Thank you for your continued support of my small, home-based nursery throughout the past year. I look forward to helping you grow plants for your kitchen, garden, and herbal home remedies cupboard when I reopen in the new year.
Wishing you a peaceful and nourishing festive season.
Minette
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Shiso – Green Korean
$7.50Read moreShiso is an ANNUAL growing to 60cm with very aromatic, broad, frilly, ruffled green leaves.
Prefers moist well-drained soil in full sun. nnot grow in the shade.
Leaves, flowers and seeds are edible and it has some use in Oriental medicince. -
Sorrel – Garden
$8.50Read moreSorrel is a PERENNIAL plant growing to 60cm with deep roots, juicy stems and edible, arrow-shaped leaves that taste sour.
Prefers moist soil in a semi-shade to full sun position. Can tolerate acidic soil.
All parts of the plant are edible. It is a good household and dye plant and has medicinal use. -
Sorrel – Red-veined
$8.50Read moreBlood-veined Sorrel is a PERENNIAL plant growing to 60cm with deep roots, juicy stems and edible, red-veined leaves with a sharp sour taste. Prefers full sun or semi-shade position in moist soil. Edible leaves can be added to salads.
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Southernwood
$9.50Read moreThe small bushy DECIDUOUS SHRUB grows to 1.2m and has small grey-green narrow and feathery leaves and small yellow flowers.
It has a strong camphor-like fragrance.
Prefers well-drained soil in a full sun or semi-shade position and can grow in nutritionally poor soil. Drought resistant.
It is used in small quantities as a flavouring, but is mostly used as a medicinal herb. -
Strawberry – Alpine White
$8.50Read moreAlpine Strawberry is a PERENNIAL growing to 30cm with trifoliate leaves, white flowers and sweet, small white when ripe strawberry fruit.
Prefers moist well-drained soil in full sun or semi-shade, and can grow in heavy clay soil.
Fruit and leaves are edible and has medicinal use. It is used as a cosmetic herb.
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Strawberry – Lipstick (Pink Flowering)
$7.50Read morePink Flowering Strawberry (Fragaria × ananassa ‘Lipstick’) is a perennial herb in the Rosaceae family. It prefers a sunny to lightly shaded site with moist, well-drained, fertile soil and is hardy across New Zealand. Growing 15–25 cm high and 30–40 cm wide, it forms neat mounds of dark green foliage with bright rosy-pink flowers followed by small, sweet, edible strawberries. Grown both for its culinary fruit and ornamental value, it’s ideal for pots, borders, and edible cottage gardens, and attracts bees and butterflies.
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Sweet violet – pink flowering
$8.50Read moreAn evergreen PERENNIAL gowing to 10cm with heart-shaped leaves and pretty pink flowers.
Prefers well-drained soil in full sun or semi-shade.
Young leaves and flowers are edible and the plant has historic medicinal use.
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Sweet violet – purple
$8.50Read moreAn evergreen PERENNIAL gowing to 10cm with heart-shaped leaves and pretty purple flowers.
Prefers well-drained soil in full sun or semi-shade.
Young leaves and flowers are edible and the plant has historic medicinal use. -
Thyme – Caraway
$8.50Read moreCaraway Thyme is an EVERGREEN SHRUB growing to 10cm with very aromatic small lanceolate leaves on prostrate branches.
Prefers well-drained soil in full sun and can tolerate drought.
With caraway-seed scented leaves, it is an excellent flavouring herb. As with all thymes, there are medicinal uses for the plant. -
Thyme – Common
$7.50Read moreThyme is an EVERGREEN SHRUB growing to 20cm with slender stems and small green aromatic leaves.
Prefers well-drained soil in full sun, and can grow in nutritionally poor soil.
Leaves are used fresh or dried as a condiment and tea, and it has many proven medicinal actions. -
Thyme – Creeping Emerald Carpet
$7.50Read moreThe leaves of this creeping EVERGREEN SHRUB are smaller and narrower and it grows low on the ground with white flowers. Same cultivation requirements as Common Thyme.
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Thyme – Creeping Golden
$7.50Read moreThe Golden Thyme is an EVERGREEN PERENNNIAL and has light golden-green leaves and grows to 10cm. It has light pink flowers. Same cultivation requirements as Common Thyme
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Thyme – Creeping Magic carpet
$8.50Read moreAn EVERGREEN PERENNIAL creeping thyme with profusion of pink flowers in late spring.
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Thyme – Creeping Woolly
$7.50Read moreWoolly Thyme is a low-growing PERENNIAL SHRUB with woolly leaves.
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Thyme – Doone Valley
$7.50Read moreThe leaves of this creeping EVERGREEN SHRUB are variegated, and flowers are light pink. Same cultivation requirements as Common Thyme.
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Thyme – Pizza
$7.50Read moreThe Pizza Thyme is an EVERGREEN PERENNIAL shrub with somewhat broader leaves than Common Thyme. Grow as you would Common Thyme
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Tomatillo – Geodes Husk Tomato
$7.50Read moreTomatillo ‘Geodes’ (Physalis ixocarpa) is a tender annual in the Solanaceae family. It prefers full sun and fertile, free-draining soil and is frost-tender in New Zealand. It grows to about 1–1.2 m tall and wide, producing ornamental papery husks with sweet-tart fruits. Mainly used as a culinary crop for fresh eating, roasting and preserves, and as an ornamental/pollinator plant.
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Tomatillo – Green Husk Tomato
$7.50Read moreTomatillo ‘Green Husk’ (Physalis ixocarpa) is a tender annual in the Solanaceae family. It prefers a warm, sunny site with fertile, free-draining soil. Growing to around 1–1.2 m tall and wide, it produces green, husked fruits with a tart, citrusy flavour. Grown mainly as a culinary plant for making salsa verde and sauces, it is also decorative and pollinator-attracting.
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Tomatillo – Puebla Husk Tomato
$7.50Read moreTomatillo ‘Puebla’ (Physalis ixocarpa) is a tender annual in the Solanaceae family. It prefers full sun and fertile, free-draining soil and is frost-tender in New Zealand. Plants grow to about 1–1.2 m tall and wide, producing firm, tangy green fruits enclosed in papery husks. Mainly used as a culinary crop for salsas, roasting and preserving; also decorative in the garden and attractive to pollinators.
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Tomatillo – Queen of Malinalco Husk Tomato
$7.50Read moreomatillo ‘Queen of Malinalco’ (Physalis ixocarpa) is a tender annual in the Solanaceae family. It prefers full sun and fertile, free-draining soil and is frost-tender in New Zealand. It grows to around 1–1.2 m tall and wide, setting abundant husked fruits prized for fresh salsas and preserving. Mainly used as a culinary crop for sauces and canning, and as an ornamental, pollinator-friendly plant.