Thank you for your interest in herb plants from MeadowSweet Herbs & Flowers. I've closed plant order processing for 2024/5 season. Online orders for plants will open again mid August for pre-orders with plants being shipped from mid September onwards.

Seeds will become available from May.

If you are interested in my Mini Grow & Use Guides, please email me for processing at minette@tonoli.co.nz during the shop's vacation dates.

The physical nursery and gates sales table plant stand is also closed over winter and will be up and running in spring 2025 for the 2025/26 growing season.

Always happy to answer emails, and remember to follow my socials for herb inspiration throughout the year. @meadowsweetherbsnz on both Insta and Facebook.

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  • Orach – Red Mountain Spinach

    $7.50

    An ANNUAL growing to 1.8m, red mountain spinach has attractive purple lance-shaped leaves. Prefers well-drained moist soil in the full sun. It can grow in very alkaline and saline soils.
    Leaves are eaten raw or cooked as a spinach and it has been used as a folk remedy.

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  • Rhubarb – Cherry Red

    $8.50

    A PERENNIAL growing to 1.2m. Prefers moist well-drained soil in full sun or semi-shade, and can grow in heavy clay soil.
    The leaf stem is cooked and eaten with fruit in tarts. The leaf itself is toxic and should not be eaten. Roots are used medicinally.
    Victoria is said to be the best cooking rhubarb with sweeter and milder slender green stems with a red blush that are very tender.

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  • Salad Burnett

    $7.50

    Salad 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.

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  • Shungiku

    $7.50

    This 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.
    Flowers and leaves are edible.

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  • Sorrel – Garden

    $7.50

    Sorrel 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.

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