Edible Leaf Plant Medicinal Plant For Sale In New Haven

* They are quite frost tolerant and become even more flavorful after some frosty nights. * Try them as a fall crop by sowing seed in late summer. * Vates Collards have dark green very tasty leaves with a mild cabbage like flavor.

White to lilac-blue flowers in early to mid-summer. A herb tea is made from the fresh or dried leaves, it is said to improve the digestion. Spreading growth to 3ft. They are an aid to digestion and so are often used with heavy, oily foods.

* The leaves contain 'stevioside', a substance that is 300 times sweeter than sucrose. * The leaves have a very sweet liquorice-like flavour. * Stevia has become very popular as a natural sugar substitute with almost zero calories! * Because stevia has...

* The leaves are mucilaginous and fairly bland, we use them in bulk in summer salads. They make a very good perennial substitute for lettuce in a salad, producing fresh leaves from spring until the middle of summer, or until the autumn from spring germinating...

* Plants resent root disturbance so the seed is best sown in situ in April. * Plants typically form a low foliage mound from 6-9" tall on procumbent stems which spread along the ground to 3' wide.

* A tea is made from the petals and flowers, that made from the petals is less bitter. * High in vitamins A and C. It is also used as a hair rinse, adding golden tints to brown or auburn hair.

* Fennel is used as a flavoring in some natural toothpastes. It is one of the most important spices in Kashmiri Pandit and Gujarati cooking. It is a hardy, perennial herb with yellow flowers and feathery leaves.

* A quick-growing, not to say rampant vine; can be pruned as a shrub; usually grown on a trellis for commercial production of the hops used in beer making; hops are produced on female plants; native to Eurasia, has escaped in the U.S.

It is bright red skinned with a crisp white inside. Sow the seed as soon as the soil temperatures are bove 40 degrees F. If you like to eat them, you definitely should grow them! * The radish ( Raphanus sativus ) is an edible root vegetable of the Brassicaceae...

* Fennel is used as a flavoring in some natural toothpastes. It is one of the most important spices in Kashmiri Pandit and Gujarati cooking. It is a hardy, perennial herb with yellow flowers and feathery leaves.

She describes it as "like popping candy" and "little needles poking the top of your mouth". * These curiosities are well worth growing, if only for the conversation factor! * The buds are known as "buzz buttons", "Szechuan buttons", "sansho buttons",...

Hardy to at least -20°c. * Smilax glauca has thorny stems climb by means of tendrils. A vigorous plant, it can be grown through trees or shrubs or over tree stumps. It can be boiled and made into a jelly or dried and ground into a powder then used with...

* In Virginia, Penthorum sedoides grows in habitats such as alluvial swamps, floodplain pools, rocky or sandy shores, fens, marshes, beaver ponds, and disturbed wetlands. * The seeds have been used in making cough syrups.

Modern research has shown that there are many health benefits to drinking tea, including its ability to protect the drinker from certain heart diseases. It is an evergreen shrub or small tree that is usually trimmed to below two metres (six feet) when...

The leaves, which resemble a colt's foot in cross section, do not appear usually until after the seeds are set. Thus, the flowers appear on stems with no apparent leaves, and the later appearing leaves then wither and die during the season without seeming...

Just sow the seed and harvest young seedlings or let some plants grow to 3-4 feet tall keeping the branches pruned back. Rich in vitamin A, the leaves also contain about 6% protein, 1% fat, 6.6% carbohydrate, 1.5% ash.

* The mild-flavoured leaves (cooked as a spinach) are rich in vitamins and minerals. * The seeds are very small but easy to harvest and very nutritious. They can also be sprouted and used in salads.

* Because western salsify is a widespread plant, it has a large number of alternative common names. They include western goat's beard, wild oysterplant, yellow salsify, yellow goat's beard, meadow goat's beard, goat's beard, goatsbeard, common salsify,...

The species status in the New World is uncertain: it is generally considered an exotic weed; however, there is evidence that the species was in Crawford Lake deposits ( Ontario ) in 1430-89, suggesting that it reached North America in the pre-Columbian...

Sotolon is the chemical responsible for fenugreek's distinctive sweet smell. * One of its constituent alkaloids, called 'trigonelline', has shown potential for use in cancer therapy.

Even if you don't want to eat the fruit, it is extremely ornamental and a real treat for wildlife. Dolgo is rated good to excellent in disease resistance. We send 18-24'' trees. Grows 30' tall and 25' wide.

* The leaves can be eaten raw or cooked. Its flowers are cup-shaped and can be either lilac-blue or white. * It is an herbaceous perennial growing to 1 m (3 ft 3 in). * Campanula persicifolia (peach-leaved bellflower) is a flowering plant species in the...

Requires only 150 chilling hours. Self-pollinating! Zones 5-9. Semi-dwarf variety grows only 3 feet tall. Outstanding yields of large dime-sized dark blueberries.

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

Wu Wei Zi is commonly used in Chinese herbalism, where it is considered to be one of the 50 fundamental herbs. The species itself is dioecious , thus flowers on a female plant will only produce fruit when fertilized with pollen from a male plant.

* Can be overwintered if mulched to zone 4. * Many Welsh onions can multiply by forming perennial evergreen clumps. * These scallions are perfect for adding mild flavor to salads of all kinds.

* The seed cones are berry -like, green ripening in 18 months to purple-black with a blue waxy coating; they are spherical, 4–12 mm diameter, and usually have three (occasionally six) fused scales, each scale with a single seed .