Oregano Plant

Small plants with big flavour!

Grown by Josh

South Downs National Park

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The highlights

  • Boasts an earthy, herbal flavour profile
  • RHS Plants for Pollinators
  • Excellent for Greek and Italian recipes
  • Harvest your oregano from May to October

Description

  • Perfect for pots, this low growing perennial has small aromatic oval leaves, with sprays of pale pink flowers in summer
  • Perfect for Mediterranean dishes including pasta sauces, feta salads, pizza and tapas
  • Grow in pots, window boxes or as a groundcover plant at the edge of a border
  • Awarded RHS Plants for Polliantors status
  • Plant out in spring or summer and harvest all year round
  • Premium herb plants grown on a family run farm in Lancashire and sent to you at the best possible time for planting
  • Growing your own gives you healthy, fresh produce with a lower carbon plantprint than anything you can buy from a shop, with no waste
  • Easy to grow and care for - you should see your first crop within 4-6 weeks

What to expect

Supplied as

Garden-ready Plant in 8.5cm Pot

Eventual height

15cm

Eventual spread

60cm
Spreads approx 60cm

Tasting notes

Sweet, warm and peppery with a hint of bitterness

Time to first crop

4-6 weeks
Cut what you need and the plant will produce more

Flower colour

Pink
Sprays of pale pink flowers all summer

Habit

Mat forming
Grows in wide spreading mats of foliage

Hardiness

Fully hardy
H6 - hardy in all of UK and northern Europe (-20 to -15)

Uses

Essential for all Italian dishes

Spacing

20-30cm
Plant 20-30cm apart to allow for spreading

How to grow

Excellent pest and disease resistance

Excellent pest and disease resistance

Generally disease free, occasionally affected by leaf hoppers

Water well

Water well

Keep the soil consistently moist rather than allowing it to dry out. During dry spells, water well, once or twice a week.

Full sun to partial shade

Full sun to partial shade

Best grown in a spot with around 6-8 hours of sunlight every day. Partial shade during the hottest parts of the day will help prevent the plant bolting.

Any fertile, well-draining soil

Any fertile, well-draining soil

Thrives in any well-drained soil. If your soil is particularly clay-heavy and/or often becomes waterlogged then you can improve the drainage by adding in plenty of organic matter such as garden compost as well as some perlite or gravel.

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South Downs National Park

Meet Josh

Slow grown veg from the sunny South Downs

Our vegetable plants are sown on a family farm in Lancashire, then nurtured into strong young plants by Josh in the sunny South Downs before they rock up in your garden. By selecting only the strongest and tastiest varieties, Josh makes sure you get a headstart on your plot, with impressive crops and no waste.

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Our plants are grown 
in the UK

Specialist UK growers we know and trust grow your plants the traditional way, with organic fertiliser and biological pest control. They pick only the healthiest plants for you, professionally pruning them so that they’ll grow strong and well shaped.

Our plants are delivered overnight

Your plants are sent to you fresh from the field in our plastic free box that’s specially designed to hold them tight, then securely delivered by specialist plant couriers - straight from the grower to your garden within 
24 hours.

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We want your plants to have a long and healthy life. Expect easy-to-follow grow guides and videos devised by our team 
of experts.

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When will I get my plants?

The delivery timescale for each plant is on the web page (near the 'add to basket's button). You'll receive a dispatch email with an exact delivery date once your plants are on their way, so you can get the garden ready.

How will my plants be packed and delivered?

We send all of our orders through a courier network designed to handle plants. Specialist equipment ensures that no plants will be damaged during the packing process and every order is carefully finished and checked by plant-loving humans. Your plants will arrive in the most sustainable packaging possible with minimal to no plastic used.

Where do you deliver?

We deliver to anywhere in Mainland UK for our standard delivery cost. We are able to deliver most plants to Highlands and non UK mainland however this will be at an additional cost. This will be calculated at the checkout. Please note, deliveries to these locations will take longer. Unfortunately, we are not able to deliver to Northern Ireland at present.

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10 May

Best plants you will ever get online

I have ordered plants from them twice this year. They arrived well packaged, on time and looked strong and healthy. I feel the staff from Roots plants deal with their plants and customers with passion and care. I can’t wait to order again, price is good as well.

2 May

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3 April

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Unlike other online sellers, this company are well ahead in the quality stakes. My plant arrived promptly as per their promise and the plant was much more established and healthy than I had expected. It’s the second time I have ordered from them and I have faith in their promise. Excellent service.

26 February

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A really good quality tree, delivered on time and very well packaged. But the emailed planting advice and supporting information was what really impressed me. Thoroughly recommended.

18 May

Exceptional quality

The quality of the plants was exceptional, unlike ones I have had before from local garden centres. Thank you so much. I will definitely be using you again.

22 February

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Marvellous service, great plants and fast delivery. Very useful information on how to care for the plants I bought. Easy to use website that makes it far too easy to overindulge in fabulous plants 😂🌱

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