Common Name: Spinach Perpetual Latin Name: Beta vulgaris Description: Delicious mild flavoured chard with deep green leaves and short tender stems. This variety resists bolting to seed. Annual. 40cm. Harvesting: Start harvesting young outer leaves when 20cm long. By harvesting the outer leaves, the plant will continue to produce more leaves for many more months. […]
Common Name: Silverbeet Rainbow Chard Latin Name: Beta cicla Description: High yield variety with vibrant, multi-coloured stems that makes it a feature in the garden. Makes an excellent cut-and-come-again vegetable. Annual. Height 40cm. Harvesting: Harvest outer leaves at any size by breaking off at base. Store in fridge. Best Results: Grow in full to part […]
Common Name: Silverbeet Latin Name: Beta vulgaris var cicla Description: This is a high yielding variety with deep green crinkled leaves and broad white stems. It makes an excellent cut-and-come-again vegetable if you harvest the outer leaves only. Annual. Height 50cm. Harvesting: Harvest the outer leaves at any size by breaking them off at the […]
Common Name: Shallots Latin Name: Allium ascalonicum Description: Shallots have superb, delicate onion flavour and form in small clumps of bulbs. Leaves are tubular like an onion. Separate seedlings and plant 5cm apart. Harvesting: Harvest in 12 – 15 weeks before flowering but after tops start to fall over. Dry on rack. Store in cool, […]
Common Name: Savory Latin Name: Satureja montana Description: Small, glossy dark green leaves grow from woody sprawling stems. Whorls of pink-white flowers appear in summer. Very hardy. Perennial. 40cm. Harvesting: Leaves can be harvested at any time to be used fresh or dried. Best Results: Requires very little attention and suits WA conditions. Prune in […]
Common Name: Santolina (Cotton Lavender) Latin Name: Santolina chamaecyparissus Description: Aromatic shrub with silver -white woolly leaves and yellow flowers borne in summer. Extremely hardy in dry conditions. Perennial. 50cm. Harvesting: Harvest flowers and leaves in spring through summer for potpourris. Best Results: Remove dead flower heads in autumn and cut back hard in spring. […]
Common Name: Tricolour Sage Latin Name: Salvia officinalis ‘Tricolour’ Description: Small, woody shrub with irregular pink and ivory coloured leaves and dark pink flowers in spring. Perennial. 60cm. This plant makes the most stunning mass planting for full sun areas and is definately a plant that causes people to look twice! Harvesting: Start harvesting early. […]
Common Name: Purple Sage Latin Name: Salvia officinalis ‘Purpurascens’ Description: Small, woody shrub with velvety, purple-grey leaves and purple-blue flowers in spring. Perennial. 60cm. Harvesting: Start harvesting early. Leaves can be dried or frozen for up to 6 months. Best Results: Give a deep soaking once a week and provide a complete fertiliser in spring. […]
Common Name: Sage – Pineapple Latin Name: Salvia elegans Description: Evergreen shrub with bright green pointed leaves that have a delicious pineapple-like scent. Scarlet flower racemes appear in summer and autumn. Perennial. 100cm. Harvesting: Harvest young leaves and flowers at any time. Best used fresh. Best Results: Prune by about a third after flowering in […]
Common Name: Golden Sage Latin Name: Salvia officinalis ‘Aurea’ Description: Small, woody shrub with velvety, golden leaves and pink flowers in spring. Perennial. 60cm. Harvesting: Start harvesting early. Leaves can be dried or frozen for up to 6 months. Best Results: Give a deep soaking once a week and provide a complete fertiliser in spring. […]
