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Fennel Seeds
Forest layer
herbaceous
Botanical name
Foeniculum vulgare
Details
Super easy to grow requiring no care or attention. Grown as part of our food forest conversion process for transitioning from grass.
- Produces a lot of biomass in a season.
- Deep root system for soil stabilisation and building via organic mater injection.
- Flowers loved by beneficial insects.
- Seeds harden in autumn and can be used for tea or left to feed the birds and self seed.
Edible
Perennial
Seeds / nuts / tubers
Price
$3.90
20 seeds
Red cherry guava seeds
Common name
Strawberry guava
Botanical name
Psidium cattleianum
Details
Small evergreen tree or shrub slowly growing to 6 meters. Native to Brazil.
Red fruit, up to 3cm in diameter, with numerous hard small seeds. Rich in vitamin C
Edible
Evergreen
Frost sensitive
Fruit / berries
Perennial
Price
$3.90
20 seeds
Service berry seeds
Common name
June berry, Saskatoon
Botanical name
Amelanchier alnifolia
Details
Produces flowers and edible fruit after 5 - 6 years.
Slow to germinate as seed requires sold stratification
Edible
Fruit / berries
Perennial
Propagate
February
March
April
May
Price
$4.90
20 seeds
Assorted capsicum seed
Common name
Pepper
Botanical name
Capsicum
Details
A random selection of sweet to mild peppers. We find these plants will last for several seasons in the glasshouse but die off in winter outside in North Canterbury.
Edible
Frost sensitive
Propagate
November
September
October
Price
$3.90
20 seeds
Catnip seeds
Botanical name
Nepeta cataria
Details
A short-lived perennial, plant that grows to be 50â100 cm tall and wide, which blooms pink or white from late spring through autumn.
Loved by felines, catnip is also used in herbal teas. It can be a repellent for certain insects, including aphids.
Drought tolerance
Perennial
Price
$3.90
50 seeds
Rosa Rugosa Seeds
Botanical name
Rosa Rugosa
Details
Large edible fruits (hips), which resembles cherry tomatoes, 2-3cm diameter, in late summer and early autumn. Plants often bear fruit and flowers at the same time. The leaves typically turn bright yellow before falling in autumn.
Edible
Fruit / berries
Perennial
Price
$3.90
20 seeds
Flowers
White
Oregano
Botanical name
Origanum vulgare
Details
Hardy and easy to grow, this popular culinary herb is also loved by bees and is a good ground cover in the forest garden. Once you have this plant you can easily multiply by dividing up larger plants.
Diameter
1.00
Forest layer
ground cover
Flowers
purple
Drought tolerance
Edible
Propagation method
Transplant
Price
$3.90
3 rooted cuttings
Pepermint Divisions
Botanical name
Mentha × piperita
Details
A vigorous, aromatic perennial herb growing 30–90 cm tall, valued for its fragrant leaves and medicinal properties.
Easily propagated by cuttings, division, or runners, it can spread invasively if not contained.
It thrives in temperate to subtropical climates, preferring rich, moist, well-draining soil. Peppermint grows well in full sun to partial shade and requires regular watering to maintain consistent moisture.
Known for its culinary, medicinal, and aromatic uses, peppermint is used to flavour teas, desserts, and savoury dishes, and its essential oil is prized for relieving headaches, aiding digestion, and repelling pests.
Easily propagated by cuttings, division, or runners, it can spread invasively if not contained.
It thrives in temperate to subtropical climates, preferring rich, moist, well-draining soil. Peppermint grows well in full sun to partial shade and requires regular watering to maintain consistent moisture.
Known for its culinary, medicinal, and aromatic uses, peppermint is used to flavour teas, desserts, and savoury dishes, and its essential oil is prized for relieving headaches, aiding digestion, and repelling pests.
Forest layer
ground cover
Flowers
purple
Edible
Price
$3.90
3 rooted peices
Propagation method
Transplant
Viburnum trilobum dried fruit with seeds
Common name
American cranberry bush
Botanical name
Viburnum trilobum
Details
Fruit - raw or cooked. Juicy but acid. The fruits are rich in vitamin C, and about 8mm in diameter, containing a single large seed.
Edible
Fruit / berries
Perennial
Price
$3.90
20 seeds
Aronia Melanocarpa Seeds
Common name
Black Chokeberry
Botanical name
Aronia Melanocarpa
Details
Most commonly found in wet woods and swamps, however it grows and fruits acceptably in an elevated location in North Canterbury. Seeds from bushes planted in 2016
Edible
Fruit / berries
Perennial
Price
$4.90
20 seeds
Large fruited thornless hawthorn seeds
Common name
Chinese Hawthorn
Botanical name
Crataegus pinnatifida
Details
A deciduous tree or shrub that can grow to heights of 5-10meters. Grown widely in China for its edible red fruits, these seed come from a tree planted in 2013. This specimen is thornless and produces large quantities of big dark red fruit after white flowers. This is the only type of hawthorn we grow and there are no wild ones in close proximity (that I am aware of) so seed should be pure.
