Lovage is an aromatic and medicinal herb, which grows easily in the UK. At present, it does not hold a large share of any market, but it has a variety of uses from landscaping and culinary to cosmetic and medicinal. In order to introduce a new crop successfully, its properties, both desirable and undesirable, should be evaluated. Very little information regarding the aboveground parts of lovage appears in the literature, which instigated an investigation into this area. This article presents data from both previous research and our experiments. Our experiments dealt with the oil yield, composition and toxicity of the aboveground parts of lovage, grown at experimental plots at Auchincruive, plus an anatomical investigation of the secretory structures.