ittosporum tobira

Pittosporum tobira is a species of flowering plant in the Pittosporum family known by several common names, including Australian laurel,Japanese pittosporum,mock orange andJapanese cheesewood.It is native to Japan, China, and Korea, but it is used throughout the world as an ornamental plant in landscaping and as cut foliage

It is an evergreen shrub which can reach 10 m (33 ft) tall by 3 m (10 ft) broad, and can become treelike.

It can also be trimmed into a hedge.

The leaves are oval in shape with edges that curl under and measure up to 10 cm (4 in) in length.

They are leathery, hairless, and darker and shinier on the upper surfaces.

The inflorescence is a cluster of fragrant flowers occurring at the ends of branches.

The flower has five white petals each about a centimetre long.

The fruit is a hairy, woody capsule about 1 cm wide divided into three valves. Inside are black seeds in a bed of resinous pulp Features: Evergreen

Cultivating Difficulty: Moderate - In Stock

Fresh seeds from an Orange flowered plant

Full instructions included, brief summary below

Start lantana seeds indoors six to eight weeks before you plan to transplant them outdoors.

Soak the seeds for 24 hours in warm water to soften the seed coat.

Fill small, individual pots to within � inch of the top with soilless seed starting medium and moisten the medium with water - In Stock

Olive trees are not fragile. In the ground they can withstand -10 degrees Celsius. Colder? Then you should (at least) wrap the bark. Most garden shops offer covers for small trees. In a pot, the root of the olive tree is more sensitive to frost. Insulate the outside of the pot with bubble wrap.

The flowering period of the Olea europaea takes place in summer. At that time, the olive tree gets white flowers, which appear in bunches. Later, these become real olives. In the beginning the olives are green, but later they will be purple

Cultivating Difficulty:Moderate - In Stock

Stir one or two teaspoons in your morning yogurt, granola or smoothie.

Dehydrate or dry them up, then grind them to make a spice which taste like pepper or horseradish. - In Stock

Known as Horned melon and jelly melon

The pictures show the fruit and a small plant

The small plants are approx. 4-5 weeks old

We germinated and number of these and they took 3-4 weeks to germinate Needed (because its January) heat and light but otherwise easy

Cultivating Difficulty: Moderate - In Stock

Also known as White Popinac

Provided with a link to our germination and care guide

Leucaena leucocephala is a small fast-growing mimosoid tree native to southern Mexico and northern Central America and is now naturalized throughout the tropics.

Common names include white leadtree, jumbay, river tamarind, subabul, and white popinac

Foliage: Evergreen

Species: Leucaena Leucocephala

Watering: Light - In Stock

It is cultivated worldwide as an ornamental plant, and has been naturalized in many regions, including parts of the West Indies, South America, the southern Mediterranean Basin, Africa, India, China, Thailand, and Australia.

Despite the common name "American aloe", it is not closely related to plants in the genus Aloe.

Although it is called the century plant, it typically lives only 10 to 30 years.

It has a spread around 1.8 to 3.0 m (6 to 10 ft) with gray-green leaves of 0.9 to 1.5 m (3 to 5 ft) long, each with a prickly margin and a heavy spike at the tip that can pierce deeply.

Near the end of its life, the plant sends up a tall, branched stalk, laden with yellow blossoms, that may reach a total height up to 8 to 9 m (25 to 30 ft) - In Stock

Provided with growing guide

Canna indica, commonly known as Indian shot, African arrowroot, edible canna, purple arrowroot, Sierra Leone arrowroot, is a plant species in the family Cannaceae.

It is native to much of South America, Central America, the West Indies, Mexico, and the southeastern United States (Florida, Texas, Louisiana, and South Carolina).

It is also naturalized in much of Europe, sub-Saharan Africa, Southeast Asia, and Oceania.

Canna indica is a perennial growing to between 0.5 m and 2.5 m, depending on the variety.

It is hardy to zone 10 and is frost tender.

The flowers are hermaphrodite.

Canna indica sps. can be used for the treatment of industrial waste waters through constructed wetlands. It is effective for the removal of high organic load, color and chlorinated organic compounds from paper mill wastewater. - In Stock

Hong Kong Hawthorn

Can be grown indoor or outdoors

The photos show the flowers.

They are shrubs or small trees, which rarely reach a size of 4 m in height.

The branches are purple brown when young, greyish brown when old, cylindrical, initially brown tomentose, glabrous in old age.

