Herb Seeds Seeds For Sale In Brantford

Used by Amerindians as a purgative, emetic, and anti-inflammatory. Under study as a potential booster of the immune system. Showy American native with blue-violet flower spikes and majestic, upright growth habit.

Important medicinally for its calming effect. Seeds will yield a mixture of male and female plants. Well known flavouring for beer. Tall growing vine, ideal for covering antenna towers.

Papery daisy-like blossoms, over 100 to a plant, in shades of pink, rose, red, purple and white.

However it is a valuable medicinal. Because of the risk of toxicity, stramonium is prohibited for sale in Canada. Stramonium has a long and fascinating history in North America, including ceremonial use by Native Americans, and disastrous encounters by...

Fragrant golden yellow flowers are delightful in potpourris and as cutflowers. Old English favourite for cottage gardens.

Source of yellow, gold and khaki dyes. Boiled root decoction was once used to bathe irritated eyes. Good hedge plant; has vigorous habit and withstands heavy clipping. Hardy in southwestern Ontario and coastal B.C.

Excellent cutflower. Ht. 70-80cm/28-32. Impressive new series from Germany with abundant large flowers, 10-12cm/4-5 across. Good heat and drought tolerance. White petals with dark eye.Attracts butterflies.

Flavour and odour is pungent, not sweet like the true root-propagated strains. Useful for tea, for medicinal purposes. Variety commonly sold as peppermint or spearmint.

Formerly used as a cardiac stimulant like digitalis but is much stronger. Brilliant crimson and black flowers in June-July. According to Greek legends, this flower sprang from the blood of Adonis.

Flowers are 7cm/3” across with a chocolate brown centre. Roots contain medicinal constituents similar to those found in . Prairie native of the Missouri and Arkansas Ozark regions.

(Flue-cured Tobacco; Bright Tobacco) A leading commercial variety in Ontario. It was developed by crossing Canadian and American varieties to improve quality and disease resistance and to lower nicotine.

(Orpine stonecrop) Fleshy leaves boiled in milk are used to stimulate the kidneys. Also used for diarrhea, piles, hemorrhages, and has a reputation as an anti-cancer herb. The juice mixed with vegetable oil has been used to heal burns.

It has smaller leaves, and stronger flavour and aroma than garden sage (S. Studies confirm that it is effective for blood sugar, lowering without affecting insulin levels. (Lavender sage) In Spain this is the only sage used in cooking.

Also used for pain of the extremities, sciatic neuralgia, ezcema and itching. Can be toxic if improperly used. Chinese herb used traditionally to treat headache and to nasal congestion.

Tea stimulates the central nervous system, is diuretic and astringent, relaxes smooth muscles, and increases coronary flow. Young leaves are processed to make fermented, semi-fermented or green teas/beverages.

The sugary confection has been made from the root of the Marshmallow plant since ancient times! Today, no s'more is complete without one, and we think no garden should be either! A lovely, ornamental plant in addition to its medicinal and culinary properties,...

For fresh use as dillweed, or allowed to go to seed for dill pickles. Finely cut foliage. Anthocyanin-free, so it is greener than most dills. Has strong flavour and high oil content.

Also used as an antibiotic against candida. The fresh leaves are edible and are eaten like cress. (Spilanthes; Australian cress) Leaves have a mild numbing effect and are useful for toothaches.

Excellent for potplant production, reaching only 30-35cm (12-14”) high. ‘Medinette' is slow to bolt, especially in hot conditions, and because of this trait it is often preferred over Genovese varieties where the summers are hot or in hot greenhouses.

Tufts with large, bronze bracts. Splendid golden-yellow fl.

In fact, the more they are picked, the more they produce. Cooked like regular spinach. Unlike ordinary spinach, its spreading branches produce succulent leaves and stemtips of very fine flavour throughout the season, long after all other varieties finish.

This variety is heavy cropping, bearing white fruit all season long on runnerless plants. Berries are very sweet, with a faint pineapple tang, excellent for eating fresh out of hand, or for use in jams.

Looks like a cayenne pepper with long glossy scarlet pods 15-17cm/6-7" but the flavour is sweet and tart with undertones of strawberry and apples and no bitterness. Medium-hot at 5,000 Scoville units.