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Rare Incredible Edibles

Grow a taste of the exotic at home with these exciting herbs and spices from around the globe.

Gin makers, have we got a treat for you! An elegantly upright plant, the Juniper forms a neat cone of grey-green foliage with berries used to flavour gin. Our plants are cutting-grown from a self-pollinating plant, so you can expect berries from a single bush. Thriving in sun or part shade, the berries can take up to three years to ripen. Adapta...

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POMEGRANATE 'AZERBAIJANI'

POMEGRANATE 'AZERBAIJANI'

Prepare your taste buds for this incredibly sweet and juicy pomegranate. Widely grown throughout the rest of the world, this beautiful mid-to-large sized fruit is a wonderful addition to your orchard or garden.

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POMEGRANATE 'KAZAKE'

POMEGRANATE 'KAZAKE'

A compact bushy pomegranate that's hardy to heat, cold and drought. Originally from Uzbekistan, 'Kazake' bears fruit with a yellowish skin and vibrant red arils. The fruit is more resistant to splitting due to the firm calyx on the fruit. An excellent garden variety that could also be planted as an edible hedge. Self-fertile.

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POMEGRANATE 'WONDERFUL'

POMEGRANATE 'WONDERFUL'

Exported from California throughout the world, this variety of pomegranate has become the world standard. Noted for its rich, red colour and piquant flavour, 'Wonderful' can be eaten as fresh fruit or juiced. Popular because the seeds of this variety are less woody than others. A vigorous and productive Mediterranean fruiting plant suitable for ...

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Watch out for this fascinating flower in mid summer, as leafless stems appear adorned with golden spider-like tendrils. Perfect for summer gardens, it relishes dry conditions and thrives on minimal attention. ...

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BABACO - Champagne Fruit

BABACO - Champagne Fruit

"A feature plant in our sub-tropical food gardens at Heronswood, this tropical-looking small tree produces lemon sherbet-flavoured melons, also known as 'Champagne Fruit', in its second year. This is the paw-paw for southern gardeners, with the combination of exotic fruit and lush palm-like leaves. No need for a pollinating partner as the Babaco...

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Revelling in scorching, dry heat, this Mediterranean gourmet delight will start to produce the flower buds (which can be pickled or dry salted) in its second year. Produces up to 8kg of buds when mature. One year ...

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"The sweet, aromatic seeds of green cardamom have been prized for centuries, and today remain one of the world's most expensive and versatile spices. The seed are a crucial ingredient of Indian garum masala, and flavour a plethora of Asian, Arabic and African dishes, both sweet and spicy. Harvest leaves as ...

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Imagine the delicious aroma of freshly-roasted coffee beans, made even more magical because you grew them yourself! An attractive small shrub with glossy dark-green leaves and fragrant white spring flowers, followed by delicious coffee beans. A must for any frost-free garden and also popular as an indoor plant in colder climates. Prefers moist, ...

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GOJI BERRY (WOLFBERRY)

GOJI BERRY (WOLFBERRY)

The Tibetans, Koreans and Japanese have long known of the virtues of the goji. Now in the west you can buy the dried berries or the juice at your local health food store, or better yet, you can grow your own and save a packet! This tough weeping shrub has white stems that bear olive-like leaves. Mauve flowers are produced in early summer, follow...

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HIPPEASTRUM PAPILIO (1 Bulb)

HIPPEASTRUM PAPILIO (1 Bulb)

Watch out for this fascinating flower in mid summer, as leafless stems appear adorned with golden spider-like tendrils. Perfect for summer gardens, it relishes dry conditions and thrives on minimal attention. Plant in clumps amongst salvias and sea lavenders for a blast of summer colour. Despatched from end November

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JAPANESE GINGER

JAPANESE GINGER

The edible flower buds of Japanese Ginger are a prized delicacy, both fresh and preserved, and is the source of the ginger most commonly found on the side of your sushi plate. Mature leaves can also be used to wrap food. Also known as Myoga, Japanese ginger is easy to grow and thrives in dappled light, which coincidentally produces the best tast...

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KIWIBERRY 'ISSAI'

KIWIBERRY 'ISSAI'

We love this little garden treasure at Diggers, it's the perfect home garden fruit. It tastes gorgeous with bite-sized, zesty gems but it's far too delicate to make it into the grocers. A self-pollinating ...

