Edible Leaf Plant Herbaceous Plant For Sale In Miramar

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 .

* The leaves contain 'stevioside', a substance that is 300 times sweeter than sucrose. * Stevia has become very popular as a natural sugar substitute with almost zero calories! * Because stevia has a negligible effect on blood glucose it is attractive...

It is found throughout much of Europe but seldom as far north as Scotland . * The whole plant is pleasantly scented when bruised. * Ononis spinosa is a plant belonging to the family Fabaceae , that is commonly known as spiny restharrow or just restharrow...

It is never pithy and stays crunchy in the refrigerator. It is bright red skinned with a crisp white inside. If you like to eat them, you definitely should grow them! * The radish ( Raphanus sativus ) is an edible root vegetable of the Brassicaceae family...

The plant is typically between 10 - 30 cm in height. * Coltsfoot is a perennial herbaceous plant that spreads by seeds and rhizomes . The leaves, which resemble a colt's foot in cross section, do not appear usually until after the seeds are set.

After being dried they are cooked in water to make a sweet aromatic porridge that is called 'mazamorra' in S. They can be slowly baked. In this form, the hypocotyls can be stored for several years.

The stems can be glabrous or are sparsely covered with short hairs. The foliage is upright growing or horizontally orientated, with leaves having narrowly winged petioles or being unwinged.

* A common, invasive perennial weed, to most, with a spreading rootstock; arrowhead-shaped leaves; small reddish flowers throughout summer, produces lots of seed; native to Europe and Asia, common in North America.

* The cooked leaves can be used as a potherb. * A tincture of the plant is somewhat astringent, demulcent, laxative and tonic. The erect lower portion of the stem is smooth, but the curved branching inflorescence is covered in glandular hairs.

* The purple topped turnip root will reach 4-5 inches in diameter and matures in 40 to 60 days. * They are excellent raw or cooked , having a mild sweet flavor. * Purple Top White Globe Turnip is an outstanding Heirloom variety.

* They are quite frost tolerant and become even more flavorful after some frosty nights. * Vates Collards have dark green very tasty leaves with a mild cabbage like flavor. * They are very late to bolt and can be grown year round in mild climates.

* Requires a well-drained sandy soil and a sunny position. Established plants are drought tolerant. * The leaves are used for flavouring rice dumplings.

* In warmer areas, garlic chives may remain green all year round. * The leaves have a mild flavour, somewhat like a cross between garlic and chives, they are delicious in salads. * The leaves are available from early spring until late in the autumn.

* The leaves can be eaten raw or cooked. Older writers usually distinguished the turnip and rape by the adjectives round and long (- rooted ) respectively. * Bonar Forage rape has large leaves, is resistant to powdery mildew, is late maturing, and is...

* The leaves and flowers are boiled and eaten. * A shrub; red flowers in racemes.

* The leaves are mucilaginous and fairly bland, we use them in bulk in summer salads. * Malva moschata ( Musk-mallow ) is a species of Malva native to Europe and southwestern Asia , from Spain north to the British Isles and Poland , and east to southern...

* Blocky shape, excellent for stuffing with a sweet mild flavor. * California Wonder peppers are an open pollinated heirloom variety of sweet bell pepper. * They are like the peppers that you buy in the store.

The stems can be glabrous or are sparsely covered with short hairs. The foliage is upright growing or horizontally orientated, with leaves having narrowly winged petioles or being unwinged.

It grows in wet soils . It is an invasive species in the Great Lakes region where it was first sighted in 1843 . * Mentha spicata ( Spear Mint or Spearmint ) is a species of mint native to much of Europe and southwest Asia , though its exact natural range...

It can be used as a staple food crop in either savoury or sweet dishes. * Oats are an easily grown crop that succeeds in any moderately fertile soil in full sun. * The oat (Avena sativa), sometimes called the common oat, is a species of cereal grain grown...

This species is also occasionally known as Felon Herb , Chrysanthemum Weed , Wild Wormwood , Old uncle Henry , Sailor's Tobacco , Naughty Man , Old Man or St. John's Plant (not to be confused with St John's wort ).

It is native throughout the cooler regions of the Northern Hemisphere in Europe , northern Asia , and northern North America . * The young leaves and flower buds can be eaten raw or cooked.

* Stipa capillata is a perennial grass species in the family Poaceae , native to Europe and Asia . * A perennial grass, to 3', with erect stems and leaves, very narrow; flowers and seedheads lax; native to Eurasia.

Grows 30' tall and 25' wide. This super hardy Siberian native produces fruits measuring 1-1/2'' in diameter or larger that ripen late summer. Even if you don't want to eat the fruit, it is extremely ornamental and a real treat for wildlife.

In zones 4-5 it NEEDS a pollinator. Large golden, orange-colored apricot with a fresh, rich, lively taste. Great for eating, canning and drying. Fruit is smooth, fuzzless, juicy and sweet.

They impart a sausage-like flavour to savoury dishes. They are an aid to digestion and so are often used with heavy, oily foods. * Subshrubby,erect, hairy, perennial with oblong-ovate, entire, gray-green-woody, aromatic leaves, to 3in long.

Grows 6-10' tall and up to 15' wide. Plant 4-5' apart for an edible hedge or can be grown as a dwarf tree . Beautiful fragrant white and pale pink flowers cover the bush in mid-spring.