Herbs and spices

White mustard is turning increasingly popular: many are discovering its use as a green garden fertilizer, with the side benefits of being a delicious edible

Herbs and spices are a perfect match for those who love both gardening and cooking. It is truly enjoyable to snip a leaf of your very own chives to flavor a lettuce salad, your own mint to pair with strawberries and your own basil to chop onto freshly-picked tomato… isn’t it?

Bunching onion, also called Welsh onion, Spring onion or even sometimes long green onion, is a delicious vegetable but also an herb that has a distinctive taste.

Rosemary is both a beautiful shrub and a formidable herb plant.

Tarragon is a delicious herb plant perfectly suited to our climates.

Dill is delicious with its delicate aniseed-like flavor and it is perfect paired with sauces, marinades and fish.

Marjoram is a delicate strong-tasting herb, very fragrant and easy to grow. It is perfect to flavor meals.

Growing basil yourself is easy, and it is even a great idea for all who like to spice up their salads and summer meals!

Coriander is an annual perfectly suited to our climates. It is a very fragrant spice herb.

Preparing your own bouquet garni is something enjoyable and very simple. A bouquet garni is an assortment of herbs and spices

Growing mint yourself is easy, and it’s recommended for every person who likes to flavor their desserts and meals with mint!

Growing and producing pineapple mint is perfectly possible and even recommended for all those who love to flavor meals!

Medicinal sage or Salvia officinalis is a fabulous herb with a very specific flavor.

Medicinal verbena is a very interesting wild plant, both for its health benefits and therapeutic value as for its qualities as a fragrant herb.

Lemon thyme is both a cute little perennial and a fabulous herb.

Thyme is both a cute little perennial and a fabulous herb.

The Sichuan pepper tree is a shrub that bears the delicious Sichuan pepper.

Wild thyme is a low-lying perennial that is as useful as a herb as it is ornamental.

Sage is a plant that counts a great many species, over 900, and it exists as a perennial, an annual, a biennial, and as shrub, too.

Herbs and spices are easy to grow and cook and it’s possible to squeeze them into any nook and cranny of the vegetable patch, flower bed and garden box.

Chamomile is well-known for its herbal and medicinal properties. Whether the variety is Roman, German or wild, they all belong to the large Asteraceae family.

Absinthe is more famous for the liquor that is produced from it than for its many uses in the garden.

Growing basil in pots is easy, and it is even a great idea to start growing potted basil in spring.

Anise, from which aniseed is harvested, is an herb that is simple to grow. Its digestive properties paired up with the fact that it freshens one’s breath make it

Chives are aromatic herbs that are very easy to grow. They produce an abundance of leaves.

Parsley is a commonly used spice that grows easily.

Mertensia maritima, also called oyster plant or oysterleaf, is a surprising plant that tastes quite uncanny for a member of the plant kingdom.

Garden angelica is a very tall herb spice that belongs to the Umbelliferae family. It is much appreciated in cooking, pastries more specifically.

Chervil is a very tasty herb that loves cool and shaded locations.

Yarrow, also called “soldier’s woundwort”, is a nice perennial very much liked for its foliage and for its value as a herb and therapeutic relief agent.

When taking a stroll in the woods or in the fields, rediscover the joys of collecting edible wild plants!

Origanum rotundifolium, known sometimes as oregano or marjoram, is a delicate strong-tasting herb, fragrant and easy to grow.

Stevia is a cute herb and an excellent alternative to sugar.