April

Delicate large rose pink flowers (sometimes white) and decorative finely cut foliage. Makes a colourful garden subject.

Different to Common Thyme with large fleshy leaves, much used in flavouring Jamaican cooking.

Very decorative low shrub with pink flowers very attractive to bees. Use leaves for flavouring meat. Full sun and well drained soil.

A European wildflower, native in the UK on light and poor soils. Easy to grow and it self-seeds readily. An old medicinal herb.

A perennial herb -  Strongly scented wild mint with whorls of attractive pink-mauve flowers. Make a tea to treat colds and fevers as the drink encourages perspiration....

Dark green glossy small fan shaped leaves, silver beneath. Flowers small white rose form from April onwards.

The arching branches with their blue/black hanging ripe seeds are an unusual addition to dried flower arrange-ments. Famous dye plant used by the a...

Shiny leaves growing in radiating forma-tion up the stem with small white star shaped flowers in May and June.