Biennial Plant Herbaceous Plant For Sale In Texas

The leaves are strongly flavoured and are used less often, either as a flavouring in soups and stews or as a dried herb. * Wild celery has a long history of medicinal and food use.

* Generally grown as an annual to produce desired onions for eating. 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.

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.

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 .

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.

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. * The leaves are eaten raw or cooked.

* A very ornamental plant, its flowers are very attractive to butterflies and moths. Although the Sweet William is a perennial species, it is quite short-lived and degenerates after its second year.

The species name campestre means "of the fields". * Trifolium campestre , commonly known as Hop Trefoil and Low Hop Clover , is a species of clover native to Europe and western Asia , growing in most areas, but specifically thriving on dry, sandy grassland...

Flowers violet blue or white. Plants often form clumps or mounds. The stems are densely covered with sharp-pointed, deeply cut leaves which appear fern-like. It is an annual or biennial herb growing one or more branching stems up to about 70 centimeters...

* 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. * The plant is used in the treatment of blennorrhoea and also as an unguent for burns.

When prescribed internally it is always used dried and in conjunction with fresh ginger root. * Tian Nan Xing has been used in Chinese herbal medicine for thousands of years and is valued especially for its beneficial affect upon the chest.

It merits consideration for cultivation in forest areas. The species is commonly known as Virginia snakeroot and is native to eastern North America, from Connecticut to southern Michigan and south to Texas and Florida.

* The species is commonly cultivated in temperate areas. * The poisonous alkaloid 'colchicine' is extracted from this plant and used to alter the genetic make-up of plants in an attempt to find new, improved varieties.

* 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 summer), with each pod revealing a blackberry-like seed cluster, hence the common name of blackberry lily.

* An easily grown plant, succeeding in ordinary garden soil, especially if it is rich in organic matter. * The leaves are cardiac, stimulant and tonic. They are often used in the treatment of certain heart complaints.

It is native to Morocco , but it can be found elsewhere growing wild as an introduced species , such as California . * 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 Common Rue ( Ruta graveolens ), also known as Herb-of-grace , is a species of rue grown as a herb . It also is grown as both a medicinal herb and as a condiment. It is native to southern Europe .

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 .

After being dried they are cooked in water to make a sweet aromatic porridge that is called 'mazamorra' in S. * Due to its purported effects on fertility, maca has experienced a major gain of commercial interest, as well as research, in the last few decades.

* Mostly identical to the species, which see, but with white flowers.

It is used in the treatment of skin diseases. The colour is yellow when mixed with alum. They are harvested with about 20cm of stem as soon as the flowers wither and are dried for later use.

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

Its effectiveness has never been reliably proven or disproven since controlled studies have not been carried out. Closely related to the garden Rhubarb , Rheum rhaponticum , it has a similar purgative effect upon the human body .

* Paeonia wittmanniana , also known as Wittmann's peony , is a perennial peony native to the southern Transcaucasian region, and is closely related to Paeonia mlokosewitschii . Paeonia wittmanniana filaments are red and up to 1 cm long and its anthers...

* Forms mats of small green leaves and stemless sky-blue flowers, as large as 3"; wants good soil, cool, moist conditions; native to Swiss Alps. They are therefore more difficult to grow in areas with hot summers and in such a region they appreciate some...

Give the plants some protection, such as a cloche, until they are growing away well. Succeeds in ordinary garden soil. A climbing plant, supporting itself by means of tendrils. * Echinocystis lobata is an annual vine that produces stems that can be as...

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.