Autumn
Autumn is here and I couldn't resist making this autumn bouquet, combining flowers and leaves in an array of autumnal hues. It brings some nature into the house and gives a nice feeling of the seasons passing.
April 18, 2011
Found 17 results tagged with 'flowers'
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Calendula Seed
Common name pot marigold, 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
Buy organic plant seeds - grow your own fruit, vegetables, berries and more
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.
Our collection sometimes includes imported seeds from popular permaculture shrubs and trees that are difficult to source locally.
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)
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
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
Wild-flowers spreading
As part of our commitment to the humble bumble and our general enjoyment of displacing grass, we have established a bunch of micro pioneer gardens. These are bubbles of hardy, self seeding, bee friendly blooms that will (hopefully) expand and spread until they join and fill the available space.
This approach of trying to passively replace grass using seed dispersing annual flowers did not work. Poppies returned for a few seasons before vanishing.
This approach of trying to passively replace grass using seed dispersing annual flowers did not work. Poppies returned for a few seasons before vanishing.
December 14, 2012
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
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
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.
Edible
Fruit / berries
Perennial
Price $3.9030 seeds
Flowers White
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
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
Piptanthus nepalensis seeds
Common name Evergreen Laburnum
Evergreen
Nitrogen fixer
Perennial
Price $4.9030 seeds
Flowers Yellow
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
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
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.
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