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
Out of Stock
Chives – Common
$6.50
Common Chives (Allium schoenoprasum) is a perennial herb in the Amaryllidaceae family. It prefers a sunny to partly shaded site with moist but well-drained soil and is hardy throughout New Zealand. It grows to about 30–45 cm tall in dense clumps, with hollow grass-like leaves and attractive purple pom-pom flowers. Used mainly as a culinary herb for its mild onion flavour, it is also valued as a pollinator plant and adds charm to cottage gardens.
Common chives are a staple kitchen herb, producing slender, tubular leaves that can be cut and regrown repeatedly throughout the season. Their delicate onion-like flavour is perfect for garnishing potatoes, eggs, soups, and creamy sauces. The spherical purple flowers appear in late spring to summer, providing both edible garnishes and excellent nectar for bees and butterflies. Easy to grow, chives are hardy perennials that thrive in most soils and conditions, making them ideal for both herb beds and ornamental plantings. Clumps can be divided every few years to maintain vigour and expand one’s stock.
