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Ajuga – Pink Spires
$7.50Add to cartThs 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
$7.50Add to cartAjuga 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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Alexanders
$7.50Add to cartAlexanders 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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Alyssum – sweet
$5.00Read moreAlyssum is a low growing ANNUAL reaching 20cm in height. The much branched stem has small, broad oval to lanceolate sessile leaves and dense clusters of small flowers. Noted for their sweet scent like honey, they come in white, pink, salmon, rose-red, violet and lilac and are known to attract insects such as bees. The plant does well in almost any well-drained soil in a full sun position.
Young leaves, stems and flowers can be added to salads or as an edible garnish. Has some medicinal use, especially in Spain.
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Angelica – Dong Quai
$7.50Read moreA BIENNIAL plant in the Apiaceae family. Cultivated for its use in Traditional Chinese Medicine.
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Angelica – Holy Ghost
$7.50Add to cartA BIENNIAL plant in the Apiaceae family. Cultivated for its sweetly scented edible stems and roots.
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Aquilegia – Various colours
$6.50Add to cartTall growing and higly decorate. Can grow in shade or semi-shade.
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Artichoke – green globe
$7.50Read moreArtichoke 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
$7.50Read morePerennial 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
$7.50Add to cartArtichoke 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 – Violet de Provence
$7.50Add to cartPerennial vegetable. A beautiful French heirloom artichoke variety with finer flavoured artichokes.
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Ashwagandha
$8.00Read moreAshwagandha is an evergreen shrub in it’s native sub tropical to tropical areas, but commonly grown as an annual in cooler or temperate areas. Withania somnifera, Ashwagandha, is an adaptogenic herb from Ayurvedic tradition praised for stress relief, cognitive enhancement, and immune support. This perennial shrub’s roots are utilized in powder form due to their holistic health benefits, aiding in anxiety reduction and physical endurance.
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Astragalus – Milk Vetch
$8.00Read moreA hardy PERENNIAL that is an important herb in Chinese Traditional Medicine.
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Balkan Mint
$6.50Read moreA 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
$6.50Add to cartA 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. -
Balm – Orange Balm
$7.50Add to cartA flowering PERENNIAL growing to 70cm with tangerine 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.
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Balm of Gilead
$7.50Read moreBalm of Gilead is a PERENNIAL growing to 1.5m with compound leaves consisting of 3 leaflets. Leafy stems terminate in short spikes of flowers with tubular 2-lipped white or pink flowers.
Prefers moist well-drained soil in semi-shade or full sun.The leaves are used in a tea named The de Canaries which is very aromatic.
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Basil – African
$7.50Read moreAfrican basil is a perennial basil, although it may still grow as an annual in temperate or cold climates. It is native to Africa and is also known as Clove Basil.
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Basil – Aristotle
$6.00Read moreAn ANNUAL herb with fragrant leaves used in cooking and traditional medicine. Aristotle is a small leaved, highly aromatic and highly disease resistant Basil with a very neat rounded plant habit.
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Basil – Bush / Greek Mini
$6.00Read moreBush basil is an ANNUAL growing to 30cm with a tidy rounded growth habit and tiny, light green leaves. The plant prefers full sun in a moist, but well-drained soil.
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Basil – Cinnamon
$6.00Read moreCinnamon basil is a PERENNIAL, but often grown as an ANNUAL. It has a spicy cinnamon-scented fragrance. Leaves are slightly serrated and dark green with reddish-purple veins and dark purple stems and pinkish flowers. Growing to almost 80cm tall, it prefers a full sun position in moist, but well-draining soil.
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Basil – Emerald Towers
$6.00Read moreAn ANNUAL herb with fragrant leaves used in cooking and traditional medicine. Emerald towers is a highly productive sweet basil that grow in a columnar shape.