Herb Plants Plants For Sale In Costa Mesa

Considered an excellent remedy for tapeworms since the time of the Greeks. A red dye is produced from fruit skins and flowers. Needs occasional pruning. Showy orange-red fuchsia-like flowers; miniature fruits.

Handsome aromatic flowers. (Clary sage) Seeds soaked in water produce mucilaginous eye bath which safely removes particles, hence its name ‘clear eye' or ‘clary'. Used as a fixative in potpourris.

Juice of the leaves is claimed to be as effective as aloe vera in treating cuts and sores. A fascinating onion-like medicinal herb for sunny windows. Known as the “pregnant onion”, for bulges develop on its sides where eventually baby bulbs burst...

It is an English Canterbury Golding type crossed with OB21m and an American native variety. Good versatile all-purpose hop with high oils. Popular with eastern USA craft brewers for full-bodied ales.

New research indicates it has potent anticancer properties. Latex juice mixed with vinegar is said to remove warts and corns. Decoction is useful for stomach pains and inflammation of the bilary duct.

Excellent, strong flavour and thick, dark green leaves. Suitable for indoor culture; less susceptible to turn yellow or leggy. Produces best when cut continuously. (Windowsill chives) Swiss strain developed for greenhouse forcing.

Pine rosemary has feather-thin, silver yellow-green needles and a bowed upright growth habit. Makes a great winter holiday living centerpiece. Although this variety is unsuitable for culinary use, it is a perfect ornamental and aromatic plant.

Start early indoors Feb/March and transplant out in April/May when frosts are past. Artichokes are usually grown as annuals. Beautiful artichokes are ready in August/Sept. European delicacy.

Young unfolded leaves (older leaves are poisonous) are boiled. Powdered roots were used in a poultice by early settlers to treat cancerous ulcers. Used to treat rheumatism, arthritis and respiratory infections.

Also known as 'Italian Honey'. Medium to large yellow-green fig with a very sweet and delicious light amber flesh. Produces crops in summer and fall.

Nice lemon scent. Plant has ruffled leaves and upright growth habit.

Nice variety for culinary use. Blooms in June and again August or September. American variety from Oregon with a strong heady aroma and excellent oil quality. Large violet-mauve flowers are good for scented use in potpourris and sachets.

Like other citrus marigolds, with bright red flowers.

In early times judges relied on fresh sprigs of rue to repel fleas brought into court by prisoners. Pungent bitter leaves used sparingly in stews, salads, sandwiches and vegetable juice.

Introduced in 1980, it is a cross involving Galena. It is considered a very clean hop because it adds no dominating aroma during brewing, while its bittering is not harsh even though the high alpha acids are high at 13-15%.

Self-sows readily. Small dark leaves; compact somewhat trailing habit. Ideal for hanging baskets.

The ancients and latter day fig-cognoscenti have known the hedonistic delight of fresh sun-ripened, honey-dripping figs, and know all too well the impatient wait for fig season to arrive in late summer.

Though it is tolerant of most soil conditions, it thrives best in moist, fertile soil with good drainage. Oil added to a spray bottle of water or to a humidifier can be used to disinfect the air.

We reserve the right to alter the shipping dates due to weather. For gardeners who are pressed for time or prefer to have Territorial start their plants, our selection of vegetables, flowers, and herbs is an easy and economical way to fill your garden...

Curiously, they do not seem to use it much in cuisine, despite its superb flavour. Mexicans like to place a vase of fresh cut herb on the dinner table to ward off insects. Deserves experimentation!

(Ji xiang cao; Lucky grass)

Well suited for gardens and borders, and for cutting and drying. Developed at Folgate Nursery in England before 1924. Ht. 60cm/24”. Neat compact variety with dark mauve, mildly scented flowers on long spikes.

In bloom from late spring until frost, it is a perpetual magnet for bees, butterflies and hummingbirds. Foliage is pleasantly aromatic but it is the lavender flowers that possess the remarkable grape scent.

Steven Biggs, author of , rates it "very delicious." It a mid-season "main crop" variety, as most of its fruits develop on the current year's shoots, not on the previous year's growth.

Sow about four times their diameter in depth and press the soil down firmly. Everything you need to get your plants off to a great start! This herb is also available in the Herb Collection.

For cooking, the flowers have a prized mild and delicate flavour. In the Lavender Capital of America, Sequim, Washington, there are spectacular displays of Melissa in arching rows interplanted with purple lavender.

Providing us with lifesaving medications and beauty in the garden, purple foxglove is a truly fascinating plant, worthy of our respect and continued investigation. Biennial, blooming in the second summer after it is seeded, it is attractive as a cut flower.