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Orach – Red : seeds
$4.50Add to cartAn ANNUAL growing to 1.8m, red mountain spinach has attractive purple lance-shaped leaves. Prefers well-drained moist soil in the full sun. It can grow in very alkaline and saline soils.
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Parcel : seeds
$4.25Add to cartA BIENNIAL growing to 60cm. Prefers moist soil in a full sun or semi-shade position and can grow in saline soils.
Leaves are eaten raw or cooked, mainly in soups, but can be eaten in salads in small amounts. It has historical medicinal uses for indigestion and for calming anxiety.
Looks like a cross between celery and parsley, hence the name PAR(sley)-CEL(ery). -
Poppy Somniferum Mix : seeds
$4.25Add to cartAn ANNUAL growing to 60cm. Prefers moist well-drained soil in full sun.
A valuable ornamental plant with beautiful flowers, often grown in gardens.
It is the species of plant from which opium and poppy seeds are derived.
This is a mix of colours from my gardens.
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Rose Campion – Occulata (pink and white) : seeds
$4.25Add to cartA PERENNIAL growing to 80 cm with grey felted leaves and single, white and pink flowers flowers produced in succession.
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Salad Burnett : seeds
$4.25Add to cartSalad 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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Salsify : seeds
$4.25Add to cartSalsify is a BIENNIAL growing to 0.6 m with long green straplike leaves and beautiful purple flowers.
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Savory Winter Creeping : seeds
$4.25Add to cartThis 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 : seeds
$4.25Add to cartHalf-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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Shungiku : seeds
$4.25Add to cartThis 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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Sunflower Mix : seeds
$4.25Add to cartSunflowers are well known tall growing ANNUAL flowering plants. This is a mix of bronze and yellow multi headed varieties freely growing in my garden.
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Sweet Annie : seeds
$6.00Add to cartSweet Annie is an ANNUAL I the wormwood family growing to 90cm. Fragrant fern like leaves.
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Toothache plant (aka Electric Daisy) : seeds
$6.00Add to cartToothache plant is an ANNUAL small, erect plant that bears gold or red-and-gold inflorescences. It prefers well-drained soil in a warm, full-sun position.
Leaves can be used in small amounts and the flower bud eaten is a novelty – having a grassy taste followed by a tingling and numbing sensation.
It has traditional medicinal uses.
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Zinnia Haageana : seeds
$4.25Add to cartThe beautiful single flowering small zinnias grow fast and floriferous. Pretty mixes of orange, yellow, reds, pinks. This is a mix of all seeds from my Z. haageana including Aztec, Jazzy and Persian mixes
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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. -
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.
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Fennel Florence : seeds
$4.25Read moreAn EVERGREEN PERENNIAL growing to 1.5m with beautiful fine feathery green and light-green leaves, and umbels of yellow flowers. Florence Fennel is known and sought after for its swollen stem base. Prefers well-drained soil and a full sun position. I can tolerate some drought and strong winds.
All parts of the plant is edible – leaves, stems, root and seed. It is widely used as a domestic herbal medicine for various complaints.
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Hollyhock – Crème de Cassis : seeds
$4.25Read moreA flowering PERENNIAL, often grown as a BIENNIAL, in the mallow family, that can grow to over 2.4m in height. The plants have an erect, unbranched habit with large lobed or toothed leaf blades and very tall flower spikes bearing many attractive flowers.
The plant does well in almost any well-drained soil in a full sun position, and can grow in semi-shade. Tall flower spikes may need staking.
The flowers, leaves, root and stem are edible and it has a long history of medicinal use. -
Hollyhock – Pink : seeds
$4.25Read moreA flowering PERENNIAL, often grown as a BIENNIAL, in the mallow family, that can grow to over 2.4m in height. The plants have an erect, unbranched habit with large lobed or toothed leaf blades and very tall flower spikes bearing many attractive very bright pink flowers.
The plant does well in almost any well-drained soil in a full sun position, and can grow in semi-shade. Tall flower spikes may need staking.
The flowers, leaves, root and stem are edible and it has a long history of medicinal use.