Beyond enhancing the flavors of your favorite dishes, our meticulously curated herbs hold the power to nourish not only your taste buds but also your well-being and beauty.
Explore the diverse dimensions of herbs at Fyne Herbs – from culinary mastery to holistic health and natural radiance.
If you like bees, you’ll love these! Bergamot is renowned for its attraction to our bumbling and honey making friends, Bee balm being a common name amongst others. It’s worth its place for the flowers alone, which bloom into lilac pink spidery fireworks. However monarda was used medicinally by the native American tribe giving its name to ‘Oswego tea’, drunk for its antiseptic, digestive and calming properties. Lemon Bergamot, monarda citriodora is a really special variety with strong, citrus scented leaves combining with the unique bergamot smell. It's totally the best for a relaxing herbal, lemony tea.
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Selfheal does what it says on the tin when it comes to traditional medicinal use. Also known as “heal-all” or “allheal,” this low-growing native plant with lovely purple flowers has been prized for centuries in herbalist practices. It’s also got form in the kitchen, with a mild slightly bitter taste suited to leafy salads, and gorgeous flowers which make a wonderful garnish. Very easy to grow, it’s a native hardy perennial loved by bees and butterflies. It’s not generally a problem for pets, selfheal is an ideal creeping plant for a dog safe or cat friendly flower garden.
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Cardoon is a stately, statuesque perennial worth its place in any herb garden or wild meadow. It looks like the love child of a thistle and a teasel but is in fact the wild cousin of the globe artichoke. Considered a delicacy back in the day and is still enjoyed in rural Italy, the stems have a celery-like crunch and flavour of artichoke. Cynara cardunculus needs a load of space and a sunny position in fertile, free draining soil. The striking foliage can reach 2m tall with beautiful thistly flowerheads which are a magnet for bees and pollinators.
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Valerian is a pretty, native wildflower which attracts an abundance of friendlies to your garden, including cats (friendly or not) and has a rich medicinal history. It has many common names including ‘all-heal’ and ‘phu’ (pooh) which is appropriate as the dried root smells of sweaty socks! Cats love its ripe scent; it stimulates them in a similar way to catnip. It loves a rich, moist position and will grow in most aspects and soil types. Valerian is very vigorous but will be ok in our pot on a sunny windowsill to begin with, although it really needs planting out asap.
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The Curry Plant, botanically known as Helichrysum italicum, is a small, silvery evergreen shrub famous for its warm, curry-like aroma. Also called Immortelle, Everlasting, or Italian Strawflower, it smells unmistakably like curry powder. However, not to be confused with curry leaves, a staple of Indian cuisine which are from a Curry Tree (Bergera koenigii). This Mediterranean native is still valued for its culinary flair – adding a pleasingly mild curry flavour and aroma to dishes. Curry plants are a worth their place in your herb garden for their looks alone – unusual silvery foliage is studded with small, golden yellow flowers in summer. A beautiful and aromatic woody perennial which will delight the senses (and bees and butterflies!).
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Milk thistle, known scientifically as Silybum marianum, is a spiky yet beautiful herb with the best latin name of any plant, in our opinion! It’s one of those wildflowers which maybe considered a weed – it’s very vigorous and will spread quickly. However, if you’ve room in your garden it’s a wonderful, architectural plant, loved by bees and butterflies and of course is renowned as a natural remedy for liver conditions. It’s a great plant for a cat safe or dog friendly garden and is actually used in some pet supplements to boost liver functions. The spikey leaves generally discourage nibbling anyway.
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Chicory with its latin name of Cichorium intybus might sound like a spell from Harry Potter (for making a weird coffee-like drink maybe) but it’s a herb with multiple uses and a rich history. People tend to think of Chicory as a war time coffee substitute or for using its peppery leaves to liven up a salad, but it’s actually a wonderful garden plant with beautiful blue flowers and a vigorous climbing habit. Chicory is a sprawling perennial which can reach 1.5m tall, with some support. It’s hardy down to -10 degrees so is perfectly happy in most conditions. You can eat the leaves, enjoy the flowers (along with bees and butterflies) and at the end of the season, use the root for loads of things.
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Betony is a pretty native herb which can be found in meadows, grasslands and hedgerows - it has many common names, of which ‘Hedge nettle’ is one. A herb steeped in history, folklore, and practical uses, betony offers a little bit of everything. Its healing properties, magical associations, and easy-to-grow nature make it a fantastic addition to any herb garden. The vibrant spikes of purple flowers are a magnet for bees, butterflies and pollinators.
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African basil will excel in your garden as well as in the kitchen. To be honest, it’s a bit of a show-off – the leaves start off a delightful purple colour, which turn green as they mature and feature striking purple veins. It then throws up gorgeous spikes of deep pink flowers which are a magnet for bees and pollinators (it’s also known as Bee Basil). Because it doesn’t set seed, the flowers last for ages and are great value in pots, beds or borders. It’s a vigorous basil and can grow to 75cm tall, so needs a largish pot if growing inside.
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An unusual mint variety with lemony smelling leaves and a citrusy, minty flavour. It’s a brilliant variety for desserts, fruits and cocktails – particularly outstanding in a refreshing Mojito. Not to be confused with Lemon Balm, it’s a compact variety with purple tinged leaves and small lilac flowers in the summer.
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Stevia is also known as candyleaf, sweetcheeks, sugarleaf and Sweet Herb of Paraguay – you can guess why. It’s hundreds of times sweeter than sugar and originates from South America, where it’s a valuable medicinal herb too. As a native of the tropics it loves similar conditions – a warm, sunny spot in dappled shade with its roots in damp, fertile, well-draining soil. Stevia is a frost tender perennial so will need to be bought indoors if you want it to survive overwinter. Stevia is pretty vigorous but will be ok in our pot on a sunny windowsill to begin with.
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If you’re going to grow an ornamental grass why not choose one which smells lovely and has all sorts of culinary and medicinal uses? Lemon Grass originated in Southeast Asia but became popular across the ancient world as a treatment for infections, diseases and digestive complaints, so much so that it was also known as Fever Grass. Its strong citrus fragrance made it popular in perfumery and for dispelling bad odours. Of course, Lemon Grass’s main use is in cooking – particularly in Thai, Vietnamese, Indonesian, Sri Lankan, Malaysian and Caribbean cuisines. Although Lemon Grass is a perennial, it’s frost tender and unlikely to survive the winter outside. However, it’s a great plant for pots and can be bought inside to overwinter in a heated greenhouse or conservatory.
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