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Red Orach produces tender leaves, which are a great alternative to spinach or chard, with a mild spinach-like flavour. Use the young, tender leaves in salads or steam like spinach. It grows quickly early in the year, supplying you with early leaves from the vegetable patch. Beware, this variety is an enthusiastic self-seeder. Grows to 1m. Space 25cm apart.
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1 x Plant in 9cm Container
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Red Orach produces tender leaves, which are a great alternative to spinach or chard, with a mild spinach-like flavour. Use the young, tender leaves in salads or steam like spinach. It grows quickly early in the year, supplying you with early leaves from the vegetable patch. Beware, this variety is an enthusiastic self-seeder. Grows to 1m. Space 25cm apart.
Supplied Size
1 x Plant in 9cm Container
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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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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Melissa officinalis ‘Mandarine’. Introducing an alternative to the traditional Lemon Balm. This mint-like perennial has a five lobed dark green leaves which have pronounced mandarin orange scent. The leaves are often used for herbal teas, infusions, and pot pourri. Ideal in mixed containers as the plants have a trailing habit.
Grow in a sunny position. It will reach a height of 30cm with a mounding habit.
Origanum vulgare. Also known as Pot Marjoram. This hardy perennial herb has sweet smelling, aromatic foliage which is commonly used in Mediterranean cuisine. Try it sprinkling oregano on lamb or pork before cooking. The flowers produced in summer and autumn can also be used for flavouring after they have been gently dried.
Grow in a sunny position. It will reach a height and spread of 45cm.
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