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MACADAMIA 'PINKALICIOUS'

MACADAMIA 'PINKALICIOUS'

The perfect flowering and fruiting Australian native garden tree, 'Pinkalicious' produces stunning pink racemes early in the season before its crop of much-loved nuts. The delectable nuts are reason enough to plant a macadamia, but this one also has bright pink flowers in spring.

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This deciduous woody vine produces unusual berries with five flavours in one - salty, sweet, sour, bitter and pungent. Self-fertile, the berries have been used in Eastern medicine for centuries.

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OLIVE 'FRANTOIO'

OLIVE 'FRANTOIO'

Famous for the most fruity and aromatic oil in Tuscany where the Italians call it Paragon. In fact, the name ‘Frantoio’ refers to the village press used to extract the prized oil. With an oil content up to 25%, this is the olive to plant if you are looking to press your own. Will grow over a wide climatic range, from inland Tasmania to southern ...

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OLIVE 'ITALIAN LECCINO'

OLIVE 'ITALIAN LECCINO'

A fast growing productive olive that makes a delicate style of olive oil and a delectable table olive. The dense habit makes this in ideal choice for a hedge or trained against a wall. Pendolino is the ideal pollinator,...

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OLIVE 'KOLOSSUS KALAMATA' PBR

OLIVE 'KOLOSSUS KALAMATA' PBR

A very attractive and drought-tolerant tree that produces everyone’s favourite pickling olive. Plump fruit must be hand picked for best presentation as they bruise easily, so growing at home is the best way to ensure you have high quality olives. Pick when purplish-black, as Kalamatas are not good green olives. Self-pollinating but fruits better...

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OLIVE 'MANZANILLO'

OLIVE 'MANZANILLO'

A beautiful spreading tree bearing early crops of medium-sized fruit, which can be picked green or black. With the highest flesh-to-pit ratio of all olive varieties, ‘Manzanillo’ is well suited to stuffing and pickling. A very heavy cropper that out-yielded 14 other varieties in a trial in Mildura by the Department of Agriculture. It is consider...

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A standard of the Spanish olive oil producers, this cultivar is the highest oil yielding olive suited to cold winters and hot dry summers. `Picual' is ideal for inland regions of ...

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STEVIA 'CANDY' aka SUGAR PLANT

STEVIA 'CANDY' aka SUGAR PLANT

A natural alternative to synthetic and processed sugars, Stevia is not a new plant having been grown by Brazilian and Paraguayan tribes for centuries. Sweet herb (ka'a he'ˆ) 'Candy' grows extra large leaves, doubling your harvest with every snip. Stevia is 200-300 times sweeter than sucrose, with no calorific value and an extremely low glycemic ...

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TRUE CURRY LEAF

TRUE CURRY LEAF

A graceful evergreen shrub in the tropics and subtropics and an attractive indoor plant in cooler climates. The fern-like, highly aromatic leaves are dried for Madras style curry powders, or for maximum flavour, use ...

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A popular superfood that will grow in any frost free area in Australia (and even in areas where frost is very light). Canna-like leaves emerge from the rhizome during spring (year round in the tropics). Tubers are mild when dug during the growing season, stronger when dug after the leaves have died down in the autumn. A very productive plant, pr...

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Grow your own vanilla pods! A beautifully decorative indoor vine for southern gardeners or small vine for those in tropical or subtropical climates, this curio is a must for the plant collector, edible gardener ...

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Member Exclusives

RHUBARB CROWN GARDEN COLLECTION

RHUBARB CROWN GARDEN COLLECTION

Harvest fresh rhubarb all year with this garden collection of rhubarbs. With summer varieties 'Cherry Red' and 'Big Boy' for the warmer months, then abundant short day cropping from 'Winter Wonder' you can grow all your rhubarb needs for the year in 5m square. Two bare root crowns of each, available winter only (6 crowns).

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2 year membership + Free Seed Sowing Poster and 2 seed packets

2 year membership + Free Seed Sowing Poster and 2 seed packets

Membership: MNE2SP2

A beautifully illustrated heirloom ‘sow what when’ poster for all areas of Australia so that you'll never have to think about what to sow this month again! You will also receive some free Cauliflower 'Mini' and Kale 'Red Russian' seeds to get your garden started.

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