Apple mint seedling

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Bulbine frutescens
Family: Asphodelaceae
Common names: Burn jelly plant, stalked bulbine, snake flower, cat’s tail

Burn Jelly Plant is a hardy, waterwise perennial valued for both its ornamental beauty and traditional medicinal uses. With its succulent foliage and cheerful star-shaped flowers, it makes an excellent ground cover, especially when planted en masse or used in rock gardens and dry landscapes. Easy to grow and drought tolerant, it is a popular addition to low-maintenance gardens.

Russian Comfrey Crowns (Symphytum × uplandicum)

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Russian comfrey is a highly valuable perennial for food forests and organic garden systems, known for its vigorous growth and deep nutrient accumulation.

Both the leaves and roots have been traditionally used in herbal practices. The plant is rich in allantoin, a compound associated with tissue regeneration, making comfrey a well-known herb for supporting skin and tissue repair both internally and externally.*

Each order includes 1 strong crown cutting with a healthy growing tip. Plant directly into your garden over winter and it will emerge strongly in spring.

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Solidago virgaurea

Family: Asteraceae

Common names: Goldenrod, European Goldenrod, Woundwort, true Goldenrod

Goldenrod is a members of the daisy family and has vivid yellow flower heads that are made up of many, small, daisy-like flowers. It was traditionally used to heal wounds, and a yellow dye was produced from the flowers. Its a stunning plant in meadows, wild flower gardens and herb gardens.

Plant is shipped during its winter dormancy. It will be a bare rooted, dormant crown without any leaves or stalks, but with growing buds already in place (see image below). Simply plant into your garden over winter and watch it emerge in spring. Growing tips are below.

True Peppermint Dormant Bare Root Cuttings (Mentha × piperita)

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A true, high-quality peppermint selected for its strong, clean flavour and reliable vigour - distinct from common garden mints often sold under the same name. This is the same commercial strain grown at KoruKai Herb Farm and is rarely available through retail outlets.

Plants are supplied as dormant bare-root cuttings with active growing tips, shipped nationwide during winter dormancy for easy establishment.

Frost tolerant and highly productive once established.

Available sizes:

• Small: suitable for a 20cm planter or pot
• Large: suitable for approximately 1m² of garden bed

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Zingiber Mioga

Family: Zingiberaceae

Commonly known as Japanese Ginger, Myoga or Mioga.

A beautiful member of the ginger family, with lovely tropical foliage and stunning small flowers that form at the base in late summer / early autumn. The part you harvest is the young flower shoot before it opens. This pink/yellow lovely early flower can be eaten raw, pickled or sautéed to provide a gingery and zesty flavor to any dish.


Order is for 1-2 dormant rhizomes (depending on size) with good, defined growth nodes ready to send up a few strong shoots in spring (see sample image below). We will either send one large or 2-3 smaller ones.

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Stachys affinis

The tubers have a distinct shape and look a bit like a grub. When eaten raw they are crisp and sweet like a water chestnut. When fried they are more starchy, soft and sweet, resembling a slightly nutty potato or kumara. In France they are known as crosnes and are typically served braised in herbs and butter, which is our preferred way to eat them. They are a great brain food.

Order is for a starter bag of about 5 tubers.

Growing instructions can be found below. Frost tolerant as they go dormant over winter.

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Earth Chestnut (Bunium bulbocastanum)

Common names: Earth chestnut, pignut, great pignut and earthnut

The edible parts of the earth chestnut are its tubers, leaves and seeds. The tubers are small, nutty, and taste like chestnuts and can be eaten raw or cooked like potatoes. The leaves are edible and have a parsley-like flavor, while the seeds are also edible and can be used as a cumin substitute.

You will receive a seedling with roots and young shoots (see image further below). Simply plant into your garden as soon as you receive it and watch it emerge in spring. Growing tips are below.

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Curcuma longa

Family: Zingiberaceae

Turmeric is one amazing plant with numerous health benefits. Here an extract: "An M.D. Anderson Cancer Centre review of curcumin research, in the journal Phytotherapy Research in 2014, found that it regulates inflammation that "plays a major role in most chronic illnesses, including neurodegenerative, cardiovascular, pulmonary, metabolic, autoimmune and neoplastic diseases."


Order is for 1 small crown.

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Echinacea (echinacea purpurea) is a highly effective and safe immune herb that helps to jump-start the immune response in the body.*

These crowns are in their 2nd and 3rd year.

Growing tips are below.

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Hedychium coronarium

Family: Zingiberaceae

Commonly known as White Ginger, Butterfly Ginger, Himalayan Ginger. In New Zealand it is often sold as Galangal (especially on Trademe) as they are very hard to tell apart. But galangal is a different plant in the ginger family.

Emitting the scent of Gardenias, the flowers resemble a butterfly in flight. Rhizomes develop into large ginger roots that are good in cooking. It tastes like mild yellow ginger.  Plant prefers moist or boggy soils and full sun.

Order is for 1 plant (see sample image below).

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Meadow Arnica (Arnica chamissonis)

Common names: arnica, meadow arnica

Creeping alpine herbaceous perennial.

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


You will get 3 dormant root pieces. Please find growing information and a picture below.

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Allium ampeloprasum var. porrum

We love those leeks as they are easy to grow, need little care and attention and are very giving. They come into full production over winter and produce well into spring when our winter leek crop is finished for the year.

Easy care multiplying leeks. They grow as thick as your thumb (see image).
You will get a starter clump with 3-4 small leeks.

Planting instructions are below.

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Jerusalem Artichoke (Helianthus tuberosus), also known as sunchoke or sunroot, is a hardy edible sunflower grown for its delicious, nutritious tubers.

Our Jerusalem artichokes are grown naturally at KoruKai Herb Farm without synthetic fertilisers, pesticides, or herbicides.

Each order contains 3 tubers. Choose either 3 small or 3 large tubers using the options below.

Growing instructions can be found here and below.

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Smallanthus sonchifolius

Order is for 1 crown (see sample images below).

"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. It taste like a sweet cross between early apples and watermelon with a touch of pear.
The liquid can also be drawn off and concentrated to produce yacon syrup. The yacon 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.

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Skullcap (Scutellaria lateriflora)

Family: Lamiaceae

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


You will get 3 dormant root pieces. Please find growing information and photos below.

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Lemon Balm (Melissa officinalis)
Family: Lamiaceae
Common names: Lemon Balm, Balm Gentle

Lemon Balm is a vigorous, easy-to-grow perennial herb from the mint family, loved for its fresh citrus fragrance, soothing medicinal properties, and delicious flavour. Adaptable and generous, it thrives in a wide range of soil conditions and produces abundant growth throughout the season. With regular harvesting, we typically enjoy 3–4 cuts each year.

Lemon Balm dies down in winter. You will receive a dormant plant. 

Below you’ll find growing instructions, medicinal uses, and herbal preparation ideas.