Biennial Plant Herbaceous Plant For Sale In Virginia Beach

* This is a very easy to grow and rewarding vegetable. * The tops can also be eaten when young as greens or in soups. * They are excellent raw or cooked , having a mild sweet flavor.

* 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 habitats, as well as in fields, woodland margins,...

* Lobelia inflata has a long use as a medicinal plant, as an entheogenic, emetic, and a dermatological and respiratory aid. * Native Americans used it for respiratory and muscle disorders, as a purgative, and as a ceremonial medicine.The plant was used...

Sweet and pleasantly flavoured. Its Spanish and Quechua names include maca-maca, maino, ayak chichira, and ayak willku. As the demand rose rapidly, the producer's prices increased.

* Not known in a truly wild condition. The dried flower heads were attached to spindles, wheels, or cylinders, sometimes called teasel frames, to raise the nap on fabrics (that is, to tease the fibres).

Betaine lowers the chance of coronary heart disease (CHD), stroke and peripheral vascular diseases. * Beet seed can take two weeks to germinate so an old trick is to sow radish seeds in the same row.

* Generally grown as an annual to produce desired onions for eating. 110 days to harvest. 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.

It is best treated as a biennial in the garden. * Plants self-sow freely when grown in a suitable position. * The popular old-fashioned flower; likes limey soil; native to Russia and China.

During frosty weather, part of the starch is converted to sugar and the root tastes sweeter. It is high in vitamins and minerals, especially potassium. They contain anti-oxidants such as falcarinol, falcarindiol, panaxydiol and methyl-falcarindiol which...

The young shoots in spring can be cut down to the root and boiled and buttered. The seed is the part of the plant used medicinally. The seed can also be sown from May to August when the plant will normally wait until the following year to flower and thus...

* Not known in a truly wild condition. The dried flower heads were attached to spindles, wheels, or cylinders, sometimes called teasel frames, to raise the nap on fabrics (that is, to tease the fibres).

It is also antibiotic and helps to relieve allergies. * Plants in this genus were probably the most frequently used of all North American Indian herbal remedies. They had a very wide range of applications and many of these uses have been confirmed by...

* The plants are pollinated by bumblebees , and the flowers close over the insects when they enter and deposit pollen on their bodies. * Large-flowered forms of the common garden snapdragon; usually grown as an annual but may overwinter in warmer areas.

It is a readily available ornamental plant for the flower garden. * 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 fresh leaves are highly nutritious and can be considered a natural vitamin and mineral supplement in their own right. In modern cooking, parsley is used for its leaf in much the same way as coriander (which is also known as Chinese parsley or cilantro...

* 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.

Plants often form clumps or mounds. Flowers violet blue or white. Numerous lavender rays surround a yellow center. The stems are densely covered with sharp-pointed, deeply cut leaves which appear fern-like.

* A good ground cover plant, succeeding in dense shade but rather slow to spread. Plants should be spaced about 60cm apart each way. * Heart-shaped shiny dark green leaves with prominent veins, 9" x 5"; dark violet flowers in August; a 2' mound, flowers...

* An easily grown plant, succeeding in ordinary garden soil, especially if it is rich in organic matter. They are often used in the treatment of certain heart complaints. * Yellowish flowers marked with rusty red, particularly on the inside; in spikes;...

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

* This variety of seed will produce gourds common for making birdhouses.

* This is a very easy to grow and rewarding vegetable. * The tops can also be eaten when young as greens or in soups. * They are excellent raw or cooked , having a mild sweet flavor.

It is used internally in the treatment of rheumatic complaints, coughs, colds, headaches, gum diseases and feverish infections such as measles. Schipchinskii Cimicifuga frigida Wall.

Plants have a characteristic sweet odor. * Seeds can be viable for up to 30 years. * Prior to World War II before the common use of commercial agricultural fertilizers, the plant was commonly used as a cover crop to increase nitrogen content and improve...

The name comes from German edel (meaning noble ) and weiss (meaning white ). The scientific name, Leontopodium , means " lion's paw" and is derived from the Greek words leon (lion) and podion (diminutive of pous , foot).

* Plants can be grown on walls. * An attractive garden flower, blooms in May or June, 1 1/2" flowers, several per stem. * Prefers a neutral to slightly alkaline soil in a sunny well-drained position.

* An herbaceous perennial, erect; with 3/4"white or pinkish fragrant flowers in terminal clusters and in the leaf axils; blooms throughout summer; spreads by creeping rhizomes; roots used as a soap substitute; grows on roadsides; native to Europe, but...