Seeds will become available from May.
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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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Rosemary – Chef’s Choice
$7.50
An evergreen PERENNIAL shrub growing to 1.5m. Prefers well-drained soil in full sun, and can tolerate drought and maritime exposure.
A popular culinary herb with an array of medicinal uses. The Chef’s Choice cultivar is higher in oil content, and stronger in flavour and with its compact mounding habit, is a favourite for cook’s gardens.
Description
The young shoots, leaves and flowers are eaten raw or cooked. With a strong flavour they are added to soups, stews, potatoes and roasted vegetables, also sometimes to breads, cakes, jellies etc. Leaves make a strong and fragrant tea.
Rosemary is commonly grown in herb gardens and is as useful as a domestic remedy as a culinary herb.
It is strongly antiseptic, antispasmodic, appetite-stimulatn, aromatic, astringent, cardiac, carminative, nervine, stimulant, stomachic and tonic.
Great as a pick-me-up when feeling depressed, mentally tired, nervous etc. It has remarkably high antioxidant activity. Can be used to treat headaches, cold, nervous tension, rheumatism, dyspeptic complaints, loss of appetite, and blood pressure problems.
It is a good companion plant to repel insects from neighbouring plants, and the flowers are noted for attracting pollinators, such as bees.
Sachets of dried leaves may repel moths from clothes cupboards. It makes a fantastic hair wash and is helpful in the treatment of dandruf. Leaves are burnt as an incense, fumigant and disinfectant
