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Echinacea – White Swan
$9.50Add to cartEchinacea purpurea ‘White Swan’ is a perennial in the daisy (Asteraceae) family that grows to around 75–90 cm tall and 45–60 cm wide. It prefers full sun and moist but well-drained soils. It has pure white petals surrounding a golden cone, offering a striking contrast in the garden. ‘White Swan’ is used as a medicinal herb, loved by pollinators, and excellent in cottage and cut flower gardens. Hardy in most NZ climates.
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Elderberry
$9.50Add to cartElderberry is a small tree or shrub growing to 6mx6m at a fairly fast rate. The plant is known as the ‘Medicine Chest’ of the country people for its associated medicinal qualities. Note that all parts except the blossoms and the very ripe berries, are poisenous and should not be ingested. The flowers are used a flavouring to make elderflower tea, or elderflower sparkling wine and eldeflower syrups among many other culinary uses. The berries too are made into syrups or brewed into teas.
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Elecampane
$9.50Add to cartA flowering PERENNIAL plant growing to 1.5m. A rigid stem carries large and toothed leaves thickly woolly on the underside. Yellow flowerheads are up to 5 cm broad. The root is thick, branching and mucilaginous. It grows in almost any moist soil in the full sun or semi-shade.
The leaves somewhat bitter but aromatic and edible. Roots are candied. Used as a warming and tonic herb, it is a well used medicinal herb. -
Epazote
$7.50Add to cartEpazote (Dysphania ambrosioides) is a strongly aromatic culinary herb in the Amaranthaceae family, growing 60–100cm tall. It prefers sun and well-drained soil and is best used sparingly in Mexican and Central American cooking, particularly with beans. Traditionally valued for its digestive and medicinal qualities, though large doses can be toxic.
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Epazote – Oaxacan Red
$8.50Add to cartEpazote (Dysphania ambrosioides) Oaxacan Red is a strongly aromatic culinary herb in the Amaranthaceae family, growing 60–100cm tall. It prefers sun and well-drained soil and is best used sparingly in Mexican and Central American cooking, particularly with beans. Traditionally valued for its digestive and medicinal qualities, though large doses can be toxic. This red-leaved forms adds ornamental appeal.
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Evening Primrose – Standard Yellow
$7.50Add to cartA hardy flowering BIENNIAL growing to 1.2m. Basal rosettes spiral up to flowering stems with butter-yellow flowers that are noted for attracting bees and butterflies. Prefers well-drained soil in a full sun position, and can grow in nutritionally poor soil.
Flowers, leaves, oil, root and seedpods are noted as edible. Many medicinal applications, particularly seed oil.
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Evening Primrose – Sunset Boulevard
$8.50Add to cartA highly ornamental version of the common yellow flowering Evening of Primrose, these flower in shades of a dusky sunset with orange-pink tones. Evening primrose is a flowering BIENNIAL growing to 1.2m. Basal rosettes spiral up to flowering stems with flowers that are noted for attracting bees and butterflies. Prefers well-drained soil in a full sun position, and can grow in nutritionally poor soil.
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Feverfew
$8.50Add to cartA flowering PERENNIAL plant in the daisy family growing to 60cm. The small bush has pungently scented light green to yellowish-green leaves and daisy-like flowers.
It prefers well-drained soil in a full sun position and can tolerate somewhat strong winds. Mostly used as a medicinal herb, but the flowers and leaves have some culinary use. -
Feverfew – Golden
$8.50Add to cartA flowering PERENNIAL plant in the daisy family growing to 60cm. The small bush has pungently scented bright golden green to yellowish-green leaves and daisy-like flowers.
It prefers well-drained soil in a full sun position and can tolerate somewhat strong winds. Mostly used as a medicinal herb, but the flowers and leaves have some culinary use.
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Forget-me-not – Chinese Hound’s Tongue Pink
$7.50Add to cartA flowering BIENNIAL/PERENNIAL that grows to 80cm and looks like field forget-me-nots. Sometimes referred to as Chinese forget-me-not. Prefers well-drained moist soil and can grow in nutritionally poor soil in a full sun position.
Although Cynoglossum officinalis has some historic use as a food and medicine, it is advised that pink houndstongue is not edible, nor should it be used as a medicine.
