Herb Plants Vegetable Plants For Sale In New Orleans

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

Seeds germinate more readily if wax is removed and seeds are exposed to 6 weeks of moist cold treatment. Berries produce blue dye and with various mordants, leaves produce yellow, gold and greyish-green dyes.

Edible berries are borne inside fascinating orange chinese lantern-like calyces. Berries are eaten raw, or in preserves and pies. Recommended for fevers and gout.

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

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

Wierd, but wonderful! Flowers all summer. Ht. 30-40cm/12-16”. (Sweet garlic; Pink agapanthus) A more civil version of garlic can hardly be imagined: its lavender-pink flowers are sweet-scented like hyacinths, and are showy, and you don't get bad breath...

The ancients and latter day fig-cognoscenti have known the hedonistic delight of fresh sun-ripened, honey-dripping figs, and know all too well the impatient wait for fig season to arrive in late summer.

(Cat's whiskers)

Widely used in soaps and in aromatherapy. This is the main commercial lavender grown in France. Has the best perfume of all the hybrid lavenders. The scent is light and flowery and has little of the camphor notes found in other lavandins.

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

Has a very desirable clean aroma and flavour, with little of the bitterness found in other sage varieties. Leaves are smaller and have a whiter appearance compared to standard garden sage.

In Jim Westerfield's words: “All of our gourmet food customers invariably raved about the delicious aroma and flavor of this beautiful mint hybrid. When I was still in business, I sold a ton of it.

In the Middle Ages, apothecaries sold the candied root as a soothing lozenge for asthma and indigestion. Today dried root preparations are used to quiet coughing, stimulate digestion, and soothe the stomach.

Pretty rock garden plant with masses of purple flowers appearing early in spring. Valuable in correcting membrane disorders of the respiratory and digestive passages. Slow to germinate.

Attractive dark green leaves and brilliant cerise flowers. Slight pungent scent.

(Nutmeg bush) Small aromatic South African bush with showy plumes of whitish flowers. Its musk-scented leaves are excellent in potpourris, adding an exotic, mysterious note to the mix.

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

Flowers remain edible much longer than other varieties because they do not develop seeds. A godsend to gourmands who love to sprinkle the visually appealing and tasty chives florets with abandon over everything where the leaves are used.

Rapid grower, slightly earlier than other varieties. Has the largest berries and produces the most juice. (Seaberry) Female cultivar from The Healing Arc. Large berries, weighing about a gram when fresh, are nice and tasty.

A beautiful dark oregano from the mountains of Tajikistan and Uzbekistan in Central Asia. The attractive dark look of the plant is due to reddish glands in the leaves. Ht. 40-80cm/16-32in

The fruits are medium-sized with a light brown or violet skin and a strawberry pink flesh. Cold tolerant, early ripening variety. Known as the "sugar fig", this is one of the best varieties for drying and for preserves.

Research at Guelph University in Ontario Canada showed that different varieties of Lemon Thymes worked quite well against mosquitoes. That research inspired us to put together this collection of our best low growing Lemon Thymes.

One of the few herbs that adds colour to shady areas. Glossy dark green evergreen leaves with pale yellow edges; violet blue flowers.

The blooms give a lovely, deep rose-purple colour to herbal teas. Its silky black-purple flowers set this plant apart: Beautiful wine-stained black blooms with paler star-shaped centers appear on towering spikes that can become 2.5m (8ft) tall.

Alpha acid 4-6% The variety has some resistance to diseases and pests. One of the most widely grown aroma hops of the English Fuggle type, for flavouring use. Introduced in 1967, it has a pleasant mild fruity aroma with hints of spice and earthy woods.

(Green Ischia fig) This green fig is a favourite among fig lovers. Fruits are medium to large and have a rich raspberry flesh with excellent flavour. Steven Biggs, author of , rates it "very delicious." It a mid-season "main crop" variety, as most of...