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Echinacea – Mellow Yellow Mix
$9.50Add to cartEchinacea purpurea ‘Mellow Yellow’ is a perennial in the daisy (Asteraceae) family that grows to around 60–90 cm tall and 45–60 cm wide. It prefers full sun and moist but well-drained soils. It has soft golden to lemon-yellow petals around coppery cones, creating warm tones in the garden. ‘Mellow Yellows’ attract pollinators, and are prized in cottage and cut flower gardens. Hardy in most NZ climates.
All Echinacea species and cultivars can be used medicinally, though angustifolia, pallida, and purpurea are most traditionally valued for their potency. Mellow Yellows can be used, but are less commonly chosen in professional practice.
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Echinacea – Purple Coneflower
$9.50Add to cartEchinacea purpurea is a perennial in the daisy (Asteraceae) family that grows to around 90 cm tall and 60 cm wide. It prefers full sun and moist but well-drained soils. It has broad leaves and large purple daisy-like flowers with raised orange-brown cones. Echinacea purpurea is used as a medicinal herb, is highly attractive to pollinators, and is a classic cottage and cut flower garden plant. Hardy in most NZ climates.
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Echinacea – White Swan
$9.50Add to cartEchinacea purpurea ‘White Swan’ is a perennial in the daisy (Asteraceae) family that grows to around 75–90 cm tall and 45–60 cm wide. It prefers full sun and moist but well-drained soils. It has pure white petals surrounding a golden cone, offering a striking contrast in the garden. ‘White Swan’ is used as a medicinal herb, loved by pollinators, and excellent in cottage and cut flower gardens. Hardy in most NZ climates.
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Elecampane
$9.50Add to cartA flowering PERENNIAL plant growing to 1.5m. A rigid stem carries large and toothed leaves thickly woolly on the underside. Yellow flowerheads are up to 5 cm broad. The root is thick, branching and mucilaginous. It grows in almost any moist soil in the full sun or semi-shade.
The leaves somewhat bitter but aromatic and edible. Roots are candied. Used as a warming and tonic herb, it is a well used medicinal herb. -
Evening Primrose – Standard Yellow
$7.50Add to cartA hardy flowering BIENNIAL growing to 1.2m. Basal rosettes spiral up to flowering stems with butter-yellow flowers that are noted for attracting bees and butterflies. Prefers well-drained soil in a full sun position, and can grow in nutritionally poor soil.
Flowers, leaves, oil, root and seedpods are noted as edible. Many medicinal applications, particularly seed oil.
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Evening Primrose – Sunset Boulevard
$8.50Add to cartA highly ornamental version of the common yellow flowering Evening of Primrose, these flower in shades of a dusky sunset with orange-pink tones. Evening primrose is a flowering BIENNIAL growing to 1.2m. Basal rosettes spiral up to flowering stems with flowers that are noted for attracting bees and butterflies. Prefers well-drained soil in a full sun position, and can grow in nutritionally poor soil.
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Feverfew
$8.50Add to cartA flowering PERENNIAL plant in the daisy family growing to 60cm. The small bush has pungently scented light green to yellowish-green leaves and daisy-like flowers.
It prefers well-drained soil in a full sun position and can tolerate somewhat strong winds. Mostly used as a medicinal herb, but the flowers and leaves have some culinary use. -
Feverfew – Golden
$8.50Add to cartA flowering PERENNIAL plant in the daisy family growing to 60cm. The small bush has pungently scented bright golden green to yellowish-green leaves and daisy-like flowers.
It prefers well-drained soil in a full sun position and can tolerate somewhat strong winds. Mostly used as a medicinal herb, but the flowers and leaves have some culinary use.
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Forget-me-not – Chinese Hound’s Tongue Pink
$7.50Add to cartA flowering BIENNIAL/PERENNIAL that grows to 80cm and looks like field forget-me-nots. Sometimes referred to as Chinese forget-me-not. Prefers well-drained moist soil and can grow in nutritionally poor soil in a full sun position.
Although Cynoglossum officinalis has some historic use as a food and medicine, it is advised that pink houndstongue is not edible, nor should it be used as a medicine.
