The Specialist Plant Nursery

We propagate and sell a huge range of unusual Perennials, Grasses, Alpines and wildflowers together with a large selection of Lavender and Herb plants.

Expert advice available from our knowledgeable team.

For some years now, we have been growing and supplying an ever-increasing range of different herb plants alongside our extraordinary lavenders at our Nursery. 

You'll find all the usual culinary herbs - parsley, sage, oregano,rosemary and thyme - but also some you may not have come across before like lovage, pennyroyal and chicory.  Some herb plants are for sale in big 1 ¹/₂ litre pots allowing you to get a herb bed very well established in no time at all.  There are mints galore - not only spearmint and peppermint but gingermint, chocolate mint, pineapple mint and apple mint.  Sages including the gorgeous big leaved half-hardy blackcurrant sage with its cerise flowers and the beautiful marble-leaved variegated sages in reds and yellows.  You could put in a low growing thyme tapestry in soft muted shades of greens, greys, reds, golds and silver to carpet a corner of your garden. 

Perhaps you are looking for some height in the back of your border - why not try a handsome, ferny bronze fennel.  Its lovely fresh aniseed flavour is terrific within tomato or cucumber salads and is brilliant with oily fish.  It ll produce pretty yellow lacy flowers followed by seeds which can also be used in cooking.  If you love Italian food, there is a range of basils and also oregano and marjorum - both excellent in aromatic pizza  toppings and pasta sauces.  Coriander, for Thai, Indian and Mexican cooking.  There are several rosemarys - the ideal partner for barbequed lamb - that cover themselves in intense blue flowers.  Other beautiful blues are borage, chicory, and of course the lavenders themselves, but not all lavenders are blue - some are pink some white and others red, green or purple.  There is even one called Fathead - now who could you give that to?

We also stock many of the more unusual herbs and advice and information about growing and using them is available from our knowledgeable team.

Herb food ideas

• Our mint sauce can be used with Roast Lamb in the traditional way or use it mixed with olive oil as a dressing over warm earthy new potatoes or dribbled onto grilled peppers and tomatoes.  Or toss a salad of avocado, kiwi fruit and little gem in a mix of mint sauce, lime juice and grapeseed oil.
• Apple & Mint Chutney brings a bright accent to cheeses and cold meats, quiches and pork pies.  Serve with grilled goats cheese or welsh rarebit.
  
•  The new Wholegrain Mustard with Garlic complements are Lavender Semiground Mustard.  Use it in dressing, sauces, glazes or as a condiment.
• Our Lemon Curd with Mint is a refreshing alternative to the usual tea time spreads and can be used in cake and pie fillings.