Herb Plants Plants For Sale In Wilmington

Dried powdered rhizome is the major source of orris, used in perfumery and potpourris. Produces nearly white flowers with traces of blue or purple.

Leaves can be used like green fennel. Highly decorative form of fennel with bronze-red, lacy foliage.

This is an improvement over a well-known but mostly unreliable 'Brown Turkey' variety grown in North America. It can usually be counted on producing crops in summer and in fall. 'Vern's' is a reliable producer of large tasty sweet figs with a dark brown...

Choice variety for everlastings. Up to 60cm/24in high. Leaves silver-white, flowers soft lemon-yellow, large.

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

However the strongly scented glossy leaves are edible and can be used like a wrap to flavour food. Try them in tea and in sweet desserts such as rice pudding. Also makes a nice easy-to-grow indoor foliage plant.

Growth habit is similar to that of regular sweet basil, with a distinctive cinnamon taste and odour. Curiously, they do not seem to use it much in cuisine, despite its superb flavour.

In gardens, trained to fences, or in hanging baskets. Day neutral variety that produces large sweet berries from June till frost.

Finely cut leaves. (Dr. Livingston geranium) Lemon-rose scent.

Best kept pruned to 150cm/5ft high for easier harvesting. Excellent for juice, and for salsa, salads and as a garnish on hospitality plates. Like ´Citrus Gold´, the orange berries are large, weighing a gram when fresh, with a nice tinge of red at the...

Used for stomachache and in vermouth. Attractive tufted low growing herb with small, silvery fern-like leaves.

All parts of the plant burst with an absolutely stunning licorice scent when squeezed. Used in Thai cooking, and deserving of experimentation wherever a new flavour twist is desired.

Kent Golding is the premium English aroma hops first developed in the 1790s from the old Canterbury Whitebine variety. It has light, fluffy cones, small in size, with low amounts of pale yellow lupulin.

Showy hop-like pink flowers similar to Kent Beauty but longer and more impressive. Forms almost perfect globe-like balls when grown in baskets. Striking ornamental variety with a mild oregano flavour and aroma.

The fruits are small to medium in size and the flesh is a luscious red colour and very sweet. Outstanding prolific, heavy bearing variety that often will produce two crops a season.

Easier to grow. The Vienna Pharmacognostic Institute found that this plant has the same medicinal action as the European variety, .

Because of the different growth rates of some of the varieties, you may see a difference in sizes. This should not harm the plants. Full sun and cool nights both encourage deeper purple coloration in the blooms.

Outstanding lavender from France and a stiff challenger to Grosso, the current favourite on lavender farms. Gros Bleu is quickly becoming a standard in the Pacific Northwest where it is widely grown for fresh and dried bouquets, potpourris, and for landscape...

Eastern North American native found in swampy areas and along streams. Excellent remedy for colds and intermittent fever, especially for flu. Caution: contains pyrrolizidine alkaloids; not recommended for long term use.

Has the best perfume of all the hybrid lavenders. The scent is light and flowery and has little of the camphor notes found in other lavandins. This is the main commercial lavender grown in France.

Moderate clean bittering qualities and clean spicy aroma used in a wide range of beers. Alpha acid 7-9.5%. Developed at the Hop Research Center in Bavaria and grown in America since the 1980s.

Finely cut leaves resemble fern leaves.

A terrific all-purpose triploid seedless aroma hop similar to the German Tettnanger variety. Adds a spicy, sweet fruity character to beers. Developed in Corvallis, Oregon, in 1997 from a cross of a diploid Tettnanger clone and a tetraploid Hallertauer.

In Jim Westerfield's words: “We always served this neat hybrid in our gourmet restaurant as a side dish. We combined it with garlic chives and fresh parmesan cheese. And then to this was added lots of butter and maybe, just maybe a touch of fresh garlic.

(Sweet garlic; Pink agapanthus) A lovely variegated version of society garlic. The silver-edged leaves beautifully frame the large pink flowers that appear in summer. Prefers full sun and sandy, well-drained soil.

Purple, rose or white flowers. Variety known and used for centuries.