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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Hyssop Blue
$8.50Read moreHyssop (Hyssopus officinalis) is a Mediterranean herb cherished for its aromatic qualities and diverse uses in enhancing culinary dishes and herbal remedies, providing a blend of antiseptic, expectorant, and anti-inflammatory properties for respiratory health. This is the standard blue variety.
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Hyssop Pink
$8.50Read moreHyssop (Hyssopus officinalis) is a Mediterranean herb cherished for its aromatic qualities and diverse uses in enhancing culinary dishes and herbal remedies, providing a blend of antiseptic, expectorant, and anti-inflammatory properties for respiratory health. This is a pink flowering variety.
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Hyssop White
$8.50Read moreHyssop (Hyssopus officinalis) is a Mediterranean herb cherished for its aromatic qualities and diverse uses in enhancing culinary dishes and herbal remedies, providing a blend of antiseptic, expectorant, and anti-inflammatory properties for respiratory health. This is a white flowering variety.
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Lady’s Mantle
$8.50Read moreAn HERBACEOUS PERENNIAL in the Rose family that has a clumping, mounding habit.
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Liquorice
$9.50Read moreA PERENNIAL growing to 1.2m with attractive pinnate leaves. Flowers are purple to pale whitish blue and followed by oblong pods containing several seeds.
Prefers moist soil and can grow in full sun or semi-shade.
The plant is cultivated for its edible root which is used as a flavouring and medicine.
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Lovage
$8.50Read moreGarden Lovage is a PERENNIAL growing to 1.8m. The plant is erect and tall with a basal rosette pinnately divided leaves, and flowers produced at umbels at the top of leafy stems.
Lovage smells somewhat similar to celery.
Prefers moist soil in full sun or semi-shade.
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Love-in-the-mist
$6.50Read moreLove-in-the-Mist is an ANNUAL plant growing to 50cm tall with pinnately divided thread-like leaves and starry shaped flowers and large inflated capsules filled with numerous seeds. It is grown as an ornamental and comes in shades of blue, pink and purple.
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Marigold – Passionfruit
$9.50Read moreA beautiful large shrub, this PERENNIAL marigold has a sweet fruit scent when brushed past. Very good for attracting wildlife to the garden.
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Marigold – Texan Tarragon
$7.50Read moreMexican Tarragon is a PERENNIAL growing to 80cm with an upright to bushy habit with many unbranching stems. Leaves are linear, shiny green and anise-tarragon scented.
Clusters of small golden yellow flower heads on the ends of the stems appear in late summer.
Prefers moist, well-drained soil in full sun. Can grow in heavy clay soil. -
Marjoram – Golden ‘Acorn Banks’
$8.50Read moreA hardy mat-forming PERENNIAL growing to 40cm with bright golden-green leaves. Prefers a full sun position (brighter leaves) or semi-shade (leaves tend to be more green) and well-drained soil. Leaves are edible, and used much the same as marjoram and oregano to flavour Mediterranean dishes.
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Marjoram – Pot
$7.50Read moreOriganum onites is a PERENNIAL growing 30cm by 60cm. Leaves are slightly bitter compared to oregano or marjoram, but with their strong thyme-like flavour are an acceptable culinary herb. Leaves are used fresh or dried. Has medicinal uses.
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Marshmallow
$9.50Read moreA PERENNIAL growing to 1.2 m with broad, lobed, soft, and velvety leaves and pale pink flowers.
Prefers full sun position and can grow in saline soils. The whole plant abound in mild mucalige. Leaves, oil and root are edible. -
Mashua – Tuberous Nasturtium
$12.50Read moreMashua (Tropaeolum tuberosum) is a frost-tender perennial climber in the Tropaeolaceae family that grows to 2–3 m tall and spreads around 1–2 m. It prefers full sun but tolerates partial shade, and thrives in rich, moist but well-drained soils. This vigorous vine has distinctive round nasturtium-like leaves, orange-red flowers, and forms edible, knobbly tubers in late autumn. Mashua is grown as an edible and medicinal plant, with tubers eaten cooked and young leaves or flowers occasionally used in salads. It is also highly valued as a companion plant for its strong pest-repelling properties. In New Zealand, Mashua grows well in most regions but requires frost-free or well-mulched conditions for reliable tuber harvests.
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Meadowfoam
$6.50Read moreMeadowfoam is a ANNUAL flowering plant attractive to bees, hoverflies and other beneficial insects. It has white flowers with yellow centers. Selfseeds freely and can grow in heavy clay soil.
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Meadowsweet – Flore Pleno
$12.50Read moreA PERENNIAL growing to 1.2m.
Prefers moist or wet soil and can grow in heavy clay soils. Full sun or semi-shade.
Flowers, leaves and root are edible and it has a long history of medicinal uses. Double flowering variety.
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Mint – Pineapple mint
$8.50Read moreA PERENNIAL growing from 40cm – 1m with light green broad oval leaves with yellow to white variegations, that are somewhat hairy on top and downy underneath. Flowers are white or pink and form in mid to late summer. Attractive to bees.
Can grow in almost any moist soil in a full sun or semi-shade position.
Leaves are eatan raw or cooked and like other mints, used as a domestic herbal remedy. -
Mint – Applemint
$8.50Read moreA PERENNIAL growing from 40cm – 1m with light green broad oval leaves that are somewhat hairy on top and downy underneath. Flowers are white or pink and form in mid to late summer. Attractive to bees.
Can grow in almost any moist soil in a full sun or semi-shade position.
Leaves are eatan raw or cooked and like other mints, used as a domestic herbal remedy. -
Mint – Basil mint
$8.50Read moreA hardy PERENNIAL growing to 60cm with narrow aromatic leaves that have basil-mint aroma. Prefers partial shade or full sun in moist soils.
Leaves can be eaten raw or cooked and it has similar medicinal uses than other mints. -
Mint – Chocolate mint
$8.50Read moreA hardy PERENNIAL growing to 60cm tall with a spreading habit. Large ovate leaves are bronze to dark green and it has deep purple-red stems. The flavour is strongly peppermint with a sweet chocolate undertone. Delicious eaten raw in fruit salads, or added as a garnish to fruit salads, cakes etc., it has similar medicinal uses than common peppermint.
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Mint – Common /Garden mint
$7.50Read moreA hardy PERENNIAL growing to 60cm with bright green ovate leaves. Can grow in almost any soil, tolerates heavy clay soil. It preferes moist soil in a full sun or semi-shade position.
Flavourful mint leaves can be eaten raw or cooked; and it is commonly used as a domestic herbal remedy.