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Osteospermum Seeds
Common name
African daisies, daisybushes
Botanical name
Osteospermum
Details
Easy care plant for dry areas. Does not tolerate hard frost Covered with bright flowers for much of the year, enjoyed by bees.
Drought tolerance
Frost sensitive
Perennial
Price
$3.90
20 seeds
Columbine Seeds
Common name
granny's bonnet, columbine
Botanical name
Aquilegia
Details
Purple flowers, loved by bumblebees. Grows well in a range of sites. Seeds are poisonous.
Perennial
Price
$3.10
40 seeds
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
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
Paulownia Seed
Common name
princess tree, empress tree, or foxglove-tree
Botanical name
Paulownia tomentosa
Details
Deciduous hardwood tree with very large leaves. Fragrant flowers, large and violet-blue in colour are produced before the leaves, in early spring. Native to central and western China. Extremely fast-growing in the right conditions reaching a height of 10 - 25m
Perennial
Price
$4.90
20 seeds
Sunflower Seeds
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
$3.90
20 seeds
Colour
Yellow
Propagation method
Sow direct
Licorice Mint Seeds
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
$3.90
40 seeds
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.
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
$3.90
40 seeds
Snapdragon seeds
Common name
African daisies, daisybushes
Botanical name
Antirrhinum
Details
Antirrhinum is a genus of plants commonly known as dragon flowers, snapdragons and dog flower because of the flowers' fancied resemblance to the face of a dragon that opens and closes its mouth when laterally squeezed. They are native to rocky areas of Europe, the United States, Canada, and North Africa.
Price
$3.90
50 seeds
Red Broom Seeds
Common name
Ruby Scotch Broom
Botanical name
Cytisus Ruby
Details
Seed collected from Cytisus Ruby, a small, fast growing, shrub with an abundance of deep, crimson-red flowers from late spring and early summer.
Due to cross pollination or genetic diversity the seed may produce plants with some yellow flowers as per photos.
Drought tolerance
Nitrogen fixer
Perennial
Price
$3.90
20 seeds
Rosa Rugosa Seeds
Botanical name
Rosa Rugosa
Details
Large edible fruits (hips), which resembles cherry tomatoes, 2-3cm 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
$3.90
20 seeds
Flowers
White
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
$2.90
20 seeds
Hopi Black Dye Sunflower Seeds
Botanical name
Lunaria annua
Details
Similar to the regular, common sunflower but often having multiple smaller flowers and dark purple / black seed casing that the Hopi people of North America have traditionally used to make a dye for cotton, wool and basketry
Edible
Seeds / nuts / tubers
Price
$4.90
20 seeds
Propagation method
Sow direct
South Island Kowhai seeds
Common name
South Island Kōwhai
Botanical name
Sophora microphylla
Details
A native tree of New Zealand, well known for its distinctive, bright yellow flowers and attractive foliage. It is a small to medium-sized tree, typically growing between 8 to 12 meters in height, with a semi-deciduous habit. The South Island kōwhai has fern-like leaves with small, glossy leaflets, and its iconic flowers bloom in early spring, usually from August to November. The tree’s juvenile form often has tangled, interlacing branches, but it matures into a stately, elegant adult tree.
Drought tolerance
Evergreen
Nitrogen fixer
Perennial
Price
$3.90
20 seeds
Mixed Poppy Seeds
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
$2.90
20 seeds
Hardenbergia vine seeds
Flowers
Pink / purple
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
$3.90
20 seeds
Kakabeak seeds
Common name
Clianthus
Botanical name
Clianthus
Details
Seeds collected from assorted red and pink flowering shrubs in the blockhill gardens. Seed can contain some white fluff, the dried pulp from the seed casing, this is NOT mould or fungus.
Drought tolerance
Frost sensitive
Nitrogen fixer
Perennial
Propagate
November
January
December
October
Price
$4.40
20 seeds
Piptanthus nepalensis seeds
Flowers
Yellow
Common name
Evergreen Laburnum
Botanical name
Piptanthus nepalensis
Details
This Himalayan shrub grows easily from seed, is evergreen in mild sheltered sites, semi-evergreen elsewhere, losing its leaves in hard frost but soon recovering again in spring. The growth is upright and flexible, allowing plants to be trained on warm walls where they are sheltered and flower more profusely. The blooms are large and bright yellow, like those of laburnum but in short upright clusters. Although good drainage is important, make sure plants are watered in summer to prevent sudden die-back.
Evergreen
Nitrogen fixer
Perennial
Price
$4.50
20 seeds
North Island Kowhai seeds
Common name
Large-leaved kōwhai
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
$3.90
20 seeds
Purple Akeake Seeds
Colour
Purple
Flowers
Pink
Forest layer
low-tree
Wind tolerance
Excellent
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
$3.90
20 seeds
False Indigo Seeds
Botanical name
Amorpha fruticosa
Details
Purple flowering large shrub to small tree growing to 4 meters and is often cultivated as an ornamental plant.
