"scented flowers" - The Nunhead Gardener

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Photo: Annie Spratt April is a Good Time to… Grow Your Own Herbs There are a few rules to growing herbs, but they're not tricky. Many of the herbs we…

Growing to knee height, these bushy annuals produce copious pink daisy-like flowers with a bold yellow-brown centre. Long-lasting, they’ll flower from early summer until autumn or even beyond. Evergreen, they…

Helleborus Orientalis

Also known as ‘winter roses’ Hellebores are a great way to inject some floral colour into your garden (or home) at wintertime and early spring. Evergreen, and hardy, these perennials…

Helleborus

Also known as ‘winter roses’ Hellebores are a great way to inject some floral colour into your garden (or home) at wintertime and early spring. Evergreen, and hardy, these perennials…

Cyclamen SS Compact (light pink)

Flowering through winter, cyclamen provide a delightful colour boost to any garden from late winter to early spring injecting life when gardens tend to be subdued. Preferring partial (or even…

Cyclamen Goblet Shine Red

Flowering through winter, cyclamen provide a delightful colour boost to any garden from late winter to early spring injecting life when gardens tend to be subdued. Preferring partial (or even…

Saxifraga Arendsii (Pink)

Saxifrages are perennial woodland or alpine plants. They grow low, creating a mat of evergreen coverage with small upward-facing pink flowers from spring into early summer. With a preference for…

Marjoram Origanum Majorana (sweet marjoram)

Strongly scented, this half-hardy semi-evergreen perennial has small tubular white, pink and purple flowers, appearing in summer, which are popular with bees and other pollinators. Native to the Mediterranean, the…