How to reach pick fitness
Rosemary is also a good source of Vitamin B6 and helps boost the immune system. Eating rosemary with your food will also help improve concentration and your memory.
Beautiful parsley tastes great as a garnish on soup or in sandwiches and is known to support bone health and fight inflammatory allergic reactions. Whereas something like chamomile, via fresh chamomile tea, is good for tackling skin irritation, but is of course better-known for aiding sleep.
FLORAL TONES
SOME herbs give you beautiful displays too. Feverfew is marvellous, with lovely foliage and it can help with headaches and migraines.
Traditionally, feverfew was used to treat fevers and other inflammatory conditions. In fact, it has come to be known as the “Medieval aspirin”.
This aromatic perennial has daisy-like flower heads that appear in summer but it’s the leaves which are normally dried for medicinal use.
Lavender is a really good antibacterial that can aid against fungal infection and you can also add it to jams and jellies, too.
In your bath, a sprig produces a stunning scent, and wrapping dried sprigs in cloth to put in clothes drawers will deter moths and keep everything smelling fragrant.
Lemon balm tea is good for circulation and is also a good palate cleanser. These plants all grow well together and are brilliant in sunny, well-drained borders.
EDIBLE DELIGHTS
THE all-time favourite for growing in an apothecary garden is garlic, which is great to fight against many ailments – including the common cold.
Grow it in a warm, sunny spot, in fertile, well-drained soil that doesn’t get too wet in winter. It goes great guns in containers too.
Garlic contains sulphur compounds, formed when garlic is chopped, crushed or chewed – these help bolster immune systems through antioxidant properties. The best thing about garlic, of course, is that you can easily incorporate it into your favourite dishes.
Try garlic-fried shrimp, homemade garlic croutons with soup, or add some cloves to oil and let them infuse to drip over oven-roasted vegetables.
PRACTICAL TIPS
ENSURING there are plenty of healthy micro-organisms within the