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Foxglove – Apricot-Peach
$7.50Add to cartFoxglove (Digitalis purpurea and cultivars) is a biennial or short-lived perennial in the Plantaginaceae family that grows to 1–1.5m tall and 30–60cm wide. It prefers semi-shade to sun and moist, well-drained soils. It produces tall spires of tubular flowers in shades of white, apricot, pink, or purple, much loved by bees and pollinators. This is a beautiful white flowering cultivar. All parts of this plant are highly toxic to humans and animals.
Foxglove is grown as a cottage garden favourite and pollinator plant. Medicinal use is strictly professional only, in minute controlled doses. -
Foxglove – Various
$7.50Add to cartFoxglove (Digitalis purpurea and cultivars) is a biennial or short-lived perennial in the Plantaginaceae family that grows to 1–1.5m tall and 30–60cm wide. It prefers semi-shade to sun and moist, well-drained soils. It produces tall spires of tubular flowers in shades of white, apricot, pink, or purple, much loved by bees and pollinators. All parts of this plant are highly toxic to humans and animals. Foxglove is grown as a cottage garden favourite and pollinator plant. Medicinal use is strictly professional only, in minute controlled doses.
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Gotu Kola
$8.50Add to cartAn EVERGREEN HERBACEOUS PERENNIAL growing to 20cm and spreading. Frost tender , it can grow in semi-shaded areas or in full sun, and prefers moist or wet soils.
Stems are slender, creeping stolons from a cream-coloured rhizomatous rootstock. Leaves are kidney-shaped and palmately veined.
It is used as a culinary vegetable and as medicinal herb. -
Hollyhock – Charters Double Salmon
$7.50Add to cartA flowering PERENNIAL, often grown as a BIENNIAL, in the mallow family, that can grow to over 2.4m in height. The plants have an erect, unbranched habit with large lobed or toothed leaf blades and very tall flower spikes bearing many attractive single flowers in white to off-white colour.
The plant does well in almost any well-drained soil in a full sun position, and can grow in semi-shade. Tall flower spikes may need staking.
The flowers, leaves, root and stem are edible and it has a long history of medicinal use. -
Hollyhock – Mixed
$7.50Add to cartA flowering PERENNIAL, often grown as a BIENNIAL, in the mallow family, that can grow to over 2.4m in height. The plants have an erect, unbranched habit with large lobed or toothed leaf blades and very tall flower spikes bearing many attractive single flowers in various colours.
The plant does well in almost any well-drained soil in a full sun position, and can grow in semi-shade. Tall flower spikes may need staking.
The flowers, leaves, root and stem are edible and it has a long history of medicinal use. -
Hollyhock – White Single
$7.50Add to cartA flowering PERENNIAL, often grown as a BIENNIAL, in the mallow family, that can grow to over 2.4m in height. The plants have an erect, unbranched habit with large lobed or toothed leaf blades and very tall flower spikes bearing many attractive single flowers in white to off-white colour.
The plant does well in almost any well-drained soil in a full sun position, and can grow in semi-shade. Tall flower spikes may need staking.
The flowers, leaves, root and stem are edible and it has a long history of medicinal use. -
Horseradish
$10.50Add to cartA PERENNIAL of the mustard family growing to 70cm. Prefers a moist and well-drained soil and can grow in very alkaline soils. Full sun or semi-shade.
The young leaves are distinctly different to older leaves, being asymettric spiky before becoming flat and broad.
The plant is cultivated mostly for its large, white, tapered root which is a vegetable and spice. It has medicinal use. -
Lady’s Mantle
$8.50Add to cartAn HERBACEOUS PERENNIAL in the Rose family that has a clumping, mounding habit.
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Lemongrass
$8.50Add to cartA frost-tender, tropical, evergreen, PERENNIAL grass that is aromatic and grows up to 1.5m.
Prefers well-drained moist soil in a full sun position. Can tolerate very alkaline soils and drought to some degree.
Fragrant leaves and the heart of young shoots are cultivated for use in cooking and teas. The leaves and essential oils are used commonly as traditional home remedies. -
Liquorice
$9.50Add to cartA PERENNIAL growing to 1.2m with attractive pinnate leaves. Flowers are purple to pale whitish blue and followed by oblong pods containing several seeds.
Prefers moist soil and can grow in full sun or semi-shade.
The plant is cultivated for its edible root which is used as a flavouring and medicine.