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Marshmallow
$9.50Add to cartA PERENNIAL growing to 1.2 m with broad, lobed, soft, and velvety leaves and pale pink flowers.
Prefers full sun position and can grow in saline soils. The whole plant abound in mild mucalige. Leaves, oil and root are edible. -
Mashua – Tuberous Nasturtium
$12.50Add to cartMashua (Tropaeolum tuberosum) is a frost-tender perennial climber in the Tropaeolaceae family that grows to 2–3 m tall and spreads around 1–2 m. It prefers full sun but tolerates partial shade, and thrives in rich, moist but well-drained soils. This vigorous vine has distinctive round nasturtium-like leaves, orange-red flowers, and forms edible, knobbly tubers in late autumn. Mashua is grown as an edible and medicinal plant, with tubers eaten cooked and young leaves or flowers occasionally used in salads. It is also highly valued as a companion plant for its strong pest-repelling properties. In New Zealand, Mashua grows well in most regions but requires frost-free or well-mulched conditions for reliable tuber harvests.
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Oregano – Greek White flowering
$7.50Add to cartA PERENNIAL growing to 60cm. Prefers well-drained soil and can grow in nutritionally poor soil. Grows best in full sun, but can tolerate semi-shade.
Leaves are a popular culinary flavouring and it has centuries of medicinal use. -
Pelargonium – Attar of Rose
$10.50Add to cartAn evergreen PERENNIAL shrub growing to 1.2cm. Prefers well-drained soil in full sun, and is frost-tender.
This pelargonium has strongly rose scented leaves and pretty pink flowers. Flowers are edible. -
Pelargonium – Peppermint scented
$10.50Add to cartAn evergreen PERENNIAL shrub growing to 70cm. Prefers well-drained soil in full sun, and is frost-tender. Can grow in semi-shade.
This pelargonium has large, very soft and velvety strongly mint scented leaves. Flowers are edible. -
Pelargonium – Torento Ginger scented
$10.50Add to cartAn evergreen PERENNIAL shrub growing to 1.2m. Prefers well-drained soil in full sun, and is frost-tender.
This pelargonium has a soft spicy scent reminiscent of ginger. Flowers are big, bright and edible. -
Rosemary – Pink flowering
$8.00Add to cartAn evergreen PERENNIAL shrub growing to 1.5m. Prefers well-drained soil in full sun, and can tolerate drought and maritime exposure.
A popular culinary herb with an array of medicinal uses. This cultivar has beautiful light rose pink flowers. -
Rosemary – Tuscan Blue Upright
$8.00Add to cartAn evergreen PERENNIAL shrub growing to 1.5m. Prefers well-drained soil in full sun, and can tolerate drought and maritime exposure.
A popular culinary herb with an array of medicinal uses. The Prostratus cultivar makes a great groundcover. The Tuscan Blue variety is a magnificent plant with a very tall, upright growth, making long rosemary stalks great for using as skewers! The deep rich blue of the abundant flowers and the statuesque growth habit makes it an attractive Rosemary to grow. -
Sage – Pineapple
$8.50Add to cartAn evergreen PERENNIAL growing to 1m. Prefers well-drained soil in a full sun position. Bright scarlet red flowers for most of the year.
Fragrant leaves with a pleasant pineapple scent is used fresh or dried. Flowers are edible. -
Sweet violet – pink flowering
$8.50Add to cartAn evergreen PERENNIAL gowing to 10cm with heart-shaped leaves and pretty pink flowers.
Prefers well-drained soil in full sun or semi-shade.
Young leaves and flowers are edible and the plant has historic medicinal use.
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Sweet violet – purple
$8.50Add to cartAn evergreen PERENNIAL gowing to 10cm with heart-shaped leaves and pretty purple flowers.
Prefers well-drained soil in full sun or semi-shade.
Young leaves and flowers are edible and the plant has historic medicinal use. -
Thyme – Common
$7.50Add to cartThyme is an EVERGREEN SHRUB growing to 20cm with slender stems and small green aromatic leaves.
Prefers well-drained soil in full sun, and can grow in nutritionally poor soil.
