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Jerusalem Artichoke (Helianthus tuberosus)
Also known as Sunchoke or Sunroot

Jerusalem Artichoke is a hardy, highly productive perennial sunflower grown for its crisp, sweet, and nutritious underground tubers. Easy to grow and remarkably resilient, it produces abundant harvests year after year with very little maintenance, making it an excellent addition to kitchen gardens, food forests, and permaculture systems.

The tubers can be enjoyed raw, roasted, sautéed, mashed, or added to soups and stews. Their flavour is often described as a cross between water chestnuts, potato, and artichoke, with a pleasant nutty sweetness.

Each order contains three healthy planting tubers. Choose either three small or three large tubers using the options below.

Growing instructions, harvesting advice, and culinary uses can be found below.

Myoga (Zingiber mioga)
Family: Zingiberaceae

Common names: Myoga, Japanese Ginger, Mioga

Myoga is a beautiful, hardy perennial ginger grown for its edible flower buds rather than its roots. It produces lush tropical-looking foliage throughout summer, followed by striking pink and cream flower buds that emerge at ground level in late summer and autumn. Harvested just before they open, these tender buds have a delicate, aromatic flavour with hints of ginger and citrus. They are delicious eaten raw, pickled, or lightly sautéed, adding a fresh, zesty flavour to salads, stir-fries, soups, and traditional Japanese dishes.

Your order includes 1–2 dormant rhizomes (depending on size), each with healthy, well-developed growth buds ready to produce vigorous new shoots in spring (see sample image below). You will receive either one large rhizome or two to three smaller rhizomes of equivalent size.

Marshmallow Crowns (Althaea officinalis)

Marshmallow is a traditional medicinal herb valued for its soothing properties. The leaves and roots have historically been used to support inflammation and irritation of the respiratory, digestive, and urinary systems, including dry coughs, stomach irritation, and urinary tract discomfort.*

Marshmallow goes dormant in winter. Each order includes one marshmallow crown cutting with a growing tip (see image below). Simply plant into your garden over winter and watch it emerge vigorously in spring.

Woundwort (Stachys sylvatica)
Family: Lamiaceae

Woundwort is a hardy woodland perennial from the mint family with a long history of use as a traditional first-aid herb. For centuries it has been valued for supporting the healing of cuts, wounds, bruises, and skin irritations, earning its common name through generations of herbal use. In summer, it produces elegant spikes of deep purple flowers that are highly attractive to bees and other beneficial pollinators, while its lush green foliage makes an excellent addition to woodland gardens and food forests.

Your order includes 3 dormant plants with healthy growing tips, ready to establish quickly and send up vigorous new growth in spring. Please see the photos and growing information below.

Because we only dig this plant every 2 years, we will not have it available in 2026, but we will have heaps in 2027.
Available again in July 2027. Sign up below to join the waiting list.

Elecampane Crowns (Inula helenium)

Elecampane is a striking medicinal perennial traditionally valued for supporting respiratory health and herbal wellness practices.*

Each order includes 1 healthy elecampane crown with active growing tip(s) (see images below). Simply plant into your garden over winter and watch it emerge vigorously in spring. Under good growing conditions, a single plant can often be lifted and divided the following winter, producing approximately 3–6 new plants within a year.

Currently unavailable for 2026. Due to an unusually cool and marginal growing season, our turmeric crop produced very little rhizome division this year. As a result, we will not have plants available for sale in 2026.

Expected availability: July 2027. Please sign up below to join the waiting list and be notified when plants become available again.

Turmeric (Curcuma longa)
Family: Zingiberaceae

Turmeric is one of the world's most celebrated medicinal and culinary plants, prized for its vibrant golden rhizomes and long history of use in traditional herbal medicine. A close relative of ginger, it thrives in warm conditions and produces lush tropical foliage as well as highly valued underground rhizomes rich in curcuminoids—the compounds responsible for turmeric's distinctive colour and many of its researched health benefits.*

Widely used in curries, teas, tonics, and herbal preparations, turmeric has become a cornerstone of both traditional and modern wellness practices. Research continues to investigate its role in supporting healthy inflammatory responses, antioxidant activity, and overall wellbeing.

