Herb Seeds Seeds For Sale In Indianapolis

A much-loved lemon-scented herb gets a makeover with beautiful gold-infused leaves! The gold is most pronounced in spring and fades to green in summer. Used the same ways: for tea, salads, soups, etc.

They are attractive to butterflies and hummingbirds, and are good cut flowers. (Blazing Star) Shooting bolt upright out of the garden bed, gayfeather is a bold statement in the mixed border.

Excellent lemon scent with larger leaves and more robust growth habit than the standard lemon basil variety. Up to 90cm/3ft with pink flowers.

Children may be tempted to wear the buttery little cups on their fingers, but beware: Yellow foxglove is poisonous in all its parts, containing powerful cardioactive glycosides that are toxic when ingested even in tiny amounts.

It is made by steeping the flowering tops of black wormwood in vodka or pure grain alcohol, producing a natural pale gold color. Used to make , a liqueur or aperitif similar to absinthe, often taken before or after meals to help to stimulate the digestion.

Something different to try in the garden. Hill up the soil around the beets as they grow to keep them from turning green. The completely white beets won't ever stain your clothes or your tablecloth! This heirloom beet from Holland has a delicious, sweet...

(Japanese parsley) Unique flavour of leaves and leafstalks, either fresh or blanched, is pleasing in soups, salads, and fried foods. Of easiest culture; prefers moist, partly shady locations.

Produces masses of rosy pink flowers on mounds of aromatic grey green foliage. Ht. 60cm/24”.

Improved strain of valerian for commercial production; root yield up to 2.5 tonnes per hectare (1 ton/acre); contains 0.7% essential oil (bornyl acetate, valepotriate and valerenic acid).

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

Fragrance similar to that of ripe apples.

The compound responsible for the sweetness is glycyrrhizin, a substance 50 times as sweet as sugar. The roots were used for many conditions including diarrhea, stomach ache, toothache, coughs, sore throat, fever, and the flu.

Wonderful for bath and shower as it invigorates the skin without harsh abrasion. (Loofah) Known as the ‘dishcloth gourd' because the dried over-ripe fruits can be used to scrub dishes.

Hardy through a wide range of zones and generously self-seeding, an individual plant can produce 900 seeds. The plant is a biennial, preferring dry, sandy soil and full sun. (Bugloss) A biennial, bringing beautiful clear purple-blue flowers to the garden...

Leaves nearly pure purple-bronze; very little green. Significant improvement over the Dark Opal variety. Fine flavour and aroma.

The peppery leaves add a spicy spin when boiled in stews or soups or tossed fresh in salads. Harvest when plants are 10 cm (4") tall or more. (Winter cress; Land cress) Upland cress is a fast-growing alternative to watercress.

Dried milky juice, called lactucarium or lettuce opium, was once used to induce sleep and to treat nervous disorders.

(Wood leek; Wild onion; Ramps) Wild leeks -- also known as ramps or wild onions -- are a prized woodland delicacy in eastern North America. In some areas such as Quebec they have been over-harvested to the point where the government had to step in to...

Stems are strong, straight and uniform for easier harvest. (Bishopsweed) Developed for the commercial cutflower market. The white flowers are large flat umbels floating above the dark green foliage.

It is used to treat swollen limbs and swollen areas on the head. (Ghost eggplant; Norligbuitsa) The Ewe herbalists of West Africa say that if you want to use this herb to heal you must offer a token and a prayer to the plant otherwise it will harm the...

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

Compact plants are ideal for interplanting. Preferred variety of marigold for insect control. Has double orange and maroon blossoms.

Henbane has been used as an instrument of assassination and murder since antiquity, most famously in Shakespeare's play Hamlet: “Upon my secure hour thy uncle stole,/with juice of cursed hebona in a vial.” Gerard's (1633) says “the leaves, seed...

(Hoja de colico)

An unusual and potentially breathtaking component in a mixed border, herb garden, or rock garden, Dragonhead will do best in full sun to part shade in well-drained soil where there is no risk of over-watering.

Young tender plants are a pleasant spinach substitute when boiled and served with butter. Common weed, popular as a pot-herb. Rich source of vitamins A and C.

Interesting Mexican vegetable green. Young leaves are mild spinach substitute: beneficial for those who must avoid the calcium-sequestering oxalic acid in spinach. Flower clusters can be steamed like broccoli or fried in egg batter with mozzarella cheese.