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Foxglove – Apricot-Peach
$7.50Add to cartFoxglove (Digitalis purpurea and cultivars) is a biennial or short-lived perennial in the Plantaginaceae family that grows to 1–1.5m tall and 30–60cm wide. It prefers semi-shade to sun and moist, well-drained soils. It produces tall spires of tubular flowers in shades of white, apricot, pink, or purple, much loved by bees and pollinators. This is a beautiful white flowering cultivar. All parts of this plant are highly toxic to humans and animals.
Foxglove is grown as a cottage garden favourite and pollinator plant. Medicinal use is strictly professional only, in minute controlled doses. -
Foxglove – Various
$7.50Add to cartFoxglove (Digitalis purpurea and cultivars) is a biennial or short-lived perennial in the Plantaginaceae family that grows to 1–1.5m tall and 30–60cm wide. It prefers semi-shade to sun and moist, well-drained soils. It produces tall spires of tubular flowers in shades of white, apricot, pink, or purple, much loved by bees and pollinators. All parts of this plant are highly toxic to humans and animals. Foxglove is grown as a cottage garden favourite and pollinator plant. Medicinal use is strictly professional only, in minute controlled doses.
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Goldenrod Dwarf – Baby Gold
$8.50Add to cartSolidago, or Goldenrod, boasts bright yellow clusters of flowers that enliven landscapes in late summer and fall, attracting bees and butterflies with its rich nectar source. This perennial herb’s potential medicinal uses include relief from urinary issues and hay fever, showcasing anti-inflammatory benefits and ecological significance in supporting pollinator populations.
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Hollyhock – Charters Double Salmon
$7.50Add to cartA flowering PERENNIAL, often grown as a BIENNIAL, in the mallow family, that can grow to over 2.4m in height. The plants have an erect, unbranched habit with large lobed or toothed leaf blades and very tall flower spikes bearing many attractive single flowers in white to off-white colour.
The plant does well in almost any well-drained soil in a full sun position, and can grow in semi-shade. Tall flower spikes may need staking.
The flowers, leaves, root and stem are edible and it has a long history of medicinal use. -
Hollyhock – Mixed
$7.50Add to cartA flowering PERENNIAL, often grown as a BIENNIAL, in the mallow family, that can grow to over 2.4m in height. The plants have an erect, unbranched habit with large lobed or toothed leaf blades and very tall flower spikes bearing many attractive single flowers in various colours.
The plant does well in almost any well-drained soil in a full sun position, and can grow in semi-shade. Tall flower spikes may need staking.
The flowers, leaves, root and stem are edible and it has a long history of medicinal use. -
Hollyhock – White Single
$7.50Add to cartA flowering PERENNIAL, often grown as a BIENNIAL, in the mallow family, that can grow to over 2.4m in height. The plants have an erect, unbranched habit with large lobed or toothed leaf blades and very tall flower spikes bearing many attractive single flowers in white to off-white colour.
The plant does well in almost any well-drained soil in a full sun position, and can grow in semi-shade. Tall flower spikes may need staking.
The flowers, leaves, root and stem are edible and it has a long history of medicinal use. -
Hyssop Blue
$8.50Add to cartHyssop (Hyssopus officinalis) is a Mediterranean herb cherished for its aromatic qualities and diverse uses in enhancing culinary dishes and herbal remedies, providing a blend of antiseptic, expectorant, and anti-inflammatory properties for respiratory health. This is the standard blue variety.
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Hyssop Pink
$8.50Add to cartHyssop (Hyssopus officinalis) is a Mediterranean herb cherished for its aromatic qualities and diverse uses in enhancing culinary dishes and herbal remedies, providing a blend of antiseptic, expectorant, and anti-inflammatory properties for respiratory health. This is a pink flowering variety.
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Lovage
$8.50Add to cartGarden Lovage is a PERENNIAL growing to 1.8m. The plant is erect and tall with a basal rosette pinnately divided leaves, and flowers produced at umbels at the top of leafy stems.
Lovage smells somewhat similar to celery.
Prefers moist soil in full sun or semi-shade.
All parts of the plant is edible and it has domestic historical medicine use. -
Love-in-the-mist
$6.50Add to cartLove-in-the-Mist is an ANNUAL plant growing to 50cm tall with pinnately divided thread-like leaves and starry shaped flowers and large inflated capsules filled with numerous seeds. It is grown as an ornamental and comes in shades of blue, pink and purple.
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Marigold – Passionfruit
$9.50Add to cartA beautiful large shrub, this PERENNIAL marigold has a sweet fruit scent when brushed past. Very good for attracting wildlife to the garden.