Nursery World - A Unique Child: Nutrition

Herbs, either bought from a shop or grown yourself, add variety and interest to dishes, says Mary Llewellin

For centuries, herbs have played a key part in our foods, medicines, perfumes and beauty products, so their life-enhancing properties are well known. This year, Jekka McVicar, the award-winning organic herb grower, is creating a herb garden at the Chelsea Flower Show. The garden, ‘A Modern Apothecary’, will feature plants that are beneficial to health and well-being and also celebrates the ability of herbs to provide ‘rehabilitation to all the senses’.

After a dry period – literally – in the middle of the 20th century when herbs were often limited to a dusty pack of hay-like dried parsley or a jar of mint jelly, things are hotting up and getting adventurous in Britain’s kitchens again, as we reap the benefits of ethnic diversity and a new foodie culture.

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