Cotton lavender is a small and strongly aromatic shrub with very pale grey woolly leaves. It is traditionally clipped into a hedge and used for edging in knot gardens. Unclipped plants produce bright yellow button-like flowers in summer.

This form of cotton lavender is a small evergreen shrub with a heather-like appearance. The foliage is bright green and has a strong chamomile like aroma. Very attractive cream flowers arise abundantly throughout mid summer.

This spectacular small shrub is a new introduction, with stunning acid yellow foliage and a compact, tightly growing habit. This cotton lavender positively glows with colour throughout the year.

Hedge Germander is a small perennial evergreen shrub with glossy green leaves and spires of deep pink flowers in June and July. It makes a good edging plant that can be trimmed to form a low evergreen hedge.

Hyssop is an unfamiliar perennial herb that deserves much greater popularity. It is a small semi-evergreen bush with green minty scented leaves and highly attractive purple blue flowers in late summer.

This is a particularly fine form of french lavender with intense blue scented flowers. Each flower spike has the traditional brightly coloured tuft at the top of the flower.

Hidcote is one of the most popular of dwarf lavenders. It has a compact habit and dark purple flowers. A superb garden plant either alone or as a small hedge, with many culinary, medicinal and cosmetic uses.

Munstead lavender is another attractive dwarf lavender. It has a compact habit and strongly scented mid-blue flowers. A superb garden plant either alone or as a small hedge, with many culinary, medicinal and cosmetic uses.

This lavender has abundant pale pink flowers and green rather than grey foliage. As it is the same height as Munstead and Hidcote it looks very pretty mixed into a hedge with one of these, or simply as a small specimen shrub either alone or as a group.

This rosemary has an unusual and attractive flower colour and particularly bright green leaves.

Like all rosemarys this herb is an evergreen perennial. It has low trailing growth and from early spring onwards the arching stems are covered with abundant sky blue flowers.

Miss Jessopp's Upright is a strongly growing upright variety of rosemary, which should definitely have a place in every herb garden. It has fine silvery green foliage and abundant pale blue flowers in spring.