Globe artichoke
Adage perennial, growing to 2m (6 ft.), with long, greenly-grey, deeply cut leaves, downy on the undersides, ridged stems and...
Cumin
A half-hardy annual with finely divided, feathery leaves and umbels of very small white flowers. The fruits (seeds) are yellowish-brown...
Cucumber
A trailing annual (of the same family as marrows, melons and the creeping wayside plant, bryony, Bryonia alba), it has...
Saffron crocus
A perennial, it has linear leaves, growing from the rounded corm. Fragrant, lilac flowers, with deeper purple veins and yellow...
Hawthorn
A deciduous shrub or small tree, growing to 8 m (26 ft.), with thorny branches and small dark-green, lobed, ovate...
Hemlock
A tall, unpleasant-smelling biennial, 1.5-2.4 m (5-8 ft.) in height, with purplish-red speckles towards the base of the stems, finely...
Holy thistle
The only plant in the Cnicus genus, sometimes classified ’as Carduus benedicts. It is an annual with hairy, branched stems,...
Bitter orange
An evergreen tree, growing to 8 m (26 ft.) high, with shiny, ovate leaves and fragrant white flowers, followed by...
Lemon
A small evergreen tree, 2-6 m (6-19 ft.) tall, with light-green, oval leaves and thorny stems. Clusters of white flowers,...
Cistus
A hardy evergreen shrub, growing to 2 m (6 ft.), with lanceolate, sticky, dark-green leaves. The papery, saucer-shaped white flowers...
