Edible Leaf Plant Medicinal Plant For Sale In Fort Collins

Soaking stinging nettles in water or cooking removes the stinging chemicals from the plant, which allows them to be handled and eaten without injury. * The species is divided into six subspecies, five of which have many hollow stinging hairs called trichomes...

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.

* The leaves are cooked and used as greens. The water in which the leaves are cooked is used in making corn pudding . * Shadscale fruits and leaves provide important winter browse for both domestic livestock and native herbivores.

* Fresh petals are chopped and added to salads. * High in vitamins A and C. It is also used as a hair rinse, adding golden tints to brown or auburn hair. A saffron substitute, it is used to colour and flavour rice, soups etc.

They are also medicinal. * The dried flowering heads of female plants are used as a flavouring and preservative in beer. * Humulus lupulus (common hop or hop) is a species of flowering plant in the Cannabaceae family, native to Europe, western Asia and...

African legend claims that basil protects against scorpions, while the English botanist Culpeper cites one "Hilarius, a French physician" as affirming it as common knowledge that smelling basil too much would breed scorpions in the brain.

A cucumber flavour they can be added to salads or used as a potherb. The fresh or dried leaves are used as a tea substitute. It is native throughout the cooler regions of the Northern Hemisphere in Europe , northern Asia , and northern North America .

The plant is happiest with water temperatures of 23 - 27°c in the growing season and requires a five month growing season. In cooler climates, however, it should be grown in shallower water, though no less than 30 cm deep, which will warm up more quickly...

* Silene vulgaris or Bladder Campion is a plant species of the genus Silene of the Pink Family ( Caryophyllaceae ). The cooked young shoots, harvested when about 5cm long, have a flavour similar to green peas but with a slight bitterness.

* The seed is used as a flavouring in liqueurs such as Chartreuse. * The stalks should be peeled, they can be used like celery. * Angelica has a long folk-history of use as a medicinal herb, in particular for the treatment of digestive disorders and problems...

* Penthorum sedoides is widely distributed in the United States and Canada. The erect lower portion of the stem is smooth, but the curved branching inflorescence is covered in glandular hairs.

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

Commonly used instead of sweet cherries to achieve a sharper taste. Great for use in jams, pies, cakes, ice creams and liqueurs. Blooms in late spring with cherries ready to pick in midsummer.

Can be stored up to 6 months. Red apples are large, crisp and firm and have a delicious sweet, tart taste. NOTE: Our apples are self-fruitful, but for best results plant two or more trees of any variety.

* This species used to be cultivated for its edible leaves in China. * This species is grown as a green manure crop in Japan and southern China. * Astragalus sinicus is widely used on rice land as a winter crop.

Very heavy yielding one inch plum shaped fruit. Super sweet “grape” tomato with a fan following. Rich red, 1” fruits set in clusters on indeterminate plants. A unique type of tomato that produces high yields of oval grape shaped tomatoes that are...

They are most commonly found in wet woods and swamps. Chokeberries are cultivated as ornamental plants and also because they are very high in antioxidant pigment compounds, like anthocyanins.

This red and black raspberry collection includes 3 each of Thornless Canby and Black Hawk raspberries.

They are so easy to grow; they produce so much fruit in so little space. Berries are firm and delicious. Nothing compares with fresh raspberry pies and jam! Plant 3' apart in rows 6' apart in good, well-drained garden soil.

* The nuts produced by American hazelnut are a preferred mast by squirrels, deer, turkey, woodpeckers, pheasants and other animals. * Fall color is quite variable, ranging from attractive combinations of orange, rose, purplish red, yellow and green to...

Spinach may survive over winter in temperate regions. It is an annual plant (rarely biennial ), which grows to a height of up to 30 cm. It is great fresh in salads or steamed. It is native to central and southwestern Asia .

50 each of Beauregard, Centennial and Georgia Jet Sweet Potatoes

Great for eating, canning and drying. Fruit is smooth, fuzzless, juicy and sweet. Self-fruitful this apricot does not need a pollinator, however will do even better if two are planted.

Our seedling Heartnuts can bear nuts of various shapes. Grows 25-30' tall. Delicious and mild-tasting! You'll fall in love with this easy to crack, delicious, mild-tasting nut! An attractive and valuable tree with long, tropical-looking foliage.

It was originally found near the coast from St. Andrews Bay in the Florida panhandle to extreme southern coast of North Carolina, and throughout most of the Florida peninsula. In the United States .

* Juniperus communis subsp. It is dioecious , with male and female cones on separate plants, which are wind pollinated. The seeds are dispersed when birds eat the cones, digesting the fleshy scales and passing the hard seeds in their droppings.

With the flowers, they are applied to burns, swellings and other skin problems. * Flowers are white in the morning, turning pink during noon and red in the evening of the same day.