‘Mariska’ is a little known but hardy and compact variety of Dill. With starry bright yellow flower heads, abundant foliage and growing to only 60cm, this well behaved smaller dill is an excellent variety for use as a cut flower filler and is a great variety for the kitchen garden, windowsill or container.

Angelica archangelica is a majestic plant that deserves a prominent position at the back of a border or in a wild part of the garden. All parts of the aromatic plant have culinary or medicinal uses, but it is best known for its candied stems, used as a cake decoration.

Anise is a dainty, herbaceous plant most famous for the liquorice flavour of its leaves and seeds. Use the leaves fresh in salads and soups, and the seeds for flavouring cookies, pastries, and confections.

Caraway is an incredibly useful plant. The seeds are used for as a culinary spice and for medicinal purposes while the leaves can be eaten in salads and the roots cooked as a root vegetable. With feathery, delicate foliage the plant is lovely in the garden border and is a very useful companion plant in the vegetable garden.

For those who like the flavour and aroma of Habanero peppers but find them too hot. Aji Dulce has the same shape, size, colour and aroma, but is sweet, spicy, and delicious, with little or no heat. The flavour is spicy and complex, with overtones of black pepper and coriander.

Arguably the most under-rated pepper in the pepper family, Poblanos are one of the most popular peppers grown in Mexico. With a mild chili taste, they are perfect for adding just a touch of zing to spaghetti sauces, sandwiches, steaks and they are excellent stuffed. Very easy to grow and even easier to harvest.

Originally from California, Red Fresno peppers are of similar size and hotness to jalapeños, they are sometimes labeled "red jalapenos", which they aren't, they are less meaty and have thinner skin. This mild / hot chili has a great flavour; it is an exceptional chilli for pickling and salad making.

Chocolate Habanero is from the Caribbean has a unique rich, smoky flavour unlike any other chilli pepper and packs a punch far spicier than regular Habanero. It has little to do with the sweet treat we associate with chocolate, save for the beautiful, rich colour of its skin.

Originating from the Caribbean, Lemon Habanero chili peppers are fruity and sweet with a unique apricot scent. They mature in 90 to 100 days from green to lemon yellow lantern shaped fruits 5cm long and 2.5cm wide. Growing to just 80cm tall they will grow happily outside over the summer.

Orange Habanero are closely related to the Scotch Bonnet, they are fiery hot and extremely pungent with an aromatic flavour and a clean but very intense heat. Between 200,000 to 300,000 Scovilles. The fruits are lantern shaped, small and wrinkled and ripen from green to light orange.

Red Habanero chiles are one happy looking bunch. They have colourful skins that ripen from green to yellow and then orange to red as they mature. They are small, cute, shinny and have waxy skin. But as much as their looks are inviting, they are among the hottest chilli peppers commonly grown in the world.

The White Habanero is a lovely and rare variety that is hard to come by and said to originate from Peru. These awesomely hot chillies have a distinctive smoky flavour and the creamy-white fruits make for striking plants. Maturing in around 90 days, this is a rare and unusual chilli for your collection.

Serrano peppers are fleshy and meaty with the unique flavour so popular in Mexican cuisine. The abundant candle-flame shaped fruit are green, then red at full maturity and are borne on attractive erect, branching plants. They red chilies are often be threaded on string and dried as a colourful ornament.