Herb Seeds Seeds For Sale In Carrollton

Has higher total saponins, including the various forms of ephedrine. It is taller and woodier than . (Chinese ephedra) In Chinese medicine this species is considered equivalent to and is used for the same purposes.

Has highest oil content. Traditionally used in ryebread, buns and cakes, as well as in soups and stews. Anti-flatulent. Produces seeds the second year. COMMON biennial strain. Fresh leaves, used as a garnish, add flavour to vegetables.

Once common from Florida to the Great Lakes, wild pawpaw became almost extinct. The yellow fruits form in hanging clusters somewhat like bananas and have a sweet custard-like flesh with an exotic mango-banana like flavour.

(Horseradish tree; Drumstick tree) Small tree native to India and Arabia and widely cultivated throughout the tropics. Roots are used like horseradish, and the leaves are eaten as greens, in curries, pickles and as seasoning, and the large immature seedpods,...

Traditional Maori remedy for kidney and bladder complaints, and to combat the miseries of the common cold. Attractive New Zealand shrub called the Tea Plant by Captain Cook because of the agreeably bitter tea his men made from the leaves.

Most popular everlasting; long cherished for wide colour range: crimson, salmon, rose, brown, yellow, and white.

The tea has a great reputation as a wash for healing wounds and skin eruptions. Perfect for meadow or butterfly gardens, the whole plant is fragrant. The seed can be tricky to germinate, but once established the plant is tenacious.

Egg-shaped squash with flesh that really does look like spaghetti. Melons keep for 1-2 months. Delicious served hot with spaghetti sauce, cheese or butter, or chilled in salads.

(Lesser burnet) A tea made from the root and sweetened with honey was recommended for the bubonic plague! Used for stomach and intestinal inflammations, catarrh, cough and asthma. Produces white flower umbels July to October.

Broccoli-like vegetable from China. Start indoors in April or sow direct after last frost. Flowering stalks, young leaves and buds are delicious steamed, boiled or fried with other vegetables, meat or on its own.

A showy form of the venerable castor bean long used in medicine. Oil extracted from the seeds of the green form is a commonly used laxative for temporary constipation and acute diarrhea.

The effects of this plant are well described by Castaneda in . Long history of use as a hallucinogen by the Mexican Indians.

(Coastal wormwood; San Juan mugwort) Beautiful silvery-green mugwort with a pleasant sage scent. Grows in coastal areas from northern California to southern B.C. Excellent for moxa, and as such it is decidedly less harsh than the common mugwort, .

(Eryngo) Grown for its roots which are both edible and medicinal. Fleshy roots, dug in autumn and boiled and roasted, taste like chestnuts. Was prescribed for chronic nervousness and kidney and bladder disease.

(Love-in-a-mist) Finely divided leaves create a mist effect surrounding the lovely blue flowers. Seeds used in curries and bread, although its close cousin black cumin is better. Valued in perfumery trade.

Impressive French stoechas lavender with elongated wing-like magenta petals extending from dark bracts on slender stalks. Ht. 40-45cm/16-18”. The effect is striking, as if masses of butterflies have gathered in the garden.

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,...

Rhizomes are rich in tannin. Ideal for diarrhea and as a soothing application to burns. Thrives in dry open areas. Sulphur yellow flowers.

Poultice of leaves used for rheumatic swellings of the joints, lumbago, painful tumours. Used in India like stramonium in treatment of asthma, whooping cough and bronchitis.

(Buddha fruit; Lou han guo) This is known as the "longevity herb" in China where the tea made with the dried fruits is commonly consumed. The fruits contain mogrosides, intensely sweet compounds that are as many as 300 times as sweet as sugar.

(American licorice) The sweet-tasting roots of wild licorice were once important medicine to the Great Plains Indians. The roots are edible and taste like sweet potatoes when roasted slowly.

Very uniform mosscurled type suited for fresh-cut and processing use. Leaves are dark green, medium fine curled. Suited also for potplant production. Medium late maturity.

Attractive hardy Mediterranean shrub. Like true senna ( spp.), its leaves have purgative properties, but the effect is much less drastic. Yellow flowers bear bladder-like pods which when squeezed go off with a bang.

(Hato-mugi; Yi yi; Japanese barley) A staple cereal crop in Japan and China, and an important medicinal herb. Nutritious soft-shelled seeds are widely consumed in macrobiotic cuisine.

(Fennel flower; Russian caraway; Black caraway) Commonly featured in Indian dhals and equally at home in Russian rye bread! Aromatic black seeds resemble fennel in aroma and taste something like peppery nutmeg.

Noted for soothing irritations and inflammations of the skin, throat, eyes, lungs and urinary organs. ERFURTER is rich in medicinal mucilage, up to 10%.