Globe Artichoke
Cynara scolymus
 The flower buds and stalks, if blanched or steamed in the 'Italian way' are just so delicious. But Globe artichoke has so much more to offer.
The antibiotic properties in the leaf and root are brilliant to treat hardening of the arteries and liver damage as well as increasing the 'flow' of cholesterol.
The huge leaves of Globe artichoke can be dried and powdered easily to use medicinally.
10
fresh seeds $3.50
Golden Rod
Solidago virgaurea
 This is a very pretty plant in the garden. It works beautifully as a border plant or just something to fill those small vacant areas in a garden.
It spends all of Spring and Summer as a foliage plant and at the end of Summer it shoots up panicles of dense golden flowers.
This mildly sedative herb is great for asthmatic coughs as well as a good cold and flu remedy due to it's expectorant and anti inflammatory properties.
Homoeopathically, it works wonderfully well to help with air- borne allergens.
100
fresh seeds $3.50
Golden Shower Thrallus
Galphimia glauca
 We grow these beautiful shrubs for their homeopathic remedy properties, but if they had no other purpose, we would still grow them.
With their red stems, vibrant green leaves and generous sprays of deep yellow flowers, they dominate their area of the garden.
Once popular, in the 1940's, they seem to have been forgotten by the gardening magazines.
They grow to around 1.8M but it is very easy to keep them lower and trimmed to hedge proportions.
They knock back in winter in cooler climates, but burst forth in Spring to delight once again. In our Queensland garden they flower from September to June.
30 seeds $3.50
Goji Berry
Lycium barbarum
 This variety grows as a shrub and can get to 2.5m high and across.
It will grow well in any sunny position as long as the soil has some drainage.
It needs to be trimmed back at least every winter.
It must be noted that it is a deciduous shrub and will drop all of it's leaves, indicating that it is time to prune it back quite hard.
Pruning also increases crop yield.
20 seeds $3.50
Goji Berry
Lycium chinense
 This variety of Goji has more of a vine habit than a bush.
It will send long horizontal branches (up to 6m) along a wall or fence and then shoot it's fruiting branches vertically.
It fruits usually at the onset of Winter and sometimes Early Spring, but for the rest of the year it produces delicious leaves for cooking or tea making.
They tend to work better than the 'shrub variety' in pots, as long as the pots are large enough.
Potted seedlings only $12.00
plus $8.00 extra postage
Unfortunately we cannot
supply seedlings to Western Australia, Tasmania or
Overseas.
Gotu Kola
Centella asiatica
 This delightful groundcover has attracted much interest, medicinally, due to research done that shows it as, tonic, anti-inflammatory, wound healing, diuretic and sedative.
We use it daily when necessary.
It treats skin infections and appears to stimulate blood cleansing and immunity.
As a nerve tonic, it improves memory and reduces mental fatigue.
5 Rootlets $5.50
Greater Celandine
Chelidonium majus
 The orange sap produced by the plant is fantastic for the removal of warts.
We have read many articles discussing the use of the sap and many claim that it is caustic but we have not found it so and have used it externally for many skin problems.
I guess personal caution should be used, as with any plant, until your own response can be gauged.
Homeopathically, it is widely used, as we do, for under performing livers and gall bladders when well indicated.
15 Seeds $3.50
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