Herb Plants For French Cooking
Bon appétit! These specially selected herb plants will allow you to create delicious French food from home. Classic French cuisine and even the most basic, rustic French cooking dishes rely on many culinary herbs to create the right depth and richness of flavour. The French herbs listed below represent some of the best tasting varieties currently available. These herb plants are supplied directly from our UK nursery, grown in pots and supplied in 7cm containers, ready to plant.
Bay Plant
An evergreen, hardy, perennial shrubby herb. Great for adding flavour to cooking particularly soup and stews. Can help relieve aching limbs!
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Supplied as a pot grown plant grown in a 7cm pot.
Chive Plant - Garlic Chives
An amazing from of chives with a mild garlic flavoured leaf. Excellent for adding to your cooking as well as looking pretty in the garden!
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Supplied as a pot grown plant grown in a 7cm pot.
Fennel Plant
Feathery grey-green foliage with an aniseed flavour. An attractive border plant with bright yellow flowers. Excellent in bread, salad and soups.
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Supplied as a pot grown plant grown in a 7cm pot.
Parsley Plant - Parsley 'Champion Moss Curled'
A 'normal' crinkled-leaf garden parsley - probably the most popular herb and great for decoration.
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Supplied as a pot grown plant grown in a 7cm pot.
Parsley Plant - Parsley 'Italian Giant'
A tall variety with large, open, plain green leaves. Aromatic and vigorous. Excellent in soups, fish dishes and especially sauces.
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Supplied as a pot grown plant grown in a 7cm pot.
Sorrel Plant - Broad-leaf Sorrel
This early to harvest, cut and come again leaf is a great addition to all gardens. Can be used like a herb or cooked as a vegetable. It has a tangy lemon flavour and is a self seeding hardy perennial.
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Supplied as a pot grown plant grown in a 7cm pot.
Tarragon Plant - Russian Tarragon
Whilst the flavour is not so pronounced as the French variety it proves to be much hardier and the flavour strengthens with age.
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Supplied as a pot grown plant grown in a 7cm pot.
Thyme Plant - Lemon Thyme
Bright green foliage with a rich lemon scent. An excellent ground cover and a real 'must have' for the kitchen garden and ornamental garden alike.
Available Now
Supplied as a pot grown plant grown in a 7cm pot.
Savory Plant - Summer Savory
Sweeter than its Winter cousin. Aromatic, almost peppery flavour. Can be used cooked, chopped raw into salads - or dried for Winter use.
Available from APPROXIMATELY mid May
Supplied as a pot grown plant grown in a 7cm pot.
Tarragon Plant - French Tarragon
Also known as Estragon this is a stalwart of French cooking and the classic ingredient of Bearnaise sauce. Stronger in flavour than Russian Tarragon.
Available from APPROXIMATELY mid May
Supplied as a pot grown plant grown in a 7cm pot.
Thyme Plant - Orange Thyme
Bright green foliage with a rich orange scent. An excellent ground cover and a real 'must have' for the kitchen garden and ornamental garden alike.
Available from APPROXIMATELY mid May
Supplied as a pot grown plant grown in a 7cm pot.
