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Buy organic plant seeds - grow your own fruit, vegetables, berries and more
Browse our selection of organically grown vegetable, flower and tree seeds. Hand harvested in Autumn from healthy plants growing in the blockhill forest garden.
Our collection sometimes includes imported seeds from popular permaculture shrubs and trees that are difficult to source locally.
Our collection sometimes includes imported seeds from popular permaculture shrubs and trees that are difficult to source locally.
Learn to graft fruit trees (seasonal)
Grow your knowledge of fruit tree cloning through the ancient art of grafting. Learn by seeing and doing with hands on examples and one on one tuition and explanation. We will cover:
- Collecting and storing grafting (scion) wood from desired trees
- Understanding and propagating rootstocks
- Grafting tools and techniques
- View many examples of grafted trees of various types, complexity and age
2 hours
July
August
September
$80.00
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
Forest layer
low-tree
Height (m)
6
Drought tolerance
Nitrogen fixer
Perennial
Shade / Sun
Full sun / part shade
Soil type
Most
Wind tolerance
Good
Propagation method
Sow pot / tray
Senna Seeds
Forest layer
shrub
Common name
glandular senna, downy senna, buttercup bush
Botanical name
Senna multiglandulosa
Details
A fast growing evergreen shrub which become treelike. The leaves are each made up of several pairs of thick, hairy, oval-shaped leaflets each measuring up to about 4 centimetres long. The leaves are studded with visible resin glands between the leaflets.
Evergreen
Frost sensitive
Nitrogen fixer
Perennial
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
Spring grafting season for fruit and nut trees August - October
Wood is cut and graded in June for dispatch in July – August. On receipt, scion wood will need to be stored refrigerated until the appropriate local grafting time.
Grafting is the process of adding part of a known, desirable tree onto existing, growing roots of a similar species. This process offers many benefits such as having many types of apple on a single tree or influencing the characteristics of the tree such as size, soil requirements and disease resistance.
Length: 150 – 170mm with 3 - 4 buds
Diameter: 5 – 12mm
Grafting is the process of adding part of a known, desirable tree onto existing, growing roots of a similar species. This process offers many benefits such as having many types of apple on a single tree or influencing the characteristics of the tree such as size, soil requirements and disease resistance.
June
July
August
September
October
Tagasaste (tree lucerne) seeds
Botanical name
Chamaecytisus palmensis
Details
Fast growing, drought resistant nitrogen fixer (legume). This small tree has white flowers which are loved by bees, bumblebees and native pigeon. Grown as a nurse or support tree during the establishment of more long term tree plantings. Useful as a quick canopy / umbrella over citrus, avocados etc. or used as physical scaffold for climbers such as grape, kiwifruit etc. Good firewood from mature trees. Pour hot water over the seeds and soak for 24 hours before planting into course sand.
Drought tolerance
Evergreen
Nitrogen fixer
Perennial
Price
$1.90
20 seeds
Paulownia Seed
Common name
princess tree, empress tree, or foxglove-tree
Botanical name
Paulownia tomentosa
Details
Deciduous hardwood tree with very large leaves.
Fragrant flowers, large and violet-blue in colour are produced before the leaves, in early spring.
Native to central and western China.
An extremely fast-growing in the right conditions reaching a height of 10 - 25m
Perennial
Price
$4.90
20 seeds
Thornless Honey Locust Seed
Botanical name
Gleditsia triacanthos f.inermis
Details
Excellent shade and autumn colour tree.
Produces very large pods with sticky sweet pulp, valued for stock fodder.
Thrives in the heat and dry.
Drought tolerance
Jugulone tolerance
Nitrogen fixer
Price
$4.90
20 seeds