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Painted Mountain Corn

Latin name Zea mays

Details Brightly coloured cobs bred for hardiness, earliness and high nutrition flour. A dry corn rather than a sweetcorn. Height around 1.5m. Early maturing 90 days from sowing.

Edible

Frost sensitive

Seeds / nuts / tubers

Tags corn seed vegetable annual

Price $3.9030 seeds

Calendula

Common name pot marigold, ruddles, common marigold or Scotch marigold

Latin name Calendula officinalis

Details Yellow or orange flowers, the petals of which can be added to salad. Makes a great companion plant in the garden.

Edible

Tags flowers companion

Price $3.90tea spoon of seed

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Laburnum

Common name Golden chain or golden rain tree

Details Yellow pea-flowers in pendulous leafless racemes 10–40 cm (4–15.5 in) long in spring, which makes them very popular garden trees.

All parts of the plant are poisonous, although mortality is very rare. Symptoms of laburnum poisoning may include intense sleepiness, vomiting, convulsive movements, coma, slight frothing at the mouth and unequally dilated pupils.

Drought tolerance

Nitrogen fixer

Perennial

Tags perennial tree legume hardy

Price $3.9030 seeds

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False Indigo Seeds

Latin name Amorpha fruticosa

Details Purple flowering large shrub to small tree growing to 4 meters.

Pour 80 degree water over seeds and soak overnight. Sow just below soil surface at at 20 degrees and water

Nitrogen fixer

Perennial

Tags legume

Price $4.90half teaspoon (approx. 80 seeds)

Assorted capsicum seed

Common name Pepper

Latin name Capsicum

Details A random selection of sweet to mild peppers. We find these plants will last for several seasons in the glasshouse but die off in winter outside in North Canterbury.

Edible

Frost sensitive

Tags vegetable

Price $3.9030 seeds

Yellow bush / tree lupine

Latin name Lupinus arboreus

Details A fast growing woody lupine with yellow flowers. Grows well in poor quality soil and makes a good source of biomass and quick low growing shelter and habitat.

Evergreen

Nitrogen fixer

Perennial

Tags legume perennial shrub

Price $3.9030 seeds

Senna Seeds

Common name glandular senna, downy senna, buttercup bush

Latin name Senna multiglandulosa

Details A fast growing evergreen shrub which become treelike. The leaves are each made up of several pairs of thick, hairy, oval-shaped leaflets each measuring up to about 4 centimeters long. The leaves are studded with visible resin glands between the leaflets.

Evergreen

Frost sensitive

Nitrogen fixer

Perennial

Tags perennial tree legume flowers

Price $3.9030 seeds

Honesty seeds

Common name Annual honesty

Latin 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 bees pioneer

Price $2.9030 seeds

Parsley seeds (mixed)

Common name Garden parsley

Latin name Petroselinum crispum

Details A mix of flat and curly leafed parsley. Great herb and insect plant.

Edible

Tags herb

Price $3.90tea spoon of seed

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Columbine

Common name granny's bonnet, columbine

Latin name Aquilegia

Details Purple flowers, loved by bumblebees. Grows well in a range of sites.

Perennial

Tags flowers purple bees

Price $2.90half teaspoon (approx. 100 seeds)

Tagasaste (tree lucerne)

Latin 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.

Nitrogen fixer

Perennial

Tags perennial tree legume birds bees

Price $3.9050 seeds

Sea Buckthorn / Sea Berry seeds

Latin name Hippophae rhamnoides

Drought tolerance

Edible

Evergreen

Fruit / berries

Nitrogen fixer

Perennial

Tags perennial tree berry health

Price $4.9030 seeds

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Fennel

Latin 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

Price $3.90100 seeds

Only 9 in stock Order

Teasel

Latin name Dipsacus fullonum

Details Fast growing tall flowering plant that needs no care or attention.
Values include: wind break, shade plant, water holding plant, soil improvement / stabilisation, biomass production, insect habitat, food source for birds, ornamental

Drought tolerance

Perennial

Tags annual birds biomass

Price $3.90100 seeds

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Sunflower

Latin name Helianthus annuus

Details This easy to grow plant will produce a single large yellow flower 1 to 2 meters above the ground.

