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Salad Burnett : seeds
$4.25Salad 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
$4.25Salsify 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
$4.25This 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
$4.25Half-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
$4.25This 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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Silverbeet Oriole : seeds
$4.25This 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.
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Sorrel – Red-veined : seeds
$4.50Blood-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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Sunflower Mix : seeds
$4.25Sunflowers 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
$6.00Sweet 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
$6.00Toothache 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
$4.25The 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