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Ajuga – Pink Spires
$7.50Read moreThs Ajuga is a low growing EVERGREEN PERENNIAL with light to deep green leaves that make a dense spreading ground cover and in spring sends up 15cm flower stalks bearing many pink flowers that are very attractive to bees and butterflies. It grows well in full shade, semi-shade or full sun and can tolerate some drought.
Leaves and young shoots are edible raw and it has some history as a wound herb, but is rarely used today.
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Ajuga – Purple
$7.50Read moreAjuga is a low growing EVERGREEN PERENNIAL with dark green to purple leaves that make a dense spreading ground cover and in spring sends up 15cm flower stalks bearing many purple flowers that are very attractive to bees and butterflies. It grows well in full shade, semi-shade or full sun and can tolerate some drought.
Leaves and young shoots are edible raw and it has some history as a wound herb, but is rarely used today.
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Alexanders
$7.50Read moreAlexanders is a stout BIENNIAL flowering plant growing to 1.2m tall. It has a strong solid stem that becomes hollow and grooved with age. The bright green leaves are bluntly toothed, and ternately divided. Umbels of yellow-green flowers are followed by black seeds. It prefers moist soil in a full sun or semi-shade position. Attractive to bees and butterflies.
The taste has been described as somewhat intermediate between parsley and celery. All plant parts are edible, and it has been used historically as a medicine.
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Alyssum – sweet
$5.00Read moreAlyssum is a low growing ANNUAL reaching 20cm in height. The much branched stem has small, broad oval to lanceolate sessile leaves and dense clusters of small flowers. Noted for their sweet scent like honey, they come in white, pink, salmon, rose-red, violet and lilac and are known to attract insects such as bees. The plant does well in almost any well-drained soil in a full sun position.
Young leaves, stems and flowers can be added to salads or as an edible garnish. Has some medicinal use, especially in Spain.
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Angelica – Dong Quai
$7.50Read moreA BIENNIAL plant in the Apiaceae family. Cultivated for its use in Traditional Chinese Medicine.
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Angelica – Holy Ghost
$7.50Read moreA BIENNIAL plant in the Apiaceae family. Cultivated for its sweetly scented edible stems and roots.
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Aquilegia – Various colours
$6.50Read moreTall growing and higly decorate. Can grow in shade or semi-shade.
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Artichoke – green globe
$7.50Read moreArtichoke is a PERENNIAL vegetable growing to 1.5m. The plant is quite big and statuesque, with long, arching, deeply lobed, silvery, glaucous-green leaves. When the flower buds (the vegetable) are allowed to open into flowers, they are very attractive to bees and bumblebees. The plant prefers well drained soil in most soils (tolerant of saline soils) in a sunny position. The flower buds are known as a gourmet vegetable and the whole plant has medicinal applications. Leaves yield a dark grey dye.
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Artichoke – Imperial Star
$7.50Read morePerennial vegetable. A productive and high quality green glove artichoke that produces 6-8 mature buds averaging 10cm on a bushy plant in the first season from seed.
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Artichoke – purple de jesi
$7.50Read moreArtichoke is a PERENNIAL vegetable growing to 1.5m. The plant is quite big and statuesque, with long, arching, deeply lobed, silvery, glaucous-green leaves. When the flower buds (the vegetable) are allowed to open into flowers, they are very attractive to bees and bumblebees. The plant prefers well drained soil in most soils (tolerant of saline soils) in a sunny position. The flower buds are known as a gourmet vegetable and the whole plant has medicinal applications. Leaves yield a dark grey dye.
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Artichoke – Purple of Romagna
$7.50Read morePerennial vegetable. A beautiful French heirloom artichoke variety with finer flavoured artichokes.
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Artichoke – Violet de Provence
$7.50Read morePerennial vegetable. A beautiful French heirloom artichoke variety with finer flavoured artichokes.
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Ashwagandha
$8.00Read moreAshwagandha is an evergreen shrub in it’s native sub tropical to tropical areas, but commonly grown as an annual in cooler or temperate areas. Prefers well-drained and moist soil in a full sun position. All parts of the plant is toxic, but the root is one of the most important Ayrvedic herbs and has seen a phenomenal growth in interest in western society as a herbal medicine.
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Astragalus – Milk Vetch
$8.00Read moreA hardy PERENNIAL that is an important herb in Chinese Traditional Medicine.
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Balkan Mint
$6.50Read moreA PERENNIAL herb found wild throughout the Balkans. Highly fragrant. It has been gathered since ancient times as a condiment and for tea. Masses of white or light pink flowers are very showy and bee attracting.
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Balm – Lemon balm
$6.50Read moreA flowering PERENNIAL growing to 70cm with lemon scented leaves similar looking to mint and in summer small, nectar-rich flowers appear.
Prefers well-drained soil in a full sun or semi-shaded position.
Leaves are edible and medicinally it is commonly used household remedy as both a tonic herb and for its soothing, anti-anxiety actions. -
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Balm – Orange Balm
$7.50Read moreA flowering PERENNIAL growing to 70cm with tangerine scented leaves similar looking to mint and in summer small, nectar-rich flowers appear.
Prefers well-drained soil in a full sun or semi-shaded position.
Leaves are edible and medicinally it is commonly used household remedy as both a tonic herb and for its soothing, anti-anxiety actions.
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Balm of Gilead
$7.50Read moreBalm of Gilead is a PERENNIAL growing to 1.5m with compound leaves consisting of 3 leaflets. Leafy stems terminate in short spikes of flowers with tubular 2-lipped white or pink flowers.
Prefers moist well-drained soil in semi-shade or full sun.The leaves are used in a tea named The de Canaries which is very aromatic.
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Basil – African
$7.50Read moreAfrican basil is a perennial basil, although it may still grow as an annual in temperate or cold climates. It is native to Africa and is also known as Clove Basil.