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Basil Herb Plant Collection

SKU: 60670

Ocimum basilicum

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Product Description

Basil is an essential herb and ingredient used in many Italian dishes with strongly flavoured leaves that can be used. Perfect for tomato dishes, blitzed to make pesto sauce and added to pizzas, pasta and salads.

You'll receive 6 x 9cm potted plants, 2 each of the following varieties:

Sweet Basil - Highly aromatic herb that evokes the scent of summer. Also known as Genovese, is considered to be one of the best varieties of aromatic basil, hailed for its sweet-flavoured leaves and soft texture.

Bush Basil - Perfect for scattering over tomatoes, pasta and rice dishes, this compact variety with smaller aromatic leaves produces clusters of small white tubular flowers in summer..

Purple Basil - Makes a lovely ornamental plant in patio containers or mixed into flower borders, but also has the full basil fragrance and flavour.

Planting & Harvesting

Planting & Harvesting

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Angelika J. (England, United Kingdom)
A slight disappointment

The basil collection I had high hopes for was a slight disappointment: opening the parcel on arrival the little pots had toppled over in transit and the plants were sparse and looked quite bedraggelt. I planted them afresh and they are picking up now. There were only three or four individual plants of the dark basil, and the other two had only a few more plants to the pot. Quite a disappointment, especially as ordering plants from Mr Fothergill has always been a great pleasure and success, in the way the plants survived the transport and in the quality of the plants. Hopefully next time things will have gone back to the usual quality.

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Steven H. (England, United Kingdom)

Sybil would have been very pleased. Spot on.
Arrived in good condition and now growing happily.

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