| Description | Sweet Marjoram is a delicately flavoured cousin or Oregano. It has mild pine and citrus flavours. It is native of North Africa, the Mediterranean region and South-Eastern Asia. Although it is a herbaceous perennial, it is treated by most as an annual due to its sensitivity to frost and cold temperatures. It like a sunny well drained position, and regular watering. It can grow up to 50cm tall, but due to its spreading nature is brilliant to use at the edge of large containers to trail, in hanging baskets, in rockeries and for borders. Excluding the roots, all parts of this plant is edible, even the little white or very pale pink flowers. This herb is great used fresh or dried. In the kitchen, sweet marjoram enhances many dishes, and is deceivingly strong. The tender fresh leaves are great in salads, or mixed with spring veggies. And used fresh or dried goes great in any tomato, pork or beef dishes. It also adds a nice flavour to pizza. When adding this herb to a hot dish, add it in the last 10 minutes of cooking. This herb has many remedy uses. It has been used as a therapy for headaches, toothaches, indigestion, asthma, rheumatism, flatulence, earache, epilepsy, as well as for providing relief from labor pains. The oil extracted from this herb has been used as a healing cream for bruises and sprains. Sweet marjoram is an excellent common tonic, and it has a more potent affect on the nervous system than its close cousin oregano. However pregnant women should not take this herb medicinally.
4"/10cm pot | Wisteria sinensis
One of the most popular Wisteria available with slightly smaller flowers than that of the Wisteria floribunda, hanging 18-30cm off the vine
• Long, fragrant purple flowers covering bare vines in the early spring
• Can be trained to climb along a fence, trellis, arbor or archways.
• Prefers a full sun position in moist, well-drained soil
For care instructions and additional information, click here!
10"/25cm pot | Dicksonia antarctica
Soft Tree Fern is a very tough tree fern that is probably the best choice if you are looking for a reliable fern for a shady position in the garden. The beautiful fronds are produced throughout the warmer months of the year.
Once Soft Tree Fern gets fully established, it is also surprisingly capable of withstanding dry spells. The only maintenance required is the removal of dead and dying fronds once or twice a year and feeding with well rotted manure at the same time.
Grows approximately H:1.5 - 15 Meters W:1 - 2 Meters
Bare tree fern trunk 2ft tall |
| Additional information |
| botanical name |
Origanum Majorama
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| botanical name |
Wisteria sinensis
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| height x width |
Climber up to 10m
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| features |
Long lavender-blue racemes of fragrant pea-like flowers up to 30cm long appear in spring on bare branches before the leaves appear giving a spectacular display, large velvety pods are produced in autumn, very hardy and fast growing
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| conditions |
Full sun in well-drained soil, prune regally,
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| landscape use |
Pergolas, arbors, rotundas, trellis, can be trained into Standards and Topiary,
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