Herb Plants Vegetable Plants For Sale In Kelowna

People wear corsages or crowns made with flowers strung together, and wear perfumes made from the distilled oil. Requires moist soil and full or part sun. It is used in religious offerings, to adorn altars, and to make welcome garlands for guests.

It is also known as “Bugbane” because it repels insects. Roots are typically harvested 3-5 years after seeding to use for medicinal purposes. Today it gains most of its popularity through its role in relieving menopausal symptoms such as hot flashes...

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

Can be chopped and added in salads, or parboiled, steamed, sauteed or added to soups. Young leaves and tender stems have a slightly sour taste. (Leaf ginseng; Surinam spinach) Attractive edible houseplant with glossy, dark-green whorled leaves and tiny...

Native to Persia, India and China, it is a vining plant that can grow to a height of 9m (30ft.) In pots it can be kept bushy by pruning, or alternatively the vining stems can be wound around wreath or topiary forms to create attractive displays.

Known as the "sugar fig", this is one of the best varieties for drying and for preserves. It is a compact plant that does well in containers and where space is limited. The fruits are medium-sized with a light brown or violet skin and a strawberry pink...

Deserves experimentation! Mexicans like to place a vase of fresh cut herb on the dinner table to ward off insects. Curiously, they do not seem to use it much in cuisine, despite its superb flavour.

Good remedy for coughs, hoarseness and bronchitis. Striking yellow flower stalks rise from a woolly leaf base in the second year. All plant parts can be used to produce yellow, bronze and grey dyes.

Stratification at 5°C/40°F for 4-12 weeks or gibberrelic acid pre-treatment is reported to speed germination. Do not use without medical supervision. Germination is difficult; usually slow and sporatic.

(Acanth spinach)

Finely cut leaves. (Dr. Livingston geranium) Lemon-rose scent.

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.

Try them in tea and in sweet desserts such as rice pudding. However the strongly scented glossy leaves are edible and can be used like a wrap to flavour food. When they appear the beautiful porcelain-like flowers are also edible.

Curryleaf requires a minimum temperature of 15-18C, sun or partial shade, and moist, rich soil. (Mitha-neem) The fresh curryleaf provides distinctive flavour of South Indian and Sri Lankan cooking.

Source of Japanese menthol, used to flavour candies, drinks, etc. Strong flavour. Important medicinal uses, both internally and externally.

One of our most beautiful woodland wildflowers. Important dyeplant: roots yield red-orange colour for dyeing wool. Conspicuous white flowers, 5cm/2” across, appear in early spring.

Fresh leaves, picked before flowering, used in salads, sauces, soups and in cold drinks where a little goes a long way. (Bible leaf) The sweet-scented leaves may be used for tea or in herb pillows.

Developed at the Hop Research Center in Bavaria and grown in America since the 1980s. 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.

Formerly used for treating running sores and urinary and liver ailments. Long-time garden favourite with exotic drooping flowers in various shades of red, blue, yellow and white. Has narcotic properties; not to be used without medical supervision.

Germination takes 1-2 years. Its action differs from that of true ginseng as it does not cause insomnia in large doses. Very hardy shrub; requires part shade. Possesses powerful tonic and restorative properties and was found to relieve the effects of...

Likes damp, acidic soil. (Bearberry; Kinnikinnik) Used for kidney and bladder infections on account of its diuretic and antiseptic properties. Attractive glossy green leaves and pink bell-shaped flowers.

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

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

Lovely house plant. Spicy leaves can be used in cooking like bay leaf. Essential oil is used for fragrance. Fragrant white flowers and leaves are used in potpourri. Classic evergreen shrub from the Mediterranean.

Blooming with pretty little lavender flowers, it is native to Europe and has naturalized to North America. Easy to please, variegated ground ivy loves to fill in those spots under trees or hedges where other plants fail to thrive, overcoming poor soils...