Thank you for your interest in herb plants from MeadowSweet Herbs & Flowers. I've closed order processing for autumn and winter, and will re-open the plant sales on 12 August 2024. I wish everyone a restful cold season and will see you back here for more herb offerings in spring!

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  • Celery

    $6.00

    A very attractive red-and-white striped celery. The plants grow vigourous and produce upright stems that are crisp and flavourful.

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  • Chamomile – German

    $6.00

    This chamomile is an ANNUAL that prefers a full sun position in well-drained soil. With long and narrow leaves that are finely bipinnate or tripinnate and smooth, erect stems growing to 60cm. The flowers are borne on capitulate flower heads and are composed of yellow disc florets and white ray florets with a strong aormatic smell.
    Can grow in nutritionaly poor or saline soils.
    The flowers are used as a condiment or tea and it is a well known herbal remedy.

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  • Chamomile – Roman

    $6.50

    An EVERGREEN PERENNIAL growing to 20cm. Similar looking, but lower growing than German chamomile, Roman chamomile has bipinnate, finely dissected fragrant leaves and solitary terminal flowerheads. Prefers growing in well-drained soil and can grow in nutritionally poor soil. It can grow in either full sun or semi-shade and is somewhat drought tolerant when established.
    Used similarly to German or annual chamomile, the young sprigs and flowers are edible

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  • Chamomile – True Lawn (Trenegue)

    $7.50

    An EVERGREEN PERENNIAL that forms a delightful fragrant ornamental edging or groundcover. Prefers hot and dry sunny sites, but can grow in partial shade.

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  • Chervil

    $6.00

    Chervil is a BIENNIAL plant growing to 50cm with finely divided tripinnate leaves that may be curly and small white flowers in small umbels. Prefers a moist but well drained soil and can grow in full shade, semi-shade of full sun.
    The leaves and roots are edible and it has some medicinal use.

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  • Chilli – various

    $7.00

    A variety of the chillies and peppers I am growing from my collection of over 150 varieties. Chillies come in a great variety of colours, shapes, heat levels and taste profiles. Please contact me to see which varieties are on offer this season.

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  • Chives – Common

    $6.00

    A BULB that grows to 30cm, preferring a moist but well-drained soil and full sun or semi shade. Tolerates heavy clay. Chives have hollow stems (or scapes) up to 50cm and tubular leaves that are just slightly shorter than the scapes. The flowers are pale purple, and produced in a dense inflorescence.
    Leaves with their mild onion flavour is used in cooking, either fresh, or cooked, or dried. Long history of nutritive healing.

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    Chives – Garlic

    $6.00

    A BULB growing to 30cm. Not frost tender, it prefers well-drained soil in full sun. Tolerates alkaline soils and somewhat drought resistant. Garlic chives have strap-shaped leaves and produces many white flowers in a round cluster. Leaves are used fresh or cooked where a mild onion-garlic flavour is needed. Flowers and flower buds can be eaten raw or cooked.

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    Chrysanthemum – Golden Buttons

    $6.50

    A very attractivequally PERENNIAL feverfewwith attractive bright yellow flowers “buttons” throughout the season.

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  • Comfrey – Bocking14

    $9.50

    This is a cultivar that sets sterile seed and is not as invasive as the common comfrey. Comfrey is a hardy PERENNIAL growing to 1.2m. It has large, hairy and broad leaves bearing small bell-shaped flowers and a long black, turnip-like root. Comfrey grows well in almost any moist soil, but can tolerate heavy clay soil. It prefers full sun, but can grow well in partial shade.

    Leaves and roots are used mainly as a medicine although young leaves have historically been eaten.

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  • Comfrey – purple flowering common

    $8.00

    Comfrey is a hardy PERENNIAL growing to 1.2m. It has large, hairy and broad leaves bearing small bell-shaped flowers and a long black, turnip-like root. Comfrey grows well in almost any moist soil, but can tolerate heavy clay soil. It prefers full sun, but can grow well in partial shade.
    Leaves and roots are used mainly as a medicine although young leaves have historically been eaten.

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  • Comfrey – white flowering dwarf evergreen

    $8.00

    Comfrey is a hardy PERENNIAL growing to 45cm. It has large, hairy and broad leaves bearing small bell-shaped flowers and a long black, turnip-like root. Comfrey grows well in almost any moist soil, but can tolerate heavy clay soil. It prefers full sun, but can grow well in partial shade.
    Leaves and roots are used mainly as a medicine although young leaves have historically been eaten.

