Herb Plug Trays Herbs For Sale In Raleigh

Does not attract cats despite its stronger, more pleasant scent. Excellent for massing, as ground cover or in rockeries. (Catmint) Smaller ornamental form of catnip with lavender-blue flowers and grey-white foliage.

To prepare Moroccan tea, green tea is first brewed, then boiled with sugar, and then fresh mint is added and the mixture allowed to steep for several minutes before serving. Much like black tea is in England and India, and green tea is in China, preparing...

Withstands heat and humidity better than most varieties, flowering throughout the summer. Excellent for landscape use, and in containers, and is even suitable for use as topiaries.

Needs cold period (5°C/40°F; 4-8 weeks) followed by warm (20°C/70°F) and exposure to light (do not bury seeds) for successful germination. Has a tranquilizing effect; useful for insomnia and other nervous conditions.

RICHTERS EXCLUSIVE CANADIAN INTRODUCTION. It's hard to play favourites with your babies, but for mint breeder Jim Westerfield, this one always held a special place in his heart. Try it in candies, cookies, cakes, salads, seafood...

An infusion of the herb is good for weak stomach, lack of appetite and persistent bronchitis. Horehound candies were once the standard remedy for coughs in Europe and North America.

Does well in full or half sun. Orange-peach flowers, 2.5cm/1in. The aromatic leaves are used as a seasoning in Mexico, and the edible nectar-filled flowers are excellent in salads, even adding to the ‘crunch'! Magnet for hummingbirds.

RICHTERS EXCLUSIVE CANADIAN INTRODUCTION. One of many unique creations from mint breeder extraordinaire, Jim Westerfield. One day I was given the job of stocking a small seasoning rack.

Excellent as pot plants. Very uniform growth habit. Attractive compact variety of English thyme.

Ht. 30-45 cm (12-18 in). It turned out to be one of his best releases, dishing out an abundance of raspberry-purple colour spring, summer and fall. Salvia collector Richard Dufresne discovered this growing in his sage garden.

Richters holds exclusive propagation rights in Canada. Nope, such a seasoning has simply NEVER existed.” RICHTERS EXCLUSIVE CANADIAN INTRODUCTION. It had a certain soft, sweet aroma, combined with, of all things, pink flowers! What's interesting is...

Slightly aromatic. Dries well for herbal wreaths. Similar to Silver King except foliage is more jagged and less ghostly silver grey and plants are shorter (90cm/30in).

Spicy like nutmeg geranium, but with a hint of apple .

An attractive houseplant that releases a pleasant odour when brushed against. Scent remini-scent of oregano, but it is not used in cooking. Fleshy small almost round leaves with small shallow rounded teeth on edges.

Hybrid between dark opal and camphor basils. The hint of camphor is a little off-putting t first, but the unusual flavour and odour definitely grows on you. Leaf veins, flower spikes and stems are purple while the rest is green.

Flowers cherry-red. Similar to common white yarrow.

The oil is an ingredient in chartreuse and perfumes. Its hint of citrus is tantalizing in fruit punches, teas and potpourris. (Eau de cologne mint; Bergamot mint) Treasured for its very special fragrance.

Ht. 45-60cm/18-24”. Excellent for bedding, edging and container use. Show-stopping pink and cerise flowers on intensely fragrant grey-green plants.

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

Will even climb if the branches have no other place to go! Excellent for hanging baskets and container plantings. The flowers can be so dense that it seems as though the plants are covered in blue snow.

Also for ceremonial smudging. Used by Amerindians for diarrhea; also for headaches, stomachache, menstrual problems. Lovely white ghost-like flowers; attractive silver foliage; excellent for dried arrangements.

Ht. 60cm/24”. ‘Snowcones Purple' has a compact, spreading or cascading growth habit and sends up flowering branches that look like skewered purple scoops of snow. Now with the Snowcones series of mints it is ready to take its place as an ornamental...

Trim it back after flowering to maintain its shape. A smaller version of the standard Curryplant, Miniature Curryplant is an aromatic herb with a compact bushy growth habit, reaching only 30cm/12" high.

Smaller leaves are more concentrated in flavour and a little will go a long way. True French sorrel, although garden sorrel is much more commonly used for sorrel soup.

As we suspected, most are pretty much the same as true peppermint, but one strain surprised us. A real treat for discriminating noses! Hard to pin down as truly 'chocolate', but its clean fragrance of peppermint is overlaid by something else that adds...

Like other sages, it helps to relieve anxiety and can be used to brew a relaxing tea. The plant forms dense clumps in the garden with bright scarlet flowers that appear in May or June and keep coming until the killing frosts in fall.