Plants

Shipment on the Monday following the order.

Bulbine frutescens

Family: Asphodelaceae

Common names: burn jelly plant, stalked bulbine, snake flower, cat's tail

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Allium fistulosum
We offer Red Bunching Onions as well as the traditional White Welsh Onions (select below).

These multiplying onion are a great perennial plant. They have a thickened and fleshy leaf base similar to spring onions. They are used extensively throughout the East where they are essential in Chinese and Japanese cooking.

They are easy to grow, prolific and well worth the small space they take in the garden or in a pot on a sunny windowsill. Useful for pulling as spring onions or simply cut what you need at the base. Can be divided and re-planted every spring.

The red ones grow to a larger size and are thicker in diameter than the white ones.

Order is for 5 plants.

Available again in July 2022. Sign up below to get notified once it is back in stock.

Available only over winter (July/August), while plant is dormant.

We ship live plants on Mondays* only.

Rumex acetosa

Family: Polygonaceae

Common names: Sorrel, Garden Sorrel, Lemon Sorrel

Available again in July 2022. Sign up below to get notified once it is back in stock.

Available only over winter (July/August), while plant is dormant.

We ship live plants on Mondays* only.

This is a beautiful peppermint with a very "pepperminty" flavour. It is the one we grow commercially.

We have root cuttings availabe for a limited time over the next two weeks as we dig up our dormant plants and give them new beds. They are bare rooted with some growing tips in place.

Small: enough for a 20cm wide planter/pot
Large: enough to fill 1 m² of garden bed.

* order and payment need to be in by 4pm Friday to be sent the following Monday, otherwise they will be sent the week after. If your order contains other items they will be all sent together unless separate orders are placed.

Available in August 2022. Sign up below to get notified once it is available for order.

Smallanthus sonchifolius

"Yacon" means "water root" in the Inca language and its tubers were historically highly valued as a wild source of thirst-quenching refreshment for travellers. The liquid can also be drawn off and concentrated to produce yacon syrup. The yacón is a species of perennial daisy traditionally
grown in the northern and central Andes from Colombia to northern Argentina for its crisp, sweet-tasting, tuberous roots.

Yacón grown at KoruKai Herb Farm, Banks Peninsula. Free from synthetic fertiliser, pesticides and herbicides. 

Order is for 1 crown.

Available again in July 2022. Sign up below to get notified once it is back in stock.

Order is for 1 plant. It will be a healthy, dormant root with a growing tip. Simply plant into your garden over winter and watch it emerge in spring. Growing tips are below.

This plant have been grown organically at KoruKai Herb Farm, Banks Peninsula. Free from synthetic fertiliser, pesticides and herbicides.

Available again in July 2022. Sign up below to get notified once it is back in stock.

This plant is very valuable in a food forest and organic garden system.

The roots and leaves have many medicinal uses. It contains high levels of allantoin, making it a powerful cell proliferant internally and externally. It is used to knit wounds and damaged tissue.

Shipment every Monday. Orders and payments need to be made by Saturday, 4pm to get shipped the following Monday.

Available again in July 2022. Sign up below to get notified once it is back in stock.

1 crown is $9.50
2 crowns is $16 (save $3)

Healthy crown with growing tip/s. Simply plant into your garden and watch it emerge in spring. Growing tips and uses are below.

This plant have been grown organically at KoruKai Herb Farm, Banks Peninsula. Free from synthetic fertiliser, pesticides and herbicides. 

Shipment every Monday. Orders and payments need to be made by Saturday, 4pm to get shipped the following Monday.

Available again in July 2022. Sign up below to get notified once it is back in stock.

Valerian is most commonly used for sleep disorders, especially the inability to sleep (insomnia).

Shipment every Monday. Orders and payments need to be made by Saturday, 4pm to get shipped the following Monday.

Available again in July 2022. Sign up below to get notified once it is back in stock.

Marshmallow seedlings and crowns are dug and packed once a week during winter and while stock lasts.

Shipment every Monday. Orders and payments need to be made by Saturday, 4pm to get shipped the following Monday.

Growing tip are below.

Available again in July 2022. Sign up below to get notified once it is back in stock.

Allium schoenoprasum

Easy care multiplying spring onions/giant chives.

With this starter clump you will have spring onions/giant chives to pick from September until May. No more successive sowing, no more pricking out. Simply plant and cut off as much as you need for 9 months of the year.

Shipment is every Monday* in July only while stock lasts.

* order and payment need to be in by 4pm Friday to be sent the following Monday, otherwise they will be sent the week after.