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Achillea – Yarrow (Fern Leaf) Golden Coronation
$9.00Yarrow is a PERENNIAL growing to 60cm. It has very feathery, frilly, hairy, aromatic leaves and flat clusters of flowers at the top of the stem.
Prefers well-drained soil and can grow in nutritionally poor soil. Full sun or semi-shade. It can grow in very alkaline soil and can tolerate drought and maritime exposure.
Leaves are used raw or cooked and has many medicinal uses.
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Achillea – Yarrow Pastel Mix
$9.00Yarrow is a PERENNIAL growing to 60cm. It has very feathery, frilly, hairy, aromatic leaves and flat clusters of flowers at the top of the stem.
Prefers well-drained soil and can grow in nutritionally poor soil. Full sun or semi-shade. It can grow in very alkaline soil and can tolerate drought and maritime exposure.
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Achillea – Yarrow Terracotta
$9.00Yarrow is a PERENNIAL growing to 60cm. It has very feathery, frilly, hairy, aromatic leaves and flat clusters of flowers at the top of the stem.
Prefers well-drained soil and can grow in nutritionally poor soil. Full sun or semi-shade. It can grow in very alkaline soil and can tolerate drought and maritime exposure.
Leaves are used raw or cooked and has many medicinal uses. -
Achillea – Yarrow White
$9.00Yarrow is a PERENNIAL growing to 60cm. It has very feathery, frilly, hairy, aromatic leaves and flat clusters of flowers at the top of the stem.
Prefers well-drained soil and can grow in nutritionally poor soil. Full sun or semi-shade. It can grow in very alkaline soil and can tolerate drought and maritime exposure.
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Agastache – Giant hyssop Blue
$8.50Anise hyssop is a PERENNIAL growing to 90cm with bright lavender-purple flowers that are very attractive to bees and butterflies. It grows upright and clump-like with oval, toothed leaves that have a white tint underneath. The plant prefers well-drained soil and a full sun position. Leaves are anise-scented and the flowers slightly aromatic. Used as a culinary herb, and noted as a Native-American medicine for various ailments.
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Ajuga – Pink Spires
$8.50Ths Ajuga is a low growing EVERGREEN PERENNIAL with light to deep green leaves that make a dense spreading ground cover and in spring sends up 15cm flower stalks bearing many pink flowers that are very attractive to bees and butterflies. It grows well in full shade, semi-shade or full sun and can tolerate some drought.
Leaves and young shoots are edible raw and it has some history as a wound herb, but is rarely used today.
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Ajuga – Purple
$7.50Ajuga is a low growing EVERGREEN PERENNIAL with dark green to purple leaves that make a dense spreading ground cover and in spring sends up 15cm flower stalks bearing many purple flowers that are very attractive to bees and butterflies. It grows well in full shade, semi-shade or full sun and can tolerate some drought.
Leaves and young shoots are edible raw and it has some history as a wound herb, but is rarely used today.
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Ajuga – Variegated
$8.50This Ajuga is a low growing EVERGREEN PERENNIAL with green and white variegated leaves that make a dense spreading ground cover and in spring sends up 15cm flower stalks bearing many purple flowers that are very attractive to bees and butterflies. It grows well in full shade, semi-shade or full sun and can tolerate some drought.
Leaves and young shoots are edible raw and it has some history as a wound herb, but is rarely used today. -
Alexanders
$8.50Alexanders is a stout BIENNIAL flowering plant growing to 1.2m tall. It has a strong solid stem that becomes hollow and grooved with age. The bright green leaves are bluntly toothed, and ternately divided. Umbels of yellow-green flowers are followed by black seeds. It prefers moist soil in a full sun or semi-shade position. Attractive to bees and butterflies.
The taste has been described as somewhat intermediate between parsley and celery. All plant parts are edible, and it has been used historically as a medicine.
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Aloe vera
$8.50Aloe vera is an evergreen PERENNIAL succulent with serrated stemless fleshy leaves containing a clear gel. Sometimes the leaves have white markings. The flower spikes are orange or yellow and generally borne in autumn to winter.
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Aquilegia – Various colours
$7.50Tall growing and higly decorate. Can grow in shade or semi-shade.
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Arnica
$9.50Spreading perennial with bright yellow daisy like flowers used as a medicine.
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Artichoke – Green Globe
$9.50Artichoke is a PERENNIAL vegetable growing to 1.5m. The plant is quite big and statuesque, with long, arching, deeply lobed, silvery, glaucous-green leaves. When the flower buds (the vegetable) are allowed to open into flowers, they are very attractive to bees and bumblebees. The plant prefers well drained soil in most soils (tolerant of saline soils) in a sunny position. The flower buds are known as a gourmet vegetable and the whole plant has medicinal applications. Leaves yield a dark grey dye.
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Artichoke – Imperial Star
$9.50Perennial vegetable. A productive and high quality green glove artichoke that produces 6-8 mature buds averaging 10cm on a bushy plant in the first season from seed.
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Artichoke – Purple de Jesi
$10.50Artichoke is a PERENNIAL vegetable growing to 1.5m. The plant is quite big and statuesque, with long, arching, deeply lobed, silvery, glaucous-green leaves. When the flower buds (the vegetable) are allowed to open into flowers, they are very attractive to bees and bumblebees. The plant prefers well drained soil in most soils (tolerant of saline soils) in a sunny position. The flower buds are known as a gourmet vegetable and the whole plant has medicinal applications. Leaves yield a dark grey dye.
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Artichoke – Purple of Romagna
$10.50Perennial vegetable. A beautiful French heirloom artichoke variety with finer flavoured artichokes.
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Artichoke – Violet de Provence
$10.50Perennial vegetable. A beautiful French heirloom artichoke variety with finer flavoured artichokes.
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Astragalus – Milk Vetch
$9.50A hardy PERENNIAL that is an important herb in Chinese Traditional Medicine.
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Balkan Mint
$8.50A PERENNIAL herb found wild throughout the Balkans. Highly fragrant. It has been gathered since ancient times as a condiment and for tea. Masses of white or light pink flowers are very showy and bee attracting.
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Balm – Lemon Balm
$7.50A flowering PERENNIAL growing to 70cm with lemon scented leaves similar looking to mint and in summer small, nectar-rich flowers appear.
Prefers well-drained soil in a full sun or semi-shaded position.
Leaves are edible and medicinally it is commonly used household remedy as both a tonic herb and for its soothing, anti-anxiety actions.