Salad Burnet (Sanguisorba minor)

1 well-established plant in a 9cm pot, sent in plastic-free packaging. A hardy, native, well-behaved perennial, with tender cucumber-flavoured foliage.

Perennial | 40/60cm tall | Full sun to partial shade | Culinary herb, ornamental | Drought-tolerant, evergreen in mild winters

Salad Burnet is an understated native, edible perennial. Being well behaved in the garden It forms a tidy, low-growing rosette of elegant, fern-like leaves which have a subtle cucumber flavour. In early summer, it sends up slender, wiry stems topped with oval crimson flower heads that add a decorative touch to your garden. It’s acts as a wonderful edible ground cover and bioaccumulator in a permaculture project or food forest.

The young leaves offer a clean, refreshing taste of cool cucumber, making it a wonderful addition to salad with leaves that can be harvested all year round in mild winters, just be sure to remove the leaves from there stem before eating, as these can be tough.

Salad Burnet is tough; as a native wildflower in many parts of Europe, it is perfectly adapted to poor, alkaline, or chalky soils and is remarkably drought-tolerant once its deep roots are established. It is often evergreen in milder climates, providing a splash of green in the winter garden when other plants have gone dormant. It requires very little attention, just snip off the flower stalks as they appear to keep the foliage tender and productive all season long. If left to bloom, however, the  flowers become a wonderful source of forage for small pollinators

Delivery Information

All plants are carefully packed and sent in plastic-free packaging to protect both the plant and the environment. Plants are dispatched promptly so they arrive fresh, healthy, and ready to plant.

We ship orders using a tracked 24-hour delivery service, helping to minimise time in transit and reduce stress on the plant. Orders are packed by hand at the nursery, and we aim to dispatch early in the week to avoid delays over weekends.

If you have any questions about delivery timing or combining orders, please get in touch before ordering and we will be happy to help.

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