Iluka (nsw) Plants - Most Popular

A comprehensive guide to the fruit, nuts, bush foods and other edible plants that we grow. Includes a guide to the care and planting of fruit trees, climatic zone and essential reason for growing your own food. Excellent reference resource that we have been adding to over the last 37 years.

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	$5.00	194		Magazine	Buy 2 or more @ $2.50ea

Stevia or the sugar herb is native to Brazil. The fresh or dried leaves can be used as a sugar substitute to sweeten cakes, drinks or desserts and are the only natural sweetener to have zero calories, carbohydrates and a zero glycemic index. The leaves if eaten fresh have a distinct set of flavours, the first sensation on the taste buds is the sweetness, this is followed by a pleasant aniseed like flavour which is lost totally once the herb is dried. Stevia is best grown in a sunny or partly shaded position where it is protected from frost. Thrives in moist, well drained soils enriched with

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	$12.90	18	Cutting	Pot: 0.75L Height: 20-30cm

Sunshine Blue has it all. This semi-dwarf, versatile semi-deciduous blueberry features showy hot pink flowers that fade to white in spring, yielding large crops of delicious berries. Sunshine Blue tolerates higher pH soils better than many other blueberries and it is self-fertile. It is is a Southern Highbush with the low chilling requirement of 150 hours makes it suitable for the subtropics, but we find it is surprisingly cold-hardy and a wonderful addition to patios and gardens in cooler areas.

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	$17.90	88	Cutting	Pot: 0.75L Height: 10-20cm

Cultivated for the fruit which is dried and used as a spice and seasoning. The fruits are dark red when fully ripe. Immature fruits can be picked as green pepper, black pepper is the fruit dried with the skin on and white pepper is the dried seed only. Black pepper is the worlds most widely traded spice.

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	$19.90	19	Cutting	Pot: 0.75L Height: 30-40cm