Herb Plants Vegetable Plants For Sale In Ontario

Choice variety for everlastings. Leaves silver-white, flowers soft lemon-yellow, large. Up to 60cm/24in high.

Blooms in June and again August or September. Large violet-mauve flowers are good for scented use in potpourris and sachets. Nice variety for culinary use. American variety from Oregon with a strong heady aroma and excellent oil quality.

Works on pets too. Thick, fleshy, grey-green leaves are sliced lengthwise and placed cut side on the wart for 8-12 hours daily. Very easy to grow. (Plakkies) Excellent wart remedy, widely recommended even by medical doctors, in South Africa.

The aroma is familiar and woodsy with a cool citrus mint undertone. Golden Rains colours are certainly not vibrant at the expense of flavour. Prefers well-drained, compost lightened clay.

Beneficial for menstrual disorders, lack of appetite, rheumatism, stomach ailments, disorders of the muscles. Slow to germinate.

Male pollinator variety required to get good fruit set among the elite female varieties. Commercial growers need to plant about 10% of the orchard with male plants. Home gardeners need 1-3 males for every 5 female plants.

Produces best when cut continuously. Excellent, strong flavour and thick, dark green leaves. (Windowsill chives) Swiss strain developed for greenhouse forcing. Suitable for indoor culture; less susceptible to turn yellow or leggy.

Finely cut leaves resemble fern leaves.

Popular with eastern USA craft brewers for full-bodied ales. It is an English Canterbury Golding type crossed with OB21m and an American native variety. An older 1934 aromatic variety with a crisp, neutral aroma and high bittering qualities.

(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.

Often sold as true oregano in Mexico and southern U.S. where its fine oregano flavour is used to great advantage in chilis and other Mexican dishes. Properly pruned, it will grow into a miniature tree in a bright window or solarium.

Do not use without medical supervision. Externa applications lessen local inflammation and pain. Germination is difficult; usually slow and sporatic. Source of atropine, valuable in treating eye diseases and spasms.

The flavour is sweet and mild. It is a reliable producer, yielding a good crop almost every year, even after a hard freeze. A cold-hardy, medium to large fruited variety, with reddish-brown skin and a reddish-pink flesh.

(Ji xiang cao; Lucky grass)

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

Attractive narrow-leaf form with light purple flowers. Graceful branching habit densely covered with strongly scented leaves. Choice addition to any rosemary collection.

The Vienna Pharmacognostic Institute found that this plant has the same medicinal action as the European variety, . Easier to grow.

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.

Mexicans like to place a vase of fresh cut herb on the dinner table to ward off insects. Growth habit is similar to that of regular sweet basil, with a distinctive cinnamon taste and odour.

(Waterclover; Fern Clover; Sak)

(Brazil cress; Wolikpekpe)

The aroma is pleasantly mild yet hoppy with wood and fruit tones. Our variety is the American version known as Fuggle H, and it has higher oils and is more potent than the original.

Needs occasional pruning. Considered an excellent remedy for tapeworms since the time of the Greeks. Showy orange-red fuchsia-like flowers; miniature fruits. A red dye is produced from fruit skins and flowers.

Stevens built a business selling the root powder in Europe without revealing the origin of the medicine, and finally in 1972 German research identified the plant. Research in Europe is verifying what traditional medicine men of Lesotho and South Africa...

Soft downy woolly-grey leaves are soon overwhelmed by a shroud of white flowers -- so much so that you almost cannot see the leaves. (Jackpot tansy) Sensational variety from England.

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

Pungent bitter leaves used sparingly in stews, salads, sandwiches and vegetable juice. Two chewed will quickly relieve nervous headache. In early times judges relied on fresh sprigs of rue to repel fleas brought into court by prisoners.