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
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Hollyhock – Bright Pink Single
$7.50
A flowering PERENNIAL, often grown as a BIENNIAL, in the mallow family, that can grow to over 2.4m in height. The plants have an erect, unbranched habit with large lobed or toothed leaf blades and very tall flower spikes bearing many attractive very bright pink flowers.
The plant does well in almost any well-drained soil in a full sun position, and can grow in semi-shade. Tall flower spikes may need staking.
The flowers, leaves, root and stem are edible and it has a long history of medicinal use.
Young leaves are eaten either raw or cooked and although they have a mild flavour, they do not have the most enjoyable texture. Flower petals and flower buds are eaten raw, added to salads, or as a decoration on cakes etc. A nutritious starch is obtained from the root.
Flower petals make a refreshing tea.
Medicinal actions include antiinflammatory, astringent, demulcent, diuretic, emollient and febrifuge.
The plant has been noted to be used to alleviate chest comlaints and to improve blood circulation. The root is astringent and demulcent and applied fresh and crushed as a poultice to ulcers. A common medicine in Tibet.
Fibres from the stems can be used to make paper, and the leaves can be added to the compost as an activator.
FLowers can be used as a dye herb.
