Plants used to create home herbal remedies for common ailments.
Seeds will become available from May.
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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.
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Agrimony
$8.50Read moreAgrimony, also known as Church Steeples (Agrimonia eupatoria) is a perennial herb in the Rosaceae family. This herb flaunts slender spikes of yellow flowers atop toothed, pinnate leaves, recognized for its pleasant fragrance and unique appearance. Agrimony is esteemed for its versatile use in herbal medicine and can be brewed into teas or infusions to aid digestion and soothe sore throats. It thrives in well-drained, loamy soil and appreciates full sunlight, making it an excellent addition to herb gardens or natural medicine collections.
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Ajuga – Pink Spires
$7.50Read moreThs Ajuga is a low growing EVERGREEN PERENNIAL with light to deep green leaves that make a dense spreading ground cover and in spring sends up 15cm flower stalks bearing many pink flowers that are very attractive to bees and butterflies. It grows well in full shade, semi-shade or full sun and can tolerate some drought.
Leaves and young shoots are edible raw and it has some history as a wound herb, but is rarely used today.
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Ajuga – Purple
$7.50Read moreAjuga is a low growing EVERGREEN PERENNIAL with dark green to purple leaves that make a dense spreading ground cover and in spring sends up 15cm flower stalks bearing many purple flowers that are very attractive to bees and butterflies. It grows well in full shade, semi-shade or full sun and can tolerate some drought.
Leaves and young shoots are edible raw and it has some history as a wound herb, but is rarely used today.
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Ajuga – Variegated
$7.50Read moreThis Ajuga is a low growing EVERGREEN PERENNIAL with green and white variegated leaves that make a dense spreading ground cover and in spring sends up 15cm flower stalks bearing many purple flowers that are very attractive to bees and butterflies. It grows well in full shade, semi-shade or full sun and can tolerate some drought.
Leaves and young shoots are edible raw and it has some history as a wound herb, but is rarely used today. -
Alexanders
$7.50Read moreAlexanders is a stout BIENNIAL flowering plant growing to 1.2m tall. It has a strong solid stem that becomes hollow and grooved with age. The bright green leaves are bluntly toothed, and ternately divided. Umbels of yellow-green flowers are followed by black seeds. It prefers moist soil in a full sun or semi-shade position. Attractive to bees and butterflies.
The taste has been described as somewhat intermediate between parsley and celery. All plant parts are edible, and it has been used historically as a medicine.
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Angelica – Dong Quai
$7.50Read moreA BIENNIAL plant in the Apiaceae family. Cultivated for its use in Traditional Chinese Medicine.
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Angelica – Holy Ghost
$7.50Read moreA BIENNIAL plant in the Apiaceae family. Cultivated for its sweetly scented edible stems and roots.
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Artichoke – Green Globe
$9.50Read moreArtichoke is a PERENNIAL vegetable growing to 1.5m. The plant is quite big and statuesque, with long, arching, deeply lobed, silvery, glaucous-green leaves. When the flower buds (the vegetable) are allowed to open into flowers, they are very attractive to bees and bumblebees. The plant prefers well drained soil in most soils (tolerant of saline soils) in a sunny position. The flower buds are known as a gourmet vegetable and the whole plant has medicinal applications. Leaves yield a dark grey dye.
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Artichoke – Imperial Star
$9.50Read morePerennial vegetable. A productive and high quality green glove artichoke that produces 6-8 mature buds averaging 10cm on a bushy plant in the first season from seed.