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Green Perilla, Beefsteak Plant, Chinese Basil, Wild Sesame seeds Cat No. 1388E This is another super plant for your herb garden. With attractive, crinkled, lime-green leaves, the whole plant has a warm, spicy, somewhat cinnamon scent. Mild in flavour, the leaves have a taste rem...
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Red Perilla, Shiso seeds Cat No. 1373B This is a lovely plant which you can use to give herbal interest to your border or colour interest to your herb garden! With erect stems, it bears ornamental, crinkly, purplish-red leaves reminiscent ...
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Pot Marigold, Wildflower of the British Isles seeds Cat No. 1507 This is the single-flowered, original version of this old favourite best for culinary purposes. Cultivated since at least the Middle Ages, the young leaves and petals can be used in salads: the flower...
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Purslane, Wildflower of the British Isles seeds Cat No. 1389 This is a valuable and easily grown extra salad plant, the young leaves being used. They are also tasty cooked as a vegetable, and the older leaves can be used for pickling. Sow in drill and thin out ...
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Golden Purslane seeds Cat No. 1389A This is a very attractive form of Purslane with large, yellowish leaves that contrast nicely with the red stems. Whilst being particularly attractive in salads, the leaves and stems, as with the above...
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Rocambole, Serpent Garlic, Sand Leek, Allium, Spanish Garlic seeds Cat No. 1389B Also known as Serpent Garlic or Sand Leek. This is both an interesting and useful plant: interesting for the way the flower stalk likes to show off by curling itself, serpent fashion, into a double lo...
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Rock Samphire seeds Cat No. 413K (Earlier Sampere from the French, and exactly as most English folk would pronounce it, St. Pierre, St. Peter's Herb). A native wild flower to be found on precarious cliff faces or in shingle by the s...
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Rosemary seeds Cat No. 1390 “There’s Rosemary, that’s for remembrance”. A classic herb needing no introduction and one of the most valuable. An attractive, evergreen shrub no garden should be without. Apart from the well-known u...
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Rue, Herb of Grace seeds Cat No. 1133 Used since ancient times as a medicinal herb to treat such diverse complaints as corpulency, thread-worms and hysteria, this is a small, aromatic shrub with attractive, fern-like, grey-green foliage, ...
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Dalmatian Sage seeds Cat No. 1391 Another classic and indispensable herb, and a constituent, along with Thyme and Marjoram, of Mixed Herbs. 1-2 ft.
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Sage seeds Cat No. 1391C This is a fine, improved strain of Sage, originally raised for commercial production, which contains a usefully larger amount of the flavour-giving essential oil. 1-2 ft.
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Salad Burnet, Wildflower of the British Isles seeds Cat No. 1509 An attractive native plant with feathery leaves that can be used raw in salads when they have a taste (and smell) not dissimilar to Cucumber, in soups or, with Borage, in cooling drinks. 16 ins.
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Scurvy Grass, Scurvygrass, Wildflower of the British Isles seeds Cat No. 1393A When a few years back we had this in our Catalogue, it was as an ornamental perennial with fragrant white flowers. However, with its succulent, slightly salty leaves, and flower heads that can be used...
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Sorrel, Wildflower of the British Isles seeds Cat No. 1394 The acid tang of the young leaves will add interest, and considerably improve any salad. Can also be cooked as a change to Spinach, and makes a delicious soup. A spring sowing will give a fine crop in...
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Red-veined Sorrel, Bloody Sorrel, Red-veined Dock, Bloody Dock seeds Cat No. 1394C Included here as much as an ornamental as for its well known culinary uses provided by the sharp and tangy flavour of its leaves. These are an attractive bright green in colour and have a very slightl...
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Spearmint, Green Pea Mint, Wildflower of the British Isles seeds Cat No. 862E With a refreshing spearmint flavour, this is one of the best mints to go with your Sunday joint of lamb. 1-2 ft.
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Summer Savory seeds Cat No. 1392 A bushy, annual plant and the peppery and aromatic leaves are used in a wide variety of foods including soups, meat and fish dishes, and also in pot-pourri. It is said that rubbing a leaf on a bee sti...
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Summer Savory seeds Cat No. 1392A This is a new improved type of Summer Savory developed surprisingly enough for commercial sausage making in Eastern Germany. It produces sturdier, more uniform and compact, longer lasting plants with ...
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Common Tansy, Wildflower of the British Isles seeds Cat No. 1501 A native plant with deeply serrated, aromatic leaves and heads of attractive, yellow, button-like flowers. Although at one time often used to add a spicy, peppery flavour to puddings, cakes, omelettes...
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Russian Tarragon seeds Cat No. 1395 The leaves have a strong, rather sweet taste and are used, fresh or dried, in a variety of foods but particularly for fish. They are also used in a flavouring for vinegar. 1˝-2 ft.
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