Herb Plants Vegetable Plants For Sale In Prince Edward Island

Blooming flower heads and leafy shoots produce yellow and green fabric dyes. Pretty yellow button flowers were once used by the Indians to induce abortion. Repels cockroaches as well.

Outstanding prolific, heavy bearing variety that often will produce two crops a season. The fruits are small to medium in size and the flesh is a luscious red colour and very sweet.

Ht. 30-40cm/12-16”. (Sweet garlic; Pink agapanthus) A lovely variegated version of society garlic. Prefers full sun and sandy, well-drained soil. Silver is more prominent in summer and changes to a pinkish tinge in winter.

Flowers are white tinged with a touch of purple. 'Julia's Sweet Citrus' has bright green leaves, roundish and slightly crinkly. Suited for any sunny garden, and makes a great hanging basket plant as it trails over and downward.

Oak leaf-shaped leaves., purple veins. Prostrate habit; fine for hanging baskets.

Ht. 30-150cm/1-5ft. Eastern North American native found in swampy areas and along streams. Caution: contains pyrrolizidine alkaloids; not recommended for long term use. Medical evidence suggests that it enhances the immune system.

Self-sows readily. Ideal for hanging baskets. Small dark leaves; compact somewhat trailing habit.

Striking small tree with soft, feathery grey-white leaves. Mediterranean favourite for its bitter stomachic properties.

Research in Europe is verifying what traditional medicine men of Lesotho and South Africa have long known about this herb, and what Englishman, Charles Henry Stevens claimed cured his tuberculosis back in 1897.

Currently under evaluation in Michigan for commercial use. A late maturing triploid super alpha variety from New Zealand. Yields are high, more than 2 tonnes per hectare; but yields can be hurt by mildew if not controlled.

Cardiotonic; lowers blood pressure and blood sugar; improves circulation. (Chinese milkvetch; Huang qi) One of the most important Chinese medicinal herbs, especially for its immune enhancing properties.

By supplementing the diet with GLA, one can bypass a blockage of prostaglandin E1 production caused by aging, poor diet, or alcoholism. Roots can be eaten as a vegetable; shoots as a salad.

(Cat's whiskers)

Outstanding lemon-scented variety with dark green, sharply lobed leaves and showy flowers.

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

The oil yield lower than other lavandins but the quality is much higher. This is the main commercial lavender grown in France. The scent is light and flowery and has little of the camphor notes found in other lavandins.

Its growth habit is compact but not densely so like bush basil. Like a fine wine this is a basil with character that lingers. The leaves and overall size are smaller than standard sweet basil.

Tea made from the roots was used for menstrual problems, to induce labour, for menopause, and as an aphrodisiac. Woodland perennial, 15-40cm/6-16” high, with deep red flowers in spring.

This is the perfect herb, cutflower and garden plant all in one! Ht. 75cm/30”. Hard as it is to imagine improving upon the wonder herb echinacea, here is a plant that does just that.

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

Strong scent, possibly of apricots. Lovely deep rose flowers; dark glossy leaves.

Outstanding lavender from France and a stiff challenger to Grosso, the current favourite on lavender farms. Flower spikes can be 10cm/4in long, on extra long stems making it an excellent choice for cutting.

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. Good remedy for coughs, hoarseness and bronchitis.

Outstanding ornamental artemisia in dense mounds of lacy silver foliage. Ht. up to 90cm/36” Probable hybrid between and .