Amorphous fruticosa is a deciduous nitrogen fixing shrub in the legume family.
Found wild in most of the contiguous United States, southeastern Canada, and northern Mexico and introduced to Europe. Asia and other continents.
It has minor edible use and some additional uses including: Bedding; Dye; Insecticide; Oil; Repellent; Shelterbelt; and Soil stabilization. Common names, including desert false indigo, false indigo-bush, and bastard indigobush.
Amorphous fruticosa is a deciduous nitrogen fixing shrub in the legume family.
Found wild in most of the contiguous United States, southeastern Canada, and northern Mexico and introduced to Europe. Asia and other continents.
It has minor edible use and some additional uses including: Bedding; Dye; Insecticide; Oil; Repellent; Shelterbelt; and Soil stabilization. Common names, including desert false indigo, false indigo-bush, and bastard indigobush.
Nitrogen fixer
Perennial
Price
$3.90
20 seeds
Senna Seeds
Forest layer
shrub
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 centimetres long. The leaves are studded with visible resin glands between the leaflets.
Evergreen
Frost sensitive
Nitrogen fixer
Perennial
Price
$3.90
20 seeds
Laburnum Seeds
Common name
Golden chain or golden rain tree
Botanical name
Laburnum anagyroides
Details
Also known as golden rain or golden chain due to yellow pea-flowers in pendulous leafless racemes 10–40 cm long in spring, which makes them popular garden trees. All parts of the plant are poisonous, although mortality is very rare.
Drought tolerance
Nitrogen fixer
Perennial
Price
$3.90
20 seeds
Foxglove Seeds
Botanical name
Digitalis purpurea
Details
Foxglove, scientifically known as Digitalis, is a striking and charming biennial or perennial flowering plant renowned for its tall spires of tubular, bell-shaped flowers. These flowers come in a range of colors, including purple, pink, white, and occasionally yellow, adding a touch of elegance to gardens and natural landscapes.
Notably, foxglove is a favorite among gardeners and pollinators alike.
The plant is characterized by its rich green, lance-shaped leaves and can reach heights of 2 to 5 feet (60-150 cm). However, its exquisite beauty conceals its toxic nature, as all parts of the foxglove plant contain compounds known as cardiac glycosides, which can be highly toxic if ingested. While its toxic properties make it unsuitable for consumption, foxglove has been historically used in traditional medicine for its potential cardiovascular effects, though its use in modern medicine is carefully controlled and regulated.
Whether for its aesthetic appeal in gardens or its historical significance in medicine, the foxglove plant remains a captivating and enigmatic botanical specimen.
Notably, foxglove is a favorite among gardeners and pollinators alike.
The plant is characterized by its rich green, lance-shaped leaves and can reach heights of 2 to 5 feet (60-150 cm). However, its exquisite beauty conceals its toxic nature, as all parts of the foxglove plant contain compounds known as cardiac glycosides, which can be highly toxic if ingested. While its toxic properties make it unsuitable for consumption, foxglove has been historically used in traditional medicine for its potential cardiovascular effects, though its use in modern medicine is carefully controlled and regulated.
Whether for its aesthetic appeal in gardens or its historical significance in medicine, the foxglove plant remains a captivating and enigmatic botanical specimen.
Price
$3.90
100 seeds
Family
Plantaginaceae
Forest layer
herbaceous
Hollyhock Seeds
Flowers
Pink / dark red
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
$3.90
20 seeds
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
$3.90
20 seeds
Yellow bush / tree lupine seeds
Botanical name
Lupinus arboreus
Details
A fast growing woody lupine with yellow flowers and a sweet scent. Grows well in poor quality soil and makes a good source of biomass and quick low growing shelter and habitat. Short lived perennial bush or shrub that grows in poor conditions. Nitrogen fixing
Evergreen
Nitrogen fixer
Perennial
Price
$3.90
20 seeds
Elderflower 'champagne'
This sparkling and refreshing (mildly alcoholic) drink is made from the fermentation of flowers from the elder tree using a process similar to that of ginger beer.
The flowers give the drink a light, sweet airy flavor
The flowers give the drink a light, sweet airy flavor
November 10, 2009
Russell Lupin Seeds
Colour
mixed
Botanical name
Lupinus polyphyllus
Details
This leafy plant can grow to a meter and a half with its tall colourful spires of flowers which are a nectar source for bumblebees and other insects. 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.
Nitrogen fixer
Perennial
Price
$3.20
20 seeds
Tagasaste (tree lucerne) seeds
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.
Drought tolerance
Evergreen
Nitrogen fixer
Perennial
Price
$1.90
20 seeds