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🌿 Herb Plant Sales 🌿We're cultivating, testing, and sharing herbs this summer through a couple of local plant sales. Her...
05/05/2026

🌿 Herb Plant Sales 🌿

We're cultivating, testing, and sharing herbs this summer through a couple of local plant sales. Herb plants grown from seed and cuttings from our Dunoon kailyard to yours.

🌿 Part of our work is to get more people growing herbs in their gardens. Why? They're, mostly, easy to grow with a little know-how. And, they can elevate your cooking, drinks, home remedies really simply.

🐝 As well as looking gorgeous, most herbs provide habitat or a food source for our garden wildlife too.

🌸 So come along and chat to us about growing herbs in your garden, and try a couple of new things this summer. We're experimenting with a couple of new and unusual herbs, from culinary to medicinal to dye plants.

You'll find us at:

👉 Dunoon Goes POP POP-up Garden Shop
⏰ 10am to 5pm (as stocks last!)
📆 Saturday, 30 May
📍In the garden behind the The POP Shop, 28 Hillfoot Street
🌱 You can also go on a tour or tasting in the Dunoon Goes POP garden as they open for Scotland's Garden Scheme. Come along and support this very unique community-minded garden.
🍃 As our herb plant stocks allow, we may have more plants available from the garden at different points through their spring/summer open days.

👉 Dunoon Markets run by Dunoon Presents
📆 Saturday, 27 June
📍Argyll Gardens
🌱 As well as herb plants, we may also have some nature-inspired Alan Lyons Art prints and Dunoon Goes POP rhubarb if stocks are available.
🛍️ There will be lots of local traders selling Dunoon-made foods, gifts, arts and crafts. Come on down!

Come along this summer! The Dunoon Goes POP Drinks Garden is a unique and flavoursome garden we’ve been supporting the c...
03/05/2026

Come along this summer! The Dunoon Goes POP Drinks Garden is a unique and flavoursome garden we’ve been supporting the creation and ongoing care of The Pop Shop.

Swing by for a tour and tasting or a wee wander. We’ll be selling a range of homegrown herbs there on Saturday, 30 May. 🌿💚

What's a kailyard? 👨‍🌾Quite simply, it's a Scottish term for a small kitchen garden, or cabbage 'kail' patch.Through Kai...
30/04/2026

What's a kailyard? 👨‍🌾

Quite simply, it's a Scottish term for a small kitchen garden, or cabbage 'kail' patch.

Through Kailyard Herbs, we're encouraging people to add herbs to their veg patch, however small. It could be a raised bed, patch of ground, pots or planters.

There are other meanings of kailyard, literary connotations, which we may touch on in future stories. For now, we're supporting the movement to get people growing more food from home, whether through a small veg patch or pots and planters, if you're a renter.

Do you grow herbs in your veg patch?

It began in our small garden in Glasgow.🌿 An overgrown rosemary made me wonder how I could share it.A gardening career ...
29/04/2026

It began in our small garden in Glasgow.🌿

An overgrown rosemary made me wonder how I could share it.

A gardening career switch made me more experimental in my kitchen garden.

A love of learning about plants, in particular those used as herbs, and their histories, and their uses, opened a new world of food, medicine and plant lore.

Our Cowal garden is our playground, learning how to grow, edit and design a garden from a blank canvas.

Through my gardening business Papaver Gardening, I’ve been learning about what works and what doesn’t in our rainy and mild Argyll climate. And working on projects such as the Dunoon Goes POP drinks garden at the POP shop and the Top shop.

It’s not just about gardening and tending to kitchen gardens. As a writer, it’s the stories behind the plants we use that also intrigue me.

Kailyard Herbs is our small venture that we’ve been planning and tending to for many years, bringing our expertise, enthusiasm and herbal stories to you. From our kailyard to yours.

And we are working to support other projects doing the same.

What’s popping up already in your herb garden this spring?Coming back for us so far are:🌱Bronze fennel🌱Lemon balm ‘Manda...
12/03/2026

What’s popping up already in your herb garden this spring?

Coming back for us so far are:
🌱Bronze fennel
🌱Lemon balm ‘Mandarin’
🌱Chives
🌱Parsley
🌱Not so wild garlic
🌱And the garlic bulbs planted in autumn are putting on some growth.

🐈‍⬛And of course, one black cat has decided he’s ready to get back out to the garden after winter. He loves to lie out on a new herb patch we’re working on. I think the layers of cardboard are warm!

From the Kailyard Herbs garden, leaf-cutting celery. 🌿It kept going all winter, through all the frosts and then the heav...
07/03/2026

From the Kailyard Herbs garden, leaf-cutting celery. 🌿

It kept going all winter, through all the frosts and then the heavy rain that drains slowly in our Argyll garden.

🌱 How do we grow it? 🌱

Grown from seed, then planted out alongside our chives and kales. Feeding the soil and harvesting regularly keeps it producing fresh leaves. Although, we harvest less in winter.

🍲 How do we use it? 🍲

Unlike the stalk celery, we grow and use leaf celery much like we do parsley, for its flavoursome leaves.

A year-round herb, leaf-cutting celery keeps us going even through winter. Harvesting the leaves, we add its strong celery-like flavour to our soups and bean dishes, alongside some rosemary or sage.

Do you grow this punchy leafy herb?

🌼Dyer's Chamomile / Cota tinctoria 🌼We are always experimenting with plants to grow from seed. Dyer's chamomile, sown la...
08/07/2025

🌼Dyer's Chamomile / Cota tinctoria 🌼
We are always experimenting with plants to grow from seed. Dyer's chamomile, sown last year, is blooming away quite happily this year. We'll harvest and dry some of the flowers to play with using them for their dye quality. A gorgeous garden addition, we're adding this one to our micro-nursery list for a future season.

Our golden sage faired much better than our purple sage this season. What's not to love about sage?Makes a lovely cup of...
22/07/2024

Our golden sage faired much better than our purple sage this season. What's not to love about sage?

Makes a lovely cup of tea or pot herb. Sage can be dried or used fresh. It's medicinal, tasty and looks darn good in the herb garden. Especially this bright golden one! 💛

Do you have a favourite garden herb for making tea?

Picked fresh from the garden in summer, sage and rose petals make a lovely combo 🫖

Parsley, the curly kind, is a staple in our herb garden. My favourite thing is simply chop it up finely over a big salad...
19/07/2024

Parsley, the curly kind, is a staple in our herb garden. My favourite thing is simply chop it up finely over a big salad. Add in some chunks of feta or a vegan cheese and shredded mint and make it an extra special treat.

Dressings, pies, pestos, salads, tarts, any bean dishes. Parsley is hugely versatile.

What's your favourite recipe to add it to?

Lovage. What can I say, it likes cooler wetter weather. While our fennel hasn't been happy this growing season, the lova...
19/07/2024

Lovage. What can I say, it likes cooler wetter weather. While our fennel hasn't been happy this growing season, the lovage has thrived!

How do you cook with celery?

Sometimes described as a bit parsley-like, I find lovage much more of a strong celery flavour. Can be used in soups, stews, sauces and a potato salad.

We're getting ready to start storing some in the freezer so we have plenty for autumn soup season.

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