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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Sorrel – Garden
$8.50Read moreSorrel is a PERENNIAL plant growing to 60cm with deep roots, juicy stems and edible, arrow-shaped leaves that taste sour.
Prefers moist soil in a semi-shade to full sun position. Can tolerate acidic soil.
All parts of the plant are edible. It is a good household and dye plant and has medicinal use. -
Sorrel – Red-veined
$8.50Read moreBlood-veined Sorrel is a PERENNIAL plant growing to 60cm with deep roots, juicy stems and edible, red-veined leaves with a sharp sour taste. Prefers full sun or semi-shade position in moist soil. Edible leaves can be added to salads.
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Southernwood
$9.50Read moreThe small bushy DECIDUOUS SHRUB grows to 1.2m and has small grey-green narrow and feathery leaves and small yellow flowers.
It has a strong camphor-like fragrance.
Prefers well-drained soil in a full sun or semi-shade position and can grow in nutritionally poor soil. Drought resistant.
It is used in small quantities as a flavouring, but is mostly used as a medicinal herb. -
Statice – Apricot
$7.50Read moreStatice (Limonium sinuatum), also known as Sea Lavender, is a half-hardy annual in the Plumbaginaceae family, growing 40–70 cm tall and 30–40 cm wide. Native to the Mediterranean region, it thrives in full sun and well-drained soil, tolerating poor soils and coastal conditions. It produces clusters of papery flowers in shades apricot and peach that hold their colour beautifully when dried. Frost-tender in New Zealand, it is usually grown as an annual. Statice is primarily valued as a cut flower and for dried arrangements, and is also a cheerful cottage garden plant that attracts pollinators.
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Strawberry – Alpine White
$8.50Read moreAlpine Strawberry is a PERENNIAL growing to 30cm with trifoliate leaves, white flowers and sweet, small white when ripe strawberry fruit.
Prefers moist well-drained soil in full sun or semi-shade, and can grow in heavy clay soil.
Fruit and leaves are edible and has medicinal use. It is used as a cosmetic herb.
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Strawberry – Lipstick (Pink Flowering)
$7.50Read morePink Flowering Strawberry (Fragaria × ananassa ‘Lipstick’) is a perennial herb in the Rosaceae family. It prefers a sunny to lightly shaded site with moist, well-drained, fertile soil and is hardy across New Zealand. Growing 15–25 cm high and 30–40 cm wide, it forms neat mounds of dark green foliage with bright rosy-pink flowers followed by small, sweet, edible strawberries. Grown both for its culinary fruit and ornamental value, it’s ideal for pots, borders, and edible cottage gardens, and attracts bees and butterflies.
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Strawflower – Apricot Peach
$7.50Read moreStrawflower (Helichrysum bracteatum, also known as Xerochrysum bracteatum) is a tender perennial, often grown as an annual in New Zealand, in the daisy (Asteraceae) family that grows 60–90 cm tall and 30–45 cm wide. It prefers full sun and well-drained, moderately fertile soil. It has narrow green leaves and produces papery, daisy-like blooms in a wide range of bright colours that retain their form and colour when dried. It is a great companion plant to attract pollinators and is excellent for long-lasting cut flowers or dried arrangements.
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Strawflower – Silvery Rose
$7.50Read moreStrawflower (Helichrysum bracteatum, also known as Xerochrysum bracteatum) is a tender perennial, often grown as an annual in New Zealand, in the daisy (Asteraceae) family that grows 60–90 cm tall and 30–45 cm wide. It prefers full sun and well-drained, moderately fertile soil. It has narrow green leaves and produces papery, daisy-like blooms in a wide range of bright colours – this is a pink variety – that retain their form and colour when dried. As a companion plant it attracts pollinators and is excellent for long-lasting cut or dried arrangements.
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Sweet Annie – Annual Wormwood
$9.50Read moreArtemisia annua, Sweet Annie, is a fragrant herb prized for its medicinal qualities, including the malaria-fighting compound artemisinin. Its rapid growth in sunny conditions, reaching over 6 feet tall, makes it a versatile plant used in herbal remedies, traditional medicine, and as a natural insect repellent in gardens
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Sweet violet – pink flowering
$8.50Read moreAn evergreen PERENNIAL gowing to 10cm with heart-shaped leaves and pretty pink flowers.
Prefers well-drained soil in full sun or semi-shade.
Young leaves and flowers are edible and the plant has historic medicinal use.
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Sweet violet – purple
$8.50Read moreAn evergreen PERENNIAL gowing to 10cm with heart-shaped leaves and pretty purple flowers.
Prefers well-drained soil in full sun or semi-shade.
Young leaves and flowers are edible and the plant has historic medicinal use. -
Thyme – Caraway
$8.50Read moreCaraway Thyme is an EVERGREEN SHRUB growing to 10cm with very aromatic small lanceolate leaves on prostrate branches.
Prefers well-drained soil in full sun and can tolerate drought.
With caraway-seed scented leaves, it is an excellent flavouring herb. As with all thymes, there are medicinal uses for the plant. -
Thyme – Common
$7.50Read moreThyme 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. -
Thyme – Creeping Emerald Carpet
$7.50Read moreThe 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.
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Thyme – Creeping Golden
$7.50Read moreThe 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
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Thyme – Creeping Magic carpet
$8.50Read moreAn EVERGREEN PERENNIAL creeping thyme with profusion of pink flowers in late spring.
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Thyme – Creeping Woolly
$7.50Read moreWoolly Thyme is a low-growing PERENNIAL SHRUB with woolly leaves.
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Thyme – Doone Valley
$7.50Read moreThe leaves of this creeping EVERGREEN SHRUB are variegated, and flowers are light pink. Same cultivation requirements as Common Thyme.
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Thyme – Pizza
$7.50Read moreThe Pizza Thyme is an EVERGREEN PERENNIAL shrub with somewhat broader leaves than Common Thyme. Grow as you would Common Thyme