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Salad Burnett
$7.50Add to cartSalad Burnet is an EVERGREEN PERENNIAL growing to 60cm, forming a rosette of attractive pinnate basal leaves with oval and lightly serrated leaflets. Flowers are rounded clusters of pink tiny blooms. Prefers any moist well-drained soil in full sun, and can grow in nutritionally poor soil or very alkaline soils.
Leaves are edible, fresh or cooked, and dried leaves can be made into a tea. It has some domestic medicinal use. -
Savory – Winter
$8.50Add to cartThis EVERGREEN SHRUB grows to 40cm and has upright growing stems with aromatic leaves and white flowers.
Prefers full sun in a well-drained soil and can grow in nutritionally poor soil or very alkaline soil. It is drought-tolerant. -
Savory – Winter Creeping
$8.50Add to cartThis PERENNIAL savory grows to 10cm with a creeping habit and white flowers which are very attractive to bees.
Prefers full sun in well-drained soil and can grow in nutritionally poor soiland very alkaline soils.
It can tolerate drought.
Leaves are used like summer or winter savory, and are especially good cooked with beans. Some medicinal uses. -
Shiso – Green Korean
$7.50Add to cartShiso is an ANNUAL growing to 60cm with very aromatic, broad, frilly, ruffled green leaves.
Prefers moist well-drained soil in full sun. nnot grow in the shade.
Leaves, flowers and seeds are edible and it has some use in Oriental medicince. -
Shungiku
$7.50Add to cartThis leafy ANNUAL grows up to 1.2m and has yellow-and-white daisy-like flowers and finely divided green leaves. Prefers moist and well-drained soil in a full sun or semi-shaded position.
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Sorrel – Garden
$8.50Add to cartSorrel is a PERENNIAL plant growing to 60cm with deep roots, juicy stems and edible, arrow-shaped leaves that taste sour.
Prefers moist soil in a semi-shade to full sun position. Can tolerate acidic soil.
All parts of the plant are edible. It is a good household and dye plant and has medicinal use. -
Sorrel – Red-veined
$8.50Add to cartBlood-veined Sorrel is a PERENNIAL plant growing to 60cm with deep roots, juicy stems and edible, red-veined leaves with a sharp sour taste. Prefers full sun or semi-shade position in moist soil. Edible leaves can be added to salads.
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Thyme – Common
$7.50Add to cartThyme 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
$7.50Add to cartThe 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
$7.50Add to cartThe 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
$8.50Add to cartAn EVERGREEN PERENNIAL creeping thyme with profusion of pink flowers in late spring.
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Thyme – Pizza
$7.50Add to cartThe 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.
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Agastache – Raspberry Daiquiri
$8.50Read moreAgastache ‘Raspberry Daiquiri’ (Agastache aurantiaca) is a perennial in the mint (Lamiaceae) family that grows to around 50–70 cm tall and 30–45 cm wide. It prefers full sun and well-drained, moderately fertile soil. It has aromatic green foliage and produces vibrant raspberry-pink flower spikes through summer and autumn, beloved by bees, and butterflies.
Agastache is used as a culinary herb with edible flowers and leaves lending a sweet, minty-anise flavour to salads and teas; as a companion plant it attracts pollinators and beneficial insects to the garden. While not strictly used as a medicinal herb it is part of the agastaches that has traditional uses for easing coughs and supporting digestion. It makes for a good choice for cut flowers due to its vibrant raspberry-colored blooms and attractive foliage. -
Alexanders
$8.50Read moreAlexanders is a hardy biennial or short-lived perennial herb, growing 60–150 cm tall. Thrives in sun to part shade and a wide range of soils, including poor or coastal soils. Features glossy divided leaves, umbels of yellow-green flowers in spring, and edible stems, leaves, seeds, and roots. Traditionally used as a pot-herb, flavouring, and medicinal plant.
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Angelica – Holy Ghost
$8.50Read moreAngelica (Angelica archangelica) is a biennial/perennial umbellifer growing 1.5–2m tall with large divided leaves and greenish-white flower umbels. Prefers rich, moist soil in partial shade. Traditionally valued as a Medicinal Herb, Culinary Herb (candied stems, flavouring in liqueurs), and Cottage Garden/Apothecary plant. Hardy in New Zealand, self-seeds readily, and attracts pollinators.
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Artichoke – Green Globe
$9.50Read moreGlobe Artichoke (Cynara cardunculus var. scolymus ‘Green Globe’) is a perennial in the Asteraceae family that grows in full sun and prefers rich, well-drained soil. It is cultivated for its large green flower buds, which are eaten as a gourmet vegetable, and adds striking architectural form to the garden.
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Artichoke – Purple de Jesi
$10.50Read moreGlobe Artichoke (Cynara cardunculus var. scolymus ‘Purple de Jesi’) is a perennial in the Asteraceae family that grows in full sun and prefers rich, well-drained soil. It produces elongated purple heads with excellent eating quality and is treasured as both a gourmet vegetable and a striking garden plant.
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Artichoke – Purple of Romagna
$10.50Read moreGlobe Artichoke (Cynara cardunculus var. scolymus ‘Purple of Romagna’) is a perennial in the Asteraceae family that grows in full sun and prefers rich, well-drained soil. It is prized for its purple-tinted buds with a rich flavour and is valued both as a culinary delicacy and an ornamental statement.
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Balkan Mint
$8.50Read moreBalkan Mint (Micromeria thymifolia) is a perennial in the Lamiaceae family that grows in full sun and prefers well-drained soil. It is used as a Culinary Herb for flavouring teas, meats, and stews, and as a Pollinator Plant, attracting bees and beneficial insects.