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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  • Chilli – Habanero Yellow

    $6.50

    A frost and cold tender EVERGREEN PERENNIAL that is often grown as an annual, 60cm- 90cm in height. Typically, a ripe habanero chili is 2–6 cm and are very hot (100,000 – 350,000 SHU) and with its heat, sweet flavour and floral aroma make them popular in hot sauces and spicy foods. Prefers growing in a moist well-drained soil in full sun.

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    Chilli – Jalapeno

    $7.50

    Capsicums are a frost and cold tender EVERGREEN PERENNIAL that is often grown as an annual, reaching up to 1m in height. A medium-sized chili pepper pod is 5–10 cm long and hangs down with a round, firm, smooth flesh. It is mild to medium (1,000 – 20,000 SHU). Commonly picked and consumed while still green, it is occasionally allowed to fully ripen and turn red, orange or yellow. Prefers growing in a moist well-drained soil in full sun.

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  • Chilli – various

    $6.50

    A variety of the chillies and peppers I am growing from my collection of over 150 varieties. Chillies come in a great variety of colours, shapes, heat levels and taste profiles. Please contact me to see which varieties are on offer this season.

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  • Chives – Common

    $6.50

    A BULB that grows to 30cm, preferring a moist but well-drained soil and full sun or semi shade. Tolerates heavy clay. Chives have hollow stems (or scapes) up to 50cm and tubular leaves that are just slightly shorter than the scapes. The flowers are pale purple, and produced in a dense inflorescence.
    Leaves with their mild onion flavour is used in cooking, either fresh, or cooked, or dried. Long history of nutritive healing.

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    Chives – Garlic

    $6.50

    A BULB growing to 30cm. Not frost tender, it prefers well-drained soil in full sun. Tolerates alkaline soils and somewhat drought resistant. Garlic chives have strap-shaped leaves and produces many white flowers in a round cluster. Leaves are used fresh or cooked where a mild onion-garlic flavour is needed. Flowers and flower buds can be eaten raw or cooked.

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    Chrysanthemum – Golden Buttons

    $7.50

    A very attractivequally PERENNIAL feverfewwith attractive bright yellow flowers “buttons” throughout the season.

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  • Comfrey – Bocking14

    $9.50

    This is a cultivar that sets sterile seed and is not as invasive as the common comfrey. Comfrey is a hardy PERENNIAL growing to 1.2m. It has large, hairy and broad leaves bearing small bell-shaped flowers and a long black, turnip-like root. Comfrey grows well in almost any moist soil, but can tolerate heavy clay soil. It prefers full sun, but can grow well in partial shade.

    Leaves and roots are used mainly as a medicine although young leaves have historically been eaten.

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  • Comfrey – purple flowering common

    $8.50

    Comfrey is a hardy PERENNIAL growing to 1.2m. It has large, hairy and broad leaves bearing small bell-shaped flowers and a long black, turnip-like root. Comfrey grows well in almost any moist soil, but can tolerate heavy clay soil. It prefers full sun, but can grow well in partial shade.
    Leaves and roots are used mainly as a medicine although young leaves have historically been eaten.

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  • Comfrey – white flowering dwarf evergreen

    $8.50

    Comfrey is a hardy PERENNIAL growing to 45cm. It has large, hairy and broad leaves bearing small bell-shaped flowers and a long black, turnip-like root. Comfrey grows well in almost any moist soil, but can tolerate heavy clay soil. It prefers full sun, but can grow well in partial shade.
    Leaves and roots are used mainly as a medicine although young leaves have historically been eaten.

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    Comfrey – yellow flowering dwarf evergreen

    $8.50

    Comfrey is a hardy PERENNIAL growing to 45cm. It has large, hairy and broad leaves bearing small bell-shaped flowers and a long black, turnip-like root. Comfrey grows well in almost any moist soil, but can tolerate heavy clay soil. It prefers full sun, but can grow well in partial shade.
    Leaves and roots are used mainly as a medicine although young leaves have historically been eaten.

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  • Coreopsis – Plains

    $6.50

    Coreopsis is a flowering ANNUAL growing growing up to 1m. The abundant mahogony coloured flowers are noted for attracting pollinating insects. Coreopsis prefers a well drained soil in full sun, but it can tolerate some drought when well established. Self-seeds freely. Altough it is generally grown as an ornamental plant or dye herb, a tea can be made from the whole plant. It has some historic medicinal use.

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  • Coriander

    $6.50

    Coriander is an ANNUAL that grows to 50cm with broadly lobed very fragrant leaves at the base of the plant turning feathery and slender higher on the flowering stems. Flowers are borne in small umbels and followed by round seeds.
    It prefers a moist soil in semi-shaded positions as full sun and dry soil leads to bolting. It is a world-renowned flavouring as a fresh herb – cilantro, or dried spice – coriander seeds. It also has remarkable medicinal qualities.

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