Herb Plants Vegetable Plants For Sale In Waco

Children love them straight out of the freezer! Ripens late July to early August. Large berries, weighing about a gram when fresh, are nice and tasty. Has the largest berries and produces the most juice.

The juice is also used internally for ulcers. Fresh leaves can be split and gel applied to treat minor burns, sunburn, wrinkles, insect bites, minor cuts, scratches, and skin irritations.

One of the best figs for hardiness and drought tolerance. This is a very nice small dark purple fig from Italy. The figs are only about an inch in diameter but they are sweet and tasty, and they ripen in droves in autumn.

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

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

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

Applied externally in the form of salves or rubs, it is considered one of the best remedies for wounds available to modern herbalists; however internal use is no longer recommended on account of a cardiac action.

It can usually be counted on producing crops in summer and in fall. This is an improvement over a well-known but mostly unreliable 'Brown Turkey' variety grown in North America. 'Vern's' is a reliable producer of large tasty sweet figs with a dark brown...

Flower spikes can be 10cm/4in long, on extra long stems making it an excellent choice for cutting. Compared to Grosso, its flowers are deeper purple, and the aroma is sweeter. Outstanding lavender from France and a stiff challenger to Grosso, the current...

Currently under evaluation in Michigan for commercial use. Yields are high, more than 2 tonnes per hectare; but yields can be hurt by mildew if not controlled. It is a cross between a tetraploid smooth cone variety and an open pollinated variety.

(Bible leaf) The sweet-scented leaves may be used for tea or in herb pillows. Fresh leaves, picked before flowering, used in salads, sauces, soups and in cold drinks where a little goes a long way.

Astringent action of root bark abates diarrhea and hemorrhages; and as a gargle, soothes sore throat. Berries produce blue dye and with various mordants, leaves produce yellow, gold and greyish-green dyes.

Slow to germinate. Grow in sunniest window or greenhouse and provide support of trellis. Used as table fruit and in sherbet, jam, and beverages. Unusual vine bearing spectacular star-like lavender flowers.

Used for throat conditions, cough, wheezing, bronchitis and mumps. (She-gan) Chinese medicinal. Attractive orange-yellow flowers with red-purple spots.

Foliage resembles that of the horsetail plant. Has tonic effects, improves kidney action, and relieves asthma. Makes a pleasant refreshing beverage tea, an excellent substitute for coffee or tea.

And then to this was added lots of butter and maybe, just maybe a touch of fresh garlic. This was combined with angel hair pasta. In Jim Westerfield's words: “We always served this neat hybrid in our gourmet restaurant as a side dish.

Excellent for juice, and for salsa, salads and as a garnish on hospitality plates. Like ´Citrus Gold´, the orange berries are large, weighing a gram when fresh, with a nice tinge of red at the tops.

Its trailing habit makes it ideal for hanging baskets. Refreshing mint scent. Large velvety leaves.

Fragrant white flowers and leaves are used in potpourri. The small dark green foliage can be pruned and shaped into living statues. Traditionally used in wedding bouquets, for corsages, and for flower arrangements.

Deserves experimentation! Curiously, they do not seem to use it much in cuisine, despite its superb flavour. Mexicans like to place a vase of fresh cut herb on the dinner table to ward off insects.

It is a triploid cross between ´Smoothcone´ and ´53-5-61M´ developed by the Riwaka Hop Research Centre in New Zealand and released in 1994. The flavour is very "European", and so this variety is used in lagers, pilseners, bitters, red ales, strong...

Start indoors two months before outdoor planting date. May be sauteed, or served heated, then chilled with oil and vinegar, or topped with a cream sauce and croutons. Until tender and bitter free.

Medicinally, the leaves and other parts of the plant are used for constipation, colic and diarrhea. Anyone who has had the good fortune to savour -- thin pancakes with a spicy curryleaf-drenched filling -- will know how wonderful this herb is.

(Spanish lavender) The standard form with narrow, grey downy leaves and dark violet flowers. Camphor-rosemary scent.

Its narrow silvery-grey leaves make a striking visual statement in the herb garden. It does not impart as much flavour to food as its scent would imply, but a few sprigs can be stuffed into the cavity of a roasting chicken for a change of pace from tarragon...

Ht. 60-150cm (2-5ft). When they appear the beautiful porcelain-like flowers are also edible. While it sometimes flowers and sets seeds in warm tropical conditions, the seeds are not edible like true cardamom.