A DECIDUOUS PERENNIAL growing to 60cm with slender branched stems and glossy green lanceolate leaves.
Prefers well-drained soil in full sun or semi-shade. Can tolerate drought.
Leaves are used as a culinary flavouring. The plant has medicinal and household uses.
Russian Tarragon is a PERENNIAL growing to 1m. Preferes well-drained soil in full sun or semi-shade and can tolerate drought.
Leaves are eaten raw or cooked similarly to French Tarragon, although the flavour is said to be inferior.
Thyme is an EVERGREEN SHRUB growing to 20cm with slender stems and small green aromatic leaves.
Prefers well-drained soil in full sun, and can grow in nutritionally poor soil.
Leaves are used fresh or dried as a condiment and tea, and it has many proven medicinal actions.
The leaves of this creeping EVERGREEN SHRUB are smaller and narrower and it grows low on the ground with white flowers. Same cultivation requirements as Common Thyme.
The Golden Thyme is an EVERGREEN PERENNNIAL and has light golden-green leaves and grows to 10cm. It has light pink flowers. Same cultivation requirements as Common Thyme
Tomatillo is a frost tender ANNUAL growing to 1.2m with compact or upright habit, pubescent stems and broad serrated leavess. The tomatillo fruit is surrounded by an inedible, paper-like husk
Prefers well-drained soil in full sun or semi-shade.
A selection of this season’s choice of tomatoes grown from my stock of over 250 varieties. Tomatoes are ANNUAL fruiting plants bearing delicious fruit in a variety of shapes, sizes, colours and taste profiles. Please contact me for a list of available varieties this season. All heirloom or open pollinated plants.
Spilanthes acmella, also known as the toothache plant, eyeball plant, Acmella oleracea, paracress, jambu, electric daisy, Szechuan buttons is a tropical herbaceous plant with analgesic properties, traditionally used to alleviate toothaches and oral discomfort. Its vibrant yellow and red inflorescences contain spilanthol compounds, inducing a tingling sensation and enhancing flavor when used in culinary dishes and cocktails.
Toothache plant is an ANNUAL small, erect plant that bears gold or red-and-gold inflorescences. It prefers well-drained soil in a warm, full-sun position.
Leaves can be used in small amounts and the flower bud eaten is a novelty – having a grassy taste followed by a tingling and numbing sensation.
It has traditional medicinal uses.