If you’re looking to take your homemade meals to the next level, then we’ve got 7 incredibly flavoursome and easy-to-grow garden herbs to get you started.
Whether you wish to grow them in the kitchen garden, greenhouse or within a container, herbs are extremely versatile plants. Thriving and flourishing best in sunny spots, herbs are also traditionally best grown in soil that is rather fertile and light, allowing water to drain well.
Did you know that growing herbs in areas that receive full sun is important for encouraging greater flavour? Found to significantly encourage the production of essential oils, sunlight is essential for your plant to produce the most flavour-filled garden herbs.
Discover 7 delicious garden herbs that you can easily grow, nurture and harvest within your garden.
Salvia rosmarinus
A glorious evergreen shrub, rosemary is a beautiful plant that produces wonderfully aromatic leaves and delicate blooms. Originating from the Mediterranean, rosemary is incredibly hardy and can often be seen within many costal and Mediterranean-inspired garden designs. Used to enhance meat, soup, breads and more with an extra burst of flavour, rosemary is an excellent herb to have on hand within your garden.
Allium schoenoprasum
Producing beautiful and nectar-rich blooms, Allium schoenoprasum (better known as chives) are glorious garden herbs. Easy to grow within any garden, chives have a wonderfully distinctive taste and can be used to enhance soups, to garnish salads and more!
Thymus vulgaris
Most commonly known as thyme, Thymus vulgaris is a fantastic herb that can be used to enhance a wide variety of culinary dishes. A charming evergreen shrub, thyme is fantastic for attracting bees and other valuable pollinators into the garden. A tasty garden herb, thyme can be used to enhance the flavour of meat, to season stews and to produce scrumptious homemade sauces.
Petroselinum crispum
Parsley is a glorious plant that can be easily grown within your garden. A popular culinary herb, parsley produces an abundance of glorious green leaves which can be used to garnish salads, make pesto, to add flavour to sauces and more.
Mentha
Boasting a number of different varieties, mint is a useful and handy herb to have growing within your garden. Nectar-rich, mint is also a herb which is known to be fantastic for supporting pollinators. Useful for helping you to make flavoursome teas, scrumptious garden salads and cocktails, mint makes a wonderful addition to the kitchen garden.
Ocimium basilicum
Ocimium basilicum, better known as ‘basil’ is scrumptious herb that is incredibly popular within many different cuisines. A less hardy herb, basil is best grown in particularly sheltered and warm conditions, such as in the greenhouse or within a container that is positioned in an area that recieves generous amounts of sunlight.
Foeniculum vulgare
Last but not least we have fennel. A tall and aromatic herb, fennel can be used to enhance a variety of culinary dishes. Producing glorious clusters of bright yellow blooms throughout the summer, fennel is fabulous for adding both a burst of colour to your garden and flavour to your kitchen.
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