When available, each order includes one healthy turmeric crown, ready to establish and produce a new clump of rhizomes. Growing instructions, harvesting information, and culinary uses are provided below.

Multiplying Spring Onions (Allium schoenoprasum)
Family: Amaryllidaceae

Easy-care Multiplying Spring Onions, also known as Giant Chives, are one of the most productive perennial vegetables you can grow. Hardy, reliable, and long-lived, they form ever-expanding clumps that return year after year with almost no maintenance.

Enjoy a continuous harvest of crisp, mild-flavoured spring onions from September through to May. Simply harvest the largest stems as needed while leaving the smaller ones to continue growing. Each year the clumps become larger and more productive, providing an increasingly abundant supply without the need for repeated sowing, transplanting, or thinning.

Ideal for kitchen gardens, raised beds, food forests, and permaculture systems, Multiplying Spring Onions are frost hardy, easy to divide, and excellent for sharing with friends or expanding your own planting.

Your order includes a healthy starter clump, ready to establish quickly and provide years of reliable harvests. Planting instructions, growing tips, and harvesting advice are provided below.

Yomogi (Artemisia princeps)
Family: Asteraceae

Yomogi, also known as Japanese Mugwort, is one of Japan's most treasured perennial herbs, valued for centuries as both a nourishing spring vegetable and an important medicinal plant. The tender young shoots have a pleasant, aromatic flavour and are traditionally used in herbal teas, soups, tempura, and the famous green yomogi mochi (rice cakes).

Easy to grow, hardy, and highly productive, Yomogi spreads by underground rhizomes to form lush clumps that return year after year. It thrives in full sun to partial shade and is well suited to gardens throughout New Zealand.

Yomogi dies down in winter. Your order includes one healthy bare-rooted plant with growing shoots, ready to establish quickly in your garden once temperatures warm up.

Growing instructions, harvesting advice, culinary uses, and traditional medicinal information are provided below.

Meadow Arnica (Arnica chamissonis)

Family: Asteraceae

Common names: Meadow Arnica, Arnica

Meadow Arnica is a hardy, spreading perennial prized for its vibrant golden-yellow flowers and long history of traditional herbal use. Unlike the European mountain arnica, this North American species is easier to grow in the home garden, forming attractive clumps that return year after year and provide abundant flowers for making infused oils, salves, balms, and liniments.

Easy to establish and cold hardy, Meadow Arnica thrives in full sun to partial shade in well-drained, compost-rich soil. It spreads gradually by underground rhizomes, making it an excellent addition to medicinal herb gardens and pollinator plantings.

Each order includes three dormant rhizomes with growing buds, ready to plant. Growing instructions, harvesting advice, and traditional herbal uses can be found below.

Apple Mint (Mentha suaveolens)
Family: Lamiaceae

Common names: Apple Mint, Woolly Mint, Fuzzy Mint

Apple Mint is a wonderfully fragrant and easy-to-grow perennial herb, loved for its soft, velvety leaves and refreshing apple-mint flavour. Delicious in herbal teas, iced drinks, desserts, fruit salads, and savoury dishes, it is one of the most versatile mints for the kitchen. Its sweet aroma, attractive foliage, and nectar-rich flowers also make it a favourite with bees and other beneficial pollinators.

Your plant is supplied bare-rooted to ensure it arrives in excellent condition. Simply plant it into a pot or directly into the garden on arrival, water well for the first few days, and it will quickly establish into a vigorous, productive herb. Growing instructions, harvesting tips, and culinary uses are provided below.

Rosemary (Salvia rosmarinus)
Family: Lamiaceae

Rosemary is a beautiful evergreen Mediterranean herb, treasured for its fragrant, needle-like leaves, stunning blue flowers, and wide range of culinary and medicinal uses. Hardy, drought tolerant, and long-lived, it makes an attractive addition to herb gardens, food forests, edible hedges, and pollinator plantings.

