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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  • Artichoke - Purple de Jesi

    Artichoke – Purple de Jesi

    $9.50

    Artichoke 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 – Purple of Romagna

    $9.50

    Perennial vegetable. A beautiful French heirloom artichoke variety with finer flavoured artichokes.

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    Artichoke – Violet de Provence

    $9.50

    Perennial vegetable. A beautiful French heirloom artichoke variety with finer flavoured artichokes.

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  • Image showing the fruiting and flowering of an ashwagandha plant

    Ashwagandha

    $9.50

    Ashwagandha is an evergreen shrub in it’s native sub tropical to tropical areas, but commonly grown as an annual in cooler or temperate areas. Withania somnifera, Ashwagandha, is an adaptogenic herb from Ayurvedic tradition praised for stress relief, cognitive enhancement, and immune support. This perennial shrub’s roots are utilized in powder form due to their holistic health benefits, aiding in anxiety reduction and physical endurance.

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  • Astragalus Milk Vetch

    Astragalus – Milk Vetch

    $9.50

    A hardy PERENNIAL that is an important herb in Chinese Traditional Medicine.

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  • Balm - Lemon Balm

    Balm – Lemon Balm

    $7.50

    A flowering PERENNIAL growing to 70cm with lemon scented leaves similar looking to mint and in summer small, nectar-rich flowers appear.
    Prefers well-drained soil in a full sun or semi-shaded position.
    Leaves are edible and medicinally it is commonly used household remedy as both a tonic herb and for its soothing, anti-anxiety actions.

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    Balm – Lime Balm

    $8.50

    Very similar to lemon balm, but with a more lime-like fragrance.

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  • Balm - Orange Balm

    Balm – Orange Balm

    $8.50

    A flowering PERENNIAL growing to 70cm with tangerine scented leaves similar looking to mint and in summer small, nectar-rich flowers appear.

    Prefers well-drained soil in a full sun or semi-shaded position.

    Leaves are edible and medicinally it is commonly used household remedy as both a tonic herb and for its soothing, anti-anxiety actions.

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  • Balm of Gilead

    Balm of Gilead

    $8.50

    Balm of Gilead is a delightfully fragrant perennial herb of which the leaves are used in a tea named The de Canaries which is very aromatic. Lends a musky woody scent to pot-pourri. Also used as a medicinal herb. Flowers are attractive to pollinating insects.

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  • Showing the size and growth habit of bush growing densely leaved mini Greek basil

    Basil – Bush / Greek Mini

    $6.50

    Bush basil is an ANNUAL growing to 30cm with a tidy rounded growth habit and tiny, light green leaves. The plant prefers full sun in a moist, but well-drained soil.
    Leaves, which are mild in flavour, are used like common basil.

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  • Basil - Dark Opal

    Basil – Dark Opal

    $6.50

    An ANNUAL growing to around 70cm, purple basil is a cultivar of Sweet Basil, and has oval dark purple leaves, reddish stems and purple flowers. Used much in the same way as common basil, it has a stronger flavour and its pretty leaf colour makes it an appealing herb to add to salads or as a fresh garnish.

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    Basil – Holy Tulsi

    $8.50

    Holy basil is an erect SUBSHRUB that grows up to 60cm. Many branched, hairy stems carry simple ovate green leaves with slightly toothed margins. Flowers are purple.
    It is cultivated for religious and medicinal purposes and herbal tea and common to the Indian subcontinent and southeast Asia. The plant is revered as the elixer of life.

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