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 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 Peppermint

Peppermint is in a class by itself. Beautiful white petioles with pink stripes from bottom to top create a visual pop that will catch any eye. Silverbeet Peppermint has glossy, dark green, savoy leaves and is bolt tolerant. Can also be used in ornamental planters and flower beds!

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.

Silene Sibella Mix

A mix of Sibella Carmine and Sibella White. Giving you both amazing colours of these beautiful semi-double flowers to include in your hanging baskets and planters. Fast spreading plant, you won't be disappointed. The recommendation is one plant per 15cm size container, or 3 plants per 30cm basket. In sunny spot in the garden you should plant around 5 plants per m2.

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

Scabiosa Blue Note

These basal branching plants have dense, dark green foliage. The short stemmed clear blue flowers appear all growing season (spring-summer) on tidy, mounded plants. Relatively pest and disease free.

Salvia Salvatore Blue

A long flowering perennial with a tidy habit and lush spikes of intense dark deep purple/blue flower stems. Well-branched and prolific blooming, this long flowering perennial flowers throughout summer.

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 Dwarf Cirrus White

White counterpart to Rhea. Both make great displays in mixed planters.

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.

Sage

Ornamental, hardy branching perennial that is strongly aromatic. The young stems are covered with a white down, but become woody as they age. Thick, velvety leaves. Many culinary uses.

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!