| Description | Sweet Marjoram is a delicately flavoured cousin or Oregano. It has mild pine and citrus flavours. It is native of North Africa, the Mediterranean region and South-Eastern Asia. Although it is a herbaceous perennial, it is treated by most as an annual due to its sensitivity to frost and cold temperatures. It like a sunny well drained position, and regular watering. It can grow up to 50cm tall, but due to its spreading nature is brilliant to use at the edge of large containers to trail, in hanging baskets, in rockeries and for borders. Excluding the roots, all parts of this plant is edible, even the little white or very pale pink flowers. This herb is great used fresh or dried. In the kitchen, sweet marjoram enhances many dishes, and is deceivingly strong. The tender fresh leaves are great in salads, or mixed with spring veggies. And used fresh or dried goes great in any tomato, pork or beef dishes. It also adds a nice flavour to pizza. When adding this herb to a hot dish, add it in the last 10 minutes of cooking. This herb has many remedy uses. It has been used as a therapy for headaches, toothaches, indigestion, asthma, rheumatism, flatulence, earache, epilepsy, as well as for providing relief from labor pains. The oil extracted from this herb has been used as a healing cream for bruises and sprains. Sweet marjoram is an excellent common tonic, and it has a more potent affect on the nervous system than its close cousin oregano. However pregnant women should not take this herb medicinally.
4"/10cm pot | Cornus mas elegant
Cornus mas is an outstanding highly ornamental shrub in the early spring, with the entire tree covered in masses of small yellow blossoms and Cherry-like fruits ripen in the late summer and early fall. Good for fresh eating as well as dried or made into preserves. Plant in full sun with well-drained soil and it will benefit from a pollinator.
8"/20cm pot | Hebe
Hebe Emerald Green is a small, evergreen shrub. This beautiful plant is self shaping and forms a small bright green bun-shape with it's teeny tiny leaves. Emerald Green Hebe makes an excellent border shrub which also looks good in pots.
They prefer full sun with good watering during the warmer months.
Grows approximately between 40-60cm tall and wide | Chaenomeles japonica
Brighten your garden with masses of pale pink blossoms on bare branches. They will make an excellent boundary hedge or feature plant and the flowers last well cut in water. Prune back after flowering season.
- Apple Blossom light pink flowering
- Edible fruits for cooking
- Perfect for hedging and borders
6"/14cm pot |
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Japanese flowering Quince are medium-sized, deciduous shrubs that will put on a beautiful display of flowers from late winter to mid-summer. Berries arrive after flowering time. They are edible but usually too bitter to eat directly from the bush. They are usually preserved for jams. It is happy in a wide range of conditions but is best situated in full sun in well-drained loamy soils. It is also able to tolerate windy and coastal areas and is frost tolerant!
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