Petiole 0.5-1.8 cm or almost absent, slightly brown or tomentose, subglabra; stipules deciduous, lanceolate, little brown tomentose, acuminate apex; ovate blade blade, oblong, rarely obovate, oblong-lanceolate, narrowly elliptical or elliptical-lanceolate, (2 -) 4-8 � 1.5�4 cm, coriaceous, abaxially prominent veins, abaxially visible reticular veins and visible or non-adaxially, back pale, glabrous or scarcely tomentose, shiny adaxially, glabrous, the apex obtuse, acute acuminate.

The inflorescences in panicles or terminal of clusters, with many or few flowers; pedicels and peduncles rusty-tomentose; bracts and deciduous bracteoles. Flowers 1-1.3 (-1.5) cm in diameter. The petals white or pink, obovate or lanceolate, 5-7 � 4�5 mm, pubescent basal, obtuse apex. Stamens 15, as long or shorter than the petals - In Stock

The pictures shows the seeds so you see exactly what you will receive

Full instructions included, brief summary below

Start lantana seeds indoors six to eight weeks before you plan to transplant them outdoors.

Soak the seeds for 24 hours in warm water to soften the seed coat.

Fill small, individual pots to within 1/2 inch of the top with soilless seed starting medium and moisten the medium with water - In Stock

Common names are Yellow Bells, Yellow Trumpetbush, Yellow Elder

Provided with germination and growing guide

Yellow trumpetbush is an attractive plant that is cultivated as an ornamental.

It has sharply toothed, pinnate green leaves and bears large, showy, bright golden yellow trumpet-shaped flowers.

It is drought-tolerant and grows well in warm climates.

The flowers attract bees, butterflies, and hummingbirds.

The plant produces pods containing seeds with papery wings. - In Stock

The Bidni, which is also referred to as Bitni, is an olive cultivar from the Mediterranean island of Malta. The fruit is small in size, hearty with a "violet colour", and is renowned for its superior oil which is low in acidity. The latter is generally attributed to the poor quality alkaline soil found on the Maltese Islands. As an indigenous olive cultivar, the Bidni has developed a unique DNA profile, and is believed to be among the most ancient species on the island - In Stock

Known as the Common Myrtle

The photos show the flowers, berries and the seeds

Provided with our germination guide link

Myrtus communis, the "common myrtle", is native across the Mediterranean region, Macaronesia, western Asia, and the Indian subcontinent.It is also cultivated.

The plant is an evergreen shrub or small tree.

The leaf is entire, 3 to 5 cm long, with a fragrant essential oil.

The star-like flower has five petals and sepals, and numerous stamens.

Petals usually are white.

The flower is pollinated by insects.

The fruit is a round berry containing several seeds, most commonly blue-black in colour.

Features: Flowering,Evergreen,Self-Pollinating

Cultivating Difficulty: Moderate - In Stock

10 Fresh seeds with link to germination and growing guide

Carissa macrocarpa is a shrub native to South Africa.

It is commonly known as the Natal plum and, in South Africa, the large num-num.

In Zulu, as well as in the Bantu tribes of Uganda, it is called Amathungulu or umThungulu oBomvu.

In Afrikaans the fruit is called noem-noem.

C. macrocarpa deals well with salt-laden winds, making it a good choice for coastal areas.

It is commonly found in the coastal bush of the Eastern Cape and Natal.

It produces shiny, deep green leaves and snowy white flowers whose perfumed scent intensifies at night.

Like other Carissa species, C. macrocarpa is a spiny, evergreen shrub containing latex.

They bloom for months at a time.

The ornamental plump, round, crimson fruit appears in summer and fall (autumn) at the same time as the blooms.

In moderate, coastal areas the fruits appear through the year.

The fruit can be eaten out of hand or made into pies, jams, jellies, and sauces -

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Genus - Casuarina

Species - Cunninghamiana

Common name - River She-Oak

Pre-Treatment - Not-required

Hardiness zones - 9 - 10

Height - 60' / 18 m

Plant type - Medium Tree

Vegetation type - Evergreen

Exposure - Full Sun, Partial Shade

Growth rate - Fast

Soil PH - Acidic, Neutral, Alkaline

Soil type - Light (sandy), medium (loamy), heavy (clay), well-drained soil

Water requirements - Average Water

Germination rate - 50% - In Stock

Dwarf Umbrella Tree

Provided with germination and growing guide

Makes a good houseplant

It is an evergreen shrub growing to 8-9 m tall, free-standing, or clinging to the trunks of other trees.

