Thank you for your interest in herb plants from MeadowSweet Herbs & Flowers. I've closed plant order processing for 2024/5 season. Online orders for plants will open again mid August for pre-orders with plants being shipped from mid September onwards.
Seeds will become available from May.
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 physical nursery and gates sales table plant stand is also closed over winter and will be up and running in spring 2025 for the 2025/26 growing season.
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Purslane – Salad Red & Gold
$6.00
An ANNUAL growing to 30cm. Prefers moist, well-drained soil in full sun.
The leaves and stems are edible raw or cooked and it has medicinal actions.
Young leaves are added fresh to salads, while the older leaves are suitable for cooking in soups and as a potherb. With a somewhat sour and salty flavour, the leaves are quite nutritious. Seeds are edible, but fiddly to harvest. Remnants of burnt plants can be used as salt substitute.
It is antibacterial, antiscorbutic and febrifuge. Plant juice helps treat skin diseases and insect stings.
