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The most productive tree of all. One tree can have up to fruit on it at one time. Fruits with 1st year, the first fruits set lowest on the trunks are always the largest around 30cm long and 10cm wide, they ripen the earliest and the ripening progress extends up the trunk over two months. Fruit are ...

Atemoya - "African Pride" this is a cross between the cherimoya and the sugar apple. The fruit is sweeter than cherimoya with a more complex flavour, and the texture is a little denser. The tree is bushier, but not particularly tall so far anyway! They grow easily here in the north, but ar...

The vegetable comes from the swollen root of this plant. It can be steamed and eaten as a vegetable or used for thickening sauces and stews. An ideal form of starch for gluten allergy sufferers, the flour can replace wheat flour in recipes. Makes a good barrier plant and provides biomass for compost. Great in the food forest

This so-called pawpaw is actually not a pawpaw at all. It is related to the cherimoya, and is a great choice if you want that tropical taste but live in an area that is too cold for most subtropical fruits. It is hardy to -25 degrees, but fruits well even here in the north. A medium-sized tree that ...

New Arrival: Alpinia zerumbet ‘Variegata’ – Variegated Shell Ginger Add a burst of bold, tropical colour to your garden or patio with Alpinia zerumbet ‘Variegata’, a stunning ornamental ginger now available at our nursery for the first time! Known for its vibrant, striped green-and-gold fo...

Aloe Vera is an evergreen succlent with mid green foliage well known for it's traditional herbal applications. It can be grown outdoors in a frost free environment and indoors as an attractive and useful houseplant. Outdoors it is a great container plant and can be moved into a drier and frost free ...

An ornamental banana with huge leaves and prominent midribs. Magnificent (H 4-5m). The leaves make excellent food baskets or plates. The plant adds a lot of atmosphere to the orchard and can be very useful in helping to create the environment subtropicals need. Excellent biomass producer. Produces masses of bananas suitable for stock food. Grows best in rich soil with plenty of moisture.

Classic calico tote bag. Perfect for your harvest, garden tools, trinkets and treasures.

Yangmei fruit is highly treasured in its home of China where it has been cultivated for thousands of years. The total cropped area of Yangmei in China is roughly double that of the area dedicated to apples in the US! The fruit is rich in vitamin C and antioxidants. The flesh is sweet, sometimes a li...

A beautiful shrub that grows to 3m, with glossy dark green leaves that change to reddish clour in the colder weather. They produce a bright orange or red cherry-sized fruit with a sweet and sometimes slightly sour taste - depending o the time of year. They look stunning in flower and make a great he...

OAK LEAF PAPAYA (Vasconcellea quercifolia) This variety is a taller growing tree and bears a small orange fruit that is arguabily the best tasting of the cold hardy Papayas, you can eat the skin and all. It will drop it's leaves in winter and looks spectacular with the orange fruit on the bare trunk...

RAINBOW VALLEY - cutting grownA mountain papaya/babaco cross, with larger fruit than the mountain papaya, and tastier fruit than either of its parents. The fruit can be eaten skin and all. It crops prolifically for nine months of the year. Self fertile. 3m h x 1m w.

The cold-tolerant hybrid 'Pabachi' is a Pawpaw/Babaco/Toronchi cross. Big juicy fleshy fruit. Slightly effervescent, and fragrant with excellent flavour. and The plump 20cm fruit are sweet and tasty without any of the rubbery texture of the common mountain pawpaw.Sun or semi-shade, warm conditions. ...

An attractive small tree with dark green leaves reaching a height of 3-4 metres in 10 years. The green skinned fruits grow to the size of an orange. The bright yellow flesh is firm and pleasantly cinnamon flavoured. Most often the pulp is made into a dessert, mashed with cream and honey and lemon ju...

This plant makes a great living boundary planted 1 metre apart in a hedge. It forms a dense shrub up to 3 metres high, branching from the ground with 5cm long thorns on thick strong branches and trunk. So the possums stay well away! It is hardy and will survive drought, wind, poor soils and light fr...

A highly ornamental tree with huge bean pods up to 15 cm, containing candyfloss-like edible pulp. Leguminous tree. Ripens June-July. Will bear three years from seed. Beautiful white pohutukawa like flowers in January and February. The children will love the candyfloss - quite a novelty. Highly recco...

Yacon is a species of perennial daisy traditionally grown in the northern Andes. It is prized for its sweet tasting, tuberous roots that can be eaten raw or cooked. They taste somewhere between and apple and a pear and are harvested in the Autumn when the tops have died off.

This plant is a must for those of you who are into Asian food. It has a pungent flavour like coriander only grows a lot more easily. This plant quickly forms a large clump, but does not send out underground suckers as other mint plants do. It is in the same family as willow weed and should be kept p...

The leaves of this plant smell just like Vicks vaporub and can be used for the same purpose. You can steep them in boiling water and inhale the steam to clear nasal passages, or make them into a rub by mixing them with vaseline. The plants are bushy, with fleshy green leaves and grow easily in sun o...

Plant in rich moist soil in sunny warm conditions. Suitable for container growing or outdoors in warmer areas. Harvest after 8-10 months, leaving some for future growth. Dormant over winter.

Satoimo has a roughly textured, earthy brown skin with fibrous hairs. The leaves are ornamental Elephant Ear type. The tuber is on the smaller size, about the size of a small fist. Its flesh is firm and creamy white with flecks of purple. The flavor is mild with hints of nuttiness. It is often prepa...

2 - 3 m high clumping grass. Can be grown very well in warm wet spots. Canes are cut back every summer and split to eat. Juice makes an excellent drink - easy to juice through a roller-type wringer. There is around a litre of juice in every stem so the potential for production of Sugarcane juice for...

These are very hot peppers, great for spice lovers - In fact they are so hot their nickname is the gringo killer! Beautiful yellow or red peppers with black seeds which will not cross pollinate with your other peppers because they are a different species (which means you can save the seed of your sw...

Lemon ‘Kaipara’ (Citrus limon) – Cold-Tolerant, Heavy Fruiting & NZ-Selected Locally selected for New Zealand growing conditions, ‘Kaipara’ is a standout lemon for cooler climates — now available in limited release.‘Kaipara lemon’, described as a New Zealand heritage variety....