Plant climbing beans amongst the sunflowers when they are a meter high, the beans will climb the stem
The seeds ripen in April and can be fed directly to chickens or left for birds
Can get blown over by strong wind

Edible

Seeds / nuts / tubers

Tags annual flowers bees birds

Price $3.9030 seeds

Colour Yellow

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Alexanders

Common name alisanders, horse parsley, smyrnium

Latin name Smyrnium olusatrum

Details With a taste live celery or parsley, this easy care plant can be eaten raw or cooked.

Edible

Price $3.9030 seeds

Only 8 in stock Order

Kowhai seeds

Latin name Sophora tetraptera

Details Large yellow flowers from September to November loved by bellbird and tui.
Seed requires scarification before sowing. Mechanical scarification works best for this species. Reasonable results can also be achieved with hot water treatment.

Drought tolerance

Evergreen

Nitrogen fixer

Perennial

Tags native legume flowers

Price $3.9030 seeds

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Purple Akeake Seeds

Latin name Dodonea viscosa

Details A reasonably fast growing NZ native bushy shrub or small tree with purple leaves. Good for creating shelter and controlling erosion. The timber from akeake is one of the hardest native woods. It was traditionally used for paddles, weapons, digging sticks and spade blades.

Drought tolerance

Evergreen

Perennial

Tags native

Price $3.9030 seeds

Colour Purple

Flowers Pink

Wind tolerance Excellent

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Mixed Poppy

Latin name Papaver

Details Easy to grow annual flowering plant with bright coloured flowers. This collection of seed includes a range of colours and sizes.

Tags flowers annual bees

Price $3.90tea spoon of seed

Only 7 in stock Order

Viburnum trilobum seeds

Common name American cranberry bush

Latin name Viburnum trilobum

Details Fruit - raw or cooked. Juicy but acid, the taste is best after a frost. The fruits are rich in vitamin C, they are an excellent substitute for cranberries and are used in preserves, jams etc.

Edible

Fruit / berries

Perennial

Price $3.9030 seeds

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Hardenbergia vine seeds

Common name Coral vine

Latin name Hardenbergia

Details Vigorous evergreen climber native to Australia. Requires a warm, sheltered location. Can grow in dry conditions. Purple or pink and white flowers loved by bees in early spring.

Drought tolerance

Evergreen

Frost sensitive

Nitrogen fixer

Perennial

Tags perennial vine bees legume

Price $3.9030 seeds

Flowers Pink / purple

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Lavender seed

Latin name Lavandula

Details Seed collected from a selection of different lavendar plants of varying type, some seed grown and some commercial cultivars.

Drought tolerance

Perennial

Tags bees purple flowers

Price $3.90100 seeds

Only 6 in stock Order

Russell Lupin

Latin name Lupinus polyphyllus

Details This leafy plant can grow to a meter and a half with its tall colourful spires of flowers. 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. They are also a nectar source for bumblebees and other insects.

Nitrogen fixer

Perennial

Tags nitrogen legume flowers

Price $3.9030 seeds

Colour mixed

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Rosa Rugosa Seeds

Details Large edible hips, which resembles cherry tomatoes, 2–3 cm diameter, in late summer and early autumn. Plants often bear fruit and flowers at the same time. The leaves typically turn bright yellow before falling in autumn.

Tags perennial shrub berries health flowers thorns

Price $3.9030 seeds

Flowers White

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Chaste Tree seeds

Common name vitex, chaste tree, chasteberry, Abraham's balm, lilac chastetree, monk's pepper

Latin name Vitex angus castus

Drought tolerance

Tags perennial shrub health

Price $4.9030 seeds

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Large fruited thornless hawthorn seeds

Common name Chinese Hawthorn

Latin name Crataegus pinnatifida

Details Seed collected from largest fruit that have been under the tree over winter. 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 perennial tree fruit health

