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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Rhubarb – Glaskins Perpetual
$9.50
A PERENNIAL growing to 1.2m. Prefers moist well-drained soil in full sun or semi-shade, and can grow in heavy clay soil.
The leaf stem is cooked and eaten with fruit in tarts. The leaf itself is toxic and should not be eaten. Roots are used medicinally.
Glaskins Perpetual is an heirloom variety with large, long stemmed, bright red juicy stalks that are full of flavour.
The stem is eaten raw or cooked and has an acid flavour that pairs well with sweeter fruit such as strawberries.
With a long history of herbal use it balancing to the digestive system.
The root can be used in the treatment of chronic constipation, diarrhoea, liver and gall bladder complaints, haemorrhoids, menstrual problems and skin eruptions due to an accumulation of toxins (roots used of plants that are at least six years old)
Leaves are sometimes used to make a home-made insecticide.
