Grow: borage

Looking for a plant that can be used as an ingredient in salads and cakes, as well as providing colour to your garden? Borage is a good choice.

Add spice with chillies

Growing your own chillies, means you can take your pick from the hot to the mild. Here’s how to get started.

Grow: shiso

Shiso is a low maintenance, productive Asian leafy herb with a unique citrusy, aniseed flavour. Learn how to grow it here.

Grow: purple sage

This form of common sage is one of the group of ‘survival’ plants that never let our herb expert down.

Add to your patch: turmeric

Turmeric is easy to grow, and with its varied uses its worth adding to your vegie patch. The best bit? It can be grown root with one or two buds.

The best of basil

There's more than one basil for your kitchen garden. Why not branch out and try a few different kinds?

Oregano and tarragon

These two Mediterranean herbs can be easily grown in your garden, or on your balcony, with these tips.

Za’atar: herb or spice mix?

Is za'atar an a herb, a spice mix or both? Read on to find out.

Drough-tolerant herbs

Penny Woodward loves drought-tolerant, grey-leafed herbs. Here are a two of her favourites that you can plant in early Autumn.

Make your own calming herbal tea

Herbs not only add colour to your garden and flavour to food, they can also be made into calming teas and soothing oils. Here Penny Woodward looks at basil and chamomile.

Herbs to grow and savour

Karen Sutherland suggests some perennial herbs that are strong on colour and flavour, including hyssop and French tarragon.

Herbaceous perennials to plant in winter for spring

Plant herbaceous perennials now for flowers in spring and beyond. Try these suggestions from Karen Sutherland.