Price $3.9030 seeds

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Coulter Pine

Common name Big Cone Pine

Latin name Pinus coulteri

Details Native to the coastal mountains of Southern California.
Produces the heaviest cone of any pine tree, 20-40 cm in length and weighing 2-5 kg

Drought tolerance

Edible

Evergreen

Seeds / nuts / tubers

Price $4.9030 seeds

Only 3 in stock Add to Order

Japanese Raisin Tree seeds

Latin name Hovenia dulcis

Edible

Perennial

Tags perennial tree

Price $4.9030 seeds

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Piptanthus nepalensis seeds

Common name Evergreen Laburnum

Evergreen

Nitrogen fixer

Perennial

Tags perennial shrub tree legume flowers

Price $4.9030 seeds

Flowers Yellow

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Service berry seeds

Common name June berry, Saskatoon

Latin name Amelanchier alnifolia

Edible

Fruit / berries

Perennial

Propagate February March April May

Tags perennial shrub tree berries

Price $4.9030 seeds

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Hollyhock

Latin name Alcea rosea

Details Easily grown in most soils and climate with plants reaching up to 2 meters tall. Large bright flowers over an extended period, loved by bees. Produces masses of big seeds.

Tags flowers bees

Price $3.9050 seeds

Flowers Pink

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Licorice Mint

Latin 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 mint licorice bees flowers

Price $3.9050 seeds

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Broad beans

Latin name Vicia faba

Details Large seeded bean that grows self supporting to about 1 meter. Plant most of the year for green manure, bee fodder and edible beans both raw or cooked.

Edible

Nitrogen fixer

Seeds / nuts / tubers

Globe Artichoke

Latin name Cynara cardunculus var. scolymus

Details The globe artichoke is a variety of a species of large thistle cultivated as a food. The edible matter is buds that form within the flower heads before the flowers come into bloom.

Edible

Perennial

Tags perennial shrub vegetable

Price $3.9020 seeds

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Phacelia, blue tansy or purple tansy

Latin name Phacelia

Details Quick and easy to grow, this fantastic bee plant can get up to a meter tall, covered in purple flowers. As it produces a large amount of plant matter it is also useful as green manure or mulch. Produces plenty of seed for next season.

Tags annual purple bees seed

Price $3.90100 seeds

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Zucchini

Common name courgette

Details A vigorous vining plant producing large numbers of dumpy fruit. Harvest regularly while small for a constant supply.

Edible

Frost sensitive

Tags annual vegetable

Price $3.9030 seeds

Colour Pale green

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Osage Orange seeds

Latin name Maclura pomifera

Details Thorny tree with very hot burning wood, also used for making excellent bows and natural livestock fencing.

Tags perennial tree

Price $4.9030 seeds

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Red cherry / strawberry guava seeds

Latin name Psidium cattleianum

Details

Tags perennial shrub fruit

Price $3.9030 seeds

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Siberian Pea Shrub seeds

Latin name Caragana arborescens

Nitrogen fixer

Perennial

Tags perennial shrub legume

Price $4.9030 seeds

Out of stock Related info

Kakabeak seeds

Details Seeds collected from assorted red and pink flowering shrubs in the blockhill gardens

