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.
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.
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.
This yellow stemmed swiss chard, or silverbeet, has deep golden stalks and veins. Harvest as baby leaves for fresh use, or cook mature leaves as a spinach.
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.
Toothache 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.
The 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