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Mentha × piperita f. citrata ‘Basil’. A highly aromatic variety of mint with bright green leaves that exude a delightful basil-like fragrance. The leaves can be used fresh to add a unique flavour to salads, pesto’s, and refreshing summer drinks. Produces small lilac flowers in summer, which are a magnet for pollinators. Ideal for growing in a container to control its spreading habit.
Grow in full sun. It will reach a height of 40-60cm.
Mentha × piperita f. citrata ‘Basil’. A highly aromatic variety of mint with bright green leaves that exude a delightful basil-like fragrance. The leaves can be used fresh to add a unique flavour to salads, pesto’s, and refreshing summer drinks. Produces small lilac flowers in summer, which are a magnet for pollinators. Ideal for growing in a container to control its spreading habit.
Grow in full sun. It will reach a height of 40-60cm.
| Supplied Sizes | 1 x Plant in 9cm Container, 1 x Plant in 1 Litre Container |
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Fennel may be grown as a herb for its attractive ferny foliage or as a vegetable for its swollen base and stem. With a delicate aniseed flavour the foliage of this hardy perennial makes a tasty addition to salads or as an attractive garnish. With a multitude of uses, fennel can even be used as a compress for softening rough chapped hands, or for treating numerous ailments. Although Fennel is a short-lived perennial, it is generally grown as an annual. It will reach a height of 180cm and a spread of 45cm.
Fennel may be grown as a herb for its attractive ferny foliage or as a vegetable for its swollen base and stem. With a delicate aniseed flavour the foliage of this hardy perennial makes a tasty addition to salads or as an attractive garnish. With a multitude of uses, fennel can even be used as a compress for softening rough chapped hands, or for treating numerous ailments. Although Fennel is a short-lived perennial, it is generally grown as an annual. It will reach a height of 180cm and a spread of 45cm.
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A purple leaved Basil which is quick to crop and is harvestable later into autumn than most varieties. It makes an excellent ornamental edible adding a bright splash of colour to the herb garden, and is ideal grown on the windowsill, or in containers or baskets outdoors in the summer. It will reach a height of 45cm and a spread of 30cm.
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A beautiful hardy annual herb with rough leaves covered in silvery hairs and the most attractive celestial blue flowers. Nectar rich borage flowers are particularly attractive to pollinating insects, including bees which make distinctive flavoured borage honey. This versatile upright herb has a multitude of uses – add the cucumber flavoured leaves to summer drinks and salads, grow it as a companion plant close to other crops to attract pollinating insects, and at the end of the season plants make a useful bulky addition to the compost. It will reach a height 60cm and a spread of 45cm.
