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Great Globethistle, Giant Globe Thistle, Great Globe Thistle, Common Globe Thistle Echinops sphaerocephalus
Prices start at : 4.95 USD / 1 packet

They are sticky hairy above, and white woolly below.Atop each stem is an almost perfectly spherical inflorescence up to 6 cm in diameter, packed with blue-gray disc florets . * It grows in sunny, rocky or brushy places, with more or less mineral rich...
  • Height: 5-6 feet
  • Purity: 98%
  • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 39
  • Crop Year: 1994
  • Common Name: Great Globethistle, Giant Globe Thistle, Great Globe Thistle, Common Globe Thistle
  • Germination Test Type: cut
British Columbia
Houston
Great Globethistle, Giant Globe Thistle, Great Globe Thistle, Common Globe Thistle Echinops sphaerocephalus
Prices start at : 4.95 USD / 1 packet

They are sticky hairy above, and white woolly below.Atop each stem is an almost perfectly spherical inflorescence up to 6 cm in diameter, packed with blue-gray disc florets . * It grows in sunny, rocky or brushy places, with more or less mineral rich...
  • Family: Asteraceae
  • Lot#: 9401
  • Quantity: 1 lb
  • Collection Locale: Hungary
  • Seeds Per Pound: 36,320
  • Germination Test Type: cut
British Columbia
Houston
Field Scabious, Blue Buttons, Field Scabiosa Knautia arvensis
Prices start at : 8.95 USD / 1 packet

It is used as a blood purifier and as a treatment for eczema and other skin disorders. * Blue, pinky-blue, lilac, or lavenderish flowers 1 1/4" wide atop 3' stems; native to meadows and grassy hills, particularly on limestone; good for wild garden; native...
  • Germination Test Type: cut
  • Crop Year: 2016
  • Botanical Name: Knautia arvensis
  • Collection Locale: Germany
  • Genus: Knautia
  • Species: arvensis
British Columbia
Houston
Mugwort, Common Wormwood, Felon Herb, Chrysanthemum Weed, Wild Wormwood, St. John\'s Plant Artemisia vulgaris
Price : CALL

Their addition to the diet aids the digestion and so they are often used in small quantities as a flavouring, especially with fatty foods. They are also used to give colour and flavour to glutinous-rice dumplings (Mochi).
  • Genus: Artemisia
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 4
  • Common Name: Mugwort, Common Wormwood, Felon Herb, Chrysanthemum Weed, Wild Wormwood, St. John's Plant
  • Species: vulgaris
British Columbia
Houston
Rose of Sharon Hedge
Prices start at : 5.29 USD / each

Rose of Sharon is lovely all through the growing season. Order today and receive strong healthy 1-2' one year old shrubs. Mixed colors only. Delightful red, white or purple hibiscus-shaped flowers blossom each summer in a lifetime of natural beauty.
  • Deer Resistant: Yes
  • Spread: 5-7'
  • Plant Lighting: Full Sun, Partial Sun/Shade
  • Season Color: Summer
  • Genus: Hibiscus syriacus
British Columbia
Houston
English Primrose Primula vulgaris     - Primula acaulis
Prices start at : 5.95 USD / 1 packet

They make an attractive garnish to salads, and can also be used as a cookedvegetable or in conserves etc. The common name is primrose , or occasionally common primrose or English primrose to distinguish it from other Primula species also called primroses.
  • Genus: Primula
  • Germination: 77%
  • Purity: 99%
  • Botanical Name: Primula vulgaris
  • Quantity: 0.22 lb
  • Family: PRIMULACEAE
British Columbia
Houston
Crownvetch
Prices start at : 7.49 USD / each

Grows so thick, it chokes out even persistent weeds and requires no mowing or care. To cover steep slopes, poor soil trouble areas, stream or pond banks where erosion control is needed, there's no better and prettier ground cover to use than House of...
  • Spread: 24''
  • Season Color: Spring, Summer, Fall
  • Max Height (feet): 12-24"
  • Zones: 3-9
  • Deer Resistant: Yes
British Columbia
Houston
Arizona Sun Dwarf Gaillardia
Prices start at : 6.49 USD / each

Deer resistant. Highly drought tolerant. Plant 10'' apart in full to part sun. Attracts butterflies. Winner of the prestigous 2005 Fleuroselect Gold Medal! Ideal for cut-flowers. Grow 12-16'' tall.
  • Deer Resistant: Yes
  • Zones: 3-9
  • Spread: 10-12''
  • Colors: Orange, Red, Yellow
  • Season Color: Summer
British Columbia
Houston
Basket-flower, American Star-thistle, Basket Flower, American Starthistle, American Basketflower, Sweet Sultan, Shaving Brush Centaurea americana
Prices start at : 4.95 USD / 1 packet

* Blooms are 4" in diameter and are held from May until June. The plant can reach 5-6' tall and has rough 4" long lance-shaped leaves. * The name basket flower refers to the stiff, straw-colored bracts just beneath the flower head, which are divided at...
  • Germination: 80%
  • Crop Year: 2016
  • Genus: Centaurea
  • Height: 5-6 feet
  • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 61
  • Purity: 99%
British Columbia
Houston
Max Chrysanthemum Leucanthemum maximum     - Chrysanthemum maximum
Prices start at : 1.95 USD / 1 packet

