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Thyme – Common
$7.50Add to cartThyme 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
$7.50Add to cartThe 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
$7.50Add to cartThe 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
$8.50Add to cartAn EVERGREEN PERENNIAL creeping thyme with profusion of pink flowers in late spring.
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Thyme – Creeping Woolly
$7.50Add to cartWoolly Thyme is a low-growing PERENNIAL SHRUB with woolly leaves.
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Thyme – Doone Valley
$7.50Add to cartThe 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
$7.50Add to cartThe 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
$7.50Add to cartTomatillo ‘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
$7.50Add to cartTomatillo ‘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
$7.50Add to cartTomatillo ‘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
$7.50Add to cartomatillo ‘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.
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Tomatillo – Violet Husk Tomato
$7.50Add to cartTomatillo ‘Violet’ (Physalis ixocarpa) is a tender annual in the Solanaceae family. It prefers a sunny, sheltered site with fertile, well-drained soil and warmth for best fruiting. Growing to 1–1.2 m tall and wide, it bears papery-husked fruits that ripen to deep violet-purple. Mainly grown as a culinary crop for salsas and sauces, it is also decorative and pollinator-friendly.
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Tomato – Heirloom or Open Pollinated (various)
$5.00Add to cartA selection of this season’s choice of tomatoes grown from my stock of over 250 varieties. Tomatoes are ANNUAL fruiting plants bearing delicious fruit in a variety of shapes, sizes, colours and taste profiles. Please contact me for a list of available varieties this season. All heirloom or open pollinated plants.
Here are links to the varieties I’ve grown this season:
- Cherry Tomatoes (small, snack size, delicious): CHERRIES2025
- Globe / Standard Tomatoes (small to medium, mostly globe (some bell) shaped, a classic tomato for salads, slicing etc.): GLOBES
- Paste Tomatoes (plum shaped, or elongated (sausage shaped), excellent for sauces because of the dense flesh, but great fresh eating too): PASTES2025
- Beefsteak Tomatoes (large tomatoes with dense flesh and not a lot of seed gel, the largest of the tomatoes, excellent flavours, great slicers): BEEFSTEAK2025
- Oxheart Tomatoes (oxheart shaped beefsteaks) : OXHEART_AND_DWARFS
- Dwarfs (special tomatoes that don’t grow tall vines, but still set fruit through the season and great heirloom flavours; great for small spaces): OXHEART_AND_DWARFS
- Anthocyanin rich Tomatoes (stunning colours with black/blue shoulders or shading, fantastic source of bioavailable anthocyanins): ANTHOS2025
Numbers are limited – only 10-15 per variety.
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Valerian
$8.50Add to cartValerian is a DECIDUOUS PERENNIAL growing to 1.5m with heads of sweetly scented pink or white flowers. Prefers well-drained moist soil in full sun.
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Agastache – Giant hyssop White
$8.50Read moreWhite flowering Anise hyssop is a PERENNIAL growing to 90cm with white flowers that are very attractive to bees and butterflies. It grows upright and clump-like with oval, toothed leaves that have a white tint underneath. The plant prefers well-drained soil and a full sun position. Leaves are anise-scented and the flowers slightly aromatic. Used as a culinary herb, and noted as a Native-American medicine for various ailments.
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Ajuga – Port Wine
$8.50Read moreAjuga reptans ‘Port Wine’ is a low, mat-forming perennial groundcover 5–10 cm high and spreading 30–60 cm. Grows in sun to part shade. Its rich burgundy-purple foliage contrasts beautifully with deep blue spring flower spikes. Valued as a groundcover, edging, foliage accent, and pollinator plant.
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
$8.50Read moreAlexanders is a hardy biennial or short-lived perennial herb, growing 60–150 cm tall. Thrives in sun to part shade and a wide range of soils, including poor or coastal soils. Features glossy divided leaves, umbels of yellow-green flowers in spring, and edible stems, leaves, seeds, and roots. Traditionally used as a pot-herb, flavouring, and medicinal plant.
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Angelica – Dong Quai
$9.50Read moreAngelica (Angelica sinensis), known as Dong Quai or Female Ginseng, is a perennial umbellifer growing 60–100 cm tall with divided leaves and umbrella-like clusters of small white-green flowers. Prefers fertile, moist soil in sun to part shade. Traditionally used in Traditional Chinese Medicine, especially for women’s health, blood-building, and circulation.
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Angelica – Holy Ghost
$8.50Read moreAngelica (Angelica archangelica) is a biennial/perennial umbellifer growing 1.5–2m tall with large divided leaves and greenish-white flower umbels. Prefers rich, moist soil in partial shade. Traditionally valued as a Medicinal Herb, Culinary Herb (candied stems, flavouring in liqueurs), and Cottage Garden/Apothecary plant. Hardy in New Zealand, self-seeds readily, and attracts pollinators.
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Artichoke – Green Globe
$9.50Read moreGlobe Artichoke (Cynara cardunculus var. scolymus ‘Green Globe’) is a perennial in the Asteraceae family that grows in full sun and prefers rich, well-drained soil. It is cultivated for its large green flower buds, which are eaten as a gourmet vegetable, and adds striking architectural form to the garden.