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Echinacea – White Swan
$9.50Read moreA herbaceous flowering PERENNIAL growing to 1.2cm with large, showy heads of pretty white composite flowers.
Prefers a well-drained soil in a full sun position and can tolerate some drought. Purple or Angustifolia Echinacea is mostly grown as a medicinal plant where flowering tops and roots are used as a popular home remedy for improving the immune system. -
Echinacea – Yellow Mix
$9.50Add to cartA herbaceous flowering PERENNIAL growing to 1.2cm with large, showy heads of pretty composite flowers in various colours.
Prefers a well-drained soil in a full sun position and can tolerate some drought. Purple or Angustifolia Echinacea is mostly grown as a medicinal plant where flowering tops and roots are used as a popular home remedy for improving the immune system. -
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
$8.50Add 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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Fennel – Bronze
$6.50Add to cartAn EVERGREEN PERENNIAL growing to 1.5m with beautiful fine feathery leaves of a dark green to bronze-purple colour and umbels of yellow flowers. Prefers well-drained soil and a full sun position. I can tolerate some drought and strong winds.
All parts of the plant is edible – leaves, stems, root and seed. It is widely used as a domestic herbal medicine for various complaints. -
Fennel – Florence
$6.50Add to cartAn EVERGREEN PERENNIAL growing to 1.5m with beautiful fine feathery green and light-green leaves, and umbels of yellow flowers. Florence Fennel is known and sought after for its swollen stem base. Prefers well-drained soil and a full sun position. I can tolerate some drought and strong winds.
All parts of the plant is edible – leaves, stems, root and seed. It is widely used as a domestic herbal medicine for various complaints. -
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
$7.50Read moreA 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 – Various
$6.50Read moreDigitalis includes about 20 species of plants that are commonly grown as tall BIENNIALS that reach up to 1.5m. With their attractive
spikes of bell-shaped flowers in a variety of colours, they are very popular in flower gardens.
Grows well in almost any soil, and can grow in a full sun or partly shaded area.
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Fuller’s Teasel
$7.50Add to cartA BIENNIAL/PERENNIAL growing to 1.8m with prickly stem and leaves and purple, dark pink or lavender inflorescence.
Grows well in almost any soil and can tolerate heavy clay soil. Prefers moist soil in a full sun position.
With some use as a herbal remedy, the plant is better known for the dried flower heads being used for carding wool and as a clothes brush for raising nap on woollen cloth.