This is a popular perennial herb with white flowers and small scarlet berries and a delicious flavour. Cultivated alpine strawberries, unlike their wild relatives, do not produce runners and so are not invasive when planted in the border.

This is a large strong growing herb that can be grown either as a short-lived perennial or as a biennial. It is a fine architectural plant with large bright green leaves and creamy white, fragrant flower heads. Due to its height and spread it makes a elegant feature at the back of the border.

English mace is a hardy perennial herb with finely divided fern-like foliage, which is vividly green and aromatic. Strong stems carry many small creamy white flowers in the summer.

Chamomile is a creeping evergreen perennial herb, with strongly scented foliage. ‘Treneague’ is a non-flowering form ideally suited to growing as a lawn or planting as a ‘growing seat’.

Flowering chamomile is similar to the cultivar ‘Treneague’ in habit and scent, but it also produces masses of creamy white daisy flowers in mid summer. It is a very good evergreen ground cover plant.

Chicory is a leafy perennial herb, which reaches up to 1.4m high when flowering. Flower spikes arise from a clump of foliage from mid summer onwards and florets of the most perfect sky blue are arranged along them.

Cowslips are spring flowering, clump forming perennials. Whilst they are becoming increasingly rare in the wild they are easy to grow in the garden with attractive green oval shaped leaves and deep yellow scented flowers.

Curry plant is an attractive shrub with aromatic silver coloured foliage. Bright yellow, flat heads of flowers appear in summer and the whole plant smells strongly of curry especially after rain.

This is an ornamental, free flowering perennial herb, the daisy like flowers are large and purple coloured with orange cone shaped centres.

Horseradish is a stout, upright perennial with vigorous spreading tendencies. It has long leaves up to 50cm long and racemes of tiny white flowers in summer. Home-made horseradish sauce is so superior to the shop bought variety that once tasted you will never buy it again!

All Gold lemon balm is a heavily scented perennial herb with bright yellow foliage and a strong lemon aroma and taste. This is a useful herb for the shade and the All Gold cultivar does not seed all round the garden like the invasive green variety.

Lovage is a tall celery flavoured perennial with large green leaves and tiny yellow flowers. It is one of the earliest herbs to appear in the spring and its flavoursome leaves are welcome in the kitchen.

This is a perennial type of spring onion, with a mild onion flavour, grown for their leaves in a ‘cut and come again’ way.

This perennial form of rocket is becoming increasingly popular as a home-grown salad herb. Unlike salad rocket, an annual that readily goes to seed, the perennial variety can be cut over and over again, year after year.

Salad burnet is a perennial herb with a fountain of bright green divided foliage and small ‘bottle brush’ flowers in summer. The leaves have a distinct cucumber flavour.

Winter Savory is an easy to grow, perennial shrub with little pointed green leaves, which have a spicy, peppery flavour. This is a good versatile herb with many uses and well deserving of a place in the herb garden.

Sorrel has large bright green leaves held on strong stalks, and looks similar to spinach. The inconspicuous reddish flowers are best removed. It is grown for the fine lemony flavour of the leaves.

This is an attractive form of french sorrel with small shield shaped leaves each with distinctive silver markings. As a low growing plant it makes excellent spreading ground cover, and its fine lemony flavour makes it popular in the kitchen.