Thyme Common

Once just a French cooking essential but Thyme is now a must for a wide variety of dishes - casseroles vegetables soups stuffings and sauces. The Thyme plant is an extremely aromatic, woody perennial shrub. Stems are lined with tiny grey-ish leaves and topped with equally tiny pale white/pink flowers. Avoid watering the leaves and try surrounding the plant with bark or stones to help keep the leaves off the ground as Thyme dislikes wet foliage.

Tarragon

One of the four "Fines Herbs" of French cooking, the mild taste of Tarragon is particularly suitable for chicken, lasagne, fish and egg dishes. Tarragon actually prefers poor soils and happily tolerates drought and neglect. Can also be used as an insect repellant!

Tanacetum Robinsons Mix

Masses of daisy like flowers, in varying shades of pink, rose and red, rise above the softest fern like dark green foliage in short spreading mounds. The stems are sturdy and straight and make for an excellent cut flower, while the foliage is strongly aromatic and helps to deter unwanted insects.

Tamarillo (Tree Tomato) Ruby Red

Hidden under a tough skin is a very flavoursome golden-pink flesh. Once considered "the lost food of the Incas". Tamarillo were commercialised in New Zealand and we are now seen as the world leader supplying tamarillo all over the world. Requires a frost free location along with shelter from wind. Easy to germinate.

Swede Purple Champion

Excellent tasting globe shaped swede. Tender yellow flesh with a purple crown and shoulders. Also commonly known as Rutabega Purple Champion.

Swede Invitation F1 Hybrid

Regardless of whether you have the disease ‘Club Root’ or not, Invitation is the best Swede to grow. Hybrid vigour offers a strong-growing, Club Root & Powdery Mildew resistant variety. Swedes, being in the ground for a long time, are very susceptible to club root, making Invitation the natural choice.

Stock Virginia Spring Sparkle

Bright rose flowers slowly evolving to lilac blue. Very easy to grow and terrific garden performance. Delightful fragrance.

Stock Vintage Mix

Producing a wide variety of colours in single and double flowered formats. Excellent garden bed performance during autumn and winter. Stocks prefer the cool seasons.

Stock Mime Mixed

Strong stems make for great garden performance. Sweetly scented with approximately 55% double blooms. Once planted out en masse the doubles and singles blend together and are of very little significance. Lots of fantastic blooms top the true-green foliage. Colours may include : blue, rose, red, white and pink.

Stock Evening Scented

Actually a member the cabbage family! One of the easiest plants to grow.

Stevia Rebaudiana Sugar Grass

Other common names are Sweetleaf, Sugarleaf or Sugar Grass. Overseas it is widely grown for its sweet leaves. Easy to grow. As a sugar substitute, Stevia's taste has a slower onset and longer duration than that of sugar. Cooking with Stevia does require a learning curve, but since the advantages of reducing sugar in your diet (as well as eliminating your consumption of aspartame and other artificial sweeteners) are so important, it's well worth the effort. The most important thing to remember is not to use too much, which can result in excessive sweetness and an aftertaste. Try this website: www.cookingwithstevia.com

Statice Pacific Mix

A popular dried flower that grows to approximately 70cm high.

Stachys Fuzzy Wuzzy

An easy to grow perennial with soft silver-grey foliage to enhance both in-ground and container plantings. Common name is Lambs Ear due to its similarity in appearance and texture!

Spinach Perpetual

An attractive dark green variety noted for its fast growth and holding ability. Also known as Spinach Beet.

Spinach Oriental Imperial Green

An Asian Spinach often used raw in salads but equally useful as a traditional spinach. Erect plant habit keeps leaves clean. Rapid growing and resists bolting. Good mildew resistance.

Spinach Orach

Sometimes known as Red Mountain Spinach, Orach has purple lance-shaped leaves that made a tasty addition to your salad mixes or can be cooked like spinach. The leaves can also be used for "stuffing" or making attractive food parcels. It can also make a lovely border plant in the garden, bearing purple flowering spikes in summer which complement the foliage.

Spinach New Zealand

There is a loyal group of gardeners that seek out and enjoy NZ Spinach. It has a strong, quite unique flavour - almost the opposite of Spinach Perpetual which has a lovely sweet flavour. Unsure which one will suit you? - try them both! Soaking seeds in warm water for two to eight hours prior to sowing may help soften the seed coat and improve germination results.

Spinach Baby Lakeside F1 Hyb

Perfect for the new-age patio garden, container or window. Formerly Baby Teton

Spinach Andromeda

A modern bred Dutch spinach with high resistance to the disease Pernospera. Fast maturing and easy to grow. Excellent hybrid vigour. Best for spring, autumn and winter. This is a treated seed.

Solidago Baby Gold

A compact, hardy perennial that presents flat-topped clusters of golden-yellow flowers in late summer to early autumn. Ideal for borders or containers, also suitable as a cut flower. Pest and disease free. A fantastic nectar source for bees and butterflies.

Silverbeet Golden Sunrise

Rich green crumpled leaves offset with deep golden stalks mid-ribs and veins. Baby leaves can be harvested at just 4 weeks. Great addition to leafy salad mixes enhancing both flavour and colour.

Silverbeet Fordhook Dark Green

Large savoy (blistered) deep green leaves with white stems. A traditional popular variety.

Silverbeet Envy

Dwarf, compact, uniform plants produce very dark green savoyed glossy leaves. Suitable for leaf and whole plant harvest. Sow practically all year round.

Silverbeet Brightlights

Bright multicoloured stems including gold, pink, orange, purple, red and white. Leaves lightly savoyed green and bronze in colour. Mild tasting, a natural in salad mixes. Can be sown most of the year round.

