MeadowSweet Herbs & Flowers Nursery and Herb Education Centre is now closed for orders from 16 December 2025 until mid-January 2026 while I take a short festive break.

Thank you for your continued support of my small, home-based nursery throughout the past year. I look forward to helping you grow plants for your kitchen, garden, and herbal home remedies cupboard when I reopen in the new year.

Wishing you a peaceful and nourishing festive season.
Minette
  • Achillea - Yarrow White

    Achillea – Yarrow White

    $9.00

    Achillea millefolium is a perennial in the daisy (Asteraceae) family that grows to 30–60 cm tall and 30–50 cm wide. It prefers full sun and well-drained soils. It has finely divided aromatic leaves and flat-topped clusters of small white flowers. Yarrow is used as a medicinal herb, and also as a cottage garden and pollinator plant. Hardy in most NZ climates.

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  • Balm - Lemon Balm

    Balm – Lemon Balm

    $7.50

    Lemon Balm (Melissa officinalis) is a perennial in the Lamiaceae family that grows in full sun to part shade and prefers rich, well-drained soil. It is used as a Culinary Herb for teas and desserts, as a Medicinal Herb for calming and digestive support, and as a Pollinator Plant.

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  • Calendula

    Calendula

    $6.50

    Calendula (Calendula officinalis) is an annual herb in the Asteraceae family. It prefers full sun to part shade and well-drained, moderately fertile soil, and in New Zealand it is hardy across most regions, self-seeding freely. Growing 30–60 cm tall and 25–40 cm wide, it has bright orange to golden daisy-like flowers. Used as a medicinal herb for its healing, anti-inflammatory blooms, a culinary herb with edible petals, a cottage garden favourite for colour and charm, and a pollinator plant attracting bees and beneficial insects.

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    Calendula – Mix : seeds

    $4.25

    Calendula 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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  • Gotu Kola

    Gotu Kola

    $8.50

    An EVERGREEN HERBACEOUS PERENNIAL growing to 20cm and spreading. Frost tender , it can grow in semi-shaded areas or in full sun, and prefers moist or wet soils.
    Stems are slender, creeping stolons from a cream-coloured rhizomatous rootstock. Leaves are kidney-shaped and palmately veined.
    It is used as a culinary vegetable and as medicinal herb.

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  • Lady's Mantle

    Lady’s Mantle

    $8.50

    An HERBACEOUS PERENNIAL in the Rose family that has a clumping, mounding habit.

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  • Marshmallow

    Marshmallow

    $9.50

    A PERENNIAL growing to 1.2 m with broad, lobed, soft, and velvety leaves and pale pink flowers.
    Prefers full sun position and can grow in saline soils. The whole plant abound in mild mucalige. Leaves, oil and root are edible.

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  • Parsley - Curly leaf

    Parsley – Curly leaf

    $7.50

    A BIENNIAL growing to 60cm. Prefers a moist, well-drained soil in full sun or semi-shade. Triple-curled parsley has tripinnate leaves that curl in and over on the edges making it a very decorative plant.
    Leaves are frequently used as a flavouring and garnish, and eaten raw or cooked. It has a long history as a traditional domestic herbal remedy.

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  • Parsley - Flat leaf

    Parsley – Flat leaf

    $7.50

    A BIENNIAL growing to 60cm. Prefers a moist, well-drained soil in full sun or semi-shade. Flat-leaf parsley has tripinnate leaves that are flat (not curly) and is said to have stronger flavour than the curly variety.
    Leaves are frequently used as a flavouring and garnish, and eaten raw or cooked. It has a long history as a traditional domestic herbal remedy.

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  • Pink Rosemary

    Rosemary – Pink flowering

    $8.00

    An evergreen PERENNIAL shrub growing to 1.5m. Prefers well-drained soil in full sun, and can tolerate drought and maritime exposure.
    A popular culinary herb with an array of medicinal uses. This cultivar has beautiful light rose pink flowers.

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  • Rosemary - Tuscan Blue Upright

    Rosemary – Tuscan Blue Upright

    $8.00

    An evergreen PERENNIAL shrub growing to 1.5m. Prefers well-drained soil in full sun, and can tolerate drought and maritime exposure.
    A popular culinary herb with an array of medicinal uses. The Prostratus cultivar makes a great groundcover. The Tuscan Blue variety is a magnificent plant with a very tall, upright growth, making long rosemary stalks great for using as skewers! The deep rich blue of the abundant flowers and the statuesque growth habit makes it an attractive Rosemary to grow.

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  • Sage - Common

    Sage – Common

    $7.50

    An evergreen PERENNIAL shrub growing to 60cm Prefers well-drained soil in a full sun position, and can tolerate drought.
    Leaves are a common culinary herb and it has been used for centuries as a medicinal plant.

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  • Sage - White

    Sage – White

    $9.00

    A PERENNIAL growing to 1.3m with whitish evergreen leaves and flowers that are white to pale lavender and attractive to bees. Prefers well-drained soil in a full sun position. Seed is eaten raw or cooked, and it has some traditional medicinal use.

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  • Southernwood

    Southernwood

    $9.50

    The small bushy DECIDUOUS SHRUB grows to 1.2m and has small grey-green narrow and feathery leaves and small yellow flowers.
    It has a strong camphor-like fragrance.
    Prefers well-drained soil in a full sun or semi-shade position and can grow in nutritionally poor soil. Drought resistant.
    It is used in small quantities as a flavouring, but is mostly used as a medicinal herb.

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  • Strawberry - Alpine White

    Strawberry – Alpine White

    $8.50

    Alpine 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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  • Sweet violet - pink flowering

    Sweet violet – pink flowering

    $8.50

    An evergreen PERENNIAL gowing to 10cm with heart-shaped leaves and pretty pink flowers.

    Prefers well-drained soil in full sun or semi-shade.

    Young leaves and flowers are edible and the plant has historic medicinal use.

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  • Sweet violet - purple

    Sweet violet – purple

    $8.50

    An evergreen PERENNIAL gowing to 10cm with heart-shaped leaves and pretty purple flowers.
    Prefers well-drained soil in full sun or semi-shade.
    Young leaves and flowers are edible and the plant has historic medicinal use.

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  • Aloe vera

    Aloe vera

    $8.50

    Aloe vera is a hardy, clump-forming succulent with thick, fleshy, grey-green leaves edged with soft teeth. Grows best in a sunny, well-drained spot or in pots indoors/outdoors. Famous as a soothing skin remedy and useful medicinal plant.

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  • Alpine Strawberry White : seeds

    Alpine Strawberry White : seeds

    $4.25

    Alpine 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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  • Balm - Orange Balm

    Balm – Orange Balm

    $8.50

    Orange Balm (Melissa officinalis ‘Mandarina’) is a perennial in the Lamiaceae family that grows in full sun to part shade and prefers fertile, well-drained soil. It is used as a Culinary Herb for teas and flavouring, as a Medicinal Herb for calming and digestive remedies, and as a Pollinator Plant.

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