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Strawberry – Lipstick (Pink Flowering)
$7.50Add to cartPink 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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Thyme – Caraway
$8.50Add to cartCaraway 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
$7.50Add 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 Pink Magic carpet
$8.50Add to cartAn EVERGREEN PERENNIAL creeping thyme with profusion of pink flowers in late spring.
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Thyme – Creeping Red carpet
$8.50Add to cartAn EVERGREEN PERENNIAL creeping thyme with a profusion of red flowers (deep pink) 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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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.
It is a well-known medicinal plant. -
Wormwood
$9.50Add to cartWormwood is a PERENNIAL growing to 1m with grey-green aromatic feathery leaves.
Prefers well-drained soil in a full sun or semi-shaded position. Can tolerate drought.
Occasionaly used as a flavouring, the plant is mostly used medicinally. -
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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Alyssum – sweet
$6.50Read moreAlyssum (Lobularia maritima) is a low-growing annual in the Brassicaceae family that forms a spreading mat 10–20 cm tall and 20–40 cm wide. It prefers full sun to partial shade and thrives in well-drained soil. It has masses of tiny, fragrant white (sometimes pink, purple, or cream) flowers. Alyssum is used as a Companion Plant (attracting pollinators and beneficial insects), as a Cottage Garden bedding plant, and its edible flowers can be used fresh as a garnish in salads, drinks, or desserts. It self-seeds readily in New Zealand gardens and is hardy to light frost.
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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.
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Artichoke – Imperial Star
$9.50Read moreGlobe Artichoke (Cynara cardunculus var. scolymus ‘Imperial Star’) is a perennial in the Asteraceae family that grows in full sun and prefers rich, well-drained soil. It is an early-maturing variety, bred to produce tender edible buds in its first year, and is excellent for both home gardens and kitchen harvests.