What if your next lip balm started with a seed?
Meet Plantain, the first in Purple Sage’s series of 12 KNOW • GROW • MAKE™ botanical experience boxes. Created in the Scottish Borders, each box follows one everyday plant from the garden to your skincare routine. Learn to recognise it, grow it yourself and make something you can use.
Pre-order for £38 at the first-batch introductory price. The standard price is £42. Payment is taken when you order. Expected dispatch from 1st December 2026.
One plant to discover, two projects to make and a bar of soap to enjoy straight away
KNOW • You’ve probably walked past ribwort plantain a hundred times. Use your illustrated guide to learn what to look for next time you’re out.
GROW • Sow your own plantain seeds in the wool pot provided and watch your first plants take shape.
MAKE • While your seeds get going, use the dried plantain in your box to make a botanical infused oil. Once it’s ready, use some of that oil to make your own plantain lip balm. Next time, you could make it with leaves you’ve grown yourself.
There’s also a full bar of Purple Sage’s handcrafted Plantain Soap in the box, so you can enjoy something we’ve made with plantain while you get started on your own projects.
What’s inside your Plantain Box
- A bar of Purple Sage’s handcrafted Plantain Soap
- An illustrated A5 booklet and a quick-start lip balm recipe card
- Ribwort plantain seeds, a wool pot, a coir disc and a wooden plant marker
- Dried ribwort plantain, an amber infusion jar and a balm tin
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A separate access card with a unique code to unlock the Plantain section of Beyond the Garden Gate, our companion app with more growing guidance and botanical projects
Give it to someone who loves growing and making things, or keep the very first box in the series for yourself and see where one little plant takes you.
Make Today • Grow for Tomorrow
