Barbara Segall

Harvesting herbs fresh from your own garden is easy, fabulous and provides unlimited flavour potential. Even over winter you can grow herbs outdoors.

Herb flowers are not just pretty faces: they are also useful in so many ways in the kitchen according to Barbara Segall.

Herbs are not just great for cooking. Use your herbs creatively this Christmas to add their essence, presence and power to the festivities.

Mint is an essential kitchen herb: it has an unforgettable fresh, clean taste says Barbara Segall, and will remind you of peppermints, chewing gum and toothpaste.

Many of our garden plants, beyond those we instantly recognise as culinary herbs, have a history of usefulness as traditional medicinal plants, going back centuries.

Barbara Segall shares a few of the secret gardens of East Anglia from her newly published book – The Secret Gardens of East Anglia

Barbara Segall picks out her five favourite herb gardens open for visitors this summer.

When is a plant a herb and when does it become a spice? Some plants can even be both herbs and spice.

Herbs are not just short-lived plants for summer. Many will survive year after year in the garden. Choose from lovage, rosemary, sage, thyme and chives.

You don’t have to grow lemons to get a fresh citrus flavour. Barbara Segall grows some varieties of lemon-scented herbs that have a sharp lemon kick.

Gardens to visit in and around Sudbury, Suffolk, including Gainsborough’s House and gardens open for the NGS.

Herbs are the powerhouse plants of the garden, says Barbara Segall. They deliver ‘va va voom’ to our food, enhancing all the fruit and veg we grow.