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Artichoke – Purple de Jesi
$9.50Add 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 – Purple of Romagna
$9.50Add to cartPerennial vegetable. A beautiful French heirloom artichoke variety with finer flavoured artichokes.
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Artichoke – Violet de Provence
$9.50Add to cartPerennial vegetable. A beautiful French heirloom artichoke variety with finer flavoured artichokes.
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Ashwagandha
$9.50Read 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
$9.50Add to cartA hardy PERENNIAL that is an important herb in Chinese Traditional Medicine.
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Balkan Mint
$7.50Add to cartA 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
$7.50Add 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
$8.50Add 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
$8.50Add to cartBalm of Gilead is a delightfully fragrant perennial herb of which the leaves are used in a tea named The de Canaries which is very aromatic. Lends a musky woody scent to pot-pourri. Also used as a medicinal herb. Flowers are attractive to pollinating insects.
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Basil – Bush / Greek Mini
$6.50Add to cartBush 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.
Leaves, which are mild in flavour, are used like common basil. -
Basil – Dark Opal
$6.50Add to cartAn ANNUAL growing to around 70cm, purple basil is a cultivar of Sweet Basil, and has oval dark purple leaves, reddish stems and purple flowers. Used much in the same way as common basil, it has a stronger flavour and its pretty leaf colour makes it an appealing herb to add to salads or as a fresh garnish.
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Basil – Holy Tulsi
$8.50Add to cartHoly basil is an erect SUBSHRUB that grows up to 60cm. Many branched, hairy stems carry simple ovate green leaves with slightly toothed margins. Flowers are purple.
It is cultivated for religious and medicinal purposes and herbal tea and common to the Indian subcontinent and southeast Asia. The plant is revered as the elixer of life.