Cooks Essential Kitchen Herb Collection

No garden, patio, balcony or window box should be without some herbs. Easy to grow and to manage, many do well in pots in small spaces, and together they will provide virtually year-round, tasty additions to a vast number of meals, so that no self-respecting cook can afford to be without them. Herbs can turn a meal into a feast!

We’ve included 6 versatile and essential herbs that will give you bunch after bunch for the kitchen, packed full of delicious flavour and scent! One each of the following varieties, large plants grown in 9cm pots:

French Tarragon - A delicious herb and great paired with chicken and fish. Also add a few sprigs to flavour vinegar to make a superb salad dressing.

Chives - Much loved for its fresh, delicate, onion flavour. Compliments many dishes, including salads and sauces.

Lemon Thyme - A wonderful and unique flavour adding citrus notes to meat and fish dishes. Looks very attractive grown in pots and window boxes.

Garden Mint - The traditional garden mint, full of flavour and superb for making mint sauce or adding to new potatoes when cooking.

Purple Sage - Strong, aromatic flavour and much famed for adding to stuffing, especially with pork or poultry. The evergreen foliage looks great in the garden year round.

Curled Parsley - A good dark curled leaf variety, great for so many dishes and highly nutritious.