Herb Plants Vegetable Plants For Sale In Berkeley

In larger doses it acts as a nerve depressant, and is useful for asthma and whooping cough. Excessive doses can cause severe depression. (Indian tobacco) In small doses lobelia acts as a stimulant, especially on the respiratory system.

Its fresh leaves are essential in several sweet and sour Vietnamese dishes, including a delightful soup made with tamarind and cantaloupe. Bound to become a new culinary favourite among gourmands suffering from a tired palate, for it invites experimentation...

The striking, almost black fruits have a red flesh that has intense rich flavour! A-fig-cionados say that this variety is one of the very best. Produces crops in summer and fall. Named after a town in the Bordeaux region of France where this variety is...

Excellent pot plant with a robust, dense uniform habit. Delicate rose scent. Very attractive! Leaves are two-toned with variegations of green and lime-green.

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

Deceptively charming, purple foxglove is an extraordinarily potent herb. Deadheading will encourage rebloom, and restrain it from spreading its seed and popping up as a lovely but very unwelcome guest in pastures and hayfields.

Attracts bees, butterflies and hummingbird moths. Soapwort is easy to establish in the garden. (Bouncing bet) Native to eastern Europe, Soapwort is often found growing in the woods, on grassy slopes, and along wild riverbanks.

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

It is a reliable producer, yielding a good crop almost every year, even after a hard freeze. A cold-hardy, medium to large fruited variety, with reddish-brown skin and a reddish-pink flesh.

A most attractive English wildflower with bright yellow sweet-smelling, drooping blossoms in early spring. Tea made from any part of the plant was once a common remedy for pain and insomnia.

Has a very desirable clean aroma and flavour, with little of the bitterness found in other sage varieties. A superior selection for commercial field production. If you have turned your nose up to sage in the past, this cultivar may change your mind.

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

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

Until tender and bitter free. May be sauteed, or served heated, then chilled with oil and vinegar, or topped with a cream sauce and croutons. Start indoors two months before outdoor planting date.

Fresh leaves can be split and gel applied to treat minor burns, sunburn, wrinkles, insect bites, minor cuts, scratches, and skin irritations. The famous healing plant. The juice is also used internally for ulcers.

The whole herb is used to treat fever, enteritis, and pains, such rheumatic pain and the pain of bone fractures. In animal studies the extract of the herb was shown to reduce stomach acidity and increase the protective mucus lining of the stomach.

Produces bushels of tender, fleshy leaves all season, long after standard varieties turn tough and bitter. RICHTERS INTRODUCTION. Profusion is a registered trademark of Richters; all rights reserved.

This is the North American variety which lacks the carcinogen, cis-isoasarone, found in European varieties. (Sweet flag) Medicinally useful for flatulent colic, gastritis and dyspepsia.

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

The aroma is pleasantly floral with spice notes. Cones will shatter if picked too late. Alpha acid 4-5.5%. Kent Golding is the premium English aroma hops first developed in the 1790s from the old Canterbury Whitebine variety.

Pungent, resinous, nutty odour, possibly reminiscent of almonds. Very showy pink flowers.

The flavour and aroma is mild and pleasant, more like wild oregano. Ht. 25cm/10”. Very nice low growing hardy oregano for rockeries and pathways, and for low edging around other plants.

In moist, fertile soils its obliging vigour may lead it to spread easily. A favourite in container gardens, it may be happiest in hanging baskets, trailing straight down 1m (3 ft) or more.

Corsican mint is a low, carpet-forming mint with tiny leaves, almost moss-like in appearance, and soft to walk on. Sturdy enough to plant between flagstones or as a spreading groundcover in high-traffic areas, Corsican mint will quickly spread to create...

It is good for insomnia, colds, fever, and stomach problems. Delicious in tea, by itself or blended with other herbs, for everyday enjoyment. According to Native American lore it is also aphrodisiac, which may leave us a little less good sometimes!

Requires well-drained acidic soils, high in humic acids. Commands a higher price than other Hallertau hybrids. Alpha acid 3-5.5%. Traditional German noble aroma type with a subtle floral and spicy aroma and very low bittering value.

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