* It is a rhizomatous perennial herb growing 30 to 70 centimeters tall with many large serrated leaves around the base of the stem on winged petioles. It has a fringe of 20 to 30 white ray florets around a center of many densely packed yellow disc florets.
  • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 660
  • Height: 2-3 feet
  • Purity: 99%
  • Collection Locale: Oregon
  • Species: maximum
  • Genus: Leucanthemum
British Columbia
Houston
Cream Scabious, Cream Pincushions Scabiosa ochroleuca
Prices start at : 8.95 USD / 1 packet

* Scabiosa ochroleuca, commonly called cream scabious, is a species of scabiosa with creamy yellow flower heads. It is native to Europe and western Asia.
  • Germination: 96%
  • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 90
  • Lot#: 9401
  • Family: Dipsacaceae
  • Crop Year: 1994
  • Botanical Name: Scabiosa ochroleuca
British Columbia
Houston
Hard Fescue, Sheep Fescue Festuca ovina  duriuscula
Prices start at : 2.95 USD / 1 packet

* It is a perennial plant sometimes found in acidic bogs , for example in the Portlethen Moss , Scotland. * This is one of the food plants for the caterpillars of several butterflies and moths, including the Gatekeeper and the Meadow Brown.
  • Variety: duriuscula
  • Germination: 80%
  • Genus: Festuca
  • Purity: 97%
  • Crop Year: 2013
  • Height: 16 inches
British Columbia
Houston
Hyssop, Herb Hyssop Hyssopus officinalis
Prices start at : 1.95 USD / 1 packet

* A member of the mint family; many small flowers on short spikes, usually blue but rarely pink, purple, or white; forms a dense mounded plant; used in cooking; aromatic; full sun, dry soil; native to southern Europe, Caucasus, Iran, Turkey.
  • Quantity: 0.07 lb
  • Crop Year: 2011
  • Common Name: Hyssop, Herb Hyssop
  • Family: Lamiaceae
  • Botanical Name: Hyssopus officinalis
  • Species: officinalis
British Columbia
Houston
Catnip, Catmint, Catswort Nepeta cataria
Prices start at : 2.95 USD / 1 packet

Consuming much of the plant is followed by drooling, sleepiness, anxiety, leaping about and purring. * This is the common European catmint and a spreading plant. The tea should be infused in a closed container in order to preserve the essential oils,...
  • Crop Year: 2014
  • Species: cataria
  • Quantity: 158.3 lb
  • Seeds Per Pound: 762,720
  • Germination: 70%
  • Botanical Name: Nepeta cataria
British Columbia
Houston
Dames Rocket Hesperis matronalis
Price : CALL

* The seed can be sprouted and added to salads. * A biennial with pretty four-petaled fragrant flowers in loose clusters, white to purplish and everything in between; the main flowering is in May in New York state; native to Europe, but naturalized and...
  • Common Name: Dames Rocket
  • Crop Year: 2016
  • Family: Brassicaceae
  • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 340
  • Collection Locale: OR
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 3
British Columbia
Houston
Red Royal Butterfly Bush
Prices start at : 3.99 USD / each

Deer resistant. Plant in full to partial sun. This spectacular cultivar of butterfly bush is valued for its intense, deeply colored wine-red flowers. The fragrant, long panicles are showy from June to September and attracts loads of butterflies and hummingbirds.Grows...
  • Genus: Buddleia davidii 'Royal Red'
  • Spread: 4-5'
  • Max Height (feet): 8
  • Deer Resistant: Yes
  • Plant Lighting: Full Sun
British Columbia
Houston
Blue Cardinal Flower, Great Blue Lobelia Lobelia siphilitica
Prices start at : 3.95 USD / 1 packet

* It was believed by some native North American Indian tribes that if the finely ground roots were secretly added to the food of an arguing couple then this would avert a divorce and they would love each other again.
  • Germination Test Type: Actual
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 4
  • Seeds Per Pound: 14,709,000
  • Genus: Lobelia
  • Crop Year: 2014
  • Purity: 78%
British Columbia
Houston
Hungarian Lilac Syringa josikaea
Prices start at : 5.95 USD / 1 packet

* Syringa josikaea ( Hungarian Lilac ) is a species of Lilac , native to central and eastern Europe , in the Carpathian Mountains in Hungary , Romania , and western Ukraine . * A good hedging plant, it is very tolerant of trimming.
  • Height: 6-12 feet
  • Genus: Syringa
  • Species: josikaea
  • Germination Test Type: cut
  • Collection Locale: Russia
  • Botanical Name: Syringa josikaea
British Columbia
Houston
Blue Cardinal Flower, Great Blue Lobelia Lobelia siphilitica
Prices start at : 3.95 USD / 1 packet

