Herb Plants Vegetable Plants For Sale In Saskatoon

Appropriate for xeriscaping, curryplant grows best in full sun and sandy or loamy soil in a well-drained location. Its narrow silvery-grey leaves make a striking visual statement in the herb garden.

Developed at Folgate Nursery in England before 1924. Neat compact variety with dark mauve, mildly scented flowers on long spikes. Ht. 60cm/24”. Well suited for gardens and borders, and for cutting and drying.

Produces nearly white flowers with traces of blue or purple. Dried powdered rhizome is the major source of orris, used in perfumery and potpourris.

Low creeping herb with pale blue flowers. Infusion is useful for coughs and catarrh. As a lotion it is effective on skin eruptions and slow-healing wounds.

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

Ht. 25cm/10”. Very nice low growing hardy oregano for rockeries and pathways, and for low edging around other plants. The flavour and aroma is mild and pleasant, more like wild oregano.

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

Low mat-forming lemon-scented variety with delicate dark green leaves edged with cream. Excellent between paving stones in pathways, along borders and in rock gardens.

Widely used in soaps and in aromatherapy. The oil yield lower than other lavandins but the quality is much higher. The scent is light and flowery and has little of the camphor notes found in other lavandins.

Folk medicine tradition indicates it has astringent properties. The blue flowers are attractive to certain species of butterfly, and once it begins blooming in the summer deadheading will extend the flowering throughout the season.

Seeds can sometimes be difficult to germinate, and some growers find propagation by division is easiest. Foliage is aromatic. Now a protected herb in Germany due to overcollection of plants in the wild.

Important dyeplant: roots yield red-orange colour for dyeing wool. One of our most beautiful woodland wildflowers. Indians dyed their bodies and clothes with bloodroot. Conspicuous white flowers, 5cm/2” across, appear in early spring.

Until tender and bitter free. Start indoors two months before outdoor planting date. Blanched hearts are cut into sections and parboiled for 90 min. May be sauteed, or served heated, then chilled with oil and vinegar, or topped with a cream sauce and...

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

Makes a great winter holiday living centerpiece. Its small needle-like evergreen leaves and strong pine scent is reminiscent of a miniature Christmas tree. Pine rosemary has feather-thin, silver yellow-green needles and a bowed upright growth habit.

Good versatile all-purpose hop with high oils. An older 1934 aromatic variety with a crisp, neutral aroma and high bittering qualities. Popular with eastern USA craft brewers for full-bodied ales.

Heat 10,000-30,000 Scoville units. Great chile for salads, for stuffing, pickles and salsa. Famous for its gorgeous flavour: sweet and tangy, and fruity, with the heat building slowly and never getting unpleasant.

Berries produce blue dye and with various mordants, leaves produce yellow, gold and greyish-green dyes. Berries are boiled in water, liberating the wax which floats on top. Wax-covered berries are used to make aromatic candles and soap.

Easy to grow in any pot or decorative container. (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.

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

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

There is evidence it may have immune- enhancing properties like echinacea (to which it is a common adulterant). American prairie native used medicinally by Indians. Diuretic for kidney and bladder complaints, and for gonorrhea.

Stunning effect of masses of mauve flowers set against gray-green leaves edged with creamy yellow margins. It casts quite a spell! Perfect for containers, as edging, and in rock gardens.

The first harvest (the "breba" crop) in summer is heavy, followed by a lighter second crop in fall. The first crop does not need the wasp for ripening but the second crop does. Why this works we do not know but some fig growers swear by it.

Highly decorative form of fennel with bronze-red, lacy foliage. Leaves can be used like green fennel.

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