True sage is the grey-green kitchen herb with velvety, wrinkled leaves that you know from sage butte...

Chamomile is probably the best-known tea herb there is. Yet on roadsides you'll often find a plant th...

Chaga doesn't look like a mushroom. It's a black, cracked lump on the trunk of a birch that, from a di...

Wild lettuce, also called bitter lettuce or great lettuce, is a relative of the lettuce on your plat...

Ginkgo biloba is one of those ingredients you recognise before you know what it actually does. It’...

Valerian (Valeriana officinalis) is one of Europe's best-known evening herbs. It's all about the root,...

Smudging means burning herbs, wood or resin to fill your home with smoke. The best-known example is ...

Passionflower is one of the most striking flowers you can grow in a Dutch garden. But passionflower ...

A tincture is an alcohol-based herbal extract: you let herbs steep in spirits for a few weeks, strai...

We get this question every week: which grow kit should I get? And honestly, the answer depends on yo...

Skullcap is one of those names that causes a lot of confusion. In the Netherlands people think of co...

Wormwood (Artemisia absinthium) is the most bitter herb in the European herb garden, and the plant b...

St. John's wort (Hypericum perforatum) is one of Europe's best-known herbs, and it grows wild along Du...

Kola nut. You know the word, because it’s hiding in the name of the world’s most famous soft dri...

Blue lotus is not only a herb, it's also a beautiful water lily you can grow yourself. With some pati...