Herb Plug Trays Herbs For Sale In Chicago

(Brahmi; Thyme-leaved gratiola)

Richters hold exclusive propagation rights. This mint will make you laugh. Very attractive addition to any mint collection. The delicate flavour is suitable wherever mint is called for -- in tea blends and culinary dishes such as tabouleh.

Richters holds exclusive propagation rights in Canada. Here´s to you! A big bold lime-scented mint for your next margarita. And so it does, with perfectly shaped, groovy leaves, and a hint of dark bronze at the tips at times.

Avoid direct sunlight. (Pennywort) Small creeping tropical plant used for centuries in India. One or two freshly chopped leaves daily in salads or liquefied in juice are said to be sufficient to revitalize the cells of the brain and to retard the aging...

(Countess of Scarborough geranium) Small crisped leaves are pleasantly strawberry-scented. Tends to stay compact in size.

(American apple mint; Red mint) This mint is one of the back bones of the American mint oil industry. Has characteristic dark red or reddish purple stems and dark green leaves. Ht. 30-45cm/12-18”.

Hybrid between dark opal and camphor basils. Leaf veins, flower spikes and stems are purple while the rest is green. Devotees of this unusual variety are enamoured by its attractive purplish-blue cast, strong growth habit, and sweet camphor scent.

Use it like you would oregano -- or use it like marjoram! White flowers appear in summer. (Hardy marjoram) Strong spicy flavour, similar to sweet marjoram. Ht. 45-60cm/18-24in. Vulgare virens) and the mixed parentage makes it a wonderfully versatile herb...

They also make a wonderful pleasant tea, consumed hot or cold. The tangy enlarged leaf bases are essential in Thai and Vietnamese dishes. (West Indian lemongrass) Delightful lemon-scented grass cultivated throughout the tropics and subtropics and in greenhouses.

Has the same great garlic flavour as the previous form but features attractive mauve flowers.

Low mat-forming thyme splashed with either white or rose flowers in July. Perfect complement to woolly thyme.

(Lady's bedstraw) Tops and roots are sources of yellow and red dyes. Decoction is useful for bladder and kidney complaints, and has the ability to curdle milk (hence its other name, cheese rennet).

Small upright bushy habit; dark green leaves.

Scattered yellow edges on some leaves create an attractive foliage contrast.

Proven mosquito repellent. The most medicinally active variety. White flowers and feathery foliage.

This beguiling mint has a spearmint flavour with a strong grapefruit overtone. In the heat of summer, a sorbet flavoured with grapefruit mint is an unusual and refreshing treat. Keeping mint restrained in pots or bottomless buckets sunk in the ground...

Widely used in perfumes and soaps, and even to perfume India ink. One of the definitive perfumes of the Orient and of India in particular. Leaves are excellent in potpourris and sachets.

Ht. 30-45cm/12-18”. Flowers lavender-blue, bluer and earlier than most. Compact narrow green foliage.

Good substitute for black tea; infusion resembles the taste and is caffeine-free. Helps relieve headache, and has general tonic action.

Increasingly popular as accent and contrast plants because the green-grayish pointed lanced-shaped leaves and velvety purple flower spikes are very showy. Removing spent flowers or ‘deadheading' will promote more flowering and help keep plants more...

Ht. 25-60cm/10-24". As the flowers appear in midsummer the strong scent fills the air far and wide. A terrific new lavender from Holland with deep violet-blue flowers and a nice compact mounding growth habit.

Decorative plant with a refreshing aromatic scent. Helps digestion. Showy spikes of blue flowers. Essential oil used in perfumery. Slightly bitter leaves are finely chopped on salad, game meats, soups and stews.

Reaches 1-1.3m/40-50”, but can be grown in hanging baskets. There is nothing else like it in the world of herbs! Red flowers are edible, and they are favourite haunts of hummingbirds.

Gynura will climb if you let it but it is easy to keep it as a small bush in pots with regular pruning. (Leaves of the Gods; Mollucan spinach; Sambung nyawa; Daun dewa) Gynura is a traditional Asian herb used for diabetes.

Like other sages, it helps to relieve anxiety and can be used to brew a relaxing tea. This is actually a type of pineapple sage but the aroma is citrusy. The plant forms dense clumps in the garden with bright scarlet flowers that appear in May or June...

Sage tea gargle is valuable for sore throat. Grow in/outdoors in full sun. The main culinary varieties popular with onions for poultry stuffing and for flavouring rich meats like pork or duck.

A beautiful new creeping thyme that comes up smelling like roses! Forms dense mats that emit a scent very similar to the scent of rose geranium when stepped upon. RICHTERS EXCLUSIVE.