Herb Plants Vegetable Plants For Sale In Syracuse

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.

(Waterclover; Fern Clover; Sak)

If you have turned your nose up to sage in the past, this cultivar may change your mind. Has a very desirable clean aroma and flavour, with little of the bitterness found in other sage varieties.

(Japanese burdock) Japanese vegetable with powerful medicinal properties. Japanese research shows that this variety has potent anti-tumour effects. Season with butter, salt and herbs and serve.

Attractive creeper. Pleasant scent, though not convincingly of coconut.

(Squaw vine; Checkerberry) Attractive low growing evergreen herb common in forests throughout eastern North America. Tea used as a wash for sore nipples. Tea taken in the last few weeks of pregnancy promotes easier childbirth, according to native American...

It has been widely used throughout history; the troops of Alexander the Great used it for stamina, as it has mild adaptogenic properties. It was also used in the middle ages to balance spicy foods and was even used by the Egyptians as a drink flavouring.

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

Traditional German noble aroma type with a subtle floral and spicy aroma and very low bittering value. Called for in many classic beer recipes and in premium beers. Requires well-drained acidic soils, high in humic acids.

(Jupiter's Beard) Fragrant red flowers. Not to be confused with the true medicinal valerian. Young leaves eaten in salads or as cooked greens; roots used in soups.

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

Grows in silver clumps. (Old woman) East Coast native, where it grows on sand dunes.

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...

Compact, showy plant. Orange-scented.

(Indian mint) Trailing mint-scented plant; excellent in hanging baskets, windowboxes and as a fragrant ground cover. Yerba buena is Spanish for ‘good herb', and so it is. It is good for insomnia, colds, fever, and stomach problems.

(Friar's hat; Joker's hat) Originally from Barbados where they are known as "peri peri". Heat 10,000-30,000 Scoville units. Great chile for salads, for stuffing, pickles and salsa.

Not considered suitable for commercial oil production. (Dutch lavender; Lavandin) Vigorous, long-stemmed variety in cultivation since the 1950s and still widely grown for fresh bouquets, lavender wands, and potpourri.

(Plectranthus; Spurflower)

Fascinating succulent used to make arrow poison in Africa. It grows well in pots and will bloom for months with showy bright pink or red flowers. The latex is applied to decaying teeth and infected wounds.

Said to have been grown by Thomas Jefferson in his garden at Monticello. A low-care plant, it is hardy across a wide range of zones, and self-seeds to come back year after year. Lends a high-drama effect to any mixed sunny border.

Fine houseplant with attractive, almost circular, wavy-edged, fleshy leaves. Plant with strong menthol scent.

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

(Tarahumara indian sage) Leaves and seeds are used medicinally by the Tarahumara Indians of Mexico. Thought to contain the same psychotropic compound found in diviners sage ( ). Foliage is pleasantly aromatic but it is the lavender flowers that possess...

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

(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.

Forms nice dense mats with slightly hairy leaves that are soft to the touch. Discernable mint scent with a citrus overtone. Excellent ground cover.