Herb Plants Vegetable Plants For Sale In Charlotte

Its strong flavour and aroma make it an excellent seasoning for meat dishes, stuffings and salad dressings. A cute little English thyme that grows into beautiful dense mounds. Ht. 20-25cm/8-10in.

Excellent between paving stones in pathways, along borders and in rock gardens. Low mat-forming lemon-scented variety with delicate dark green leaves edged with cream.

Prefers full sun and sandy, well-drained soil. Silver is more prominent in summer and changes to a pinkish tinge in winter. (Sweet garlic; Pink agapanthus) A lovely variegated version of society garlic.

Pale lilac flowers give a lovely show in mid and late summer, and attract butterflies. It is more of a "mounder", forming bushy mounds of tightly knit dark green leaves that are edged with creamy-white.

Makes a pleasant refreshing beverage tea, an excellent substitute for coffee or tea. Foliage resembles that of the horsetail plant. Contains traces of ephedrine, a nerve stimulant resembling adrenaline.

The aroma is mild and almost perfume-like in a way, and the flavour is earthy and mild. The attractive dark look of the plant is due to reddish glands in the leaves. A beautiful dark oregano from the mountains of Tajikistan and Uzbekistan in Central Asia.

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

Where it is perennial, Dittany of Crete needs good drainage and protection from harsh, wet winters. The hairy, silvery-grey leaves can be used in salads and sauces. (Hop marjoram) Dittany of Crete is an attractive plant, bearing scented leaves and lovely...

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

Alternatively, beef rolls made with ground beef and pork are wrapped in la lot leaves, then fried and served with rice. Excellent house plant. (Lolot pepper) Vietnamese herb related to black pepper.

Silver dollar eucalyptus prefers well-drained, fertile soil and regular watering; it will droop noticeably if it begins to dry out. Pruning keeps the juvenile foliage coming -- the iconic round leaves preferred by florists.

The Tujia people of central China use the herb for hepatitis, dysentery, herpes zoster, and swelling. The juice of the leaves is used to stop bleeding. (Needle stonecrop; Fo jia cao) Attractive low carpeting succulent from East Asia where it grows on...

Either way, this is one wonderful fig. Another story has it that this is really the same as another well-known variety called 'Adriatic'. Large green-yellow figs with beautiful sweet purplish-red flesh.

Outstanding lemon-scented variety with dark green, sharply lobed leaves and showy flowers.

Has the same insect-repelling properties as other tansies. (Jackpot tansy) Sensational variety from England. Soft downy woolly-grey leaves are soon overwhelmed by a shroud of white flowers -- so much so that you almost cannot see the leaves.

The leaves and overall size are smaller than standard sweet 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.

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

Small dark leaves; compact somewhat trailing habit. Self-sows readily. Ideal for hanging baskets.

May be sauteed, or served heated, then chilled with oil and vinegar, or topped with a cream sauce and croutons. Until tender and bitter free. Mediterranean delicacy grown for its succulent leaf stalks.

Fine houseplant like Ficus benjamina. (Pipal) Sacred tree of Hindus and Buddhists; Buddha meditated non-stop for 7 years under a bo-tree until he reached liberation. Has anti-bacterial properties.

Delicious fresh, dried or canned. The large purplish-black fruits have a strawberry-red flesh. A favourite among fig lovers, this variety was originally from the Spanish missions of California.

Plant with strong menthol scent. Fine houseplant with attractive, almost circular, wavy-edged, fleshy leaves.

Can be kept pruned to 150cm/5ft high for easier harvesting. Rapid grower, slightly earlier than other varieties. Large berries, weighing about a gram when fresh, are nice and tasty.

Excellent for eating fresh off the tree as well. Fruits are bigger and more numerous than those of Celeste. One of the best varieties for drying and for preserves. Often confused with O'Rourke, another variation on Celeste that was officially released...

Powdered roots were used in a poultice by early settlers to treat cancerous ulcers. (Pokeweed) Pleasant early spring potherb tasting like asparagus. Young unfolded leaves (older leaves are poisonous) are boiled.

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

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