Herb Seeds Seeds For Sale In Providence

It is used to treat swollen limbs and swollen areas on the head. The fresh leaves are pounded to a paste and applied as a compress to the affected part. (Ghost eggplant; Norligbuitsa) The Ewe herbalists of West Africa say that if you want to use this...

(Eglantine rose) Spicy, sweet fragrant leaves fill the air, especially after a shower. Pink scentless flowers appear in June.

Also seeds do not shatter when mature making them much easier to harvest. Seeds used like regular caraway except this annual strain is superior for commercial production. High yielder, producing double the crop of the common biennial variety.

The Shoshoni Indians of Nevada used the leaves for coughs and colds. The black sagebrush is one of the most common shrubs of the United States. The low grey-green shrub is found from California to New Mexico north to Montana.

Excellent for pots and borders. Bush type with small leaves and a highly uniform dwarf compact habit.

Hardy climbing vine, to zone 5. (Wu-wei-zi) Chinese medicinal; astringent and demulcent berries are used to treat nervous conditions, chronic cough, asthma, thirst, too frequent urination, and diarrhea.

Used in cosmetics and pharmaceutical products, and as a top-quality industrial lubricant that may replace sperm whale oil. Oil squeezed from the nuts has proved so valuable it is called the new “liquid gold” of the West, and jojoba “prospectors”...

Impressive in fresh floral arrangements! Casablanca is also a fine garden flower for tall borders. (Honeyplant) Commercial variety for the cutflower market. Flowers look like white umbrellas mounted on strong, straight stems.

There is hint of a bitter, grassy flavor but that is really secondary to the sensation. (Paracress; Electric daisy) Trendy chefs and bartenders love to play with this fun new ingredient! The striking button-like flowers can be added to salads and cocktails...

Excellent in dried arrangements. Comb-like flowerheads were once used for raising nap on woolen cloth. Water trapped in leaf basins is valued as an eyewash.

Tea made from the roots is said to improve male potency and promote muscular development. (Catgut) Showy native herb with pink and yellow pea-like flowers. The roots are tonic, diuretic and diaphoretic.

Research shows that this herb kills pathogenic bacteria, including at least one drug-resistant strain. It is effective against yeast infections caused by candida and kills the parasite that causes leishmaniasis or "black fever." It is also an anti-inflammatory,...

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

Perfect for pot production. The breeder's choice of variety name 'Gecofure' is an unimaginative contraction of 'GEnovese COmpatto FUsarium REsistant'. Excellent uniformity, aroma and flavour.

Bright yellow flowers. Indonesian favourite with a strong, pungent scent and flavour. Young shoots are eaten raw, mixed with coconut, or cooked with other greens. Height 75cm/30”

Indeed, the Royal Horticultural Society has honoured it with an Award of Garden Merit, and it is an excellent as a cut or dried flower. But it is also a Chinese medicinal herb valued for its bitter aromatic tonic properties and is used to treat menstrual...

Also used to expel worms and for fevers. Effective laxative much in use by American herbalists. Usually taken in combination with with coriander to prevent cramps. Ht. 1-1.8 m/3-6 ft.

The roots were used for "menstruation sickness" which the Seminoles believed was a weakness men suffered after having intercourse with a menstruating woman. (Honeyball; Honey bells) A handsome native shrub found growing in wet areas of eastern North America.

Neat compact bush habit, only 10-15cm (4-6") high, with medium sized dark green leaves. Excellent for pot culture.

Yellow, droopy daisy-like flowers in summer. Native wildflower used by the Navajo and Cheyenne Indians as an analgesic for chest pains, wounds and fevers. Also used as a treatment for poison ivy.

A favourite of cottage gardeners for its charming, unfussy contribution to the billowing colours of the mixed border, yellow foxglove is a biennial, perennial in some zones, blooming the second summer after it is seeded.

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

Also to flavour bread, soups, potato dishes and to make an aromatic tea. Near relative of fenugreek. Powdered leaves and flowers used in Switzerland to flavour and colour Schabzieger or Sapsago cheese.

Use fenugreek to spice up just about any meal – particularly Mediterranean dishes. Fenugreek Seeds Fenugreek - also sometimes called “fenigreek” - is a highly versatile herb variety that is prized for its culinary and medicinal attributes.

It is more yin-like, and burning moxa made with this mugwort helps to soothe the nerves and induces a truly remarkable experience of "surrender" and of "tearing down the walls of the heart." Gives immediate relief for insomnia, anxiety, headache and muscle...

Often touted as an aid for diabetes, obesity, heat stroke, cough and sore throat. (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.

Besides its nematodicidal and insecticidal properies, it destroys noxious weeds, including ground elder, bindweed, couch grass and ground ivy. AIso effective mosquito control. (Huacatay) ‘Weedkiller' plant.