Dill Bouquet
The acid-green highlighter of the cutting garden — 90cm stems topped with large flat umbels of vibrant lime-green florets that intensify every surrounding colour; equally valuable as a culinary herb (fresh leaves, edible flowers, flavourful seed heads), an architectural cut flower filler, and a hoverfly haven that supports natural aphid control throughout the entire garden
The cut-flower gardener's dill - tall 90cm stems with architectural lime-green umbels for cutting, slow-bolting feathery foliage for the kitchen, and aromatic seed heads for the pickle jar. Triple-purpose; RHS Plants for Pollinators.
About this variety
The dill the cutting garden grows. Where ordinary dill is raised for the kitchen alone, 'Bouquet' was selected for the flower bench — ninety centimetre stems topped with large flat umbels of vivid acid-green florets that make every colour around them look better.
Set it against deep purple cosmos, rusty rudbeckia or a near-black dahlia and the lime lifts the whole arrangement. It lasts a week to ten days in water, which is more than most fillers manage.
You still get everything dill normally gives you. Feathery aromatic leaves for the kitchen, edible florets to scatter over fish or new potatoes, and seed heads to dry for pickling. It is also slower to bolt than most dills, so the leaf harvest lasts longer before the plant turns its attention to flowering.