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  • Coreopsis – Plains

    $6.50

    Coreopsis is a flowering ANNUAL growing growing up to 1m. The abundant mahogony coloured flowers are noted for attracting pollinating insects. Coreopsis prefers a well drained soil in full sun, but it can tolerate some drought when well established. Self-seeds freely. Altough it is generally grown as an ornamental plant or dye herb, a tea can be made from the whole plant. It has some historic medicinal use.

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  • Coriander

    $6.00

    Coriander is an ANNUAL that grows to 50cm with broadly lobed very fragrant leaves at the base of the plant turning feathery and slender higher on the flowering stems. Flowers are borne in small umbels and followed by round seeds.
    It prefers a moist soil in semi-shaded positions as full sun and dry soil leads to bolting. It is a world-renowned flavouring as a fresh herb – cilantro, or dried spice – coriander seeds. It also has remarkable medicinal qualities.

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  • Cornflower

    $6.00

    An ANNUAL growing to 1m with grey-green branched stems and 1-4cm lanceolate leaves. Flowerheads are commonly in an intense blue, but with white, pink, purple and even dark, almost black varieties existing. Flowers are known to attract bees and other pollinating insects. Prefers well-drained soil and can grow in nutritionally poor, alkaline soils. Full sun position is best and tolerates some degree of drought.
    Shoots and flowers are edible and it has a long history of use as a medicine, although rarely used today.

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  • Cosmos – Mix

    $6.00

    Cosmos are herbaceous PERENNIAL plants or ANNUAL plants growing between 30cm and 1m with simple, pinnate leaves and ornamental terminal flowers of various colours. Unique mix is a blend of classical white and pink flowers.

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  • Curry bush

    $9.50

    A hardy EVERGREEN SHRUB growing to 60cm (2ft) with silver-green leaves and clusters of yellow button-like flowers. Grow in well-drained soil. It tolerates drought and prefers a full sun position.
    Although highly aromatic, smelling strongly of curry mixes, it is rarely used as a condiment, and when used to flavour cooking, is removed before eating.

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  • Dahlia – Bedding Mix

    $6.50

    A tender PERENNIAL, dahlia are leafy flowering plants, ranging in height from 30cm to well over 1.5m, and come in come in spectacular shapes and colours. An attractive plant to grow in the mixed perennial border. Dahlia have edible flowers and tubers.
    They grow most successfully in well-watered yet free-draining soils, in situations receiving plenty of sunlight.

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  • Daylily – Pink Dwarf Evergreen

    $7.50

    An evergreen daylily that flowers profusely from very early to late in the season. Dwarf growing, and quickly spreading, this is wonderful to fill the front of a border, or add in pockets throughout the edible flower garden.

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  • Dianthus – Rainbow Loveliness

    $6.50

    A PERENNIAL flowering plant growing to 30cm, preferring well-drained soil in full sun position, these dianthus have deeply cut petals lending the flowers a soft and feathery appearance. They are pretty and unusual-looking in eye-catching pink and whites with a strong, sweet fragrance. Edible flowers.

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  • Dianthus – Sweet William

    $6.50

    A flowering PERENNIAL growing to 60cm and is noted for attracting insects. It prefers well-drained soil and a full sun position. Flowers are edible and added to salads or a garnish for cakes, desserts, fruit dishes etc.

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  • Dill

    $6.00

    An ANNUAL growing to 80cm with slender hollow stems and alternate, finely divided, softly delicate leaves. Small yellow flowers are born in umbels. Prefers a full sun position in a moist and well-drained soil. Edible leaves and seeds, it is also good as a companion plant to attract hoverflies and other predatory insects. Highly nutritious, it has a long history of medicinal use.

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    Dogsbane

    $7.50

    A SHRUBBY GROUNDCOVER with succulent leaves and purple flowers, it can tolerate semi-shade and poor soil. Tolerant of drought and root competition.
    With rounded, grey-green foliage, which has an unpleasant smell and is said to deter dogs and cats from garden. Pretty purple flowers.

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  • Echinacea – Colour Mix

    $8.00

    A herbaceous flowering PERENNIAL growing to 1.2cm with large, showy heads of pretty composite flowers in various colours.
    Prefers a well-drained soil in a full sun position and can tolerate some drought. Purple or Angustifolia Echinacea is mostly grown as a medicinal plant where flowering tops and roots are used as a popular home remedy for improving the immune system.

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