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We collect and keep our own seeds for planting next year. Not only does this reduce the cost of growing a garden but it allows for an even greater connection with the food we eat and the ongoing cycle of growth, reproduction and renewal. Through careful selection it is possible to guide the evolution of the plant species, developing new strains or varieties that are better suited to the local climate, soil conditions and other site specific variables.
Browse our selection of organically grown vegetable, flower and tree seeds. Hand harvested in Autumn from healthy plants growing in the blockhill forest garden. Our collection sometimes includes imported seeds from popular permaculture shrubs and trees that are difficult to source locally.
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Thornless Honey Locust Seed
Botanical 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
Price $4.9030 seeds
Painted Mountain Corn
Botanical 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
Price $3.9030 seeds
Propigation method Sow direct
Calendula
Common name pot marigold, ruddles, common marigold or Scotch marigold
Botanical 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
Price $3.90tea spoon of seed
Assorted capsicum seed
Common name Pepper
Botanical 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
Price $3.9030 seeds
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
Price $3.9030 seeds
Senna Seeds
Common name glandular senna, downy senna, buttercup bush
Botanical 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
Price $3.9030 seeds
Forest layer shrub
Yellow bush / tree lupine
Botanical 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
Price $3.9030 seeds
Common name Garden parsley
Botanical name Petroselinum crispum
Details A mix of flat and curly leafed parsley. Great herb and insect plant.
Edible
Price $3.90tea spoon of seed
False Indigo Seeds
Botanical 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
Price $4.90half teaspoon (approx. 80 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.
Price $2.9030 seeds
Columbine
Common name granny's bonnet, columbine
Botanical name Aquilegia
Details Purple flowers, loved by bumblebees. Grows well in a range of sites.
Perennial
Price $2.90half teaspoon (approx. 100 seeds)
Tagasaste (tree lucerne)
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.
Nitrogen fixer
Perennial
Price $3.9050 seeds
Fennel
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
Price $3.90100 seeds
Forest layer herbaceous
Large fruited thornless hawthorn seeds
Common name Chinese Hawthorn
Botanical 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.
Price $3.9030 seeds
Teasel
Botanical 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
Price $3.90100 seeds
Forest layer herbaceous
Propigation method Sow direct
Purple Akeake Seeds
Botanical 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
Price $3.9030 seeds
Colour Purple
Flowers Pink
Forest layer low-tree
Wind tolerance Excellent
Alexanders
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.
Edible
Price $3.9030 seeds
Sunflower
Botanical 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
Price $3.9030 seeds
Colour Yellow
Propigation method Sow direct
Kowhai seeds
Botanical 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
Price $3.9030 seeds
Mixed Poppy
Botanical name Papaver
Details Easy to grow annual flowering plant with bright coloured flowers. This collection of seed includes a range of colours and sizes.
Price $3.90tea spoon of seed
Lavender seed
Botanical 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
Price $3.90100 seeds
Foxglove
Botanical name Digitalis purpurea
Price $3.90half teaspoon (hundreds of seeds)
Family Plantaginaceae
Forest layer herbaceous
Hardenbergia vine seeds
Common name Coral vine
Botanical 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
Price $3.9030 seeds
Flowers Pink / purple
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.
Price $3.9030 seeds
Flowers White
Piptanthus nepalensis seeds
Common name Evergreen Laburnum
Evergreen
Nitrogen fixer
Perennial
Price $4.9030 seeds
Flowers Yellow
Common name American cranberry bush
Botanical 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
Russell Lupin
Botanical 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
Price $3.9030 seeds
Colour mixed
Chaste Tree seeds
Common name vitex, chaste tree, chasteberry, Abraham's balm, lilac chastetree, monk's pepper
Botanical name Vitex angus castus
Drought tolerance
Price $4.9030 seeds
Coulter Pine
Common name Big Cone Pine
Botanical 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
Hollyhock
Botanical 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.
Price $3.9050 seeds
Flowers Pink
Broad beans
Botanical 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
Price $3.9040 seeds
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
Price $3.9030 seeds
Colour Pale green
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
Price $4.9030 seeds
Globe Artichoke
Botanical 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
Price $3.9020 seeds
Forest layer herbaceous
Phacelia, blue tansy or purple tansy
Botanical 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.
Price $3.90100 seeds
Forest layer herbaceous
Licorice Mint
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
Price $3.9050 seeds
Japanese Raisin Tree seeds
Botanical name Hovenia dulcis
Edible
Perennial
Price $4.9030 seeds
Osage Orange seeds
Botanical name Maclura pomifera
Details Thorny tree with very hot burning wood, also used for making excellent bows and natural livestock fencing.
Price $4.9030 seeds
Red cherry / strawberry guava seeds
Botanical name Psidium cattleianum
Details
Price $3.9030 seeds
Siberian Pea Shrub seeds
Botanical name Caragana arborescens
Nitrogen fixer
Perennial
Price $4.9030 seeds
Common name June berry, Saskatoon
Botanical name Amelanchier alnifolia
Edible
Fruit / berries
Perennial
Propagate
February
March
April
May
Price $4.9030 seeds
Sea Buckthorn / Sea Berry seeds
Botanical name Hippophae rhamnoides
Drought tolerance
Edible
Evergreen
Fruit / berries
Nitrogen fixer
Perennial
Price $4.9030 seeds
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Large fruited thornless hawthorn seeds
