Herb Plants Vegetable Plants For Sale In Joliet

Best variety for potted plant and indoor growing. Profusion is a trademark of Richters; all rights reserved. A godsend to gourmands who love to sprinkle the visually appealing and tasty chives florets with abandon over everything where the leaves are...

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

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

Fire up the barbeque for summer entertaining magic with these grilling herbs! Make rosemary skewers for kebab. Try Lemon Thyme, Tarragon and Bronze Fennel on fish or Lemon Thyme on chicken and pork.

Named after a town in the Bordeaux region of France where this variety is said to have come from. 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.

Help the bees with these nectar-producing herbs in your garden.

(Rhodiola; Golden root)

In fact, glycyrrhizin (the sweet compound) is 50 times sweeter than sucrose! Licorice produces clusters of lupin-like flowers that will eventually develop into a medicinal fruit. It was also used in the middle ages to balance spicy foods and was even...

It is a striking specimen plant in semi-tropical zones where it survives outside year round. Its leaves when crushed emit a delightful lemon scent, popular in potpourris and perfumes, and to freshen the air indoors.

Roots can be eaten as a vegetable; shoots as a salad. Seeds are less prone to shatter before harvest. By supplementing the diet with GLA, one can bypass a blockage of prostaglandin E1 production caused by aging, poor diet, or alcoholism.

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

One of the very best varieties for taste and cold hardiness is Hardy Chicago. Years ago this variety was brought to Chicago by Sicilians from Mount Etna and ever since it has been grown the Chicago area by dedicated fig fans.

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

(Blue sage) Native of the Sierra Nevada and area north to Canada. Strongly aromatic. Used by the Montana Indians as a general tonic, to restore hair, and as a dermatological aid.

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

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

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

It is a cross between Northern Brewer and a German male hop. Moderate clean bittering qualities and clean spicy aroma used in a wide range of beers. A well rounded dual purpose hop, popular with craft and microbrewers.

Left unattended jasmine grow straggly and sparse; to make plants bushier, pinch out growing points, but only once during the growth spurt before flowering. Native to Persia, India and China, it is a vining plant that can grow to a height of 9m (30ft.)...

Ht. 90-180cm/3-6ft. It is used like marijuana by Hottentot tribesmen as the resinous tops and leaves have an euphoriant effect. (Lion's ear; Wild dagga) The botanical species name means ‘lion's ear' but the impressive orange flower spikes look more...

Hard as it is to imagine improving upon the wonder herb echinacea, here is a plant that does just that. Its majestic white flowers are large, with layered, overlapping, nearly horizontal petals and huge yellow cones.

One of the most heavily scented pinks, strikingly sweet and clove-like. Edible flowers are wonderful in many dishes where colour and its clove scent and flavour add a new twist.

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.

It is widely used in East Asia for food and medicine. The rhizomes are sedative and have been shown to have kavalactones like those responsible for the sedative properties of kava.

A fascinating onion-like medicinal herb for sunny windows. Known as the “pregnant onion”, for bulges develop on its sides where eventually baby bulbs burst through the skin. Juice of the leaves is claimed to be as effective as aloe vera in treating...

(Cat's whiskers)

Forms almost perfect globe-like balls when grown in baskets. Striking ornamental variety with a mild oregano flavour and aroma. Showy hop-like pink flowers similar to Kent Beauty but longer and more impressive.