| Description | Rosa Hybrid Tea
Double Delight has bushy growth and large masses of double blooms. They stand out with their creamy white petals centered with yellow, featuring a red trim! Repeat flowering and fragrant. Requires little maitenance when established. | Rosmarinus officinalis 'Tuscan Blue'
Tuscan Blue Rosemary quickly forms an upright hedge of aromatic needle-like foliage. As it name suggests, it flowers in blue.
Rosemary leaves are great as a flavorful spice in cooking. It takes to pruning well, so is perfect for a medium size if slightly informal hedge. Evergreen. | Olea europaea
Manzanillo olive trees are small growing evergreen olive trees with leather like leaves that are green with silver undersides. It produces black edible fruit annually. A great table olive and also grown for producing oil. | Common Mint, All types of mint are vigorous, fast growing, spreading perennials. You need to plant them where they have room to spread or plant them in pots. Mint plants send out runners just above and below the ground level, quickly forming large lush green patches. Planted in the right spot they make fantastic ground covers. Mint can grow anything up to 1m tall, but require regular trimming to ensure nice bushy, healthy plants. Although mint is hardy and will adapt to almost any spot in your garden, it prefers cool damp conditions in partial shade. Mints make good companion plants, repelling unwanted pests and attracting beneficial ones. The leaf is used in cooking, fresh or dried. Although fresh is usually preferred. It is used in a wide range of cuisine, including, teas, beverages, jellies, candies, syrups and ice creams. Mint is infamous for being one of the most common herbs to used when cooking lamb. And can be used in cooking, as a garnish, or in a sauce to accompany the dish. Mint was originally used as a medicinal herb to treat stomach aches and chest pains. In Ancient Rome, students were encouraged to wear wreaths of mint to "exhilarate the mind", And in medieval times, mint leaves were ground into powder and used to whiten teeth. Mint is also known to be used to treat insect bites. |
| Content | Roses are easily one of the most popular and widely cultivated groups of flowering plants. Numerous different cultivars have been produced over the last twu centuries, although roses have been grown for millennia before their popularity bloomed. Renowned for their flowers and beauty, they are also loved for other reasons such as their fruit. The rose hip can be made into an old fashioned jam. Roses range in size and variety from your standard and bush roses to climbers and weeping varieties. Amongst all their beautiful colours, varieties and fragrances there is bound to be the perfect rose out there for your garden. For more information on selecting and growing roses, visit our Rose Factsheet. | | | |
