Biennial Plant Herbaceous Plant For Sale In Columbia

Great for slicing and fresh eating! * Also make very good fried onion rings and can be used in cooking where a mild onion flavor is desired. To produce seed for future years the bulbs need to be left in place and mulched heavily over winter and allowed...

* The purple topped turnip root will reach 4-5 inches in diameter and matures in 40 to 60 days. * High in Vitamins! * They are excellent raw or cooked , having a mild sweet flavor.

* A teaspoon of crushed seeds has long been used as a form of natural birth control; its use for this purpose was first described by Hippocrates over 2,000 years ago. Research conducted on mice has offered a degree of confirmation for this use—it was...

* The foliage was burned by the Cherokee as a natural insecticide, to smoke out gnats. * It is still used medicinally in the present day; however, there are adverse effects that limit its use.

Its Spanish and Quechua names include maca-maca, maino, ayak chichira, and ayak willku. * Maca is mainly grown for the nutritional and health value of its root. * Maca (Peruvian Ginseng) seedlings usually emerge about one month after sowing with the onset...

* The foliage was burned by the Cherokee as a natural insecticide, to smoke out gnats. * It is still used medicinally in the present day; however, there are adverse effects that limit its use.

* Native to Europe, naturalized in North America, tends to be very weedy. * Burdock is one of the foremost detoxifying herbs in both Chinese and Western herbal medicine. * The seed contains arctiin, this excites the central nervous system producing convulsions...

* A blue dye is obtained from the dried plant, an indigo substitute. The root is harvested in early autumn and dried for later use. * The flowering heads are also much prized by flower arrangers because they keep their colour almost indefinitely when...

Its Spanish and Quechua names include maca-maca, maino, ayak chichira, and ayak willku. * Maca is mainly grown for the nutritional and health value of its root. * Maca (Peruvian Ginseng) seedlings usually emerge about one month after sowing with the onset...

* Something like a 6" wide daisy, with this difference: it is stemless, growing prostrate on the ground; blooms in May or June; coarse, deeply lobed leaves; likes a scree soil; a rock garden plant or curiosity native to the Mediterranean.

* Native to Europe, naturalized in North America, tends to be very weedy. * Burdock is one of the foremost detoxifying herbs in both Chinese and Western herbal medicine. * The seed contains arctiin, this excites the central nervous system producing convulsions...

A pleasant mild flavour, with a similar texture to the leaves, they make a pleasant and pretty addition to the salad bowl. * 2 1/2" deep purple flowers on a plant that resembles a small hollyhock; likes full sun; biennial or perennial; native to Europe,...

* Annual or biennial; parent is dwarfish, dark blue flowers throughout summer; does well in hot, dry sun. * Cynoglossum amabile is a flowering plant native to Asia , which is also called Chinese hound's tongue , or Chinese forget-me-not .

A liquorice-like flavour, they can be used as a flavouring in mixed salads. The root is the most active medicinally, it should be harvested in the autumn of its first year of growth, sliced longitudinally if necessary and dried quickly.

* A blue dye is obtained from the dried plant, an indigo substitute. The root is harvested in early autumn and dried for later use. * The flowering heads are also much prized by flower arrangers because they keep their colour almost indefinitely when...

The large, flat flowers, borne on short stems from midwinter to early spring, are white, or occasionally pink. Take care since the plant resents disturbance. * In antiquity the most famous place for the black hellebore was the Phokian city of Antikyra...

Ex Royle Stout perennial, 40-100(-200) cm high. HARALD RIEDL and YASIN J. And National Herbarium, Pakistan Agricultural Research Council, Islamabad, Pakistan. B-7 Hazara: Kagan vy., Inayat Khan 19127 (RAW), B-8 Kashmir: above Gulmarg, 10,000', R.R. Stewart...

It is also used in allopathic medicine in the treatment of heart complaints. It has a profound tonic effect upon a diseased heart, enabling the heart to beat more slowly, powerfully and regularly without requiring more oxygen.

* The plant is used in the treatment of blennorrhoea and also as an unguent for burns. * This species used to be cultivated for its edible leaves in China. * This species is grown as a green manure crop in Japan and southern China.

* It is found over much of Europe except northern Europe , Ireland , Great Britain , Holland and Poland. Flowers yellow, 1.5-2 cm in diameter, solitary in leaf axils and without forming inflorescence.

It is native throughout the cooler regions of the Northern Hemisphere in Europe , northern Asia , and northern North America . The fresh or dried leaves are used as a tea substitute.

* This is an annual herb growing erect to approach half a meter in maximum height, its stem with linear leaves 2 to 4 centimeters long. The inflorescence is a raceme of flowers occupying the top of the stem.

Pallida is similar to E. * The flower heads are from ¾ to 3 inches (2 to 7.6 cm) wide with pale rose-purple or nearly white colored petals. Angustifolia , but plants often grow taller, ranging from 1.5 to 2.5 ft (45 to 75 cm) tall, with some growing...

* Members of this genus are rarely if ever troubled by browsing deer or rabbits. * This species is closely related to P. Veitchii, differing mainly in only having one flower to a stem.

* The German Commission E Monographs, a therapeutic guide to herbal medicine, approve Althaea officinalis Marsh Mallow for irritation of mouth and throat and associated dry cough/bronchitis .

* Annual or biennial; parent is dwarfish, dark blue flowers throughout summer; does well in hot, dry sun. * Cynoglossum amabile is a flowering plant native to Asia , which is also called Chinese hound's tongue , or Chinese forget-me-not .

* Many 3" nodding blue, red, purple, or white nodding flowers on a branching stem; forms basal rosette of 20" leaves; monocarpic--blooms and dies; native to eastern Himalayas, western China.