Tarragon
For the very front of the border, along with pots/containers and hanging baskets, there are glorious nasturtiums, dwarf nemophila, bellis, clumping and trailing petunias, violas and pansies, dwarf or trailing lobelia in pinks, white and blues, alyssum, candytuft and a whole lot more.
The vegetable garden: Peas, sugar snap peas, asparagus peas, petite pois (tiny, extra sweet peas that are a joy to eat), bush beans, climbing beans, calabrese, broccoli, cabbages, cauliflower, a variety of kales, Swiss chard in all the colours of the rainbow or simply in green. You can also go for a range of different lettuce types, mustard mizuna, mustard greens, giant red mustard, crisp and curly endive, spinach, green onions, onions, Chinese and Japanese greens for salads and stir-fry, chop-suey greens. Tomatoes in all their glory, celery, winter radish and root crops including turnips, carrots, beetroot and potatoes can also be sown.
In the herb garden: Borage, calendulas, thyme, oregano, rosemary, nasturtiums, agastache, lavender, lemon balm, sage, aniseed, dill, parsley, garlic chives and ordinary chives, lovage, a wide range of mints and, for Karachi gardeners only, lots and lots of different flavours of basil including lime, lemon and, wait for it … liquorice!
Herb of the month: Tarragon — there are two different types of this useful culinary herb: Russian tarragon which grows easily from seed, and French tarragon which does not set viable seed so can only be grown from cuttings or increased by root division of existing plants. Russian tarragon is not as strongly flavoured as French tarragon but is more climatically suitable here. The seed of Russian tarragon does sometimes turn up in garden stores here and there.