North Yorkshire
Essex
Devon
Surrey
Greater Manchester
General enquiries 020 3176 5800 Mon – Fri | 9am – 5pm
Help us achieve our goals
Make a donation
I have forgotten my password
Log in
Register for free to receive our newsletters, add comments to blogs/articles and to save content.
See what events are on near you and browse your bookmarked pages.
We have combined these two powerful search tools into a single Find a Plant service searching over 250,000 plant records.
Virtually all of the features of the old searches are still available and in addition we have added several new features to create a more comprehensive and user friendly search experience.
When using this search
Search by plant name, key attributes or both to find plant details and a list of suppliers.
AGM plants have been through a rigorous trial and assessment programme. They are:
Herbs are versatile garden plants. Pretty enough to grow in an ornamental border, many will also thrive in containers. You can also grow tender herbs, such as basil, indoors or in a greenhouse.
Sage is a valuable kitchen herb; its many varieties add a touch of long-lasting colour to herb gardens and dinner plates.
All ratings refer to the UK growing conditions unless otherwise stated. Minimum temperature ranges (in degrees C) are shown in brackets
Hide Filters
Refined by:
Sort by:
This plant will provide nectar and pollen for bees and the many other types of pollinating insects.
It is included in an evolving list of plants carefully researched and chosen by RHS experts. Divided into 3 groups these lists, linked below, are maintained by a team of RHS staff and are reviewed annually.
'Banana' is a low-growing, spreading perennial mint to 45cm tall and up to 1m wide. Small, bright-green leaves are ovate, slightly downy, toothed and emit an unusual banana scent when crushed. Clusters of small, lilac flowers are borne in summer
'Archer's Gold' is a bushy, evergreen subshrub, to 20cm in height, with small, lime-green, lemon-scented leaves and erect spikes of tiny, pale lilac flowers in late spring and early summer
T. polytrichus subsp. britannicus is a creeping, mat-forming subshrub, 5-10cm tall, with small dark green leaves, up to 8mm long and 4mm wide, usually fringed with minute hairs. The pale to deep purple flowers are produced in summer
A. lappa is an erect, branching plant to 2m, with purplish flowerheads in clusters on the leafy main branches, and dull green leaves. Characteristic brown seedheads
A. sativum var. ophioscorodon is an edible, bulbous perennial, to 60cm high, with linear grey-green leaves. In summer, umbels of pinkish-white flowers are borne on flower stalks that are initially coiled like a snake before straightening out. If being grown as an annual for culinary use, each bulb will yield between four and ten cloves or bulbils
O. onites is a small, mound-forming, semi-evergreen subshrub, to 60cm tall, with bright green, aromatic leaves. Produces small, white flowers in dense whorls in late summer
'Napoletano' is a bushy cultivar, up to 60cm tall, with relatively large, crinkled leaves, to 10cm long, and white or lavender-pink flowers in summer
B. officinalis is a large, branched annual with coarsely hairy, ovate leaves and branched cymes of starry, bright blue flowers 2cm across over a long period in summer
A. graveolens is an upright annual with finely dissected, aromatic blue-green leaves, and flat umbels of tiny yellow flowers in summer
R. acetosa is an erect perennial with edible, sour-tasting oblong leaves arrow-shaped at the base, and small reddish flowers in a narrow panicle or raceme
Versatile herbs are pretty enough to grow in an ornamental border; many of our special selection will also thrive in containers or in the vegetable garden.
View all specially-selected Herb Plants at the RHS Plants Shop
We're a UK charity established to share the best in gardening. We want to enrich everyone's life through plants, and make the UK a greener and more beautiful place.
