Plants that produce berries or fruit.
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Cape Gooseberry
$8.50Add to cartCape Gooseberry (Physalis peruviana) is a tender perennial (often grown as an annual) in the nightshade family (Solanaceae). It prefers full sun, free-draining soil, and shelter from frost, and in New Zealand it is best grown as a summer annual except in frost-free areas. Plants grow 60–90 cm tall and up to 1 m wide, with papery lantern husks holding golden-orange, tangy-sweet berries. A culinary favourite, eaten fresh, dried, or in jams, sauces, and desserts; a medicinal plant traditionally used for immune and anti-inflammatory support; a cottage garden novelty with its lantern-like husks; and a pollinator-friendly crop, attracting bees to its small yellow flowers.
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Elderberry
$9.50Add to cartElderberry is a small tree or shrub growing to 6mx6m at a fairly fast rate. The plant is known as the ‘Medicine Chest’ of the country people for its associated medicinal qualities. Note that all parts except the blossoms and the very ripe berries, are poisenous and should not be ingested. The flowers are used a flavouring to make elderflower tea, or elderflower sparkling wine and eldeflower syrups among many other culinary uses. The berries too are made into syrups or brewed into teas.
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Strawberry – Alpine White
$8.50Add to cartAlpine Strawberry is a PERENNIAL growing to 30cm with trifoliate leaves, white flowers and sweet, small white when ripe strawberry fruit.
Prefers moist well-drained soil in full sun or semi-shade, and can grow in heavy clay soil.
Fruit and leaves are edible and has medicinal use. It is used as a cosmetic herb.
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Strawberry – Lipstick (Pink Flowering)
$7.50Add to cartPink Flowering Strawberry (Fragaria × ananassa ‘Lipstick’) is a perennial herb in the Rosaceae family. It prefers a sunny to lightly shaded site with moist, well-drained, fertile soil and is hardy across New Zealand. Growing 15–25 cm high and 30–40 cm wide, it forms neat mounds of dark green foliage with bright rosy-pink flowers followed by small, sweet, edible strawberries. Grown both for its culinary fruit and ornamental value, it’s ideal for pots, borders, and edible cottage gardens, and attracts bees and butterflies.
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Tomatillo – Geodes Husk Tomato
$7.50Add to cartTomatillo ‘Geodes’ (Physalis ixocarpa) is a tender annual in the Solanaceae family. It prefers full sun and fertile, free-draining soil and is frost-tender in New Zealand. It grows to about 1–1.2 m tall and wide, producing ornamental papery husks with sweet-tart fruits. Mainly used as a culinary crop for fresh eating, roasting and preserves, and as an ornamental/pollinator plant.
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Tomatillo – Green Husk Tomato
$7.50Add to cartTomatillo ‘Green Husk’ (Physalis ixocarpa) is a tender annual in the Solanaceae family. It prefers a warm, sunny site with fertile, free-draining soil. Growing to around 1–1.2 m tall and wide, it produces green, husked fruits with a tart, citrusy flavour. Grown mainly as a culinary plant for making salsa verde and sauces, it is also decorative and pollinator-attracting.
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Tomatillo – Puebla Husk Tomato
$7.50Add to cartTomatillo ‘Puebla’ (Physalis ixocarpa) is a tender annual in the Solanaceae family. It prefers full sun and fertile, free-draining soil and is frost-tender in New Zealand. Plants grow to about 1–1.2 m tall and wide, producing firm, tangy green fruits enclosed in papery husks. Mainly used as a culinary crop for salsas, roasting and preserving; also decorative in the garden and attractive to pollinators.
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Tomatillo – Queen of Malinalco Husk Tomato
$7.50Add to cartomatillo ‘Queen of Malinalco’ (Physalis ixocarpa) is a tender annual in the Solanaceae family. It prefers full sun and fertile, free-draining soil and is frost-tender in New Zealand. It grows to around 1–1.2 m tall and wide, setting abundant husked fruits prized for fresh salsas and preserving. Mainly used as a culinary crop for sauces and canning, and as an ornamental, pollinator-friendly plant.
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Tomatillo – Violet Husk Tomato
$7.50Add to cartTomatillo ‘Violet’ (Physalis ixocarpa) is a tender annual in the Solanaceae family. It prefers a sunny, sheltered site with fertile, well-drained soil and warmth for best fruiting. Growing to 1–1.2 m tall and wide, it bears papery-husked fruits that ripen to deep violet-purple. Mainly grown as a culinary crop for salsas and sauces, it is also decorative and pollinator-friendly.
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Strawberry – Alpine
$8.50Read moreAlpine Strawberry is a PERENNIAL growing to 30cm with trifoliate leaves, white flowers and sweet, small strawberry fruit.
Prefers moist well-drained soil in full sun or semi-shade, and can grow in heavy clay soil.
Fruit and leaves are edible and has medicinal use. It is used as a cosmetic herb.