Category: Productive Plants

Orris Root is a hardy, rhizomatous perennial with stiff, veined, blue-green, sword-like leaves that grow in a fan shape.

The Rangpur Lime is an unusual citrus that is often mistaken for a mandarin but is actually a mandarin-lemon cross.

Saffron Crocus is a perennial bulb with attractive 5-cm lilac flowers that emerge in autumn and last for just a few days each. Each flower has three bright, contrasting, orange-red…

Rosella is an attractive annual shrub to 1.5 m high with large, deeply lobed leaves, distinctive red stems and attractive yellow-pink hibiscus-like flowers with a dark red centre. Each flower…

Galangal is an attractive perennial herb that grows from a rhizome that’s quite similar to ginger. The long, narrow leaves are about 30 cm long and the plant will grow…

Asparagus is a hardy, long-lived, winter-dormant, herbaceous perennial with ferny growth to 1.5 m high. Its young shoots or spears are widely used as a spring and early summer vegetable…

Curry Leaf is a small evergreen tree that grows to 6 metres in height. The leaves have been used medicinally and in cooking in India and Sri Lanka for hundreds…