Thank you for your continued support of my small, home-based nursery throughout the past year. I look forward to helping you grow plants for your kitchen, garden, and herbal home remedies cupboard when I reopen in the new year.
Wishing you a peaceful and nourishing festive season.
Minette
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Crosnes – Chinese Artichokes
$9.50Read moreCrosnes (Stachys affinis) is a hardy perennial in the mint family (Lamiaceae) that grows to around 30–45 cm tall and spreads 30–60 cm. It prefers full sun to light shade and thrives in loose, fertile, well-drained soil with consistent moisture. This clumping plant is best known for its curious, spiralled white tubers, harvested in autumn–winter. Crosnes is mainly grown as a Culinary Herb/Vegetable, valued for its nutty, artichoke-like flavour and crisp texture. It also holds cottage-garden appeal with its mint-like leaves and small purple flowers that attract bees and other pollinators. In New Zealand, it is hardy, tolerating frosts well, but tubers should be harvested or mulched to avoid rot in heavy winter soils.
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Curry bush
$8.50Read moreA 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. -
Dahlia – Bedding Mix
$6.50Read moreA tender PERENNIAL, dahlia are leafy flowering plants, ranging in height from 30cm to well over 1.5m, and come in come in spectacular shapes and colours. An attractive plant to grow in the mixed perennial border. Dahlia have edible flowers and tubers.
They grow most successfully in well-watered yet free-draining soils, in situations receiving plenty of sunlight. -
Dahlia – Dandy Mix
$8.50Read moreDahlia ‘Dandy Mix’ (Dahlia variabilis) is a compact annual to short-lived perennial in the Asteraceae family, growing to 30–50 cm tall. It prefers full sun and rich, well-drained soil with regular watering. Produces brightly coloured, single and semi-double flowers in pink, red, yellow, orange, purple, and white tones from summer to autumn. Excellent pollinator plant and cut flower, ideal for borders, pots, and cottage gardens.
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Daylily – Pink Dwarf Evergreen
$7.50Read moreAn evergreen daylily that flowers profusely from very early to late in the season. Dwarf growing, and quickly spreading, this is wonderful to fill the front of a border, or add in pockets throughout the edible flower garden.
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Dianthus – Deep Red
$7.50Read moreDianthus Deep Red, also known as Carnations (Dianthus caryophyllus) is a perennial in the Caryophyllaceae family. This variety boasts deep red, fragrant flowers with serrated petals, known for their spicy aroma and striking appearance. Dianthus Deep Red is popular for floral arrangements and garnishes due to its rich color and long-lasting blooms. It thrives in well-drained, fertile soil and enjoys full sunlight, making it a delightful addition to gardens, borders, and rockeries for a splash of vibrant color throughout the seasons.
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Dianthus – Feathery Mix
$7.50Read moreDianthus Feathery Mix, also known as Feathery Pink (Dianthus plumarius) is a perennial in the Caryophyllaceae family. This charming mix includes dianthus varieties with delicate, feathery petals in a range of hues, such as pink, white, and lavender, creating a whimsical and elegant display. Dianthus Feathery Mix is cherished for its unique texture and fragrant blooms, perfect for borders, rock gardens, and containers. It thrives in well-drained soil and benefits from full sunlight, adding a touch of beauty and grace to any garden landscape.
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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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Earth Gem – Ulluco
$9.50Read moreUlluco (Ullucus tuberosus) is a tender perennial root crop in the Basellaceae family, grown as an annual in New Zealand. It grows to about 30–45cm tall and wide, forming mats of fleshy leaves. It prefers full sun to part shade and thrives in moist, well-drained, fertile soil. Ulluco is prized for its colourful, nutty-flavoured tubers, which are used as a culinary crop and harvested in late autumn. The leaves are also edible when cooked. Protect from hot, dry conditions; best suited to cooler NZ regions.
