Herb Plants Vegetable Plants For Sale In Kanata

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

Hot chile pepper with a fruity, almost mango-like flavour. This variety came to us from Sweden where chile enthusiasts apparently like their heat to come in fun shapes and flavours!

Root powder is valuable as a fixative in potpourris. 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.

Finely cut leaves resemble fern leaves.

Scent is a rather pleasant complex of fruit, eucalyptus and resin. Striking deep purple flowers.

Plant them as a border along pathways or in between stepping stones, or in an open patch where you like to sit and enjoy summer evenings. That research inspired us to put together this collection of our best low growing Lemon Thymes.

Shiny foliage and neat upright habit. Flowers appear May-July and later from September until frost. Large violet-pink flowers, nearly 3.5 cm (1.5 in) across, are set on dark maroon calices.

Good resistance to diseases and pests. It is a cross between Northern Brewer and a German male hop. Developed at the Hop Research Center in Bavaria and grown in America since the 1980s.

Excellent for juice, and for salsa, salads and as a garnish on hospitality plates. Like ´Citrus Gold´, the orange berries are large, weighing a gram when fresh, with a nice tinge of red at the tops.

Also used to regulate the upward flow of and to control vomiting. Tubers used in Chinese traditional medicine to combat conditions characterized by dampness and phlegm. Hardy aroid herb with light green tripartite leaves; 30cm/12” high.

(Sweet garlic; Pink agapanthus) A lovely variegated version of society garlic. Ht. 30-40cm/12-16”. The silver-edged leaves beautifully frame the large pink flowers that appear in summer.

Improves skin in facial treatments. Also in soups, casseroles, herb vinegars and cream cheeses. Nut-cucumber flavour of leaves is welcome in all salads with French dressing or mayonnaise.

Stunning effect of masses of mauve flowers set against gray-green leaves edged with creamy yellow margins. It casts quite a spell! Perfect for containers, as edging, and in rock gardens.

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

Also makes a nice easy-to-grow indoor foliage plant. The rhizomes and leaves are used in traditional medicine for high blood pressure, ulcers, fungal infections, flu and headache, and as a diuretic.

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

Outstanding lavender from France and a stiff challenger to Grosso, the current favourite on lavender farms. Gros Bleu is quickly becoming a standard in the Pacific Northwest where it is widely grown for fresh and dried bouquets, potpourris, and for landscape...

The flavour is strong and spicy, and its leaves can be used fresh or dried wherever oregano is used. Because true zaatar is now a protected plant in Israel, commercial zaatar blends often incorporate closely related plants such as this one instead.

Rhizomes spread to foster new growth. Blue cohosh is native to Eastern, Central and North American woodlands, where it is found growing with glossy green or purplish leaves, unremarkable flowers, and bright blue berries.

Light pink and mauve bicolored flowers. A fun plant for containers, window boxes, and as a border plant in the scented garden. Strong orange-lemon scent is addictive. Ht. 45-60cm/18-24in.

Large green-yellow figs with beautiful sweet purplish-red flesh. Produces crops in summer and fall. By one account this fig was brought to the U.S. by an Italian sailor who named it after his wife.

Berries are borne on large clusters that are easy to harvest. Medium-sized black-purple berries are sweeter than most varieties. (Elderberry) Variety released by the New York Agriculture Experiment Station in 1926 and is still widely grown by commercial...

Indians used it as a fumigant to combat illness and chewed the leaves for indigestion. Silver tufted mounds; very decorative. (Fringed sagebrush) Prairie native.

(Cat's whiskers)

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.

Large scarlet flowers. Pungent, woolly, grayish leaves.