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Tagasaste (tree lucerne) seeds

Tagasaste (tree lucerne) seeds

Botanical name   Chamaecytisus palmensis
Details   Fast growing, drought resistant nitrogen fixer (legume). This small tree has white flowers which are loved by bees, bumblebees and native pigeon. Grown as a nurse or support tree during the establishment of more long term tree plantings. Useful as a quick canopy / umbrella over citrus, avocados etc. or used as physical scaffold for climbers such as grape, kiwifruit etc. Good firewood from mature trees. Pour hot water over the seeds and soak for 24 hours before planting into course sand.
Drought tolerance  
Evergreen  
Nitrogen fixer  
Perennial  
Tags     evergreen  flowers  N fixer  tender  tree  white 
Price   $1.90  20 seeds
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Honesty seeds

Honesty seeds

Common name   Annual honesty
Botanical name   Lunaria annua
Details   Easy to grow from seed and tends to naturalize. An annual or biennial growing to 90 cm with large, coarse, pointed oval leaves. In spring and summer it bears terminal racemes of violet flowers, followed by showy, light brown, translucent, disc-shaped seedpods the skin of which falls off to release the seeds, revealing a central membrane which is white with a silvery sheen, 3 - 8 cm in diameter.
Tags     flowers  pink 
Price   $2.90  20 seeds
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Large fruited thornless hawthorn seeds

Large fruited thornless hawthorn seeds

Common name   Chinese Hawthorn
Botanical name   Crataegus pinnatifida
Details   A deciduous tree or shrub that can grow to heights of 5-10meters. Grown widely in China for its edible red fruits, these seed come from a tree planted in 2013. This specimen is thornless and produces large quantities of big dark red fruit after white flowers. This is the only type of hawthorn we grow and there are no wild ones in close proximity (that I am aware of) so seed should be pure.
Tags     berries  deciduous  edible  fruit  perennial 
Price   $4.20  20 seeds
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Grafting Loquat

Grafting Loquat

Details   After several seasons of failure with established, outdoor trees I refined my technique.
Finally I can report on my successful attempts at grafting improved varieties of loquat onto seedling grown trees, both indoors in pots as well as outdoor trees up to 12 years old.

The summary:
  • Switched from whip and tongue to cleft technique for the graft union
  • Covered entire scion with buddy tape
  • On outdoor grafts enclose in plastic bread bag for several weeks
Date   April 22, 2024
Tags     grafting  loquat 
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Babaco cutting

Babaco cutting

Common name   Mountain papaya
Botanical name   Vasconcellea × heilbornii or Carica pentagona
Details  

Stem cuttings from mature plants growing under cover in North Canterbury

Propagate and grow your own babaco plants quick and easy with stem cuttings. Simply place the cutting 1 third into the soil (right way up) and keep damp in a sunny, sheltered, warm location. Roots will form around the bottom cut surface.

Plants are self fertile, so only one plant is required to set fruit.

High success rate and should produce fruit in 12 – 18 months.
Wind tolerance   poor due to big leaves
Flowers   white
Forest layer   low-tree
Frost sensitive  
Edible  
Fruit / berries  
Perennial  
Propagation method   Cutting
Tags     subtropical  fruit  cuttings  propagation 
Price   $3.90  15cm stem cutting
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Hawthorn - Crataegus Pinnatifida scion / bud wood

Hawthorn - Crataegus Pinnatifida scion / bud wood

Botanical name   Crataegus pinnatifida
Rootstock   Hawthorn
Details   Chinese Haw (Crataegus pinnatifida) producing large dark red fruit and no thorns. Offering scions as people have struggled to grow this variety from seed. Graft onto wild hawthorn seedlings.

These are sold for budding or grafting purposes. Technically it is possible to grow these as cuttings in early spring but they have a low success rate.
Price   $3.90  each
Price for 2 or more   $3.50  each if you buy 2 or more
Tags     hawthorn  scion 
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Piptanthus nepalensis seeds

Piptanthus nepalensis seeds

Flowers   Yellow
Common name   Evergreen Laburnum
Botanical name   Piptanthus nepalensis
Details   This Himalayan shrub grows easily from seed, is evergreen in mild sheltered sites, semi-evergreen elsewhere, losing its leaves in hard frost but soon recovering again in spring. The growth is upright and flexible, allowing plants to be trained on warm walls where they are sheltered and flower more profusely. The blooms are large and bright yellow, like those of laburnum but in short upright clusters. Although good drainage is important, make sure plants are watered in summer to prevent sudden die-back.
Evergreen  
Nitrogen fixer  
Perennial  
Tags     evergreen  flowers  N fixer  shrub  yellow 
Price   $4.50  20 seeds
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Alexanders Seeds

Alexanders Seeds

Common name   alisanders, horse parsley, smyrnium
Botanical name   Smyrnium olusatrum
Details   With a taste live celery or parsley, this easy care plant can be eaten raw or cooked. I have grown this plant with good results in areas infested with twitch / cooch grass. The plants self seed and grow again the following season, replacing the grass.
Edible  
Tags     annual  edible 
Price   $1.90  20 seeds
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Siberian Pea Shrub seeds

Siberian Pea Shrub seeds

Botanical name   Caragana arborescens
Details   A genus of shrubs mostly native to Central Asia, some inhabiting dry, half-desert regions with hot summers and bitterly cold winters. They include some of the toughest and most accommodating of all plants, some able to survive temperatures down to -40°C

Seed is normally harvested late summer - autumn.

