Biennial Plant Herbaceous Plant For Sale In Fort Wayne

* The root is boiled and eaten like salsify. Wholesome and nutritious.A peppery taste. Fleshy, sweet and succulent. The taste somewhat resembles salsify or parsnips. * Oenothera biennis ( Common evening primrose or Evening star ) is a species of Oenothera...

* Purple Top White Globe Turnip is an outstanding Heirloom variety. * The tops can also be eaten when young as greens or in soups. * This is a very easy to grow and rewarding vegetable.

* The flowers can be added to salads or used as a garnish. * 2 1/2" deep purple flowers on a plant that resembles a small hollyhock; likes full sun; biennial or perennial; native to Europe, north Africa, and northwest China.

The plants prime use is as a diuretic where it is effective in ridding the body of stones and in treating jaundice, dropsy, cystitis etc. * Parsley ( Petroselinum ) is a bright green biennial herb , often used as spice .

Plants are not very cold-tolerant, but they can beoverwintered outdoors in areas where winter temperatures do not fall below about -5°c. * Succeeds in a fertile well-drained soil in a sunny position.

After being dried they are cooked in water to make a sweet aromatic porridge that is called 'mazamorra' in S. The nutritional value of dried Maca root is high, resembling cereal grains such as maize, rice and wheat.

Typically the first year of growth produces a mound of foliage and flowering occurs the second year, plants are normally biennials but a number of races can be short lived perennials .

* The plant self-sows freely and should not need much encouragement. * Greater celandine has an erect habit, and may reach 30 to 120 cm high. The leaves are lobed and crenate , 30 cm long.

* It is fragarnt and attracts bees and butterflies! * It is a short lived perennial or biennial but will self seed. * Its height of 10-18 inches makes it ideal for the front or closer portion of the meadow.

May self-seed in optimum growing conditions which helps keep these somewhat short-lived perennials in the garden. * The seed is best sown as soon as it is ripe in a cold frame. * Flowers give way to pear-shaped seed pods which split open when ripe (late...

The name derives from the Latin for turnip , r?pum or r?pa , and is first recorded in English at the end of the 14th century. * The leaves can be eaten raw or cooked. Older writers usually distinguished the turnip and rape by the adjectives round and...

* A strong fibre is obtained from the stems, it is used for making string, bags, paper etc. * Lavatera thuringiaca is a species of Lavatera native to eastern Europe and southwestern Asia , from southern Germany south to Italy , and east to southern Russia...

* Surface sow the seed in March in a greenhouse. * Large-flowered forms of the common garden snapdragon; usually grown as an annual but may overwinter in warmer areas. * The plants are pollinated by bumblebees , and the flowers close over the insects...

* The seed floss makes an excellent tinder for starting fires, a spark from a flint will quickly ignite it. Flowers are followed by a fragile, plumed seedhead. * A poultice of the pounded, dampened leaves has been applied to the feet to treat sweaty feet.

Spinach may survive over winter in temperate regions. * This Heirloom variety has been around over 100 years , has long deep green leaves high in iron, vitamins and antioxidants. The leaves are alternate, simple, ovate to triangular-based, very variable...

* A perennial grass, to 3', with erect stems and leaves, very narrow; flowers and seedheads lax; native to Eurasia. * Stipa capillata is a perennial grass species in the family Poaceae , native to Europe and Asia .

Like all the Sarracenia , it is native to the New World and inhabits moist and low-nutrient longleaf pine ( Pinus palustris ) savannas along the United States Gulf Coast , generally west of the Apalachicola River on the Florida Panhandle .

* A decoction of the leaves has been used in the treatment of chills and fevers. * A decoction of the roots has been used in the treatment of chest pains and stomach aches. * Penstemon grandiflorus is a perennial plant of the genus Penstemon.

Like all the Sarraceniaceae, it is native to the New World . Plants require continuously moist conditions in a loose compost of sphagnum peat, live sphagnum and coarse acid sand. Its range extends from southern Alabama , through Florida and Georgia ,...

* The flowers can be added to salads or used as a garnish. * 2 1/2" deep purple flowers on a plant that resembles a small hollyhock; likes full sun; biennial or perennial; native to Europe, north Africa, and northwest China.

In China, it, and other false hellebore species are collectively called "li lu". * Veratrum nigrum ( Black Hellebore ) is a medicinal plant and poisonous plant native to Asia and Europe .

* In their great first voyage to the New World, Christopher Columbus and his expedition were introduced to a plant whose smoke was called tobacco by the natives of Hispaniola. Tabacum is sensitive to temperature, air, ground humidity and the type of land.

It is cultivated as an ornamental plant in temperate regions – growing to 60 centimetres (24 in) (less in poor soils), and producing pale lilac and white flowers in spring. * Iris magnifica is a bulbous flowering plant in the genus Iris, native to the...

Flowers are heart-shaped and 1–2 inches (3–5 cm) long, with pink outer petals and white inner petals , hanging in a horizontal raceme . Seeds with whitish elaiosomes are borne in long pods .The plant often goes dormant in summer after blooming.

* Seed - surface sow in a light position, April in a warm greenhouse. The sap can also be tapped by boring a hole into the middle of the plant at the base of the flowering stem. Can be dried for future use or soaked in water to produce a flavourful beverage.

Other common names are Bouncing Bet and Sweet William; locally it is simply "the Soapwort" although there are about 20 species of soapworts altogether. * Soapwort's main medicinal use is as an expectorant.

* Corn salad was originally foraged by European peasants until Jean-Baptiste de La Quintinie, royal gardener of King Louis XIV, introduced it to the world. It is a hardy plant that grows to zone 5, and in mild climates it is grown as a winter green.