Oregano has a delicious, herbal flavour that is widely used in the Italian cuisine. Oregano is an essential ingredient in the famous Italian herb mix.

Sorrel tastes a bit sour. This is because the herb grows on acidic soil.

Thyme consist of a sprig with tiny, delicious smelling leaves. Due to this fresh scent, thyme is widely used in the soap industry and also processed into cough syrup. However, thyme tastes best in soups, sauces and pasta!

Sage is an herb with soft leaves. The color of the leaves are silver-green and feel velvety soft. The taste of sage is typical and unique and therefore difficult to describe. It can best be described as warm, spicy and slightly bitter.

One of the advantages of rosemary is that it does not lose its taste quickly, so you can easily cook it in dishes without losing flavour. Rosemary smells wonderfully fresh and herbal and is popular in the Italian and Mediterranean cuisine.

Mint is a well-known herb that is popular due to its menthol flavour and wonderful scent. For example, mint is often used to make mint tea and is widely used in desserts. It also tastes delicious in all kinds of oriental, savoury dishes.

Marjoram is also called “real marjoram”. It is a herb that is often used to prepare sausages. And for that reason, the herb also has the nickname “sausage herb”. It is a regular ingredient in the traditional Turkish cuisine and has a slightly bitter and strong taste.

Lovage is also known as Maggi herb, because the typical scent is comparable to the traditional Dutch Maggi aroma. Lovage tastes savoury and salty, which makes it a healthy salt substitute.

Coriander: you hate it, or you love it. One person cannot get enough of it, while the other thinks it tastes like soap. How this is possible, seems to be determined in our genes. For coriander lovers the herb has a typically fresh and still sweet flavour.

Chervil is a little brother of parsley and coriander. Chervil tastes fresh and slightly sweet; a combination of parsley and anise. Chervil consist of beautiful, fine leaves which contain a lot of aroma.

Tarragon is one of the most popular herbs worldwide. It has elongated leaves that taste like anise. It is an indispensable ingredient in the French cuisine. It is also famous for the fact that tarragon is the main ingredient of Béarnaise sauce.

Dill is a herb with fine needle-like leaves. This herb has a refined taste. Dill is very popular in the Scandinavian cuisine

Back in the days, lemon thyme was used as a natural air freshener because of its delicious, fresh lemon scent. The taste is similar to that of regular thyme, but with a hint of lemon. You can make delicious lemon tea of the lemon thyme.

Lemon balm is a lemon smelling and tasting plant that mainly occurs in Southern Europe. The taste and aroma of lemon makes this herb extremely suitable for a delicious herbal tea. It is said that lemon balm can have a calming effect and help people who have trouble falling asleep.

Basil is a popular herb. This wonderfully smelling herb plays the leading role in the Italian cuisine. It's name can be found in ancient Greek, where it means something like “the king of herbs” and for a good reason!

Red basil is a variety of the green basil. The leaves are strikingly dark purple to red. Although the taste is similar, the dark colour provides an extra flavour dimension.