* It was believed by some native North American Indian tribes that if the finely ground roots were secretly added to the food of an arguing couple then this would avert a divorce and they would love each other again.
  • Germination Test Type: Actual
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 4
  • Crop Year: 2014
  • Quantity: 0.2 lb
  • Collection Locale: Pennsylvania
  • Common Name: Blue Cardinal Flower, Great Blue Lobelia
British Columbia
Houston
Wolf\'s Lilac Syringa wolfii
Prices start at : 8.95 USD / 1 packet

Corolla pale purple to purple-red, 1.2-1.8 cm; tube funnel-form, 1-1.4 cm; lobes oblong-ovate to ovate, upright or spreading. * Fragrant lilac flowers in clusters as long as 1'; leaves to 6"; native to Manchuria and Korea.
  • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 37
  • Germination Test Type: Cut
  • Collection Locale: Russia
  • Quantity: 1.15 lb
  • Lot#: 9301
  • Family: Oleaceae
British Columbia
Houston
Lady Margaret Passion Flower, Passionvine
Prices start at : 12.99 USD

We generally wait until the fruits become yellow (in yellow fruited cultivars) and wrinkled and have fallen from the vine. As tropical as it looks to be the Lady Margaret Passionflower is reported to survive in zone 8B if provided with a protective mulch.
  • USDA Cold Hardiness Zones: 9,10,11,(*8B?)
  • Grows To: 6-12'H+, reported to reach 30'+ where winters are mild.
  • Container Size: 4.5 inch R / 20 fl.oz. / 591 ml
  • Native To / Origin: Garden hybrid - P. incarnata (or P. caerulea) x P. coccinea (or P. vitifolia)
  • pH Range: Mildly Acidic, Neutral
British Columbia
Houston
Henry Duelberg Mealycup Sage
Prices start at : 7.99 USD

If your Salvia or Sage starts to look unkempt in mid to late summer consider giving it a light shearing or remove the spent flowering spikes to help promote new growth and flower production.
  • Native To / Origin: US - Greg Grant, TX
  • USDA Cold Hardiness Zones: 7,8,9,10,11
  • Deer Resistance: Rarely Bothered
  • Grows To: 3'H x 3'W
British Columbia
Houston
Mugwort, Common Wormwood, Felon Herb, Chrysanthemum Weed, Wild Wormwood, St. John\'s Plant Artemisia vulgaris
Price : CALL

Their addition to the diet aids the digestion and so they are often used in small quantities as a flavouring, especially with fatty foods. They are also used to give colour and flavour to glutinous-rice dumplings (Mochi).
  • Botanical Name: Artemisia vulgaris
  • Common Name: Mugwort, Common Wormwood, Felon Herb, Chrysanthemum Weed, Wild Wormwood, St. John's Plant
  • Height: 3-7 feet
  • Genus: Artemisia
British Columbia
Houston
Devil\'s Bit Scabious, Devilsbit Succisa pratensis
Prices start at : 4.95 USD / 1 packet

* The tender young shoots are sometimes added to spring salads. * An herbaceous perennial, forming a basal rosette to 1', from which arise 3' flowering stems with purplish blue (rarely pink or white) flowers resembling scabiosa; likes moist, peaty soil...
  • Common Name: Devil's Bit Scabious, Devilsbit
  • Family: Dipsacaceae
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 5
  • Height: 12-16 inches
  • Purity: 98%
  • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 63
British Columbia
Houston
Common Yarrow, Plumajillo Achillea millefolium     - Achillea lanulosa    , Achillea millefolium occidentalis   , Achillea occidentalis
Prices start at : 3.95 USD / 1 packet

* Yarrow has a high reputation and is widely employed in herbal medicine, administered both internally and externally. * The Navajo considered it to be a "life medicine", chewed it for toothaches, and poured an infusion into ears for earaches.
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 3
  • Seeds Per Pound: 372,800
  • Family: Asteraceae
  • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 370
  • Germination Test Type: estimate
  • Botanical Name: Achillea millefolium
British Columbia
Houston
Vining Maple, Red Wings, Mariposa
Prices start at : 14.99 USD

Grow Redwings as a vine or a sprawling shrub preferably in a sunny location and it should reward you for many years to come. For more information see an excellent article from JC Raulston Arboretum by clicking here or the "More info from Universities,...
  • Grows To: Vine to 15'L, Shrub to 4'H
  • Container Size: 4.5 inch / 20 fl.oz. / 591 ml
  • Native To / Origin: South America
  • USDA Cold Hardiness Zones: 7,8,9,10
British Columbia
Houston
Augusta Duelberg Mealycup Sage
Prices start at : 7.99 USD

An application of fertilizer at this time may also be beneficial in spurring flower production. Augusta Duelberg Mealycup Sage is larger growing than the ones found at most nurseries and will top out at about 30"H and wide.
  • Soil & Moisture: Average moist to periodically dry, well-drained soils.
  • Deer Resistance: Rarely Bothered
  • USDA Cold Hardiness Zones: 7,8,9,10,11
  • Grows To: 2-3'H x 2-3'W
  • pH Range: Acidic, Mildly Acidic, Neutral, Mildly Alkaline, Alkaline
British Columbia
Houston