PARSLEY

Parsley is an easy herb to grow. It self-seeds easily giving you free plants in subsequent years. It has been around for over 2,000 years.

Violas

The happy faces on their flowers gave violas the reputation of being able to ‘ease the heart’, hence ‘heartsease’.

Flanders Poppy

The bright red Flanders poppy, also known as ‘corn poppy’ or ‘field poppy’, is not just a symbol of remembrance, parts of it can be eaten. The flowers bring a bright cheerfulness to the garden, the seed heads can be used in floral arrangements and the plants self-seed, basically looking after themselves when conditions are right.

Lettuce

Lettuce is a common vegetable, the basis of many salads: Caesar, Waldorf, even the humble ‘garden salad’. In fact, in some parts of the world, the plant itself is called ‘salad’.
How many varieties of lettuce can you name?

Salsify

Salsify is an old ‘heirloom’ or ‘heritage’ vegetable. It was eaten by people of in the ‘ancient’ civilisations of Rome and Greece. It was widely eaten in England during the Victorian period, especially in the late winter months when there wasn’t much fresh food around.

Salad Burnet

Salad Burnet is a relatively unknown, evergreen, perennial herb which tastes a little like cucumber. Being evergreen, it can be added to salads in the middle of winter, when cucumbers ae not in season.

WARRIGAL GREENS

Warrigal Greens, Tetragonia tetragoniodes, also known as “New Zealand spinach”, is a frost-tender, short-lived, perennial vegetable. In our western Sydney location where winters can get below 0°C overnight, it tends to be herbaceous, meaning it dies down in winter and comes back in Spring. Sometimes that’s the old plant breaking dormancy, more often it’s a

CAPE GOOSEBERRY

What is that strange looking fruit? It looks like a little paper lantern! Here at Hillside, we call it ‘Cape Gooseberry’, but it is also know as ‘Peruvian Ground Cherry’, ‘Golden Berry’ or ‘Aztec Berry’. Sometimes, in USA, it is marketed as ‘Pichuberry’. It comes from South America, around Peru, Ecuador and Columbia. A less

NASTURTIUMS

Whatever the colour, Nasturtiums add a bright splash to the garden, your salad, sandwich or as a garnish!