17 Herbs for Summer Drinks
Summertime: why not celebrate with a drink? These 17 herbs for summer drinks will suit you nicely whether you’re after […]
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7 Herbs to Grow for Your Pets
7 Herbs to grow for your pets includes those which are suitable for horses, ponies, dogs, cats, rabbits, guinea pigs
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9 Edible Annual Flowers to Grow in Your Garden
9 Edible annual flowers to grow in your garden from seed or from plug plants. Or indeed from seedlings given
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5 Herbs for your BBQ
The 5 herbs for your BBQ that I’ve chosen here are all perennial herbs, so will provide you with seasoning
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9 Evergreen Herbs to Edge Your Kitchen Garden or Vegetable Plot
9 evergreen herbs for your kitchen garden or vegetable plot to add a practical and decorative edging, whilst maintain the
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9 Parsley Superstitions
9 Parsley superstitions – and that’s probably not all of them! – because this innocuous looking herb has one of
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Winter Savory, Satureja montana
Winter savory, Satureja montana, is an aromatic evergreen herb with a long history in the garden, the kitchen and the
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Growing Hyssop, Pollinator Friendly Herb and Hedge
Growing Hyssop, or to be botanically correct Hyssopus officinalis, (see the next section below as to why I clarify this)
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Herbs for Summer Salads
Herbs for summer salads – ideas for some obvious and less obvious herbs for you to grow and eat. Are
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Herb Garden Ideas
Herb gardens and herb garden ideas have featured in domestic gardens for hundreds of years. Whether it’s from Roman Pompeii,
How to Grow Vegan Herbs
Why vegan herbs specifically? Because I felt that there was a bit of a gap between the buying vegan and
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Growing Culinary Herbs in your Winter Garden
Many people think that growing culinary herbs in your winter garden is difficult, or time consuming. It isn’t, or it
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How Many Types of Basil Plant are There?
There is more to Basil than the ‘living herb’ pot you can buy at the supermarket. You might be surprised
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Hardwick Hall Herb Garden – Garden Visit
The current design of Hardwick Hall herb garden is not the original sixteenth century one. In the 1970s the National
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Parsley Sage Rosemary and Thyme
Parsley Sage Rosemary and Thyme – did you say or sing the words? Most of us know that song and
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Garden Visits – Downderry Nursery
If you were asked which English county grows the most lavender which one would you say? Norfolk? Would you be
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Nettles – Weed or Herb?
The European Nettle, Urtica dioica, is a common site on wastelands, woodland edges, next to compost heaps and in overgrown
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3 Herbs to Overwinter in your Garden to use in your Kitchen
Choosing just 3 Herbs to overwinter in your garden makes it easier for those of you who haven’t considered this gardening
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Thyme for a Herb Garden
Now I would agree that the phrase Thyme for a Herb Garden could be read in two ways. Firstly, it’s
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Getting Going with Growing – National Gardening Week 2017
National Gardening Week 2017 is focussed on helping new gardeners on getting going with growing. This year is the sixth
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Garden Visits – Iden Croft Herbs, Mint, National Plant Collection
Iden Croft Herbs is one of those gardens that seems to be a hidden away gem of the Kent countryside
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Inspiration for a Courtyard Herb Garden
Throughout history urban living has given most city dwellers only a small garden; a courtyard garden, possibly only a balcony
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5 Evergreen Herbs to edge your Flower Borders
There are, of course, more than five evergreen herbs that would make a decorative and scented edging to your flower
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Herbs a Potted Garden History
Herbs a Potted Garden History is an overview of what a herb is. The subject of herbs is a wide
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Lavender’s blue, nettles sting, but are they both herbs?
Most people consider herbs to be plants with medicinal, culinary or cosmetic uses. However, a herb is also any annual,
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