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
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Pelargonium – Torento Ginger scented
$10.50Read moreAn 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. -
Rocket – Wild
$7.50Read moreA PERENNIAL growing to 60cm. Prefers dry or moist soil in a full sun position, or semi-shade.
Leaves are eaten raw in salads as you would use salad rocket. Strongly peppery or cress-flavoured. -
Rocket – Wild Dragon’s Fire
$7.50Read moreWild Rocket ‘Dragon’s Fire’ (Diplotaxis tenuifolia) is a perennial leafy herb in the Brassicaceae family. Grows 20–40 cm tall, with deeply lobed green leaves streaked with red veins and a spicy, nutty flavour. Prefers full sun and well-drained soil, and is hardy and drought-tolerant. Attractive yellow flowers draw in pollinators. Ideal for colourful salads, edible borders, and kitchen gardens.
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Rocket – Wild Olive Leaf
$7.50Read moreWild Rocket ‘Olive Leaf’ (Diplotaxis tenuifolia) is a perennial leafy herb in the Brassicaceae family. Grows 20–40 cm tall in clumps with slender, olive-shaped leaves and a spicy, peppery flavour. Prefers full sun and well-drained soil, and tolerates dry conditions. Produces yellow flowers loved by pollinators. Excellent for salads, pestos, and edible borders.
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Rose Campion – Occulata (pink and white)
$9.50Read moreA PERENNIAL growing to 80 cm with grey felted leaves and single, white and pink centered flowers produced in succession.
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Rosemary – Pink flowering
$8.00Read moreAn 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
$8.00Read moreAn 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
$8.50Read moreAn 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. -
Sage – White
$9.00Read moreA PERENNIAL growing to 1.3m with whitish evergreen leaves and flowers that are white to pale lavender and attractive to bees. Prefers well-drained soil in a full sun position. Seed is eaten raw or cooked, and it has some traditional medicinal use.
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Statice – Apricot
$7.50Read moreStatice (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 apricot and peach 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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Strawflower – Apricot Peach
$7.50Read moreStrawflower (Helichrysum bracteatum, also known as Xerochrysum bracteatum) is a tender perennial, often grown as an annual in New Zealand, in the daisy (Asteraceae) family that grows 60–90 cm tall and 30–45 cm wide. It prefers full sun and well-drained, moderately fertile soil. It has narrow green leaves and produces papery, daisy-like blooms in a wide range of bright colours that retain their form and colour when dried. It is a great companion plant to attract pollinators and is excellent for long-lasting cut flowers or dried arrangements.
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Strawflower – Silvery Rose
$7.50Read moreStrawflower (Helichrysum bracteatum, also known as Xerochrysum bracteatum) is a tender perennial, often grown as an annual in New Zealand, in the daisy (Asteraceae) family that grows 60–90 cm tall and 30–45 cm wide. It prefers full sun and well-drained, moderately fertile soil. It has narrow green leaves and produces papery, daisy-like blooms in a wide range of bright colours – this is a pink variety – that retain their form and colour when dried. As a companion plant it attracts pollinators and is excellent for long-lasting cut or dried arrangements.
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Thyme – Common
$7.50Read moreThyme 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. -
Thyme – Creeping Emerald Carpet
$7.50Read moreThe leaves of this creeping EVERGREEN SHRUB are smaller and narrower and it grows low on the ground with white flowers. Same cultivation requirements as Common Thyme.
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Thyme – Creeping Golden
$7.50Read moreThe Golden Thyme is an EVERGREEN PERENNNIAL and has light golden-green leaves and grows to 10cm. It has light pink flowers. Same cultivation requirements as Common Thyme
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Thyme – Creeping Magic carpet
$8.50Read moreAn EVERGREEN PERENNIAL creeping thyme with profusion of pink flowers in late spring.
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Thyme – Pizza
$7.50Read moreThe Pizza Thyme is an EVERGREEN PERENNIAL shrub with somewhat broader leaves than Common Thyme. Grow as you would Common Thyme
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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.