Herb Plants Plants For Sale In Naperville

(Brazil cress; Wolikpekpe)

Its majestic white flowers are large, with layered, overlapping, nearly horizontal petals and huge yellow cones. Not only is it beautiful, easy to grow, very hardy, and can be used to make home remedies, this echinacea cultivar is scented too.

It stimulates the stomach and the spleen and has been used to treat diabetes, asthma, diarrhea, and emotional instability. Traditionally used as a herbal tonic and as a contraceptive.

Common flavouring for chewing gum, toothpaste, mouthwash. Used for headaches and other aches and pains, inflammations and acute rheumatism. Wintergreen-scented woodland shrub, only 15 cm/6 high.

Good rose scent. Deeply cut grey-green leaves with narrow white border.

Slow to germinate. Valuable in correcting membrane disorders of the respiratory and digestive passages. Pretty rock garden plant with masses of purple flowers appearing early in spring.

Very hardy, very adaptable. (Elderberry) Source of fruit for elderberry wine, pie and jelly, possesses extraordinary powers as a virus and bacteria fighter. For food and medicinal use.

(American mandrake) A derivative of this herb is medically proven against certain cancers. Used by the Amerindians to treat hepatitis, syphilis, fevers, constipation, etc.

It has short "sidearms" and thus can be planted with tighter plant spacing. Our variety is the American version known as Fuggle H, and it has higher oils and is more potent than the original.

Attractive variegated version of nutmeg geranium with the same strong nutmeg scent.

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

Its dark-blue almost black fruit, with peach-coloured flesh, is very sweet. It is cold-resistant and it is an early main-crop fig. A good choice for northern gardens according to Steven Biggs, author of .

Repels ants from counters or around baseboard. Now used in cosmetic preparations. Repels cockroaches as well. Pretty yellow button flowers were once used by the Indians to induce abortion.

It was also used in the middle ages to balance spicy foods and was even used by the Egyptians as a drink flavouring. It has been widely used throughout history; the troops of Alexander the Great used it for stamina, as it has mild adaptogenic properties.

One of the most heavily scented pinks, strikingly sweet and clove-like. Edible flowers are wonderful in many dishes where colour and its clove scent and flavour add a new twist.

Choice addition to any rosemary collection. Graceful branching habit densely covered with strongly scented leaves. Attractive narrow-leaf form with light purple flowers.

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%. Introduced in 1980, it is a cross involving Galena.

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Attractive glossy green leaves and pink bell-shaped flowers. Likes damp, acidic soil. (Bearberry; Kinnikinnik) Used for kidney and bladder infections on account of its diuretic and antiseptic properties.

Now umckaloabo products are sold widely in Germany. Research in Europe is verifying what traditional medicine men of Lesotho and South Africa have long known about this herb, and what Englishman, Charles Henry Stevens claimed cured his tuberculosis back...

Violet flowers, strong scent. Discovered in 1972 when the standard commercial strain was nearly destroyed by disease. Commercially important strain from the Vaucluse district of France.

Also for coughs, bowel complaints, hemorrhages, asthma, lung disorders and for skin irritations. Tea made from the roots was used for menstrual problems, to induce labour, for menopause, and as an aphrodisiac.

Slow growing shrub whose leaves possess a remarkable sweet anise scent.

(Lesser calamint) A regional favourite in Tuscany where it is added to mushroom dishes and green vegetables for its distinctive minty flavour. Sauteed zucchini or mushrooms with fresh nepitella, tomatoes, and garlic is served with roast or boiled meat...

(Old woman) East Coast native, where it grows on sand dunes. Grows in silver clumps.

(Plectranthus; Spurflower)

Until tender and bitter free. Blanched hearts are cut into sections and parboiled for 90 min. May be sauteed, or served heated, then chilled with oil and vinegar, or topped with a cream sauce and croutons.