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Get bigger plants at our plant shop!

We have more plants than ever (and we will get even more)

Open Fridays and Saturdays or outside area any time during daylight hours (pay via honesty box).  Extended opening times during school holidays. On the weekends we are often on markets in the area. 

EFTPOS is available but you’ll get 10% off if you pay cash!

Inside you’ll find ceramics, indoor plants and Eden seeds.

The ceramics are also handmade by us and high fired in a gas kiln.

Stocklist September 2024 -Abundance!

100+ plants to choose from! Some we have only very low numbers, like one or two. Drop in Fridays and Saturdays 9-4 pm or on appointment. Please test us rather than ringing, we have usually no reception. Sometimes i use Latin names sometimes common names, I guess I should do both…

Fruiting Plants:

  • Luma, Chilean myrtle
  • Pepino
  • Naranjilla/lulo
  • Coastal Guava (psidium littorale)
  • Fig Brown Turkey
  • Elderberry
  • Bush Wild Lemon
  • Native Sandpaper fig
  • Native Sandpaper fig “bird’s eye” selected for taste
  • Illawarra Plum, Podocarpus elatus
  • Boysenberry
  • Mulberry, dwarf
  • Kaffir lime, seedling

Kitchen Herbs:

  • Greek oregano
  • Thyme ‘silver posie’
  • Thyme ‘pink chinz’
  • Thyme ‘pizza’
  • Marjoram
  • Bay leaf
  • Citronella geranium
  • Curry leaf tree
  • Fennel, bronze
  • Camphor basil 
  • Hoary Mountain mint
  • False Cardamon
  • Fennel bronze
  • Vietnamese mint
  • Lemon Grass
  • Rakkyo onion
  • Hoary Mountain mint

True Mints:

  • Berries and Cream
  • Apple mint
  • Chocolate mint
  • Basil mint
  • Eau de Cologne mint
  • Moroccan Mint
  • Rust Free Mint

Perennial Greens:

  • Red veined sorrel
  • Sorrel
  • Sweet potato purple raven
  • Lebanese Cress
  • Ramie
  • Perennial Kale, Couve Tronchuda
  • Perennial Kale ‘Homesteader Kaleidoscope’
  • Artichoke Green Globe
  • Purple Mukuna-Wenna
  • Ramie
  • Bitter Leaf (Veronia amygdalina)
  • Perennial Buckwheat
  • Brazil Spinach
  • Vegetable fern

Perennial starchy roots:

  • Canna indica
  • Taro, pacific
  • Taro golden
  • Mauka
  • Yacon
  • Sweet Potato white
  • West-Indian Arrowroot

Medicinal Herbs:

  • Aloe arborescens
  • Gotu kola
  • Holy Basil
  • Patchouli
  • Brahmi
  • Cranberry
  • Verbena officinalis
  • Black horehound
  • Ribwort Plantain
  • Primula veris
  • Achyrathes bidendata
  • Cat’s Whiskers
  • Aztec sweet herb
  • Rue
  • Verbena officinalis
  • Japanese sweet flag (acorus grammineus)
  • Russian comfrey
  • Geranium ‘citronella’
  • Leonotis leonurus
  • Leonotis nepetifolia
  • Canadian Goldenrod
  • Angelika archangelica
  • Elecampaign
  • Jiaogulan (Gynostemma)
  • Ashwagandha
  • Valerian
  • Rue
  • Heimia salicifolia
  • Motherwort
  • Canadian Goldenrod
  • Acorus calamus
  • Marsh mallow
  • Orris root
  • Erygnium planum
  • Cranberry
  • Arthemisia absinthum
  • Arthemisia princeps (yomogi)
  • Southernwood
  • Withania somnifera
  • Valerian
  • Yarrow coastal

Bush Food:

  • Sandpaper fig
  • Sandpaper fig ‘bird’s eye’
  • Bulbine Glauca
  • Bulbine glauca
  • Gumbi gumbi
  • Redback ginger
  • Davidson’s plum
  • Bush basil 
  • Riberry, Syzygium luehmannii
  • Magenta lilly pilly, Syzygium paniculatum
  • Illawarra plum, Podocarpus elatus
  • Yellow mangosteen, Atractocarpus fitzalanii
  • Einadia nutans
  • Plectranthus incisa (cut-leaf mint)
  • gumbi-gumbi

Other Perennial Edible Plants

  • Artichoke ‘Green globe’
  • Chilli ‘charapita’
  • Thai pea eggplant
  •  Pickerl rush
  • Water chestnuts
  • Sugar cane

Permaculture plants and other useful plants:

  • Bamboo multiplex ‘Alphonse Karr’
  • Citronella Geranium