Starting a Herb Garden

I read an article about Jekka's Herb Farm and thought, "Let's get some exciting herbs and fill the herb bed." Unfortunately I was put of by high postage to bring the plants up from Bristol (and Bristol's warmer, etc). I went on the Internet and found two great-looking nurseries, one on the Ayrshire/D&G border and one in Perthshire. Unfortunately they both opened for the season on Easter Sunday and we couldn't go to both, so we went to Plants with Purpose in Perthshire. The Ayrshire one is Barwinnock Herbs. Hopefully we'll get there sometime.

We had a great time in Perthshire and the nursery was a cool little back-garden operation with many excellent kinds of herbs and medicinal plants.

We got, from back to front, left to right:

• Lemon catnip (Nepeta cataria citriodora)
• Black peppermint (Mentha x piperita vulgaris)
• Sorrel (Rumex acetosa)
• Welsh onions (Allium fistulosum)
• Chives (Allium schoenoprasum)
• Saffron (Crocus sativus)
• Pineapple mint (Mentha suaveolens 'Variegata')
  
• Purple sage (Salvia officinalis Purpurescens)
• Lime mint (Mentha x piperita f. citrata 'Lime')
• Horehound (Marrubium vulgare)
• Grapefruit mint (Mentha x piperita f. citrata 'Grapefruit')
• Curly wood sage (Teucrium scorodonia 'Crispum')
• Moroccan mint (Mentha spicata var. crispa 'Moroccan')
• Basil mint (Mentha x piperita f. citrata 'Basil')
• Lavender mint (Mentha x piperita f. citrata 'Lavender')
• Garlic chives (Allium tuberosum)
  

I've put them all in, which is for another post. To finish, here are some bonus photos of the herb garden in a box.

Hopefully I'll get to visit Jekka's Herbs at some point when I'm down south.