Thank you for your interest in herb plants from MeadowSweet Herbs & Flowers. I've closed order processing for autumn and winter, and will re-open the plant sales on 12 August 2024. I wish everyone a restful cold season and will see you back here for more herb offerings in spring!
This PERENNIAL subshrub can reach up to 1.8m. Flowers are small and followed by pale green spheroid follicles containing many seeds with tufts. Swan plant caterpillars feed on this plant.
Tansy is a PERENNIAL growing to 1m with fern-like finely-dividied compound leaves from a somewhat reddish errect and smooth stem, and flat-topped, button-like yellow flowers.
Prefers well-drained soil in full sun.
Flowers and leaves are edible and it has some historic medicinal and household uses.
Caraway Thyme is an EVERGREEN SHRUB growing to 10cm with very aromatic small lanceolate leaves on prostrate branches.
Prefers well-drained soil in full sun and can tolerate drought.
With caraway-seed scented leaves, it is an excellent flavouring herb. As with all thymes, there are medicinal uses for the plant.
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.
An EVERGREEN PERENNIAL creeping thyme, ‘Annie Hall’ forms mat with small, narrow leaves. Flowers are pale purple-pink in late spring. Can withstand dry areas. Ground cover thyme suitable for in between paving stones or small lawn areas.
An EVERGREEN PERENNIAL creeping thyme, ‘Bertram Anderson’ is a creeping thyme with bright light green leaves in spring turning golden in summer. Light lemon fragrance. Drought tolerant once established. Attractive to butterflies. Evergreen.
The leaves of this creeping EVERGREEN SHRUB are smaller and narrower and it grows low on the ground with white flowers. Same cultivation requirements as Common Thyme.
The Golden Thyme is an EVERGREEN PERENNNIAL and has light golden-green leaves and grows to 10cm. It has light pink flowers. Same cultivation requirements as Common Thyme
Silver Posie thyme is an EVERGREEN PERENNIAL SHRUB with white-silver margined green leaves with characteristic thyme scent. Grow and use as Common Thyme.
Valerian is a DECIDUOUS PERENNIAL growing to 1.5m with heads of sweetly scented pink or white flowers. Prefers well-drained moist soil in full sun.
It is a well-known medicinal plant.
Yarrow is a PERENNIAL growing to 60cm. It has very feathery, frilly, hairy, aromatic leaves and flat clusters of flowers at the top of the stem.
Prefers well-drained soil and can grow in nutritionally poor soil. Full sun or semi-shade. It can grow in very alkaline soil and can tolerate drought and maritime exposure.
Leaves are used raw or cooked and has many medicinal uses.
Yarrow is a PERENNIAL growing to 60cm. It has very feathery, frilly, hairy, aromatic leaves and flat clusters of flowers at the top of the stem.
Prefers well-drained soil and can grow in nutritionally poor soil. Full sun or semi-shade. It can grow in very alkaline soil and can tolerate drought and maritime exposure.
Leaves are used raw or cooked and has many medicinal uses.
Yarrow is a PERENNIAL growing to 60cm. It has very feathery, frilly, hairy, aromatic leaves and flat clusters of flowers at the top of the stem.
Prefers well-drained soil and can grow in nutritionally poor soil. Full sun or semi-shade. It can grow in very alkaline soil and can tolerate drought and maritime exposure.
Leaves are used raw or cooked and has many medicinal uses.
Yarrow is a PERENNIAL growing to 60cm. It has very feathery, frilly, hairy, aromatic leaves and flat clusters of flowers at the top of the stem.
Prefers well-drained soil and can grow in nutritionally poor soil. Full sun or semi-shade. It can grow in very alkaline soil and can tolerate drought and maritime exposure.
Leaves are used raw or cooked and has many medicinal uses.
Zinnias are flowering ANNUAL shrubs and sub-shrubs growing to 1m, with upright stems, sessile lanceolate leaves and variable flowers in a range of colours.
Grow as a bee attracting flower, ornamental in the flower border, and as a companion plant.
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