Catmint - English Garden
Yes, Catmint is the famous catnip that cats are so addicted to! Luckily the leaves are only aromatic when they are torn. There is even a traditional saying about catmint - Meaning if you try to transplant catmint, you will probably damage a few ... [... more]
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Cotton Lavender - English Garden
Sometimes known as Grey Lavender, Lavender Cotton or Grey Santolina. This aromatic plant has been grown in English Gardens since the Sixteenth century, where it was often used as a space filler in knot gardens or to edge paths and walks. Nicholas ... [... more]
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Feverfew - an English Cottage Garden plant - English Garden
It has pale bright green leaves have a pungent aromatic scent when touched and small clusters of single white flowers with flat yellow centers very like those of a daisy. Feverfew likes a sunny position in well drained soil and will grow well ... [... more]
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Foxgloves - English Garden
The Anglo-Saxons called them "foxes glofa" (the glove of the fox) as they thought the flowers looked like the fingers of a glove. There are many stories as to how the name foxglove originated -my favorite is the one which tells of naughty [... more]
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Wild flowers for your English Garden - English Garden
An English Garden always has a space for traditional wild flowers. They add a touch of beauty and freedom to your garden and ideally you let them self seed where they will. Here is my list of English Garden Wild flowers that you can incorporate ... [... more]
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Blue flowering herbs for your English Garden - English ...
Anchusa azurea - Loddon Royalist is a hardy perennial,that likes a sunny spot with fertile but well-drained soil. It has wonderful clear bright blue flowers in summer and grows to 100cm or 39 inches. Bugle - Ajuga reptens - A low growing creeping ... [... more]
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Culinary herbs for your traditional English Herb Garden ...
Herbs have always played a large part in traditional English borders, but keeping your herbs for cooking in a separate area, ideally near the house, makes it easy for you to gather them and linger over. The ideal site for a herb garden would be ... [... more]
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English Cottage Garden Herbs - English Garden
Herbs are a traditional part of any English garden, whether they were in the garden of a grand country estate or the small patch of the local villager. They have been used in cooking and as medicine for centuries. There are many famous historic ... [... more]
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English Wildflowers - English Garden
This cornflower is one of the many English wildflowers that will grow in a sunny spot in an English Garden. Has spikes of golden yellow flowers in June. Grows 30 - 65cms tall. Has pinky white flowers from May to September. A perennial that ... [... more]
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Iris germanica "Florentina" or Orris Root. - English Garden
Iris Florentina has been in cultivation for hundreds of years and is a graceful plant that should always be included in your English Garden. It has thick rhizomatous roots which when dried and ground up have the delicate scent of ... [... more]
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Lemon Balm or Sweet Balm - English Garden
The Romans were responsible for bringing Lemon Balm to England. It has been cultivated here ever since and is a traditional plant in the herb garden. This aromatic plant is also called Heart's Delight, Balm Mint or Sweet Melissa. It used to be ... [... more]
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Where to grow mint
Minthe in Greek mythology was a lovely nymph who Hades the God of the underworld found very desirable. Hades' wife in a jealous rage had her turned into the herb we know Mentha. The Roman poet Ovid describes mint as the hospitality herb and it ... [... more]
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