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Curry bush
$7.50Add to cartA hardy EVERGREEN SHRUB growing to 60cm (2ft) with silver-green leaves and clusters of yellow button-like flowers. Grow in well-drained soil. It tolerates drought and prefers a full sun position.
Although highly aromatic, smelling strongly of curry mixes, it is rarely used as a condiment, and when used to flavour cooking, is removed before eating. -
Dill
$6.50Read moreAn ANNUAL growing to 80cm with slender hollow stems and alternate, finely divided, softly delicate leaves. Small yellow flowers are born in umbels. Prefers a full sun position in a moist and well-drained soil. Edible leaves and seeds, it is also good as a companion plant to attract hoverflies and other predatory insects. Highly nutritious, it has a long history of medicinal use.
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Echinacea – Narrow Leaf Purple Coneflower
$9.50Add to cartA herbaceous flowering PERENNIAL growing to 1.2cm with large, showy heads of pretty pink-purple composite flowers.
Prefers a well-drained soil in a full sun position and can tolerate some drought. Mostly grown as a medicinal plant where flowering tops and roots are used as a popular home remedy for improving the immune system. -
Echinacea – Pale Pink
$9.50Read moreA herbaceous flowering PERENNIAL growing to 1.2cm with large, showy heads of pretty pink-purple composite flowers.
Prefers a well-drained soil in a full sun position and can tolerate some drought. Mostly grown as a medicinal plant where flowering tops and roots are used as a popular home remedy for improving the immune system. -
Echinacea – White Swan
$9.50Read moreA herbaceous flowering PERENNIAL growing to 1.2cm with large, showy heads of pretty white composite flowers.
Prefers a well-drained soil in a full sun position and can tolerate some drought. Purple or Angustifolia Echinacea is mostly grown as a medicinal plant where flowering tops and roots are used as a popular home remedy for improving the immune system. -
Echinacea – Yellow Mix
$9.50Add to cartA herbaceous flowering PERENNIAL growing to 1.2cm with large, showy heads of pretty composite flowers in various colours.
Prefers a well-drained soil in a full sun position and can tolerate some drought. Purple or Angustifolia Echinacea is mostly grown as a medicinal plant where flowering tops and roots are used as a popular home remedy for improving the immune system. -
Elderberry
$9.50Add to cartElderberry is a small tree or shrub growing to 6mx6m at a fairly fast rate. The plant is known as the ‘Medicine Chest’ of the country people for its associated medicinal qualities. Note that all parts except the blossoms and the very ripe berries, are poisenous and should not be ingested. The flowers are used a flavouring to make elderflower tea, or elderflower sparkling wine and eldeflower syrups among many other culinary uses. The berries too are made into syrups or brewed into teas.
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Elecampane
$9.50Add to cartA flowering PERENNIAL plant growing to 1.5m. A rigid stem carries large and toothed leaves thickly woolly on the underside. Yellow flowerheads are up to 5 cm broad. The root is thick, branching and mucilaginous. It grows in almost any moist soil in the full sun or semi-shade.
The leaves somewhat bitter but aromatic and edible. Roots are candied. Used as a warming and tonic herb, it is a well used medicinal herb. -
Epazote
$7.50Add to cartEpazote, Dysphania ambrosioides, is a pungent herb prominent in Mexican cuisine, lauded for aiding digestion and providing a bold, earthy flavor to dishes like beans, chili, and soups. With serrated leaves and antimicrobial properties, it is also valued for its traditional use in treating intestinal parasites.
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Epazote – Oaxacan Red
$7.50Add to cartEpazote, Dysphania ambrosioides, is a pungent herb prominent in Mexican cuisine, lauded for aiding digestion and providing a bold, earthy flavor to dishes like beans, chili, and soups. With serrated leaves and antimicrobial properties, it is also valued for its traditional use in treating intestinal parasites.
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Evening Primrose – Standard Yellow
$8.50Add to cartA hardy flowering BIENNIAL growing to 1.2m. Basal rosettes spiral up to flowering stems with butter-yellow flowers that are noted for attracting bees and butterflies. Prefers well-drained soil in a full sun position, and can grow in nutritionally poor soil.
Flowers, leaves, oil, root and seedpods are noted as edible. Many medicinal applications, particularly seed oil.
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Fennel – Bronze
$6.50Add to cartAn EVERGREEN PERENNIAL growing to 1.5m with beautiful fine feathery leaves of a dark green to bronze-purple colour and umbels of yellow flowers. Prefers well-drained soil and a full sun position. I can tolerate some drought and strong winds.
All parts of the plant is edible – leaves, stems, root and seed. It is widely used as a domestic herbal medicine for various complaints.