Hand-harvested seeds from my own home-grown, spray-free, organically cared-for food and medicine plants.
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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Alpine Strawberry White : seeds
$4.25Read 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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Bean Celebration Runner Bean : seeds
$4.25Read moreA runner bean with gorgeous peach coloured flowers and a profusion of delicious broad beans over a long period.
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Bean Romano : seeds
$4.25Read moreRomano beans are an Italian flat bean that is juicy, with a sweet flavour and great crunch.
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Bergamot Lemon : seeds
$4.25Read moreAn ANNUAL growing to 60cm with several stems from the base lined with pairs of lance-shaped leaves that emit a lemony odour when crushed. The purple flowers are highly attractive to butterflies and bees. Prefers moist soil in a full sun or semi-shaded position.
Leaves are edible and used as a condiment and for brewing a herbal tea.
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Borage : seeds
$4.25Read moreAn ANNUAL flowering plant growing to 60cm , well noted for bringing bees to the garden. It is very bristly or hairy all over the stems and the leaves. Large leaves are alternate and simple. Large floral displays with multiple flowers blooming simultaneously. Somewhat tolerant of drought, it can grow in semi shade or full sun.
Leaves have a cucumber flavour and the pretty star-shaped blue flowers are also edible. Medicinally it has a lot of domestic uses. -
Calendula – Mix : seeds
$4.25Read moreCalendula is a popular flowering ANNUAL that grows to 60cm with oblong-lanceolate leaves and single flowerheads of bright orange or yellow. Flowers are pollinated by bees and it is a well-known companion plant. Calendula prefers any well drained soil but can grow in very poor soils and can tolerate very acidic or very alkaline soils. It can grow in semi shade but grows best in full sun. The plant can flower nearly year-round in favourable conditions, and the flower petals are edible and medicinal.
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Celery : seeds
$4.25Read moreI grew both the heritage “Nutty” celery that has a dense strong green stem and nutty flavour and a hollow, red stemmed variety called “Peppermint Stick”, these seeds are the result of self-seeded plants from those, so it could be either or, or a cross of the two. The self seeded plants that keep coming up in my garden are delicious and strong growing.
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Chilli – Rocoto (Red) : seeds
$4.25Read moreA hot chilli with torpedo-shaped fruit on a tall plant.
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Chilli – Rocoto (Yellow) : seeds
$4.25Read moreA hot chilli with torpedo-shaped fruit on a tall plant.
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Chives : seeds
$4.25Read moreA 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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Corn cockle : seeds
$4.25Read moreCorn Cockle is an ANNUAL growing to 1.2m with bright pink flowers. Noted for attracting wildlife to the garden.