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Elderberry
$9.50Read moreElderberry 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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Epazote
$7.50Read moreEpazote (Dysphania ambrosioides) is a strongly aromatic culinary herb in the Amaranthaceae family, growing 60–100cm tall. It prefers sun and well-drained soil and is best used sparingly in Mexican and Central American cooking, particularly with beans. Traditionally valued for its digestive and medicinal qualities, though large doses can be toxic.
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Epazote – Oaxacan Red
$8.50Read moreEpazote (Dysphania ambrosioides) Oaxacan Red is a strongly aromatic culinary herb in the Amaranthaceae family, growing 60–100cm tall. It prefers sun and well-drained soil and is best used sparingly in Mexican and Central American cooking, particularly with beans. Traditionally valued for its digestive and medicinal qualities, though large doses can be toxic. This red-leaved forms adds ornamental appeal.
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Feverfew
$8.50Read moreA flowering PERENNIAL plant in the daisy family growing to 60cm. The small bush has pungently scented light green to yellowish-green leaves and daisy-like flowers.
It prefers well-drained soil in a full sun position and can tolerate somewhat strong winds. Mostly used as a medicinal herb, but the flowers and leaves have some culinary use. -
Feverfew – Golden
$8.50Read moreA flowering PERENNIAL plant in the daisy family growing to 60cm. The small bush has pungently scented bright golden green to yellowish-green leaves and daisy-like flowers.
It prefers well-drained soil in a full sun position and can tolerate somewhat strong winds. Mostly used as a medicinal herb, but the flowers and leaves have some culinary use.
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Forget-me-not – Chinese Hound’s Tongue Pink
$7.50Read moreA flowering BIENNIAL/PERENNIAL that grows to 80cm and looks like field forget-me-nots. Sometimes referred to as Chinese forget-me-not. Prefers well-drained moist soil and can grow in nutritionally poor soil in a full sun position.
Although Cynoglossum officinalis has some historic use as a food and medicine, it is advised that pink houndstongue is not edible, nor should it be used as a medicine.
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Foxglove – Apricot-Peach
$7.50Read moreFoxglove (Digitalis purpurea and cultivars) is a biennial or short-lived perennial in the Plantaginaceae family that grows to 1–1.5m tall and 30–60cm wide. It prefers semi-shade to sun and moist, well-drained soils. It produces tall spires of tubular flowers in shades of white, apricot, pink, or purple, much loved by bees and pollinators. This is a beautiful white flowering cultivar. All parts of this plant are highly toxic to humans and animals.
Foxglove is grown as a cottage garden favourite and pollinator plant. Medicinal use is strictly professional only, in minute controlled doses. -
Goldenrod
$8.50Read moreSolidago, or Goldenrod, boasts bright yellow clusters of flowers that enliven landscapes in late summer and fall, attracting bees and butterflies with its rich nectar source. This perennial herb’s potential medicinal uses include relief from urinary issues and hay fever, showcasing anti-inflammatory benefits and ecological significance in supporting pollinator populations.
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Goldenrod Dwarf – Baby Gold
$8.50Read moreSolidago, or Goldenrod, boasts bright yellow clusters of flowers that enliven landscapes in late summer and fall, attracting bees and butterflies with its rich nectar source. This perennial herb’s potential medicinal uses include relief from urinary issues and hay fever, showcasing anti-inflammatory benefits and ecological significance in supporting pollinator populations.
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Gotu Kola
$8.50Read moreAn EVERGREEN HERBACEOUS PERENNIAL growing to 20cm and spreading. Frost tender , it can grow in semi-shaded areas or in full sun, and prefers moist or wet soils.
Stems are slender, creeping stolons from a cream-coloured rhizomatous rootstock. Leaves are kidney-shaped and palmately veined.
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Horseradish
$10.50Read moreA PERENNIAL of the mustard family growing to 70cm. Prefers a moist and well-drained soil and can grow in very alkaline soils. Full sun or semi-shade.
The young leaves are distinctly different to older leaves, being asymettric spiky before becoming flat and broad.
The plant is cultivated mostly for its large, white, tapered root which is a vegetable and spice. It has medicinal use.