Origanum 'Hopeleys'
Ornamental origanum with purple flowers, most valued for floral work, and its long flowering period in the summer border. Mild flavour, can also be used in various lamb and poultry dishes.
Attractive shrub with pepper flavoured berries and leaves, use fresh in sweet and savoury dishes, sorbet, preserves. Also a superb container specimen for part shade.
Attractive shrub with pepper flavoured berries and leaves, use fresh in sweet and savoury dishes, sorbet, preserves. Also a superb container specimen for part shade.
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Ornamental origanum with purple flowers, most valued for floral work, and its long flowering period in the summer border. Mild flavour, can also be used in various lamb and poultry dishes.
Mashua. Grown in the Andes for its edible tubers which are best roasted like potatoes or yams. A climbing, shade loving plant which needs a cool site and good drainage.
One of the earliest fruiting varieties, with tall vigorous growth habit to 2.1m. Once established, prune out central canes to keep bush open. As with most blueberries, fruit production is improved by planting other varieties nearby. Sweet fruit which stores and freezes well, perfect for jams, pies, or just eaten fresh.
Culinary thyme; we use this around the garden as a summer flowering ground cover together with Thymus "Minimus". Great around rocks, in the herb garden or in the border.
Australian bred cultivar, vigorous and ideal for our conditions and soil types, up to 2.4m. Sweet fruit and high yielding once established. Good keeping qualities and more resistant to bruising than other varieties.
A heavy cropper and vigorous grower, more mildew resistant than other varieties. Delicious tangy fruit that will get blushes of pink if tree ripened in a sunny situation.
Selected from best local vineyard stock, the mature vines perform well in our cooler climate and produce a complex and rich flavoured pinot noir typical of our southern region. Summer prune to reduce risk of hosting mildew.
The purple foliage form of the common elderberry with pink tinged flowers. Similar uses as the green form, attractive garden plant.
Male pepper berry plants, usually required to pollinate the female flowers to provide viable berries.
Cutting grown from local vineyard stock, the mature vines perform well in our cooler climate and produce a crisp dry light wine which is more like a pinot gris or sauvignon blanc. Summer prune to reduce risk of hosting mildew.
Warm climate blueberry, requiring less winter chill than others, however needs pollinator for best fruiting yeild
A good variety for temperate climates, these will often fruit twice in a season. The first crop is normally the best, bearing delicious sweet juicy fruit in summer.
Lemon thyme, great for savoury meat dishes and marinades, also a long flowering ornamental garden plant. Larger than most ground-covering types, it forms a 30 cm mound and flowers well in summer even in dry conditions. Ideal for mass planting amongst stones with paeonies and crocus. Pink flowers.
Compact broad bush to 1.5m, vigorous and abundant fruiting. Fruit can become very plump and juicy when ripe, which is ideal for home consumption where the fruit is used fresh, but not so suitable for commercial packaging and storage. As with other varieties, acid well drained soil with plenty of mulch and summer moisture.
Popular in Mediterranean dishes combining well with bay, rosemary and sage flavours. Also a attractive cottage garden plant if you like mixing your herbs and flowers.