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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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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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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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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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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Red clover is a cheerful, bright little native herb often found in meadows, pastures, and along roadsides and in lawns. Its vibrant pink to purple flowers and distinctive trifoliate leaves are hard to miss. A herb synonymous with luck, if you find a super-rare four leaved clover then go and do the lottery! Red clover is a well-known natural remedy for the treatment of several menopause symptoms and it’s great for foraging, lending itself to a number of culinary uses. Easy to grow, it just needs a bit of space to spread.
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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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Cowslip (Primula veris), also known as Herb Peter, Key Flower, or Mayflower, is one of Britain’s most beloved springtime wildflowers. With its nodding clusters of golden, bell-shaped blooms and gentle honeyed scent, cowslip has long been cherished in folklore, medicine, cooking, and gardening. Once very wide spread, you know may only see small clusters of these cheerful harbingers of spring in fields, along roadsides and on grass verges and banks. A UK native with a rich history and folklore it was thought to ward off evil spirits and reveal hidden fairy treasure! In traditional medicine cowslip plants were used as an expectorant to sooth coughs and colds, as a mild sedative and to ease rheumatism and joint pain. Cowslip wildflowers have a mildly sweet, floral, honey-like flavour with subtle green and herbal notes. Both cowslip flowers and young leaves have culinary potential, particularly in desserts and syrups.
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Toadflax is a delightful, cheerful wildflower herb which spreads freely and can get a bit out of hand. It’s hard to complain at its profligacy because Toadflax flowers are a designed for bees and look simply gorgeous. Often called ‘wild snapdragons’ due to their resemblance to Antirrhinums, they’re actually second cousins or something and are certainly more useful! Unfortunately, Toadflax doesn't play well with cats and dogs - it can be toxic if eaten. Historically, Toadflax was used as a natural dye for producing yellow hues. It was considered a “herb of the people,” appreciated for its medicinal properties and its association with purity and resilience.
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