Something we are very interested in at Little Groves Nursery is helping you to grow your own herbs, vegetables and fruits. Growing your own produce is an immensely satisfying thing to do. Whether it’s for the hobby of gardening, the cheaper or healthier way to have food, or a way of involving young people in the outdoors, it’s a fantastic thing to do!
Herbs:
Whether you use parsley with your cod, mint with your new potatoes or basil with your spaghetti, herbs are something which can enrich our lives. They can be used throughout the home and if you know what you’re doing they can boost your health. They can be grown in the veg garden, planted in your flower borders or grown in pots on the patio – there should always be room for herbs as they are plants that earn their keep!
At Little Groves Nursery we like to stock all the usual herbs that you would expect to see such as sages, thymes, mints, bay etc but we also like to have an element of surprise and so stock more unusual herbs from all over the world. Have a browse at our herb section which you may buy online and see how many tempt your tastebuds!
To help you get your taste buds tingling our herbs are set out in recipe categories, such as herbs for red meat, herbs for fish, herbs for oriental cooking, herbs for italian recipes , edible flowers (great in salads, cockails, summer drinks and fruit salads), herbs for herbal teas - and many more! We hope that this helps you to choose herbs on what you use them for, as well as those that look great! So even if your green fingers are a little shy or rusty, why not let your tummy decide!
Examples of some of our recipe categories and the herbs in them:
Herbs for Chicken:
French Tarragon
Winter Tarragon
Thyme (Lemon, Common Compact, Broad leaved, Silver posy)
Vietnamese corriander
Corriander
Dwarf marjoram
Oregano Country Cream
Golden marjoram
Rosemary
Basil (Sweet, Bush/greek, Lemon, Cinnamon)
Curry Plant
Parsley
Winter savory
Chives & Garlic Chives
Herbs for Red Meat:
Sages (Golden, Tricolour, Green, Purple)
Rosemary
Thymes (Common Compact, Broad leaved, Silver posy)
Dwarf marjoram
Oregano Country
Golden marjoram
Bay
Tashkent mint
Winter savory
Herbs for Fish:
Dill
Fennel (Bronze, Green)
Chervil
Parsley (Triple Curled, French/Flat leaved)
Chives
Dwarf marjoram
Golden marjoram
Vietnamese Corriander
Corriander
Lemon Balm
Herbs for oriental cooking:
Corriander
Vietnamese corriander
Lemon Grass
Lime mint
Lemon, lime & thai basil
Chives & Garlic Chives
Purple Shiso (Perilla)
Herbs to spice up your salads:
Chives & Garlic Chives
Red veined Sorrel
Basil (sweet, greek/bush, lemon)
Bucks horn herb
Heartsease
Pineapple Sage
Salad Burnet
Lovage
Ramsons (Wild garlic)
Bulls Blood Baby Beet
Tree Spinach
Salad Rocket
Edible Flowers:
Borage (Blue & White)
Pibeapple Sage
Heartsease
Calendula
Chicory
Salad Rocket
Hyssop
Lavender angustifolia
Mint flowers
African Blue Basil
Sweet, Bush/greek, Lemon, Lime basil flower
Sweet Violet
Herbal Teas:
Lemon verbena
Lemon Balm
Sage (Golden , Green, Purple, tricolour)
Black peppermint
Rosemary
Vegetables:
We stock a variety of the more traditional vegetable plants such as summer salad leaves, winter oriental salad leaves, tomatoes, peppers, chillies, cabbages, cauliflowers, purple sprouting broccoli, kale, leeks, broad beans, onions, garlic, runner beans, French beans, peas, courgettes, cucumbers, as well as some more unusual vegetable plants such as Tomatillo, Strawberry Spinach and Par-cel.
Fruit:
As with our selection of herbs and vegetables we also stock a range of more traditional fruits such as strawberries, raspberries, black currents, gooseberries etc as well as a small selection of more unusual fruits.
So whether its traditional vegetable plants, a wide range of herbs or more unusual fruit then why not pay us a visit?
We have all sort of herb plants to buy online which can found by clicking on this link - Buy Herbs