Due to drought our neglected plants did not set seed. Check back summer 2025 or join the wait list
Nitrogen fixer  
Perennial  
Tags     perennial  shrub  legume 
Price   $5.90  20 seeds
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Hopi Black Dye Sunflower Seeds

Hopi Black Dye Sunflower Seeds

Propagation method   Sow direct
Botanical name   Lunaria annua
Details   Similar to the regular, common sunflower but often having multiple smaller flowers and dark purple / black seed casing that the Hopi people of North America have traditionally used to make a dye for cotton, wool and basketry
Edible  
Seeds / nuts / tubers  
Tags     edible  flowers  yellow 
Price   $4.90  20 seeds
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Zucchini Seeds

Zucchini Seeds

Colour   Pale green
Common name   courgette
Botanical name   Botanical name
Details   A vigorous vining plant producing large numbers of dumpy fruit. Harvest regularly while small for a constant supply.
Edible  
Frost sensitive  
Tags     annual  edible  fruit  tender  vegetable 
Price   $3.90  20 seeds
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Osteospermum Seeds

Osteospermum Seeds

Common name   African daisies, daisybushes
Botanical name   Osteospermum
Details   Easy care plant for dry areas. Does not tolerate hard frost Covered with bright flowers for much of the year, enjoyed by bees.
Drought tolerance  
Frost sensitive  
Perennial  
Tags     flowers  pink 
Price   $3.90  20 seeds
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Tasmanian Blackwood Seeds

Tasmanian Blackwood Seeds

Botanical name   Acacia melanoxylon
Details   A fast growing nitrogen fixing acacia with valuable ground durable timber. Excellent for firewood and loved by bees. Extensive root system makes it drought proof but can sucker profusely when damaged.
Tags     N fixer  timber 
Price   $3.90  20 seeds
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Laburnum Seeds

Laburnum Seeds

Common name   Golden chain or golden rain tree
Botanical name   Laburnum anagyroides
Details   Also known as golden rain or golden chain due to yellow pea-flowers in pendulous leafless racemes 10–40 cm long in spring, which makes them popular garden trees. All parts of the plant are poisonous, although mortality is very rare.
Drought tolerance  
Nitrogen fixer  
Perennial  
Tags     deciduous  flowers  N fixer  yellow 
Price   $3.90  20 seeds
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Fennel Seeds

Fennel Seeds

Forest layer   herbaceous
Botanical name   Foeniculum vulgare
Details   Super easy to grow requiring no care or attention. Grown as part of our food forest conversion process for transitioning from grass.
  • Produces a lot of biomass in a season.
  • Deep root system for soil stabilisation and building via organic mater injection.
  • Flowers loved by beneficial insects.
  • Seeds harden in autumn and can be used for tea or left to feed the birds and self seed.
Edible  
Perennial  
Seeds / nuts / tubers  
Tags     edible  herb  perennial 
Price   $3.90  20 seeds
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Licorice Mint Seeds

Licorice Mint Seeds

Botanical name   Agastache foeniculum
Details   Also known as Anise Hyssop, this strongly licorice scented mint has a distinctive sweet taste and nice purple flower spikes for the insects.
Edible  
Tags     flowers  herb  purple 
Price   $3.90  40 seeds
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Russell Lupin Seeds

Russell Lupin Seeds

Colour   mixed
Botanical name   Lupinus polyphyllus
Details   This leafy plant can grow to a meter and a half with its tall colourful spires of flowers which are a nectar source for bumblebees and other insects. Being a legume, lupins fix nitrogen in the surrounding soil for use by other plants making them a useful as well as attractive addition to the garden or orchard.
Nitrogen fixer  
Perennial  
Tags     flowers  N fixer  perennial  pink  purple  white  yellow 
Price   $3.20  20 seeds
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Yellow bush / tree lupine seeds

Yellow bush / tree lupine seeds

Botanical name   Lupinus arboreus
Details   A fast growing woody lupine with yellow flowers and a sweet scent. Grows well in poor quality soil and makes a good source of biomass and quick low growing shelter and habitat. Short lived perennial bush or shrub that grows in poor conditions. Nitrogen fixing
Evergreen  
Nitrogen fixer  
Perennial  
Tags     flowers  N fixer  shrub  yellow 
Price   $3.90  20 seeds
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Cape gooseberry seeds

Cape gooseberry seeds

Common name   goldenberry, ground cherry
Botanical name   Physalis peruviana
Details   Easily grown in warm climate, this unruly plants can get quite large and produce masses of small yellow / orange fruits a bit like cherry tomatoes, in papery cases. Frequently self seeds in areas where it has grown previously.
Edible  
Frost sensitive  
Fruit / berries  
Tags     berries  edible 
Price   $4.90  20 seeds
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