‘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.

Basil Bush is a dwarf, compact variety, approximately half the size of sweet basil, it is ideal for planting in pots and probably the easiest basil to grow, it is perfect for the kitchen window sill and for container gardening.

Purple Ruffles is probably the prettiest of basils, if not of all herbs. While it deserves a place in your kitchen garden, it also makes an excellent contrasting plant in a border. Tempting though it is to admire your plant, one taste will have you tearing the leaves of by the armful.

Sweet Genovese is often associated with Italian cuisine. Basil is native to the region surrounding the Mediterranean Sea. This delicate herb has with an intense, spicy-sweet, aroma and a slight anise-like undertone. It is THE Basil for pesto and a wonderful companion plant.

'Polka Dot' is a delightful mix of dwarf bachelor's buttons, growing to just half the size of a regular cornflower. It blooms earlier than many other varieties in a wonderful range of shades and colours, from white to pale pink and blues, to purples and plums, some are bi-colours.

This is a particularly pretty Cornflower, a splendid border plant and a fine flower for cutting. ‘Frosty Mix’ feature flowers that each have dark centres which fade into white outer petals, creating a frosted effect. The blooms appear in a wide range of colours, featuring maroons and purples, pinks and blues.

Camomile is a most useful plant. It can be used to make beautiful lawns and raised beds, an infusion of the plant is an ideal family remedy, calming and sedative, perfect for restlessness or travel sickness, while cold camomile tea is effective as a spray to prevent “damping-off” of seedlings

The green garden fennel is a handsome and popular perennial, often planted on its own for impact or combined with other flowers in borders.Plants develop into magnificent clumps of airy feather foliage, crowned in late summer with large heads of tiny flowers.

You can't see it or touch it. But it's so integral a part of the garden experience that it penetrates the very soul. It's fragrance. And none of our other four senses has the power to trigger emotions as strong or memories as sweet as scent does. Practice your own individual form of "aromatherapy" in the garden.

Hyssop is a strong-flavoured aromatic herb which is enjoying a revival with home gardeners. An ideal plant for use in containers or as a low hedge or border within the herb garden. Highly attractive to bees, it makes excellent honey and is a must for any wildflower garden.

Lavendula angustifolia or English Lavender is thought to be the best Lavender for medicinal and aromatherapy purposes. This evergreen is a staple plant for the herb garden, the fragrant flowers have been used in perfumes, poultices and potpourris for centuries.

Munstead Lavender is a fragrant robust English lavender that, due to its short size and tightly held blooms, makes a great hedge. It flowers profusely in the spring, after which a good pruning will provide an attractive grey bush with highly aromatic leaves.

Lavandula 'Provence Blue' is unique, with silvery leaves on compact, tightly branched plants topped with dazzling deep blue spires. It hails from the French region of Provence, where the fields are a veritable sea of blue.