MeadowSweet Herbs & Flowers Nursery and Herb Education Centre is now closed for orders from 16 December 2025 until mid-January 2026 while I take a short festive break.

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
  • Orach Green

    Orach – Green Mountain Spinach

    $7.50

    Orach (Atriplex hortensis), or Mountain Spinach, is an annual leafy green in the Amaranthaceae family that grows 1–2m tall and 40–60cm wide. It prefers full sun and well-drained, fertile soil. Orach produces tender, spinach-like leaves with a mild, slightly salty flavour, used as a culinary green fresh or cooked. It is heat-tolerant, ornamental, and self-seeding, making it a useful food and cottage garden plant. Florists also make use of the spectacular seed spikes in floral arrangements.

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  • Orach - Red Mountain Spinach

    Orach – Red Mountain Spinach

    $8.50

    Orach (Atriplex hortensis), or Mountain Spinach, is an annual leafy green in the Amaranthaceae family that grows 1–2m tall and 40–60cm wide. It prefers full sun and well-drained, fertile soil. Orach produces tender, spinach-like leaves with a mild, slightly salty flavour, used as a culinary green fresh or cooked. It is heat-tolerant, ornamental, and self-seeding, making it a useful food and cottage garden plant. Florists also use the striking seed heads in flower arrangements.

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  • Statice Yellow

    Statice – Forever Moonlight

    $7.50

    Statice (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 of yellow and white 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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  • Statice Rose

    Statice – Rose

    $7.50

    Statice QIS Rose (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 of pink 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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