Herb Plants Vegetable Plants For Sale In Amarillo

A popular over-the-counter mentholated rub for cold and flu is made with the oil. Peppermint eucalyptus is a tree growing to 30m (100ft) or more in height with small creamy white flowers in spring.

Its growth habit is compact but not densely so like bush basil. So rich is the visual complexity that this is a basil one needs to appreciate up close, in pots on a windowsill or in a table centrepiece.

Large velvety leaves. Its trailing habit makes it ideal for hanging baskets. Refreshing mint scent.

This Healing Arc variety is a selection from the European variety ´Juliet´. Berries are a little redder and rounder than ´Huron Sunset´, and slightly smaller. Excellent for freezing berry-laden branches to store for winter usage.

Heat: 500-2,500 Scoville units. Excellent stuffed fresh ( ), and in stews and sauces. Dried in and powdered as . Used fresh either green or ripe red, or dried ripe. About 15cm/6” long, 5cm/2” across.

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

Used in Japan for moxibustion. Bitter flower buds improve digestibility of rich meat, poultry or fish dishes.

Propagated by small aerial-borne bulbils. It stimulates the stomach and the spleen and has been used to treat diabetes, asthma, diarrhea, and emotional instability. Reported to have survived zone 3 in Alberta.

A fun plant for containers, window boxes, and as a border plant in the scented garden. Ht. 45-60cm/18-24in. Light pink and mauve bicolored flowers. Strong orange-lemon scent is addictive.

The cone structure is round and small to medium in size, and cones have a moderate amount of golden yellow lupulin. It is a seedless triploid with a vigorous growth habit. The variety has some resistance to diseases and pests.

Also useful in herbal smoking mixtures designed for the relief of asthma and bronchitis. Flowers and leaves in combination with mordants yield yellow, gold, tan, grey and taupe dyes.

A keynote flavour in Jamaican cuisine. Quite unlike other thymes, this favourite of tropical America has large fleshy leaves.

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

Once thought to be exterminated by the Spaniards in their zeal to exorcise “demonic” practices, the plant and the rituals were found preserved in the mountains among the Mazatec Indians of Oaxaca, Mexico.

All parts of the plant are toxic with high amounts of cardioactive glycosides, and it should be handled with gloves. Deadheading will encourage rebloom, and restrain it from spreading its seed and popping up as a lovely but very unwelcome guest in pastures...

Leaves are very finely divided. Pine-scented with a hint of rose.

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

Showy bright blue flowers. Remedy for nervous complaints, headaches and palpitations of the heart. Leaflets are assembled in ladder form.

This is a Healing Arc selection from the Russian variety ´Chuskaya´. Children love them straight out of the freezer! Ripens late July to early August. Rapid grower, slightly earlier than other varieties.

Historically used as a dye plant, fresh red blooms can be used to create red or pink dyes, with good fastness. Hollyhock requires little more than well-drained soil and full sun, blending well with any colour scheme to create a visually arresting display.

The taproot can grow more than 50cm (20”) long and can be used to make horseradish sauce, or grated fresh to bring a sharp, sparkling flavour to coleslaws and dips. A source of vitamin C, it was once used to combat scurvy.

The oil distilled from the leaves is a powerful antiseptic, especially in the respiratory tract, killing pathogenic bacteria and reducing mucus secretion and congestion. A favourite tall tale in Australia is the “drop bear” – an invention of campers...

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

Berries are eaten raw, or in preserves and pies. Recommended for fevers and gout. Edible berries are borne inside fascinating orange chinese lantern-like calyces.

Produces crops in summer and fall. Another story has it that this is really the same as another well-known variety called 'Adriatic'. Either way, this is one wonderful fig. By one account this fig was brought to the U.S. by an Italian sailor who named...

When I was still in business, I sold a ton of it. In truth, it sold itself.” In Jim Westerfield's words: “All of our gourmet food customers invariably raved about the delicious aroma and flavor of this beautiful mint hybrid.

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