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.
All our themed herb garden boxes make the perfect gardening gift. As well as 12 top quality, UK grown herb plants, our herb boxes also contain: Sustainable wooden plant labels with advice and inspiration a click away - one for each herb, a pair of super-sharp herb snips for care and harvesting and comprehensive herb growing guide. Add a gift message too and send the best present for gardeners, cooks and loved ones interested in natural wellbeing. Herb Box items form part of the complete Herb Garden Boxes and cannot be purchased separately. Sorry.
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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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Lady’s Bedstraw (Galium verum), also known as Yellow Bedstraw or Maid’s Hair, is a charming, honey-scented wildflower loved by bees, revered by herbalists, and cherished by gardeners. A UK and European native, it was prized as a stuffing for beds (hence the name) due to its sweet scent and insect repelling properties. It was said to be used by the Virgin Mary as bedding straw in baby Jesus’s manger. Easy to grow and used to our unpredictable climate, Lady’s Bedstraw’s golden yellow flowers are a magnet for bees and butterflies and was a popular symbol of love, happiness and fertility. Practical too – the roots were used to create a natural red dye and in cheesemaking as a natural rennet.
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Jacob’s Ladder (Polemonium caeruleum) is a hardy UK perennial with blue flowers, loved by bees. Learn how to grow it and buy young plants online here. Sometimes known as Greek Valerian, Charity, or Abscess Root, Jacob’s Ladder is a charming, cottage-garden perennial that combines soft beauty with a rich history of folklore, medicine and symbolism. Best loved for its elegant, ladder-like foliage and clouds of blue or violet flowers, this plant is as useful to pollinators as loved by bees. Historically, Polemonium caeruleum was cultivated in monastery gardens and physic gardens during the Middle Ages. Herbalists valued it for its calming and expectorant properties, while folklore credited it with the ability to restore harmony and protect against illness.
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Woad (Isatis tinctoria) is a historic blue dye plant for UK gardens. Learn how to grow it, its uses, and buy young woad plants online. Often known as Dyer’s Woad or Blue Woad, it’s famous for producing a rich blue dye long before indigo reached Europe. Woad is a striking, architectural plant that also boasts a long history of medicinal use, folklore, and cultural symbolism. Often thought to have been used by the ancient Picts (and Mel Gibson) for tattooing their bodies with intricate blue designs, there is now some conjecture about this. Never-the-less, there’s no doubting it’s importance in the early textile industry when vast fields were sown with Woad and laws that laws were passed to protect its trade.
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If you want to bring all the bees to the yard then growing Viper’s Bugloss is a must. It’s a striking native wildflower herb with electric-blue flowers and bristly stems, also known as blueweed or blue devil and is famous for its bee appeal. Like most native wildflowers, Viper’s Bugloss is incredibly easy to grow - is suitable for most soil types and enjoys full sun. It just likes to be left alone to get on with its main purpose which seems to be to attract as many bees and pollinators as possible! Once thought to cure snake bites due to the speckled stems and seeds resembling a viper’s skin or head, it’s not a culinary plant and is now rarely used in medicinal remedies.
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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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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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Teasel (Dipascus fullonum) is unique amongst wildflower herbs in that it’s arguably more useful dead than alive! In autumn and winter, the unmistakable sight of spires of dried teasel stems and spikey heads are commonly found along hedgerows, roadsides, waste ground, and in woodland margins. They provide valuable bird food – especially for Goldfinches, and flocks of these beautiful birds can often be seen teasing out the fine seed from the spiney heads. The dried stems also make excellent, natural decorations for flower arrangements and Christmas wreaths. Back in the day, teasels were in great demand in the textile industry where the dried seed heads, with their stiff hooked bracts, were used to “tease” or raise the nap on woollen cloth—hence the name teasel. This easy to grow biennial should be part of any wildflower area or garden, they’ll thrive in most conditions and when alive and in flower, will attract a host of bee’s and butterflies.
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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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Herb Robert is a type of native wild geranium with pretty pink flowers, which thrives almost anywhere. It’s an important wildflower herb for bees and pollinators and has a rich history of medicinal use and spiritualism. Also known as Stinking Bob, this cheerful little fella has a dark side which is that it has a rather pungent, off-putting, musty smell when crushed. Bluntly – think fox wee! Don’t let that put you off though. It’s delicate pink flowers and ability to grow in most soils and aspects make it an attractive choice for areas of the garden where other plants struggle. Thought to be named after a medieval monk - St Robert of Molesme, who popularised its use medicinally, using it to stop bleeding, healing wounds, and treating infections.
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