Herb Plants Vegetable Plants For Sale In Worcester

All parts of the plant are toxic with high amounts of cardioactive glycosides, and it should be handled with gloves. It is hard to overrate the attractiveness of this plant in the cottage garden, where it attracts butterflies and hummingbirds, blooming...

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

Outstanding lavender from France and a stiff challenger to Grosso, the current favourite on lavender farms. Gros Bleu is quickly becoming a standard in the Pacific Northwest where it is widely grown for fresh and dried bouquets, potpourris, and for landscape...

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

(Cat's whiskers)

It likes it a little hotter than other varieties, so grow this in a warm spot protected from the cold wind. Originally from Sicily, this super delicious lemon yellow fig with sweet, tender, dark amber flesh, is truly amazing.

Attractive tufted low growing herb with small, silvery fern-like leaves. Used for stomachache and in vermouth.

Oil added to a spray bottle of water or to a humidifier can be used to disinfect the air. Easily grown from seed, with germination in 10-20 days. This is the first eucalyptus species to be exploited commercially for its oil, which has a strong peppermint...

(Dollar leaf gum) Shaped like silver dollars, and about the same size too, the leaves and stimulating fresh scent make the species a popular item in fresh or dried floral arrangements.

Striking plant with trailing stems, grey foliage, deep burgundy-black flowers. The root is used for the treatment of acute and chronic infections of the throat, nose and ear cavities, for sinusitis, acute and chronic bronchitis, and tuberculosis.

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

Pungent, resinous, nutty odour, possibly reminiscent of almonds. Very showy pink flowers.

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

This cultivar is also known (incorrectly) as ´Golden King´. Lovely gold-dappled pillow-like mats of sweet lemon-scented foliage covered in purple-pink flowers in June and July. Ht. 25-30cm/10-12in.

One of the most widely grown aroma hops of the English Fuggle type, for flavouring use. The variety has some resistance to diseases and pests. It is a seedless triploid with a vigorous growth habit.

(Adefetue) Collected in Ghana where it is known as adefetue among the Ewes. Similar to East Indian basil (#1282), but scent and flavour is closer to thyme. Popular general tonic and remedy for diarrhea, and used to repel insects.

(Rau ngo) A refugee of war, this remarkable little herb came to North America with the thousands who fled Vietnam in the 1970s. The scent and flavour of rau om have a beguiling floral character that is entirely unique among herbs.

(Penis pepper) An heirloom pepper that undeniably looks like an uncircumcised penis. This unusual chile is actually quite edible and hot. 10,000-23,000 Scoville units. It is perhaps not for everybody, but if you are growing this in your garden for all...

But perception can vary, perhaps dependent on your mood. The scent is a swirl of different notes but marshmallow always seems to rise to the top. But whatever your nose makes of this mint, you will likely find yourself reminiscing of the past, of happy...

(Dyer's chamomile) Fine border plant; profusion of yellow daisies in August. Yields excellent yellow or gold dyes for fabrics.

A truly eye-catching plant, one of the few types of speedwell grown for its leaves as well as its flowers. Folk medicine tradition indicates it has astringent properties. It is drought tolerant and prefers a well-drained situation, making it a good choice...

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

Eastern North American native found in swampy areas and along streams. Excellent remedy for colds and intermittent fever, especially for flu. Caution: contains pyrrolizidine alkaloids; not recommended for long term use.

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

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

(Plakkies) Excellent wart remedy, widely recommended even by medical doctors, in South Africa. Succulent shrub with showy coral flowers on a stem up to 60 cm/2 ft. Thick, fleshy, grey-green leaves are sliced lengthwise and placed cut side on the wart...

(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. Delicious in tea, by itself or blended with other herbs, for everyday enjoyment.