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Which easy herbs can I grow for flavour?

Jean Vernon shares her favourite herbs for easy and tasty summer recipes. I often think herbs are underrated. Herbs are the top pick of the plants in so many ways. Infused with essential oils, these power plants are royalty in the garden plant hierarchy. And that’s because they have so many practical uses, from making […]

Eucomis, Pineapple Flower

An excellent greenhouse subject Eucomis comosa has lush green foliage (spotted with purple markings underneath) from which emerge long lasting spires of pretty blooms that grace us for many weeks from mid-summer through till autumn. Not hardy enough for most to risk outdoors this attractive bulb is a close relative of our Hyacinths and Ornithogalum […]

A Garden in Your Cup: Growing tisanes with the help of the greenhouse

Throughout winter my greenhouse played host to many miserable looking specimens, semi-hibernating through the coldest months, but there was one that I am always particularly delighted to see leap back into life come spring. Bright and citrusy, lemon verbena provides perhaps the best scent in the garden – rub the leaves and bring your fingers […]

Alstroemeria, The Peruvian Lily

Of the many greenhouse and conservatory plants few tick all boxes. That eternal quest for all-the-year-round interest in foliage, compact, neat with long lasting flowers good for cutting, lots of colour, scented in whole or part, possibly also edible, and of course, easy. Few indeed, however the Peruvian Lily does, moreover in myriad varieties only […]