Herb Plants Vegetable Plants For Sale In Fort Collins

Home gardeners need 1-3 males for every 5 female plants. Commercial growers need to plant about 10% of the orchard with male plants. Male pollinator variety required to get good fruit set among the elite female varieties.

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

The foliage with its wine-red veins encircled by an emerald-green border is a visual delight to the eye. Its growth habit is compact but not densely so like bush basil. The leaves and overall size are smaller than standard sweet basil.

Since this is a hybrid, it will not produce fruit or seeds. It prefers full sunlight but can tolerate a little shade per day. A hybrid vine that continues to produce beautiful intricate white, pink and purple flowers all year round! Not to be confused...

Sauteed zucchini or mushrooms with fresh nepitella, tomatoes, and garlic is served with roast or boiled meat dishes. (Lesser calamint) A regional favourite in Tuscany where it is added to mushroom dishes and green vegetables for its distinctive minty...

Adds a spicy, sweet fruity character to beers. Alpha acid 5-7.9%. Developed in Corvallis, Oregon, in 1997 from a cross of a diploid Tettnanger clone and a tetraploid Hallertauer. A terrific all-purpose triploid seedless aroma hop similar to the German...

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

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. In Jim Westerfield's words: “We always served this neat hybrid in our gourmet restaurant as a side...

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.

Showy rose-lavender flowers. Faint ginger scent.

New research indicates it has potent anticancer properties. Decoction is useful for stomach pains and inflammation of the bilary duct. Latex juice mixed with vinegar is said to remove warts and corns.

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

This is the hardy native form grown from seeds collected in southern Ontario. The shrub is incredibly versatile, growing happily everywhere from northern Quebec to sub-tropical America.

The root portion also has potential as a contraceptive on account of its estrogenic properties. Rhizomes spread to foster new growth. Height 12-24in (30-60cm); Spread 6-12in (15-30cm).

A hardy alpine perennial, it enjoys a cool climate and good drainage in acid soil, making it well suited to rock gardens and raised beds. Applied externally in the form of salves or rubs, it is considered one of the best remedies for wounds available...

Native to Peru, heliotrope prefers a rich, well-drained soil in full sun. Grieve in (1931); however, the plant contains potent alkaloids that render it difficult to use safely. They were probably charmed by its habit of always turning to face the sun;...

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

Neat, compact growth habit. Variegated, deeply cut leaves with a strong rose-mint scent.

Its dark-blue almost black fruit, with peach-coloured flesh, is very sweet. It is cold-resistant and it is an early main-crop fig. A good choice for northern gardens according to Steven Biggs, author of .

Climbing vine with white flowers. 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.

It was first discovered in Olympia, in Washington State. An award-winning variety well suited for home gardens in cool and coastal areas. It produces its first abundant crop at an early age.

Used for headaches and other aches and pains, inflammations and acute rheumatism. Wintergreen-scented woodland shrub, only 15 cm/6 high. Common flavouring for chewing gum, toothpaste, mouthwash.

Properly pruned, it will grow into a miniature tree in a bright window or solarium. Often sold as true oregano in Mexico and southern U.S. where its fine oregano flavour is used to great advantage in chilis and other Mexican dishes.

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

The jet-black fruits are small but they are considered by many to be the best tasting fig available. This is a super dwarf variety from Spain. It is very hardy and often produces two crops in a season.

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

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