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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.
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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.
'Highdown' has upright bushy habit reaching about 25cm. The foliage is highly aromatic; pink-mauve flowers in summer
'Tricolor' is a spreading evergreen sub-shrub with oblong grey-green leaves variegated with cream and flushed with purple on the youngest growth; light blue flowers open in early summer
G. odoratum is a vigorous rhizomatous perennial forming a wide mat of erect stems to 30cm, bearing whorls of bright green, lance-shaped leaves, hay-scented when dry, with terminal clusters of small white, starry flowers from late spring
O. basilicum is an aromatic annual or biennial with bright green, elliptic leaves and small, tubular white or pink-tinged flowers 1cm in length, in spikes in late summer
M. officinalis is a bushy perennial with broadly ovate, lemon-scented leaves with scalloped edges, and leafy spikes of creamy-white or pale purple flowers in summer
O. vulgare is a bushy, woody-based perennial with small, aromatic, ovate leaves and panicle-like clusters of small pink flowers in summer and early autumn
A. absinthium is an upright deciduous perennial, with finely divided, highly aromatic grey-green foliage and rather insignificant yellowish flowers in late summer
L. officinale is a hairless, celery-scented perennial to 2m in height, with dark green, 2- to 3-pinnate leaves and yellow-green flowers in summer, followed by aromatic seeds
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
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.
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