Thank you for your interest in herb plants from MeadowSweet Herbs & Flowers. I've closed plant and seed order processing for 2024. Online orders for plants and seeds will re-open on Monday 6 January for shipping from the next Tuesday, 14 January.
If you are interested in my Mini Grow & Use Guides, please email me for processing at minette@tonoli.co.nz during the shop's vacation dates.
The gates sales table plant stand is always open and up and running, so feel free to pop past if you are in the Rangiora/Waikuku area to see a selection of the plants (not all plants in my inventory is available outside - if you want to come past for something specific, text me and we can see what we can work out: 0225251177).
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Lady’s Bedstraw
$6.50
A HERBACEOUS PERENNIAL Lady’s Bedstraw is a low scrambling plant. Leaves are borne in whorls of 8–12 and the flowers are yellow produced in dense clusters.
Dried plants smell strongly of sweet hay and were used to stuff mattresses and flea repellent. Flowers were used to coagulate milk in cheese manufacture and is used in Gloucester to colour the cheese named ‘Double Gloucester’. Red madder-like and yellow dyes. Was used to infuse spirits in Denmark making the uniquely Danish drink bjæsk [da].
