MeadowSweet Herbs & Flowers Nursery and Herb Education Centre is now closed for orders from 16 December 2025 until mid-January 2026 while I take a short festive break.

Thank you for your continued support of my small, home-based nursery throughout the past year. I look forward to helping you grow plants for your kitchen, garden, and herbal home remedies cupboard when I reopen in the new year.

Wishing you a peaceful and nourishing festive season.
Minette
  • Rose Mint Pelargonium

    Pelargonium – Rose-Mint ‘Lady Plymouth’

    $10.50

    An evergreen PERENNIAL shrub growing to 60cm. Prefers well-drained soil in full sun, and is frost-tender.
    This pelargonium has green leaves with an attractive irregular variegated margin and rose-mint scented leaves. Flowers are edible.

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  • Rocket - Salad

    Rocket – Salad

    $7.50

    An ANNUAL growing to 60cm. Prefers well-drained soilin full sun or semi-shade. Drought tolerant when established.
    Young leaves are peppery and often added fresh to salads or used on pizza or crostini.

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  • Rose Campion - Pink

    Rose Campion – Pink

    $8.50

    A PERENNIAL growing to 80 cm with grey felted leaves and single, bright magenta flowers produced in succession.

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  • Rosemary - Chef's Choice

    Rosemary – Chef’s Choice

    $8.00

    An 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 Chef’s Choice cultivar is higher in oil content, and stronger in flavour and with its compact mounding habit, is a favourite for cook’s gardens.

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  • Rosemary - Gold Dust

    Rosemary – Gold Dust

    $8.00

    An 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 variegated leaf cultivar makes for a beautiful plant..

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  • Rosemary - Prostrate

    Rosemary – Prostrate

    $8.00

    An 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. Somewhat less hardy than the other varieties, it is still quite hardy, and flavoursome. Great for trailing or for a low spreading groundcover.

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  • Sage - Purple

    Sage – Purple

    $8.50

    An evergreen PERENNIAL shrub growing to 60cm Prefers well-drained soil in a full sun position, and can tolerate drought.
    Leaves are a common culinary herb and it has been used for centuries as a medicinal plant. Purple sage is said to be stronger medicinally than common sage. The leaves are dark green to purple and very attractive. Use as common sage.

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  • Statice Yellow

    Statice – Forever Moonlight

    $7.50

    Statice (Limonium sinuatum), also known as Sea Lavender, is a half-hardy annual in the Plumbaginaceae family, growing 40–70 cm tall and 30–40 cm wide. Native to the Mediterranean region, it thrives in full sun and well-drained soil, tolerating poor soils and coastal conditions. It produces clusters of papery flowers in shades of yellow and white that hold their colour beautifully when dried. Frost-tender in New Zealand, it is usually grown as an annual. Statice is primarily valued as a cut flower and for dried arrangements, and is also a cheerful cottage garden plant that attracts pollinators.

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  • Statice Rose

    Statice – Rose

    $7.50

    Statice QIS Rose (Limonium sinuatum), also known as Sea Lavender, is a half-hardy annual in the Plumbaginaceae family, growing 40–70 cm tall and 30–40 cm wide. Native to the Mediterranean region, it thrives in full sun and well-drained soil, tolerating poor soils and coastal conditions. It produces clusters of papery flowers in shades of pink that hold their colour beautifully when dried. Frost-tender in New Zealand, it is usually grown as an annual. Statice is primarily valued as a cut flower and for dried arrangements, and is also a cheerful cottage garden plant that attracts pollinators.

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    Thyme – Creeping Red carpet

    $8.50

    An EVERGREEN PERENNIAL creeping thyme with a profusion of red flowers (deep pink) in late spring.

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