Drought tolerance

Frost sensitive

Nitrogen fixer

Perennial

Propagate November January December October

Tags perennial shrub legume flowers native

Price $4.9030 seeds

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Foxglove

Latin name Digitalis purpurea

Tags biennial flower bees

Price $3.90tea spoon of seed

Family Plantaginaceae

Out of stock

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Name	Drought tolerance	Edible	Evergreen	Forest layer	Frost sensitive	Fruit / berries	Jugulone tolerance	Nitrogen fixer	Perennial	Propigation method	Seeds / nuts / tubers
Thornless Honey Locust Seed Gleditsia triacanthos f.inermis	yes	no	no		no	no	yes	yes	no		no	Order Related info
Painted Mountain Corn Zea mays	no	yes	no		yes	no	no	no	no	sow direct	yes	Order Related info
Calendula Calendula officinalis	no	yes	no		no	no	no	no	no		no	Add to Order
Laburnum	yes	no	no		no	no	no	yes	yes		no	Buy Related info
False Indigo Seeds Amorpha fruticosa	no	no	no		no	no	no	yes	yes		no	Add to Order Related info
Assorted capsicum seed Capsicum	no	yes	no		yes	no	no	no	no		no	Add to Order Related info
Yellow bush / tree lupine Lupinus arboreus	no	no	yes		no	no	no	yes	yes		no	Order
Senna Seeds Senna multiglandulosa	no	no	yes	shrub	yes	no	no	yes	yes		no	Order Related info
Honesty seeds Lunaria annua	no	no	no		no	no	no	no	no		no	Order
Parsley seeds (mixed) Petroselinum crispum	no	yes	no		no	no	no	no	no		no	Order View 4 photos
Columbine Aquilegia	no	no	no		no	no	no	no	yes		no	Order
Tagasaste (tree lucerne) Chamaecytisus palmensis	no	no	no		no	no	no	yes	yes		no	Order
Sea Buckthorn / Sea Berry seeds Hippophae rhamnoides	yes	yes	yes		no	yes	no	yes	yes		no	Only 10 in stock Buy Now Related info
Fennel Foeniculum vulgare	no	yes	no	herbaceous	no	no	no	no	yes		yes	Only 9 in stock Order
Teasel Dipsacus fullonum	yes	no	no	herbaceous	no	no	no	no	yes	sow direct	no	Only 9 in stock Order Related info
Sunflower Helianthus annuus	no	yes	no		no	no	no	no	no	sow direct	yes	Only 8 in stock Order
Alexanders Smyrnium olusatrum	no	yes	no		no	no	no	no	no		no	Only 8 in stock Order
Kowhai seeds Sophora tetraptera	yes	no	yes		no	no	no	yes	yes		no	Only 8 in stock Add to Order Related info
Purple Akeake Seeds Dodonea viscosa	yes	no	yes	low-tree	no	no	no	no	yes		no	Only 7 in stock Order Related info
Mixed Poppy Papaver	no	no	no		no	no	no	no	no		no	Only 7 in stock Order
Viburnum trilobum seeds Viburnum trilobum	no	yes	no		no	yes	no	no	yes		no	Only 7 in stock Add to Order View 3 photos
Hardenbergia vine seeds Hardenbergia	yes	no	yes		yes	no	no	yes	yes		no	Only 6 in stock Order Now Related info
Lavender seed Lavandula	yes	no	no		no	no	no	no	yes		no	Only 6 in stock Order
Russell Lupin Lupinus polyphyllus	no	no	no		no	no	no	yes	yes		no	Only 5 in stock Order
Rosa Rugosa Seeds	no	no	no		no	no	no	no	no		no	Only 5 in stock Order Related info
Chaste Tree seeds Vitex angus castus	yes	no	no		no	no	no	no	no		no	Only 5 in stock ORDER Related info
Large fruited thornless hawthorn seeds Crataegus pinnatifida	no	no	no		no	no	no	no	no		no	Only 4 in stock Order Now Related info
Coulter Pine Pinus coulteri	yes	yes	yes		no	no	no	no	no		yes	Only 3 in stock Add to Order
Japanese Raisin Tree seeds Hovenia dulcis	no	yes	no		no	no	no	no	yes		no	Only 3 in stock Order Related info
Piptanthus nepalensis seeds	no	no	yes		no	no	no	yes	yes		no	Only 3 in stock Order Now Related info
Service berry seeds Amelanchier alnifolia	no	yes	no		no	yes	no	no	yes		no	Only 2 in stock ORDER View 3 photos
Hollyhock Alcea rosea	no	no	no		no	no	no	no	no		no	Only 2 in stock Order
Licorice Mint Agastache foeniculum	no	yes	no		no	no	no	no	no		no	Out of stock
Broad beans Vicia faba	no	yes	no		no	no	no	yes	no		yes	Out of stock Related info
Globe Artichoke Cynara cardunculus var. scolymus	no	yes	no	herbaceous	no	no	no	no	yes		no	Out of stock
Phacelia, blue tansy or purple tansy Phacelia	no	no	no	herbaceous	no	no	no	no	no		no	Out of stock Related info
Zucchini	no	yes	no		yes	no	no	no	no		no	Out of stock Related info
Osage Orange seeds Maclura pomifera	no	no	no		no	no	no	no	no		no	Out of stock Related info
Red cherry / strawberry guava seeds Psidium cattleianum	no	no	no		no	no	no	no	no		no	Out of stock Related info
Siberian Pea Shrub seeds Caragana arborescens	no	no	no		no	no	no	yes	yes		no	Out of stock Related info
Kakabeak seeds	yes	no	no		yes	no	no	yes	yes		no	Out of stock Related info
Foxglove Digitalis purpurea	no	no	no	herbaceous	no	no	no	no	no		no	Out of stock

