MeadowSweet Herbs & Flowers Nursery and Herb Education Centre is now closed for orders from 16 December 2025 until mid-January 2026 while I take a short festive break.

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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    Mint – Common /Garden mint

    $7.50

    A 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.

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    Mint – Corsican mint

    $8.50

    A PERENNIAL low growing evergreen mint with fresh scent when bruised. Tiny leaves and creeping habit.

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    Mint – Eau de Cologne mint

    $8.50

    Eau de Cologne mint is a PERENNIAL mint is a cultivated mint with a strong fresh citrus fragrance.

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  • Pretty variegation on the ginger mint.

    Mint – Ginger mint

    $8.50

    A PERENNIAL growing to 50cm with fragrant round, green leaves that sometimes have golden-yellow variegation.
    Prefers full sun or part shade in a moist soil and can grow in clay soils.
    Mentha x gracilis, Ginger Mint, is a fragrant herb that infuses dishes with refreshing mint and spicy ginger undertones. With lance-shaped leaves and lavender flowers, this perennial plant thrives in well-drained soil, offering culinary delights and potential digestive relief. A favorite among pollinators, Ginger Mint adds charm to gardens while serving diverse culinary and medicinal purposes.

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    Mint – Japanese Menthol Mint

    $8.50

    A PERENNIAL growing to 50cm with long, thin and downy grey-green leaves that are elliptical to lanceolate or broadly ovate in shape, and sharply toothed margins.
    Grows in any moist soil in a full sun or partial shade position. Can tolerate heavy soil.

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    Mint – Mojito/Julep mint

    $8.50

    A hardy PERENNIAL growing to 30cm 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.
    Sweet, flavourful mint leaves can be eaten raw or cooked; is lovely in drinks, and can be used, like other mints, for as a herbal remedy.

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    Mint – Pennyroyal mint

    $8.50

    A PERENNIAL low growing native to Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East. Leaves emit a very strong mint fragrance

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    Mint – Peppermint

    $8.50

    A hardy PERENNIAL growing to 50cm with red-purple stems and dark green leaves that have reddish veins coarsely toothed margins.
    Prefers moist soil in a full sun or semi-shaded position, and can grow in very clay soils.
    With a mild peppermint flavour, the leaves are eaten raw or cooked and it is the most commonly used medicinal mint.

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    Oregano – Greek White flowering

    $7.50

    A PERENNIAL growing to 60cm. Prefers well-drained soil and can grow in nutritionally poor soil. Grows best in full sun, but can tolerate semi-shade.
    Leaves are a popular culinary flavouring and it has centuries of medicinal use.

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  • Pink Rosemary

    Rosemary – Pink flowering

    $8.00

    An evergreen PERENNIAL shrub growing to 1.5m. Prefers well-drained soil in full sun, and can tolerate drought and maritime exposure.
    A popular culinary herb with an array of medicinal uses. This cultivar has beautiful light rose pink flowers.

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  • Rosemary - Tuscan Blue Upright

    Rosemary – Tuscan Blue Upright

    $8.00

    An evergreen PERENNIAL shrub growing to 1.5m. Prefers well-drained soil in full sun, and can tolerate drought and maritime exposure.
    A popular culinary herb with an array of medicinal uses. The Prostratus cultivar makes a great groundcover. The Tuscan Blue variety is a magnificent plant with a very tall, upright growth, making long rosemary stalks great for using as skewers! The deep rich blue of the abundant flowers and the statuesque growth habit makes it an attractive Rosemary to grow.

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  • Sage - Pineapple

    Sage – Pineapple

    $8.50

    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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  • Thyme - Common

    Thyme – Common

    $7.50

    Thyme 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.

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  • Apache Sunset

    Agastache – Apache Sunset

    $8.50

    Agastache ‘Apache Sunset’ (Agastache rupestris) is a perennial in the mint (Lamiaceae) family that grows to around 60–80cm tall and 45–60cm wide. It prefers full sun and grows best in well-drained, sandy or gravelly soils. It has silvery, aromatic foliage and long spikes of tubular orange-sunset flowers that are highly attractive to bees, butterflies, and other pollinators. Agastache ‘Apache Sunset’ is used as a pollinator-friendly cottage garden flower and is excellent as a cut flower. In New Zealand it is hardy to light frosts but may need protection in colder or wetter regions where drainage is poor.

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  • Agastache - Giant hyssop White

    Agastache – Giant hyssop White

    $8.50

    White flowering Anise hyssop is a PERENNIAL growing to 90cm with white flowers that are very attractive to bees and butterflies. It grows upright and clump-like with oval, toothed leaves that have a white tint underneath. The plant prefers well-drained soil and a full sun position. Leaves are anise-scented and the flowers slightly aromatic. Used as a culinary herb, and noted as a Native-American medicine for various ailments.

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  • Raspberry Daiquiri

    Agastache – Raspberry Daiquiri

    $8.50

    Agastache ‘Raspberry Daiquiri’ (Agastache aurantiaca) is a perennial in the mint (Lamiaceae) family that grows to around 50–70 cm tall and 30–45 cm wide. It prefers full sun and well-drained, moderately fertile soil. It has aromatic green foliage and produces vibrant raspberry-pink flower spikes through summer and autumn, beloved by bees, and butterflies.
    Agastache is used as a culinary herb with edible flowers and leaves lending a sweet, minty-anise flavour to salads and teas; as a companion plant it attracts pollinators and beneficial insects to the garden. While not strictly used as a medicinal herb it is part of the agastaches that has traditional uses for easing coughs and supporting digestion. It makes for a good choice for cut flowers due to its vibrant raspberry-colored blooms and attractive foliage.

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  • Balkan Mint, Micromeria

    Balkan Mint

    $8.50

    Balkan Mint (Micromeria thymifolia) is a perennial in the Lamiaceae family that grows in full sun and prefers well-drained soil. It is used as a Culinary Herb for flavouring teas, meats, and stews, and as a Pollinator Plant, attracting bees and beneficial insects.

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    Balm – Lime Balm

    $8.50

    Lime Balm (Melissa officinalis ssp altissima) is a perennial in the Lamiaceae family that grows in full sun to part shade and prefers fertile, well-drained soil. It is used as a Culinary Herb for teas and flavouring, as a Medicinal Herb for relaxation and digestive support, and as a Pollinator Plant.

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  • Balm - Orange Balm

    Balm – Orange Balm

    $8.50

    Orange Balm (Melissa officinalis ‘Mandarina’) is a perennial in the Lamiaceae family that grows in full sun to part shade and prefers fertile, well-drained soil. It is used as a Culinary Herb for teas and flavouring, as a Medicinal Herb for calming and digestive remedies, and as a Pollinator Plant.

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  • Balm of Gilead

    Balm of Gilead

    $8.50

    Balm of Gilead (Cedronella canariensis) is a perennial in the Lamiaceae family that grows in full sun to part shade and prefers well-drained soil. It is used as a Culinary Herb for herbal teas and fragrance, mentioned but not validated as a Medicinal Herb for calming and digestive support, and as a Pollinator Plant.

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