Thank you for your interest in herb plants from MeadowSweet Herbs & Flowers. I've closed order processing for autumn and winter, and will re-open the plant sales on 12 August 2024. I wish everyone a restful cold season and will see you back here for more herb offerings in spring!

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  • Rue

    $7.50

    An evergreen PERENNIAL shrub growing to 50cm. Prefers well-drained soil in full sun or semi-shade, and can grow in nutritionally poor soil and can tolerate drought.
    It is a beautiful blue-green shrublet with leaves that inspired the suit of clubs in playing cards. Leaves can be eaten and it has a long history of use as a domestic remedy, but is slightly toxic and should only ever be used under medical supervision.

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  • Sage – Clary

    $7.50

    A BIENNIAL/PERENNIAL growing to 1m. Prefers well-drained soil in full sun.
    Leaves and flowers can be eaten cooked or raw. Medicinally it has been a domestic remedy for many years.

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  • Sage – Common

    $6.50

    An evergreen PERENNIAL shrub growing to 60cm Prefers well-drained soil in a full sun position, and can tolerate drought.
    Leaves are a common culinary herb and it has been used for centuries as a medicinal plant.

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  • Sage – Golden Sage

    $6.50

    An evergreen PERENNIAL shrub growing to 60cm Prefers well-drained soil in a full sun position, and can tolerate drought.
    Leaves are a common culinary herb and it has been used for centuries as a medicinal plant. Golden sage has beautiful variegated leaves making it an attractive sage. It is used similarly to common sage.

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  • Sage – Pineapple

    $6.50

    An evergreen PERENNIAL growing to 1m. Prefers well-drained soil in a full sun position. Bright scarlet red flowers for most of the year.
    Fragrant leaves with a pleasant pineapple scent is used fresh or dried. Flowers are edible.

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  • Sage – Purple

    $6.50

    An evergreen PERENNIAL shrub growing to 60cm Prefers well-drained soil in a full sun position, and can tolerate drought.
    Leaves are a common culinary herb and it has been used for centuries as a medicinal plant. Purple sage is said to be stronger medicinally than common sage. The leaves are dark green to purple and very attractive. Use as common sage.

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  • Sage – Tricolor

    $6.50

    An evergreen PERENNIAL shrub that prefers well-drained soil in a full sun position, and can tolerate drought.
    Leaves are a common culinary herb and it has been used for centuries as a medicinal plant. Tricolor sage has beautiful leaves in pruple, greena and white. Use as common sage.

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  • Sage – White

    $8.00

    A PERENNIAL growing to 1.3m with whitish evergreen leaves and flowers that are white to pale lavender and attractive to bees. Prefers well-drained soil in a full sun position. Seed is eaten raw or cooked, and it has some traditional medicinal use.

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  • Salad Burnett

    $6.50

    Salad Burnet is an EVERGREEN PERENNIAL growing to 60cm, forming a rosette of attractive pinnate basal leaves with oval and lightly serrated leaflets. Flowers are rounded clusters of pink tiny blooms. Prefers any moist well-drained soil in full sun, and can grow in nutritionally poor soil or very alkaline soils.
    Leaves are edible, fresh or cooked, and dried leaves can be made into a tea. It has some domestic medicinal use.

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    Santolina

    $7.50

    An herbaceous perennial, this small evergreen shrub is best suited to a hot and dry environment and grows best in full sun. Grey-green leaves form attractive mounds and are topped with yellow button flowers in summer.

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  • Savory – Lemon

    $6.50

    This EVERGREEN SHRUB grows to 30cm and has upright growing stems with thyme like leaves with a highly aromatic lemon scent.
    Prefers full sun in a well-drained soil and can grow in nutritionally poor soil or very alkaline soil. It is drought-tolerant.

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  • Savory – Summer

    $6.00

    Summer Savory is an ANNUAL growing to 30cm with slender upright stems with bronze-green leaves and lilac tubular flowers. Prefers full sun position and well-drained soil. It is drought tolerant and can grow in very alkaline soils.
    Leaves are used as a condiment either fresh or cooked, and it has medicinal uses.

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  • Savory – Winter

    $6.50

    This EVERGREEN SHRUB grows to 40cm and has upright growing stems with aromatic leaves and white flowers.
    Prefers full sun in a well-drained soil and can grow in nutritionally poor soil or very alkaline soil. It is drought-tolerant.

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  • Savory – Winter Creeping

    $6.50

    This PERENNIAL savory grows to 10cm with a creeping habit and white flowers which are very attractive to bees.
    Prefers full sun in well-drained soil and can grow in nutritionally poor soiland very alkaline soils.
    It can tolerate drought.
    Leaves are used like summer or winter savory, and are especially good cooked with beans. Some medicinal uses.

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  • Scabiosa – Pincushion

    $6.50

    Half-hardy PERENNIALS growing to 80cm. Frost and cold tender. Prefers well drained soil in full sun. Large fully double dense flower heads are attractive as cottage garden or meadow flowers, for cut flowers and to attract beneficial insects to the garden.

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    Scabiosa – Starball

    $6.50

    An ANNUAL heirloom flower that is prized for the starballs hape of its dried seed heads. The flowers are lavender blue.

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  • Shiso – Green Korean

    $6.50

    Shiso is an ANNUAL growing to 60cm with very aromatic, broad, frilly, ruffled green leaves.
    Prefers moist well-drained soil in full sun. nnot grow in the shade.
    Leaves, flowers and seeds are edible and it has some use in Oriental medicince.

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  • Shiso – Red/Purple

    $6.50

    Shiso is an ANNUAL growing to 60cm with very aromatic, broad, frilly, ruffled purple leaves.
    Prefers moist well-drained soil in full sun. nnot grow in the shade.
    Leaves, flowers and seeds are edible and it has some use in Oriental medicince.

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  • Shoofly

    $6.00

    Shoofly is an ANNUAL flowering plant in the nightshade family growing to 1m tall with vigorous spreading branches and ovate, mid-green toothed and wavy leaves. The flowers are bell-shaped, pale violet with white throats and calyxes that resemble that of physalis species.
    It has some references to being edible and medicinal, although most texts refer to it as highly toxic. Do not eat. The sap can be used, mixed with milk, as a bait for house fly and blowfly. A decoction has been used to treat headlice.

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  • Shungiku

    $6.00

    This leafy ANNUAL grows up to 1.2m and has yellow-and-white daisy-like flowers and finely divided green leaves. Prefers moist and well-drained soil in a full sun or semi-shaded position.
    Flowers and leaves are edible.

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  • Sorrel – Garden

    $6.50

    Sorrel 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.

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  • Sorrel – Red-veined

    $6.50

    Blood-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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  • Sorrel – Red-veined : seeds

    $4.50

    Blood-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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