The leaves are palmately compound, with 7-9 leaflets, the leaflets 9-20 cm long and 4-10 cm broad (though often smaller in cultivation).

The flowers are produced in a 20 cm panicle of small umbels, each umbel 7-10 mm diameter with 5-10 flowersIt is commonly grown as a houseplant, popular for its tolerance of neglect and poor growing conditions.

It is also grown as a landscape plant in milder climates where frosts are not severe.

The umbrella plant lends itself easily to the bonsai form and is popular as an indoor bonsai. - In Stock

Ceratonia siliqua, commonly known as the carob tree (from Arabic kharrūb and Hebrew haruv), St John's-bread, or locust bean (not to be confused with the African locust bean), or simply locust-tree, is a species of flowering evergreen shrub or tree in the pea family, Fabaceae.

It is widely cultivated for its edible pods, and as an ornamental tree in gardens.

The ripe, dried pod is often ground to carob powder, which is used to replace cocoa powder. Carob bars, an alternative to chocolate bars, are often available in health-food stores.

The carob tree is native to the Mediterranean region, including Southern Europe, Northern Africa, the larger Mediterranean islands, the Levant and Middle-East of Western Asia into Iran; and the Canary Islands and Macaronesia.

The carat, a unit of mass for gemstones, and of purity for gold, takes its name, indirectly, from the Arabic word for a carob seed, carrat.

Carob consumed by humans is the dried (and sometimes roasted) pod.

The pod consists of two main parts: the pulp accounts for 90% and the seeds for 10% of the pod weight. Carob is mildly sweet and is used in powdered, chip, or syrup form as an ingredient in cakes and cookies, and as a substitute for chocolate.

Carob bars are widely available in health food stores.

A traditional sweet, eaten during Lent and Good Friday, is also made from carob pods in Malta.

Dried carob fruit is traditionally eaten on the Jewish holiday of Tu Bishvat.

While chocolate contains levels of theobromine which are toxic to some mammals, carob contains absolutely no caffeine and no theobromine, so is used to make chocolate-flavored treats for dogs.

Carob pod meal is used as an energy-rich feed for livestock, particularly for ruminants, though its high tannin content may limit its use.

Carob pods were mainly used as animal fodder in the Maltese Islands, apart from times of famine or war when they formed part of the diet of many Maltese. In the Iberian Peninsula, carob pods were used to feed donkeys.

The pulp is about 48�56% sugars and 18% cellulose and hemicellulose.

Some differences in sugar content are seen between wild and cultivated types: sucrose = about 531 g/kg dry weight in cultivated varieties and about 437 g/kg in wild varieties.

Fructose and glucose levels do not differ between cultivated and wild carob. Carob pulp is sold as flour or chunks.

The production of locust bean gum (LBG), used in the food industry, is the economically most important use of carob seeds (and nowadays of the carob as a whole).

It is produced from the endosperm, which accounts for 42�46% of the seed and is rich in galactomannans (88% of endosperm dry mass).

For 1 kg LBG, 3 kg of kernels are needed which come from around 30 kg carob tree fruit.

Galactomannans are hydrophilic and swell in water. LBG is used as a thickening agent, stabilizer, gelling agent, or as a substitute for gluten in low-calorie products. If galactomannans are mixed with other gelling substances such as carrageenan, they can be used to thicken food. This is used extensively in canned food for animals to get the jellied texture.

The embryo (20-25% of the seed's weight) is rich in proteins (50%) and its flour can be used in human and animal nutrition.

The testa (30�33% of the seed's weight) is the seed coat and consists of cellulose, lignin, and tannin. - In Stock

Provided with germination instructions

Acacia saligna grows as a small, dense, spreading tree with a short trunk and a weeping habit.

It grows up to eight metres tall.

Like many Acacia species, it has phyllodes rather than true leaves; these can be up to 25 centimetres long.

At the base of each phyllode is a nectary gland, which secretes a sugary fluid.

This attracts ants, which are believed to reduce the numbers of leaf-eating insects.

The yellow flowers appear in early spring and late winter, in groups of up to ten bright yellow spherical flower heads.

The fruit is a legume, while the seed is oblong and dark to black in colour - In Stock