Culinary Herb Or Spice Perennial Plant For Sale In Minnesota

* 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...

* Used in cooking, on baked potatoes, and in salads ; flowers rose to rosy purple. * Chives ( Allium schoenoprasum ) are the smallest species of the onion family Alliaceae * Allium schoenoprasum is also the only species of Allium native to both the New...

* Chinese anise is extensively cultivated in China for its fruit and medicinal essential oil. * Star anise contains anethole, the same ingredient that gives the unrelated anise its flavor.

The flowers can also be sprinkled on salads to add colour and fragrance. A popular culinary herb with 1/2in. An essential oil obtained from the plant is used commercially to flavour ice cream, sweets, baked goods etc.

The seeds should be planted as soon as the ground warms up in spring. Its flavor has similarities with some other spices, such as star anise, fennel, and liquorice. * Anise , Pimpinella anisum, also called aniseed, is a flowering plant in the family Apiaceae...

* The most abundant essential oil found in laurel is cineole, also called eucalyptol. * A spicy, aromatic flavouring, bay leaves are commonly used as aflavouring for soups, stews etc and form an essential ingredient of the herb mix 'Bouquet Garni'.

* Camphor has a long history of herbal use in the Orient with a wide range of uses. The leaves have a glossy, waxy appearance and smell of camphor when crushed. It has occasionally been used internally in the treatment of hysteria, but in modern day herbalism...

* White flowers to 3" across. * The flower buds are pickled and used as a flavouring in sauces, salads etc. * An extract of the root is used as a cosmetic and is particularly useful in treating rose-coloured rashes and capillary weaknesses.

It acts principally on the digestive and nervous systems, easing flatulence, stomach cramps, colic and indigestion. * Ocimum basilicum , or Sweet Basil, is a culinary herb of major importance.

Plants often self-sow freely in the garden. Division in March as the new growth appears. The seeds are used in cookery and sweet desserts. * Fennel has a long history of herbal use and is a commonly used household remedy, being useful in the treatment...

It is used to colour vinegar. * In milder climates, borage will bloom continuously for most of the year. * An edible blue dye can be obtained from the flowers. * They can be used as a pot-herb or be added to salads.

* The leaves are ready for harvesting in about 8 weeks from sowing, the plant responds well to cut and come again harvesting. * Chervil ( Anthriscus cerefolium ) is a delicate annual herb related to parsley .

It is used to colour vinegar. * In milder climates, borage will bloom continuously for most of the year. * An edible blue dye can be obtained from the flowers. * They can be used as a pot-herb or be added to salads.

The seeds should be planted as soon as the ground warms up in spring. Its flavor has similarities with some other spices, such as star anise, fennel, and liquorice. * Anise , Pimpinella anisum, also called aniseed, is a flowering plant in the family Apiaceae...

Common names include Bog Myrtle and Sweet Gale . * The aromatic fruits and leaves are used either fresh or dried to flavour soups, stews etc. The dried leaves make a delicate and palatable tea.

* This is the common European catmint and a spreading plant. Young leaves - raw, have a mint-like flavour, they make an aromatic flavouring in salads. Consuming much of the plant is followed by drooling, sleepiness, anxiety, leaping about and purring.

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 .

* 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...

* White flowers to 3" across. * The flower buds are pickled and used as a flavouring in sauces, salads etc. * An extract of the root is used as a cosmetic and is particularly useful in treating rose-coloured rashes and capillary weaknesses.

A few drops of oil in the bath or ointment is good for wounds or to sooth the skin. Dried Chamomile flowers make a sedative and delicious tea that is calming to the stomach and improves digestion.

This plant, with showy summer-blooming white flowers, is often used as a honey plant, medicinal plant, and garden ornamental. * Monarda fistulosa (wild bergamot) is an herbaceous perennial that grows from slender creeping rhizomes, thus commonly occurring...

* A variable species found in dry soil and full sun from Europe to China; stems to 3' with purple bracts and very attractive purple, pink, or white flowers in July and August; likes calcaric soils; spreads via suckers; aromatic leaves; widely used in...

Balsamea Willd.) is a hybrid mint, a cross between watermint and spearmint. * Peppermint flowers are large nectar producers and honey bees as well as other nectar harvesting organisms forage them heavily.

* The fresh leaves (Cilantro) are probably the most widely used flavouring herb in the world. * This is a dual purpose herb. * Plants yield about 1¾ tonnes of seed per acre. * Coriander is native to southern Europe and North Africa to southwestern Asia.

They are used in small quantities as a flavouring in soups and stews, with vegetables such as peas and spinach, and with sweet dishes such as biscuits cakes, jams and jellies. * The leaves have a very strong flavour that is bitter and somewhat resinous,...

It acts principally on the digestive and nervous systems, easing flatulence, stomach cramps, colic and indigestion. * Ocimum basilicum , or Sweet Basil, is a culinary herb of major importance.

The leaves are often blanched by excluding light, either by removing all the leaves and then earthing up the new growth, or by covering the plant with a bucket or something similar.