Illustrated List: H

Heb : Rocket : Apollo

Rocket Apollo is a fast growing salad rocket with large, rounded, tender leaves, and an excellent peppery taste but no bitterness. Plants are slow to bolt but Rocket Apollo is best harvested as young leaves or as cut and come again salads. A rich source of vitamin C.

Flavour guide: Peppery, best eaten when leaves are young. Easy to grow, can be ready to harvest in 25 days.

Culinary note: Some parts of these flowers are edible. For more details about edible flowers click here.

Herb : Culinary Collection : Nice 'n' Spicy

Mixture contains a selection from the following herbs: Salad Rocket, Red Giant Mustard, Green Wave Mustard, Miluna. A unique selection of fresh leaves, especially to create a taste of the orient in salads or stir-frys. Culinary Collection Nice 'n' Spicy blend provides a real alternative to normal salad leaves, adding new textures, colours and tastes.

Herb : Fennel : Victoria F1 Hybrid

Oustanding yields of large, smooth and pure white bulbs with an enticing and traditional aniseed flavour. Fennel Victoria is a newly bred form which has neat foliage and improved resistance to bolting.

Culinary note: Some parts of these flowers are edible. For more details about edible flowers click here.

Herb : Rocket : Cultivated Rucola Coltivata

Very quick growing, Rocket Cultivated Rucola Coltivata is a vigorous, robust plant with pungent leaves. Use as a main ingredient of a mixed green salad to add zest and texture.

Culinary note: Some parts of these flowers are edible. For more details about edible flowers click here.

Herb : Rocket : Wild

An alternative to the usual Rocket, with deep green, serrated foliage that makes an attractive garnish. Wild Rocket has a stronger flavour than standard Rocket, and the young leaves can be picked in succession and are perfect for salads. Easy to grow. Height 15-20cm (6-8in), prostrate habit.

Herb : Rocket : Wild Rucola Selavativca

Slower growing and with a more serrated leaf than Cultivated Rocket but Wild Rucola Selavativca is increasing in popularity to add to Cultivated Rocket as a mixed salad ingredient.

Culinary note: Some parts of these flowers are edible. For more details about edible flowers click here.

Herb : Sorrel : Blood Veined

New, colourful salad leaf innovation to add a sharp but pleasant taste and texture to mixed salads, when eaten young. Blood Veined Sorrel also makes an attractive 'dot' plant in the flower border. Ideal used in soups and sauces. Blood Veined Sorrel is a Hardy Perennial but grown as an Annual. Flavour guide: Sharp but pleasant.

Herb Coriander - Part of the Alan Titchmarsh Collection

• Crops in only 6 weeks
• Essential ingredient for spicy dishes

For lovers of hot spicy food, coriander is an essential ingredient for adding to curries, salsa and a host of hot spicy dishes as well as injecting life into a salad. Easy to grow and ready to harvest in only 6 weeks from sowing. Height: 60cm (24”). Spread: 25cm (10”).

Culinary note: Some parts of these flowers are edible. For more details about edible flowers click here.

Herb Rocket - Part of the Alan Titchmarsh Collection

• Hot peppery taste
• Delicious addition to salads

A taste of yesteryear, now enjoying a long awaited revival. Rocket is easy to grow and very quick to crop. Adds a great tangy, peppery flavour to salads, pasta or when used as a pizza topping. Height and spread: 30cm (12").

Culinary note: Some parts of these flowers are edible. For more details about edible flowers click here.