grow in well drained, rich, alkaline soilin full sun. It will reach a height 40cm and a spread of 20cm.
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1 x Plant in 9cm Container
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£2.00Isatis tinctoria. Also known as Dyer’s Woad. It is a tall biennial which has shiny blue-green leaves and bears clusters of delicate yellow flowers. The leaves of this plant are the source of a blue dye, often used instead of indigo. The leaves are crushed into a pulp, molded into balls, dried in the sun and allowed to ferment before being pulped again and formed into cakes to produce blue dye. As well as being used for clothing, woad was once used by Celtic warriors to stain their bodies during battle.
Grow in a sunny position. It will reach a height of 100cm.
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Galium odoratum. Also known as Sweet Woodruff, Sweet-scented Bedstraw, Wild Baby’s Breath and Master of the Woods,  It is widely cultivated for its star-like, white flowers which are borne in late spring and its sweet-smelling emerald green foliage. The plant is strongly scented like hay that has been freshly mown. This scent increases on wilting and persists on drying. The dried plant is used in potpourri and as a moth deterrent.
Grow in sun or dappled shade, however the foliage may become scorched in strong sun, especially if the soils are dry. Once its established it will develop some tolerance to drought. It will reach a height of 25cm and a spread of 35cm.