Silver Spear

Silver Spear is a hardy, clump-forming perennial with elegant silvery spear-shaped leaves. During mid to late spring, long stalks of yellowish-green flowers emerge from female plants, that give rise to orange berries in summer. "Cold Stratify" required, detailed cultural information on packet.

Seed Tape - Spring Onion Lisbon

A new and improved tape, the middle tape contains the seed with the side tapes containing a row of fertiliser, giving the seedlings a healthy start ahead of the weeds. The Seed tapes now use a thicker layer of blotter on each side of the seed row, this helps reduce the amount of weeds that can get through early on in germination. No more worrying about rain or watering washing your seeds away. Lisbon is a popular spring onion that can be sown through late winter-spring for spring-summer production. 1 x 4 metre tape per packet Seed Tape

Seed Tape - Spinach Hybrid Number 7

A new and improved tape, the middle tape contains the seed with the side tapes containing a row of fertiliser, giving the seedlings a healthy start ahead of the weeds. The Seed tapes now use a thicker layer of blotter on each side of the seed row, this helps reduce the amount of weeds that can get through early on in germination. No more worrying about rain or watering washing your seeds away. Spinach Hybrid Number 7 is a semi-savoyed variety. Sow in spring and autumn. Useful for winter and spring production. 2 x 2.5 metre tapes per packet Our 2024 catalogue says 1x 4m Tape, this is incorrect, it is currently 2x 2.5m Tapes Seed Tape

Sedum Voodoo

A beautiful and versatile plant that thrives with virtual neglect. Ideal for the rock garden, green roof, vertical wall, containers or between paving stones. Voodoo is a stunning little perennial ground cover. Intense, dark mahogany foliage that provides an eye catching contrast to the almost neon, luminous rosy-red flowers.

Schizanthus Angel Wings

Bushy plants have fern-like foliage and are perfect for a small border, however they do enjoy semi-shade as opposed to full sun. Also great for some delightful colour splashes in the shady (cooler) part of the garden or in dappled light under some larger shrubs or tree canopies Angel Wings has spotted flowers in shades of cream, pink, violet, blue and rose. When growing Schizanthus, the best thing you can do is provide is an early start and mostly cool weather, so begin your plants indoors about three months before your last anticipated frost date in the spring. Then in cooler regions of NZ, once late spring or early summer arrive, it's time to pop your plants out in a semi-shaded location. They will also benefit if protected from strong winds and extreme weather attacks. Schizanthus will stop producing once the heat of summer sets in. Also a great container plant.

Scabiosa Imperial Mix

An extra large flowering mixture. Large fully double, dense heads on long stems in unusual tones of blue, salmon, pink, rose, crimson, lavender and white. Stamens protrude like pins, hence common name of Pin Cushion Flower.

Salvia Sizzler Mix

The most intensely coloured Salvia series in the world is now available. Compact, early flowering plants with short dense spikes of vivid colour.

Salvia Dwarf Rhea Blue

Dwarf Rhea has pure blue flower spikes. Salvia farinacea thrive in a vast range of climatic conditions. They are great garden performers and will flower early right through until autumn. Relatively pest and disease free.

Salvia Bonfire Red

The red beacon of your garden. Bonfire provides a focal point that all else in your garden can shine around. Tall, vigourous plants with low maintenance required. Long lasting colour.

Rudbeckia Sahara

A delightful mix of caramel and soft pink-red blooms. Flowers are semi to fully double. Good heat tolerance. Makes for a nice home cut flower.

Rudbeckia Goldsturm

A great plant that is easy care, Goldsturm is unbothered by insects or drought and is very long blooming. Beautiful bright mounds of yellow flowers with a deep brown center. Starts blooming mid-summer all the way through to autumn. Cut a bunch and bring some of that brightness inside. Suitable for large containers also. Although this plant has been bred to flower in the first year its planted, sometimes if you don't plant early enough the 1st-year result is not spectacular. Year two however will be a totally different story, your garden will be graced with lush, vigorous plants with long lasting blooms

Rosemary

Rosemary is a woody, perennial herb with fragrant evergreen needle-like leaves. While commonly used to flavour meats poultry and potatoes Rosemary is also great in homemade potpourris. Rosemary is extremely high in iron, calcium, and vitamin B6.

Rocket Voyager 'Wild Rocket'

The lovely perfume of Rocket's flower is only given off in the evening. The leaves of Wild Rocket are used for the same purpose as Salad Rocket. It has a much stronger taste than its close relative, Eruca sativa 'Salad Rocket' and can be easily distinguished by its more deeply divided leaf shape. Wild rocket is a hardy perennial, but is often grown as an annual. It has green, deeply divided aromatic leaves that form a rosette as the plant matures.

Rocket

The lovely perfume of rockets flower only is given off in the evening. Leaves picked before it blooms are nutritious salad greens. Sometimes spelt Roquette.

Rock Melon Honey Dew

Honey Dew has a really sweet flavour, it's lovely and juicy and delicious served chilled. Flesh is pale green to green. Prefers hot dry climates. Fruit grows approx 10-12cm in diameter.

Rhubarb

No garden is complete without a rhubarb patch! Strong, healthy upright growth - produces thick green shaded red stalks. Plants regenerate quickly after cutting. Sow seeds in spring and autumn.

Red Kaka Beak

Lush, green, wide-spreading shrub that produces stunning large red flowers which hang in clusters of 15-20 blooms in spring. Flowers are shaped like a parrots beak, hence the name. Caution: snails can strip masses of leaves overnight!