Flowering from late winter through spring, Rosemary provides an important early nectar source for honeybees and other beneficial insects when few other plants are in bloom. Its aromatic foliage is indispensable in the kitchen, pairing beautifully with roasted vegetables, potatoes, breads, lamb, poultry, and many Mediterranean dishes.

Your order includes one healthy bare-rooted seedling, ready to establish quickly in your garden or a large container. Growing instructions, harvesting advice, and traditional medicinal uses are provided below.

Lovage (Levisticum officinale)

Family: Apiaceae

Lovage is a hardy, long-lived perennial herb treasured for its rich, celery-like flavour and remarkable productivity. Every part of the plant is useful—the leaves add depth to soups, stews and salads, the stems can be enjoyed like celery, the seeds are used as a spice, and the roots have a long history of culinary and traditional herbal use.

Order is for 1 dormant crown with healthy growing buds. Simply plant it into your garden upon arrival and watch it burst into vigorous new growth in spring. Growing instructions, harvesting tips, and traditional uses are provided below.

Medicinal Comfrey (Symphytum officinale)
Family: Boraginaceae
Common names: Comfrey, Common Comfrey, Knitbone

Medicinal Comfrey is a deep-rooted, hardy perennial herb renowned for its powerful healing properties and exceptional ability to build soil fertility. Traditionally known as “knitbone,” it has long been used to support tissue repair, bruising, sprains, and wound healing. Fast-growing and highly productive, Comfrey is an invaluable medicinal herb as well as a nutrient-rich mulch plant for the garden.

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

You will receive one dormant crown with a growing tip.

Valerian Crowns (Valeriana officinalis)

Valerian is a well-known medicinal herb traditionally used to support restful sleep and help with insomnia.*

Each order includes 1 healthy valerian crown cutting with a growing tip. Plant directly into your garden over winter and it will emerge again in spring. See photos below for examples of the growing tips.

Organically grown at KoruKai Herb Farm without synthetic fertilisers, pesticides, or herbicides.

White Ginger (Hedychium coronarium)
Family: Zingiberaceae

White Ginger, also known as Butterfly Ginger or Himalayan Ginger, is a striking perennial from the ginger family grown for its lush tropical foliage and highly fragrant white flowers. The blooms resemble delicate butterflies in flight and release a rich, sweet perfume often compared to gardenias, making it one of the most aromatic ornamental gingers.

Despite sometimes being mislabelled in trade (including in New Zealand), White Ginger is distinct from culinary galangal species. While its rhizomes are edible and carry a mild, ginger-like flavour, it is primarily grown as an ornamental and fragrant garden plant.

This vigorous plant produces large clumps of upright stems and spreads gradually via underground rhizomes, forming a bold, tropical presence in the garden. It thrives in moist to boggy soils and performs best in full sun to partial shade, especially where soil moisture is consistently high.

Your order includes one healthy plant, ready to establish and grow into a lush flowering clump. Growing instructions and care details are provided below.

Skirret (Sium sisarum)

Skirret is a traditional European perennial root vegetable that was widely grown from medieval times through to the 19th century, valued for its sweet, clustered roots. Often referred to in old texts as a “sugar root,” it produces slender, finger-like roots that are sweeter and more aromatic than carrots when cooked.
The flavour is gently sweet, nutty, and floral, with a soft, creamy texture when roasted, boiled, or pan-fried. At KoruKai Herb Farm, we especially enjoy it simply sautéed in butter, where its natural sweetness really shines.
Skirret forms a clump of multiple edible roots from a single crown, making it a productive and rewarding perennial vegetable for the home garden. Once established, plants improve in yield each year as the root system expands.

Your order includes a healthy seedling with developing storage roots and shoots (see sample image below). Plant it directly into the garden on arrival and it will establish quickly, re-emerging strongly in spring.

Growing instructions and care details are provided below.