Herb Plants Vegetable Plants For Sale In Omaha

Although the heat is definitely there, the taste is not edgy or bitter like some other hot peppers. Hot chile pepper with a fruity, almost mango-like flavour. The indented yellow fruits, 10cm/4" long, vaguely suggest the faces of monkeys.

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

Good for picking, drying and baling. Alpha acid 4.5-7%. It is one of the most popular hops for craft brewing and is great for dry hopping. Released in 1972, it is a cross between Fuggle and the Russian hop, Serebrianka.

It grows well in pots and will bloom for months with showy bright pink or red flowers. It develops a large swollen trunk which adds to the exotic appeal of the plant. The root sap has cardiac glycosides that work like digitalis.

Its height makes it an effective screen plant to hide compost heaps or fences. Flowers and young leaves can be added to salads. Historically used as a dye plant, fresh red blooms can be used to create red or pink dyes, with good fastness.

Attractive tufted low growing herb with small, silvery fern-like leaves. Used for stomachache and in vermouth.

Not only is it beautiful, easy to grow, very hardy, and can be used to make home remedies, this echinacea cultivar is scented too. Hard as it is to imagine improving upon the wonder herb echinacea, here is a plant that does just that.

We combined it with garlic chives and fresh parmesan cheese. In Jim Westerfield's words: “We always served this neat hybrid in our gourmet restaurant as a side dish. And then to this was added lots of butter and maybe, just maybe a touch of fresh garlic.

Plants are highly uniform -- unusual for lavenders raised from seeds. Outstanding compact lavender for edging, mass plantings, rock gardens and patio planters. Flowers are long lasting.

(American mandrake) A derivative of this herb is medically proven against certain cancers. Used by the Amerindians to treat hepatitis, syphilis, fevers, constipation, etc.

Called "shell ginger" because the flowers appearing in the second year resemble sea shells. In the Philippines, the leaves are used for fevers, and the rhizomes are used to treat dyspepsia, flatulence, vomiting, diarrhea and malaria.

Praised for its brilliant deep blue and black flowers on 38cm/15” spikes appearing from early summer until frost. Ht. 1-1.3m/3.5-4.5ft. (Anise-scented sage; Guarani sage) This is the best of the sages for attracting hummingbirds.

The foliage with its wine-red veins encircled by an emerald-green border is a visual delight to the eye. Like a fine wine this is a basil with character that lingers. The leaves and overall size are smaller than standard sweet basil.

Purple fruits are large, the size of tangerines, and the flesh is dark and very sweet. An award-winning variety well suited for home gardens in cool and coastal areas. It was first discovered in Olympia, in Washington State.

A favourite in container gardens, it may be happiest in hanging baskets, trailing straight down 1m (3 ft) or more. Dried leaves may be used to make tea, thought to be an effective tonic for the bronchial, digestive and urinary systems.

Pinch to keep bushy. The strong aroma of mixed fruits makes this plant an ideal ingredient for potpourri and other fragrant concoctions. Its large velvety leaves and shocking pink flowers make it an attractive houseplant.

Very hardy, very adaptable. For food and medicinal use. Gaining a well-deserved reputation as a highly effective remedy for colds and flus. The shrub is incredibly versatile, growing happily everywhere from northern Quebec to sub-tropical America.

Good rose scent. Deeply cut grey-green leaves with narrow white border.

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

But an old French technique of applying vegetable oil (usually olive oil) with a toothpick to the small openings at the end of the immature fruits often spurs fruits to ripen without pollination.

(Ji xiang cao; Lucky grass)

For a tree, it is extremely fast growing, but can be kept as an annual bedding plant or as a container plant if it is pruned to keep its growth in check. It requires a sunny location.

Excellent pot plant with a robust, dense uniform habit. Delicate rose scent. Very attractive! Leaves are two-toned with variegations of green and lime-green.

In Indonesia, this herb is as highly regarded as ginseng, giving the whole body a strengthening boost. In Chinese medicine, the roots of a related species are used to treat general debility in the same way as ginseng.

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

Produces crops in summer and fall. Also known as 'Italian Honey'. Medium to large yellow-green fig with a very sweet and delicious light amber flesh.

"Bouncing bet" is an old Elizabethan term for laundry woman. Attractive pale pink flowers appear in dense clusters. Soapwort is easy to establish in the garden. Attracts bees, butterflies and hummingbird moths.