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Thornless Honey Locust Seed

Latin name Gleditsia triacanthos f.inermis

Details Excellent shade and autumn colour tree.
Produces very large pods with sticky sweet pulp, valued for stock fodder.
Thrives in the heat and dry.

Drought tolerance

Jugulone tolerance

Nitrogen fixer

Tags perennial tree legume

Price $4.9030 seeds

Painted Mountain Corn

Latin name Zea mays

Details Brightly coloured cobs bred for hardiness, earliness and high nutrition flour. A dry corn rather than a sweetcorn. Height around 1.5m. Early maturing 90 days from sowing.

Edible

Frost sensitive

Seeds / nuts / tubers

Tags corn seed vegetable annual

Price $3.9030 seeds

Calendula

Common name pot marigold, ruddles, common marigold or Scotch marigold

Latin name Calendula officinalis

Details Yellow or orange flowers, the petals of which can be added to salad. Makes a great companion plant in the garden.

Edible

Tags flowers companion

Price $3.90tea spoon of seed

Add to Order

Laburnum

Common name Golden chain or golden rain tree

Drought tolerance

Nitrogen fixer

Perennial

Tags perennial tree legume hardy

Price $3.9030 seeds

Buy Related info

False Indigo Seeds

Latin name Amorpha fruticosa

Details Purple flowering large shrub to small tree growing to 4 meters.

Pour 80 degree water over seeds and soak overnight. Sow just below soil surface at at 20 degrees and water

Nitrogen fixer

Perennial

Tags legume

Price $4.90half teaspoon (approx. 80 seeds)

Assorted capsicum seed

Common name Pepper

Latin name Capsicum

Details A random selection of sweet to mild peppers. We find these plants will last for several seasons in the glasshouse but die off in winter outside in North Canterbury.

Edible

Frost sensitive

Tags vegetable

Price $3.9030 seeds

Yellow bush / tree lupine

Latin name Lupinus arboreus

Details A fast growing woody lupine with yellow flowers. Grows well in poor quality soil and makes a good source of biomass and quick low growing shelter and habitat.

Evergreen

Nitrogen fixer

Perennial

Tags legume perennial shrub

Price $3.9030 seeds

Senna Seeds

Common name glandular senna, downy senna, buttercup bush

Latin name Senna multiglandulosa

Evergreen

Frost sensitive

Nitrogen fixer

Perennial

Tags perennial tree legume flowers

Price $3.9030 seeds

Honesty seeds

Common name Annual honesty

Latin name Lunaria annua

Tags flowers bees pioneer

Price $2.9030 seeds

Parsley seeds (mixed)

Common name Garden parsley

Latin name Petroselinum crispum

Details A mix of flat and curly leafed parsley. Great herb and insect plant.

Edible

Tags herb

Price $3.90tea spoon of seed

Order View 4 photos

Columbine

Common name granny's bonnet, columbine

Latin name Aquilegia

Details Purple flowers, loved by bumblebees. Grows well in a range of sites.

Perennial

Tags flowers purple bees

Price $2.90half teaspoon (approx. 100 seeds)

Tagasaste (tree lucerne)

Latin name Chamaecytisus palmensis

Nitrogen fixer

Perennial

Tags perennial tree legume birds bees

Price $3.9050 seeds