Herb Plants Vegetable Plants For Sale In Arkansas

(Bible leaf) The sweet-scented leaves may be used for tea or in herb pillows. Fresh leaves, picked before flowering, used in salads, sauces, soups and in cold drinks where a little goes a long way.

The scent and flavour is unmistakably lemon. Ht. 20-25cm/8-10in. Like green eyes lined with gold eyeliner, the gold-variegated elliptical leaves of this bushy lemon thyme add an elegant but watchful effect to the garden.

Important Chinese medicinal herb used to treat lack of appetite, gastritis, and depression. Prefers full or partial sun in wet soil or in water garden. Used in Thai cooking, and deserving of experimentation wherever a new flavour twist is desired.

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

The jet-black fruits are small but they are considered by many to be the best tasting fig available. Even when grown in pots, it is very productive. This is a super dwarf variety from Spain.

Sold in dried form in most Greek markets worldwide. In the wild, plants thrive on sunny, rocky, dry hillsides growing to 50cm/20” with attractive grey-woolly leaves. (Ironwort) Traditional tea consumed throughout Greece to treat the common cold.

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 in 1897.

(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...

Handsome tree bearing sweet, juicy berries that make fine conserves and wine. Rootbark decoction is a traditional remedy for tapeworms. Hardy in southwestern Ontario and B.C. coastal regions.

A delightful bushy plant with small bright green leaves having a strong peppermint aroma. A favourite in Jamaica for teas and to relieve indigestion.

(She-gan) Chinese medicinal. Attractive orange-yellow flowers with red-purple spots. Used for throat conditions, cough, wheezing, bronchitis and mumps.

Recently a traditional use of la lot in the treatment of inflammation received scientific validation when compounds in the leaves were found to have the ability to inhibit platelet aggregation, an essential step in reducing inflammation.

This is a very nice small dark purple fig from Italy. The figs are only about an inch in diameter but they are sweet and tasty, and they ripen in droves in autumn. One of the best figs for hardiness and drought tolerance.

Delicious fresh or dried, or for canning. This is a long-lived variety that does well in containers and tolerates heavy pruning. Flavour is very sweet, especially when the weather is hot.

It is perhaps not for everybody, but if you are growing this in your garden for all to see, it does help to have a healthy dose of humour. 10,000-23,000 Scoville units. (Penis pepper) An heirloom pepper that undeniably looks like an uncircumcised penis.

American prairie native used medicinally by Indians. Diuretic for kidney and bladder complaints, and for gonorrhea. There is evidence it may have immune- enhancing properties like echinacea (to which it is a common adulterant).

(Rhodiola; Golden root)

A favourite for moist, shady areas. Leaves yield green dyes. Pure white fragrant flowers. Strengthens and regulates the heart, but not to be used without medical supervision.

Bushes are large, vigorous, and upright, and the large fruit clusters make harvesting more efficient compared to other varieties. Harvests start 2-4 weeks later than the industry standard variety, ‘Adams II'.

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

Like ´Citrus Gold´, the orange berries are large, weighing a gram when fresh, with a nice tinge of red at the tops. Best kept pruned to 150cm/5ft high for easier harvesting. (Seaberry) A superior female cultivar from The Healing Arc.

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

Flowers bright red; very showy; pungent, crinkled leaves.

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

When they appear the beautiful porcelain-like flowers are also edible. Also makes a nice easy-to-grow indoor foliage plant. Try them in tea and in sweet desserts such as rice pudding.

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

Soapwort is well known to the Mahuna and Cherokee, who used it to make poultices and rinses for a variety of skin ailments, pain relief, and as a soap. Attracts bees, butterflies and hummingbird moths.