Price
$4.20
20 seeds
Sea Buckthorn / Sea Berry seeds
Botanical name
Hippophae rhamnoides
Details
Supply update June 2024 - Our plants started producing berries last season so hope to have some available for sale in autumn. Check back in April 2025
Drought tolerance
Edible
Evergreen
Fruit / berries
Nitrogen fixer
Perennial
Price
$4.90
20 seeds
Perennial multiplying leek plants
Common name
Perennial leeks, Multiplier leeks, Perpetual leeks
Details
Easy to grow leek or spring onion substitute that will, once well established and managed, supply a constant supply of fresh leeks. Plants develop new baby leeks around the base. Just pull out the largest, central leek to eat and leave the rest to develop or replant space out the young ones if required.
Edible
Perennial
Price
$9.90
20 baby leeks
Perennial Brassica from the forest garden
Details
Having freed ourselves of the expectation of eating vegetables that resemble the unnatural size and uniformity of those found in the supermarket we have reduced our efforts and disappointments in the garden. Perennial brassica are one way that we produce more food with less work. Foraged fresh from the surrounding landscape, these baby broccoli heads (flowers) are tasty and tender.
Date
September 03, 2019
Russell Lupin Seeds
Colour
mixed
Botanical name
Lupinus polyphyllus
Details
This leafy plant can grow to a meter and a half with its tall colourful spires of flowers which are a nectar source for bumblebees and other insects. Being a legume, lupins fix nitrogen in the surrounding soil for use by other plants making them a useful as well as attractive addition to the garden or orchard.
Nitrogen fixer
Perennial
Price
$3.20
20 seeds
Osage Orange seeds
Botanical name
Maclura pomifera
Details
Thorny tree with very hot burning wood, also used for making excellent bows and natural livestock fencing.
Price
$4.90
20 seeds
Chaste Tree seeds
Common name
vitex, chaste tree, chasteberry, Abraham's balm, lilac chastetree, monk's pepper
Botanical name
Vitex angus castus
Drought tolerance
Price
$4.90
20 seeds
Siberian Pea Shrub seeds
Botanical name
Caragana arborescens
Details
A genus of shrubs mostly native to Central Asia, some inhabiting dry, half-desert regions with hot summers and bitterly cold winters. They include some of the toughest and most accommodating of all plants, some able to survive temperatures down to -40°C
Seed is normally harvested late summer - autumn.
Due to drought our neglected plants did not set seed. Check back summer 2025 or join the wait list
Seed is normally harvested late summer - autumn.
Due to drought our neglected plants did not set seed. Check back summer 2025 or join the wait list
Nitrogen fixer
Perennial
Price
$5.90
20 seeds
Globe Artichoke
Botanical name
Cynara cardunculus var. scolymus
Details
The globe artichoke is a variety of a species of large thistle cultivated as a food. The edible matter is buds that form within the flower heads before the flowers come into bloom.
Edible
Perennial
Price
$3.90
20 seeds
Forest layer
herbaceous
Perennial multiplying leeks
Common name
Perennial leeks, Multiplier leeks, Perpetual leeks
Details
This is one of my favourite vegetables to grow as it is easy care, quick to multiply and can be used raw or cooked in many meals. If you want a perennial spring onion / leek then this is the one to grow and is productive for much of the year
Forming clumps over time, this onion / allium can be harvested and divided at any time, sitting ready and waiting in even poor, weedy soil. Rapidly bulk up your patch by dividing regularly and not eating too many at the beginning.
Forming clumps over time, this onion / allium can be harvested and divided at any time, sitting ready and waiting in even poor, weedy soil. Rapidly bulk up your patch by dividing regularly and not eating too many at the beginning.
Forest layer
herbaceous
Edible
Perennial
Soil type
Most
Laburnum
Common name
Golden chain or golden rain tree
Family
Fabaceae
Details
Yellow pea-flowers in pendulous leafless racemes 10–40 cm (4–15.5 in) long in spring, which makes them very popular garden trees.
All parts of the plant are poisonous, although mortality is very rare. Symptoms of laburnum poisoning may include intense sleepiness, vomiting, convulsive movements, coma, slight frothing at the mouth and unequally dilated pupils.
All parts of the plant are poisonous, although mortality is very rare. Symptoms of laburnum poisoning may include intense sleepiness, vomiting, convulsive movements, coma, slight frothing at the mouth and unequally dilated pupils.
Flowers
Yellow
Diameter
6.00
Height (m)
6
Forest layer
low-tree
Drought tolerance
Nitrogen fixer
Perennial
Shade / Sun
Full sun / part shade
Soil type
Most
Wind tolerance
Good
Propagation method
Sow pot / tray