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.
Always happy to answer emails, and remember to follow my socials for herb inspiration throughout the year. @meadowsweetherbsnz on both Insta and Facebook.
The small bushy DECIDUOUS SHRUB grows to 1.2m and has small grey-green narrow and feathery leaves and small yellow flowers.
It has a strong camphor-like fragrance.
Prefers well-drained soil in a full sun or semi-shade position and can grow in nutritionally poor soil. Drought resistant.
It is used in small quantities as a flavouring, but is mostly used as a medicinal herb.
Young shoots can be used to flavour cakes, salads and vinegars.
As a strong aromatic bitter herb, Southernwood has a long history of domestic herbal use for improving digestion and and liver function. It also lowers fevers, relaxes spasms and destroys intestinal parasites. Use medicinally only under prescription.
It is also grown as an insect repellent, especially in orchards, dried herb can be used as a strewing herb to repel insects.
Use in pot-pourri, and as a dye herb. An infusion of the plant is used as a hair tonic or conditioner.
