Thank you for your interest in herb plants from MeadowSweet Herbs & Flowers. I've closed plant order processing for 2024/5 season. Online orders for plants will open again mid August for pre-orders with plants being shipped from mid September onwards.
Seeds will become available from May.
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The physical nursery and gates sales table plant stand is also closed over winter and will be up and running in spring 2025 for the 2025/26 growing season.
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Dianthus – Clove Pinks
$6.50
A flowering PERENNIAL growing to 1m. Prefers well-drained soil, and can grow in very alkaline and saline soils. Grows best in full sun. Flowers are edible and can be used fresh or candied. Medicinally, the flowers have been used in
tonic cordials although not often used as a medicine these days.
Strongly clove scented, the flower petals are candied, used as a garnish in salads, for flavouring fruit, fruit salads, drinks etc.
It is antispasmodic, cardiotonic, diaphoretic, febrifuge, nervine and stimulant. It is used to fragrance cosmetics
