Culinary Herb Or Spice Perennial Plant For Sale In Massachusetts

* A perennial herb with fragrant white, pink, or lavender flowers in loose, flat-topped clusters, smelling vaguely of heliotrope; leaves sometimes used to flavor tobacco; rhizome used as a sedative; sometimes rather weedy; native to Europe and Asia, naturalized...

It is a good general tonic, treating various disorders of the digestive and respiratory systems. In some middle-eastern countries, Marjoram is synonymous with Oregano, and there the names Sweet Marjoram and Knotted Marjoram are used to distinguish it...

The oval evergreen leaves are 3–8 mm long. * Wild thyme is native to the palearctic zone of Europe and Asia. It can also be used as a lawn. * It is a low, usually prostrate subshrub growing to 2 cm (1 in) tall with creeping stems up to 10 cm (4 in)...

* Used in cooking, on baked potatoes, and in salads ; flowers rose to rosy purple. * This heirloom variety matures in about 80-90 days but some stems can be cut before maturity. * Chives ( Allium schoenoprasum ) are the smallest species of the onion family...

The oval evergreen leaves are 3–8 mm long. * Wild thyme is native to the palearctic zone of Europe and Asia. It can also be used as a lawn. * It is a low, usually prostrate subshrub growing to 2 cm (1 in) tall with creeping stems up to 10 cm (4 in)...

Medicinally this plant is used for loss of appetite, upset stomach, constipation, liver and gallbladder disorders, cancer, and rapid heartbeat. * The leaves are edible but rather bitter, especially when the plants are flowering.

The cumin plant grows to 30–50 cm (0.98–1.64 ft) tall and is harvested by hand. It is an annual herbaceous plant, with a slender, glabrous, branched stem which is 20–30 cm tall and has a diameter of 3 to 5 cm.

The leaves are rich in potassium and calcium, they have a salty cucumber flavour. * In milder climates, borage will bloom continuously for most of the year. It is used to colour vinegar.

* The leaves are ready for harvesting in about 8 weeks from sowing, the plant responds well to cut and come again harvesting. * Sometimes called garden chervil , it is used to season mild-flavoured dishes and is a constituent of the French herb mixture...

* One of its constituent alkaloids, called 'trigonelline', has shown potential for use in cancer therapy. * Fenugreek (/?f?nj??ri?k/; Trigonella foenum-graecum) is an annual plant in the family Fabaceae with leaves consisting of three small obovate to...

It is common in Middle Eastern , European , and American cooking . 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 ), although parsley is perceived to have a milder...

* The leaves are used as a flavouring for salad dressings, vegetables and legumes, and are frequently included in strongly flavoured dishes with chillies, garlic, onions etc. * This herb is commonly called Greek oregano or winter sweet marjoram, and is...

It is used more often than winter savory, as winter savory is thought to have a slightly more bitter flavor. * The leaves can be used fresh or dried. A herb tea is made from the leaves.

* Normally used as a flavouring on bread, cakes, curries, pickles etc. The seed is used as a spice. * Nigella sativa oil contains an abundance of conjugated linoleic (18:2) acid, thymoquinone, nigellone (dithymoquinone), melanthin, nigilline, damascenine,...

Its flavor has similarities with some other spices, such as star anise, fennel, and liquorice. * Anise plants grow best in light, fertile, well drained soil. The seeds should be planted as soon as the ground warms up in spring.

* Edible Parts: Leaves. * This is the common European catmint and a spreading plant. Catnip is best grown in full sunlight and grows as a loosely branching, low perennial * With domestic cats, N.

It grows in wet soils . The leaves are often used in 'mint sauce', which is used as a flavouring in meals. A herb tea is made from thefresh or dried leaves. * A perennial mint with a strong mint scent; small lilac, pink, or white flowers in whorls on...

It is also suitable for use with poultry, fish, beef, and seafood. It is often used as a tea in African countries such as Togo and the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Latin American countries such as Mexico.

* A spice commonly called star anise, staranise, star anise seed, Chinese star anise or badiam that closely resembles anise in flavor is obtained from the star-shaped pericarp of the fruit of Illicium verum which are harvested just before ripening.

* This is a versatile garden perennial that should be considered for a wide variety of uses and not just relegated to a corner of the herb garden. Lavender flowers and gray-green leaves provide mid-summer color and contrast to the perennial border front,...

A very safe herb to use, it is suitable for the old and the young and especially useful when the patient is debilitated. * Yellow flowers of daisy form, to 4" across, from July to September; leaves to 2'; dried roots sometimes used medicinally; native...

It is a good general tonic, treating various disorders of the digestive and respiratory systems. In some middle-eastern countries, Marjoram is synonymous with Oregano, and there the names Sweet Marjoram and Knotted Marjoram are used to distinguish it...

White to lilac-blue flowers in early to mid-summer. The plant flowers in late spring or summer. A popular culinary herb with 1/2in. All parts of the plant are strongly aromatic. They are an aid to digestion and so are often used with heavy, oily foods.

Today, many families still use wild bergamot during the cold and flu season. * Wild bergamot or bee balm (Monarda fistulosa) is a wildflower in the mint family (Lamiaceae) widespread and abundant as a native plant in much of North America.

It is native to southern Europe . * A woody-stemmed aromatic plant, long used for flavoring foods; sometimes used as a ground cover or rock garden plant; 1/2" evergreen leaves, upright flowering spikes in May; native to southern Europe.

* It is the oldest and most popular flavour of mint-flavoured confectionery and is often used in tea and for flavouring ice cream, confectionery, chewing gum, and toothpaste. Balsamea Willd.) is a hybrid mint, a cross between watermint and spearmint.

* It is used in both fresh and dried forms, to not only "heat up" curries, pickles and chutneys, but also to impart two distinct flavours to them. * In 2007, Guinness World Records certified that the Ghost Pepper (Bhut Jolokia) was the world's hottest...