Herb Plants Vegetable Plants For Sale In Oxnard

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

Bitter flower buds improve digestibility of rich meat, poultry or fish dishes. Used in Japan for moxibustion.

About 15cm/6” long, 5cm/2” across. Excellent stuffed fresh ( ), and in stews and sauces. Heat: 500-2,500 Scoville units. Dried in and powdered as . Used fresh either green or ripe red, or dried ripe.

A most attractive English wildflower with bright yellow sweet-smelling, drooping blossoms in early spring. Tea made from any part of the plant was once a common remedy for pain and insomnia.

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

A fascinating onion-like medicinal herb for sunny windows. Juice of the leaves is claimed to be as effective as aloe vera in treating cuts and sores. Known as the “pregnant onion”, for bulges develop on its sides where eventually baby bulbs burst...

This is not Origanum syriacum, the plant usually called "Syrian oregano." That other "Syrian oregano" is better known as "true zaatar." We think this version is one of several wild Middle Eastern plants used to make the traditional zaatar spice blends...

(Lion's ear; Wild dagga) The botanical species name means ‘lion's ear' but the impressive orange flower spikes look more like a lion's tail than an ear! It is a tall native of southern Africa where it is used for epilepsy, headache, hypertension, and...

Excellent for sorrel soup. Profusion is a major improvement over standard varieties because it does not flower or go to seed at all. Profusion is a registered trademark of Richters; all rights reserved.

(Yin-chai-hu) Attractive light pink sprays of flowers. Used in cases of yin deficiency, especially in cases involving chronic low grade fever. Root is used in Chinese medicine for jaundice, lung disease, rheumatism and typhoid fever.

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

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

An apt name, as the odour of the fleshy leaves closely resembles that of the chest cold remedy, and can be used for that purpose. Easy houseplant.

Kent Golding is the premium English aroma hops first developed in the 1790s from the old Canterbury Whitebine variety. The aroma is pleasantly floral with spice notes. Alpha acid 4-5.5%.

(Needle stonecrop; Fo jia cao) Attractive low carpeting succulent from East Asia where it grows on grassy slopes. The juice of the leaves is used to stop bleeding. Excellent drought tolerant groundcover for the garden.

Orange-scented. Compact, showy plant.

Roots are typically harvested 3-5 years after seeding to use for medicinal purposes. Ht 5-8ft (150-240cm); Spread 2-4ft (60-120cm). Roots have estrogenic, hypoglycemic, sedative and anti-flammatory properties; used by Native Americans to relieve rheumatoid...

(Japanese burdock) Japanese vegetable with powerful medicinal properties. Peel, slice, and cook 30 minutes, drain and cook again for 10 minutes. Commonly used as a blood purifier. Slender, smooth-skinned roots up to 1m/40” long have a delightful oyster-like...

(Eleuthero ginseng; Ci wu jia) Species used by Russian cosmonauts and athletes to improve endurance. Its action differs from that of true ginseng as it does not cause insomnia in large doses.

The preferred type for farming use. More rust-resistant. Recommended as fodder, especially for pigs and poultry. Highest concentration of protein. See Russian Comfrey Bocking No. 14 also.

(Krishna tulsi) The true sacred basil grown in houses, gardens and near temples all over India. Attractive purple leaf form of sacred basil. Note that much of what is sold as ‘sacred' or ‘holy' basil is actually spice basil listed separately.

(Rau ngo) A refugee of war, this remarkable little herb came to North America with the thousands who fled Vietnam in the 1970s. Its fresh leaves are essential in several sweet and sour Vietnamese dishes, including a delightful soup made with tamarind...

Fire up the barbeque for summer entertaining magic with these grilling herbs! Make rosemary skewers for kebab. Tip: slit meats and stuff with oregano, mint and thyme before grilling.

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

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