Annual Plant Seeds For Sale In North Carolina

* It has a mild aromatic flavour that is suggestive of aniseed. * Sometimes called garden chervil , it is used to season mild-flavoured dishes and is a constituent of the French herb mixture fines herbes .

* It produces an abundance of 8-9 inch dark green cucumbers with excellent mild flavor. * This open pollinated variety has been around a long time and is still the favorite.

Blooms in the spring to early summer, but is said not to bloom well in very hot climates. The foliage makes a nice garden cover when not in bloom and the attractive seedpods add interest after flowering.

The leaves are alternate, simple, ovate to triangular-based, very variable in size from about 2-30 cm long and 1-15 cm broad, with larger leaves at the base of the plant and small leaves higher on the flowering stem.

* Sow seed early spring in a rich compost in a greenhouse, placing 2 - 3 seeds in each pot. It is used as a bitter tonic for alleviating stomach troubles, kidney ailments, rheumatism, chills, fevers etc.

* A hot and aromatic flavour, it is an important ingredient in curries, and is also often used as a flavouring in biscuits, cakes and bread where it also helps in improving the digestion.

* Other reports say that they contain 'estevin' a substance that, weight for weight, is 150 times sweeter than sugar. * The dried leaves can be ground and used as a sweetener or soaked in water and the liquid used in making preserves.

Cultivated varieties include orange-red, pink, salmon, red, white, and scarlet, and include bi-colored varieties. Blooms from summer to autumn with red flowers up to 3/4" long. The naturalized variety is typically tubular, bright red, about 1.25 in (3.2...

The leaves are harvested just before the plant comes into flower. * The leaves can be used fresh or dried. The flowering shoots contain about 0.5% essential oil, this is used as a food flavouring.

* The use of this plant is subject to legal restrictions in some countries. It has a longhistory of use as a herbal medicine, though it is very poisonous and should be used with extreme caution.

* The roots grow into the soil up to a depth of 50 centimetres (20 in), so the plant can survive long periods of drought. Delphinium consolida ) is an annual plant in the Buttercup family Ranunculaceae .

* Centaurea americana , commonly called American Starthistle or American Basketflower , is an annual native to the southern central United States and northeastern Mexico. The plant can reach 5-6' tall and has rough 4" long lance-shaped leaves.

* German camomile is a well known herbal remedy and is much used in the West. Chamomile is used to sooth widely for children's ailments, infantile colic, and even asthma. In particular it is an excellent herb for treating various digestive disorders,...

Tahoka-daisy is a low, spreading, 6-12 in. It is native to northern Mexico and the southwestern and central United States, where it grows in several types of habitat. Numerous lavender rays surround a yellow center.

* Hybrid cucurbit varieties such as Big Max are not true pumpkins, but instead "squash-type pumpkins". Specimens as large as 300 pounds have been grown. * Big Max is a large variety of squash that can exceed 100 pounds and 20 in (510 mm) in diameter under...

* This is the most important cotton of commerce. It is widely grown in regions of the world where the growing season is long enough to allow the fruit to mature. Worldwide, the figure is about 90% of all production for this species.

The species status in the New World is uncertain: it is generally considered an exotic weed; however, there is evidence that the species was in Crawford Lake deposits ( Ontario ) in 1430-89, suggesting that it reached North America in the pre-Columbian...

It is hardy to zone 6. * ANNUAL growing to 0.3 m (1ft). The plant prefers light (sandy), medium (loamy) and heavy (clay) soils and requires well-drained soil.The plant prefers acid, neutral and basic (alkaline) soils..It can grow in semi-shade (light...

Conyzoides is prone to becoming a rampant environmental weed when grown outside of its natural range. The plant contains the pyrrolizidine alkaloids lycopsamine and echinatine. There was a mass poisoning incident in Ethiopia as a result of contamination...

* Excellent as a fresh cut flower and for dried arrangements. * Native to the Mediterranean region, statice (also commonly called notchleaf status) is noted for producing clusters of papery, funnel-shaped flowers in summer.

* The use of this plant is subject to legal restrictions in some countries. It has a longhistory of use as a herbal medicine, though it is very poisonous and should be used with extreme caution.

* It is similar to Chamaecrista fasciculata except that the leaves are smaller. * It is an annual plant capable of rapid plant movement—its leaflets fold together when touched. * Chamaecrista nictitans (Sensitive Partridge Pea, Small Partridge Pea or...

* Leonotis nepetifolia, also known as klip dagga, Christmas candlestick, or lion's ear, is a species of plant in the genus Leonotis and the family Lamiaceae (mint). It has very soft serrated leaves that can grow up to 4 inches wide.

* Surface sow the seed in March in a greenhouse. * In the laboratory it is a model organism,[6] for example containing the gene DEFICIENS which provides the letter "D" in the acronym MADS-box for a family of genes which are important in plant development.

* Because western salsify is a widespread plant, it has a large number of alternative common names. * Western salsify is quite similar to the generally commoner meadow salsify, T. * Tragopogon dubius (yellow salsify, western salsify, western goat's-beard,...

The leaves are deeply three- to five-lobed, 8–15 cm (3–6 in) long, arranged alternately on the stems. It is an annual or perennial herb or woody-based subshrub , growing to 2–2.5 m (7–8 ft) tall.

* High in vitamins A and C. It is probably native to southern Europe though its long history of cultivation makes its precise origin unknown, and may possibly be of garden origin. A saffron substitute, it is used to colour and flavour rice, soups etc.