16/10/2025
Alpedrinha PLANT FAIR this Saturday 18TH plus the usual market of great food & local produce.
We'll be there with a great range of edible and medicinal perennials. Do message us DIRECT if you'd like to reserve or preorder plants.
If you can't make Saturday we also have an open day (by appointment) this Sunday 19th, please message us to book an appointment. We're located 10 minutes from Salgueiro do Campo near Castelo Branco.
FEIRA DE PLANTAS de Alpedrinha este sábado, dia 18, para além da tradicional feira de deliciosas comidas e produtos locais.
Estaremos lá com uma grande variedade de plantas perenes comestíveis e medicinais. Envie-nos uma mensagem DIRETAMENTE se desejar reservar ou encomendar plantas.
Se não puder comparecer no sábado, também teremos um dia aberto (por marcação) este domingo, dia 19. Envie-nos uma mensagem para agendar uma consulta. Estamos localizados a 10 minutos de Salgueiro do Campo, perto de Castelo Branco.
Some of the plants available for pre order and on Saturdays Market too:
Alpine strawberry Alexandria €4 or 3 for €10
produces delicious deep red, bite sized berries. Plants are decorative and easy to grow. They won’t send out runners making this variety perfect for rock gardens, along walkways and in containers like hanging baskets and window boxes. Plant in full sun, with perhaps a little afternoon shade in summer.
Alpine strawberry Mignonette €4
Their wild nature allows them to be grown in any climate with little maintenance.
The teardrop-shaped berries can grow large for an alpine variety, up to 1 inch (3cm). Mignonette will provide growers with plenty of fresh berries from June until early autumn. It’s a compact prolific producer of small, sweet wild berries.
Grow in full sun or partial shade
Doesn't produce many runners
The musk strawberry (Fragaria moschata), €5
are hardy and can survive in many weather conditions. The fruit are small and round; they have intense aroma and flavour, which has been compared to a mixture of regular strawberry, raspberry and pineapple. Spread well through runners.
9 star broccoli €
A hardy, heritage variety, overwintering to produce crops for three or fours years before plants begin to decline. Produces a large, yellowish central head each year, surrounded by several smaller heads
Sugar cane €15
Plant in full sun,
Banana plant Musa basjoo
Large €12, small €8
Edible banana Musa dwarf Cavendish €15
Edible banana Blue Java €60
Likes heat, moisure and rich soil in full sun.
Can be wrapped in winter to protect from frost. Will produce blue skinned bananas said to taste like vanilla ice cream!
Rose scented geranium €7
Perennial Pelargonium graveolens)
smells heavenly, pretty pink flowers in summer.
Leaves are not edible but can be used to give a rose flavour to food such as icecream, cakes, jams, biscuits etc. Or as a herbal tea infusion, nice with chsmomile or lemonbalm.
Buddleija/ butterfly bush €5
Plant in full sun, likes some water in full summer, to keep it flowering.
Wonderful for pollinators and is good for hedging
Goji berry €12
Sprawling bush, drought tolerant, plant in full sun,produces goji berries at end of summer (full of vitamins and antioxidants)
Thornless blackberry €10
Excellent grower, can cover fencing or tall structures giving shade. Will root elsewhere giving you free plants, produces big fat tasty blackberries. No thorns at all, excellent for children!
Marshmallow €8
tall perennial plant beloved for its hibiscus-like flowers. The roots and leaves of the plant contain mucilage, a substance that when mixed with water forms a thick gel. Marshmallow can be used for medicinal purposes, the roots have high mucilage content, useful against dry coughs, digestive issues and dry skin conditions. The flowers are loved by pollinators.
Plant in full sun preferably with damp soil or regular watering. They hate the shade!
Rosemary €4
Culinary herb, useful for low hedges, very drought tolerant, loves full sun and dry roots
Giant miscanthus grass, variegated, €5
It grows in a 10-foot, arching shape, but is sterile so is not invasive. In September, fluffy, fan-like plumes emerge above the foliage bringing the height to 12 feet. Excellent as a screen or hedging plant.
Useful when cut as a mulch or to add biomass to compost, or burnt as biofuel.
Egyptian walking onions €4 or 3 for €10
Vigorous and hardy, plant in full sun. They will self sow via bulbils , or you can take these off and plant where you want them to spread. Eat the green stalks, or dehydrate to make onion powder. You can also eat the bulbs as normal onions, once you have enough to keep the patch going.
Red valerian €8 Centrathus ruber
Perennial, hardy, plant in full sun, drought resistant. Very ornamental red flowers also loved by pollinators including hummingbird moths!
Clary sage Salvia sclarea, Vatican pink €7
Beautiful foliage and long lasting tall flower bracts in pink and white.
Plant in full sun. hardy in heat, dry, frost, and poor soils, self seeds.
Medicinal uses
Yellow stem bamboo €8 or €15
A graceful evergreen bamboo producing large clumps of bright green canes 2.5-3.5m high becoming yellowish with age and exposure.
Running rhizomes
Feverfew €5 Tanacetum parthenium
A pretty plant with daisy like flowers and aromatic foliage. Self sows, bees love it.
Plant in full sun or partial shade, prefers to not be too dry or waterlogged. Perennial, tolerates light frosts. Many medicinal uses.
Self heal Prunella vulgaris €5
a low-growing, perennial herb with purple flowers. Self seeds, pollinators love it.
Grow self heal in moist but well-drained soil, in sun or partial shade. It does best when surrounded by other low-growing plants and grows extremely well in lawns.
Many medicinal uses.
Echinacea / coneflower €4
Very drought tolerant, loved by bees
Medicinal uses include treatment of colds or respiratory ailments (dried stems and flowers infused in hot water)
Dwarf comfrey, white flowers. Symphytum orientale €5
Medium to tall softly hairy plant without creeping rhizomes. Good for adding to your compost, dynamic accumulator.
Comfrey, purple flowers. Symphytum officianalis €10
Thrives in moist soil with some shade, but can grow in full sun. Good for adding to your compost, dynamic accumulator.
Spreads through roots and seeds. Medicinal uses.
Lemongrass €4
Culinary herb. Frost tender, so needs to move indoors over winter. Plant out in spring, or into a bigger pot. Eat the stalks and use leaves to make tea.
Myrtle communis €15
aromatic evergreen shrub with pointed, glossy leaves. Its sweet-scented flowers, white with a hint of pink, then gives edible berries.
Flowers, buds and leaves all edible too.
Plant in full sun. Drought tolerant and frost hardy. Self fertile, attractive to bees.
Japanese ginger Mioga €9
Edible Shoots and flower buds as well as the root/rhizome. Medicinal uses. Prefers semi shade and moist soil.
Chinese artichoke Stachys affinis €7
Edible tubers. Perennial, cold hardy, full sun to partial shade. Medicinal uses.
Edible Canna edulis €15
Fabulously tropical looking plant, leaves are loved by chickens and as biomass for your compost heap. Perennial, frost tender. Loves full sun and moist soil. Easy to grow.
Root tuber is edible raw or cooked, and is the source of 'canna starch' which is used as an arrowroot
White gooseberry Ribes uva-crispa €12
Hardy and happy in full sun or light shade. Bush with some thorns, produces white berries edible raw or cooked.