Leaves are used fresh or dried as a condiment and tea, and it has many proven medicinal actions. -
Agastache – Apache Sunset
$8.50Read moreAgastache ‘Apache Sunset’ (Agastache rupestris) is a perennial in the mint (Lamiaceae) family that grows to around 60–80cm tall and 45–60cm wide. It prefers full sun and grows best in well-drained, sandy or gravelly soils. It has silvery, aromatic foliage and long spikes of tubular orange-sunset flowers that are highly attractive to bees, butterflies, and other pollinators. Agastache ‘Apache Sunset’ is used as a pollinator-friendly cottage garden flower and is excellent as a cut flower. In New Zealand it is hardy to light frosts but may need protection in colder or wetter regions where drainage is poor.
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Agastache – Raspberry Daiquiri
$8.50Read moreAgastache ‘Raspberry Daiquiri’ (Agastache aurantiaca) is a perennial in the mint (Lamiaceae) family that grows to around 50–70 cm tall and 30–45 cm wide. It prefers full sun and well-drained, moderately fertile soil. It has aromatic green foliage and produces vibrant raspberry-pink flower spikes through summer and autumn, beloved by bees, and butterflies.
Agastache is used as a culinary herb with edible flowers and leaves lending a sweet, minty-anise flavour to salads and teas; as a companion plant it attracts pollinators and beneficial insects to the garden. While not strictly used as a medicinal herb it is part of the agastaches that has traditional uses for easing coughs and supporting digestion. It makes for a good choice for cut flowers due to its vibrant raspberry-colored blooms and attractive foliage. -
Alexanders
$8.50Read moreAlexanders is a hardy biennial or short-lived perennial herb, growing 60–150 cm tall. Thrives in sun to part shade and a wide range of soils, including poor or coastal soils. Features glossy divided leaves, umbels of yellow-green flowers in spring, and edible stems, leaves, seeds, and roots. Traditionally used as a pot-herb, flavouring, and medicinal plant.
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Alyssum – sweet
$6.50Read moreAlyssum (Lobularia maritima) is a low-growing annual in the Brassicaceae family that forms a spreading mat 10–20 cm tall and 20–40 cm wide. It prefers full sun to partial shade and thrives in well-drained soil. It has masses of tiny, fragrant white (sometimes pink, purple, or cream) flowers. Alyssum is used as a Companion Plant (attracting pollinators and beneficial insects), as a Cottage Garden bedding plant, and its edible flowers can be used fresh as a garnish in salads, drinks, or desserts. It self-seeds readily in New Zealand gardens and is hardy to light frost.
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Antirrhinum – Snapdragon Magenta
$6.50Read moreSnapdragon (Antirrhinum majus) ‘Tall Magenta’ is a striking upright annual/perennial with tall spires of deep magenta, dragon-mouthed blooms. Growing 60–90 cm, it prefers full sun and well-drained soil. Beloved as a Cottage Garden Flower, Cut Flower, and Bee & Butterfly plant.
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Artichoke – Green Globe
$9.50Read moreGlobe Artichoke (Cynara cardunculus var. scolymus ‘Green Globe’) is a perennial in the Asteraceae family that grows in full sun and prefers rich, well-drained soil. It is cultivated for its large green flower buds, which are eaten as a gourmet vegetable, and adds striking architectural form to the garden.
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Artichoke – Purple de Jesi
$10.50Read moreGlobe Artichoke (Cynara cardunculus var. scolymus ‘Purple de Jesi’) is a perennial in the Asteraceae family that grows in full sun and prefers rich, well-drained soil. It produces elongated purple heads with excellent eating quality and is treasured as both a gourmet vegetable and a striking garden plant.
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Artichoke – Purple of Romagna
$10.50Read moreGlobe Artichoke (Cynara cardunculus var. scolymus ‘Purple of Romagna’) is a perennial in the Asteraceae family that grows in full sun and prefers rich, well-drained soil. It is prized for its purple-tinted buds with a rich flavour and is valued both as a culinary delicacy and an ornamental statement.