Herb Seeds Seeds For Sale In Thousand Oaks

Fresh leaves are eaten as a delicacy in salads or cooked like spinach. Fresh leaves used as a poultice for inflammations, ulcers, abscesses. Can be invasive. A decoction is used to treat constipation.

While leaves form ground-hugging mats. The whole plant has potent but underappreciated astringent, expectorant and diuretic properties. Used for all respiratory problems including asthma, bronchitis, excess mucus, and cough.

High yielding variety for medicinal use. Elite variety for commericial production, rich in proazulene, a powerful anti-inflammatory agent. The proazulene add a distinctive blue colour to the essential oil.

Frequently seen along roadsides in eastern Canada and U.S. Lavender flowers; strong fragrance. Used for tea and for flavouring meat.

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

Often touted as an aid for diabetes, obesity, heat stroke, cough and sore throat. The fruits contain mogrosides, intensely sweet compounds that are as many as 300 times as sweet as sugar.

Can be milled into flour. Delicious cooked as a hot cereal or popped like popcorn. Ancient Aztec food grain. Protein content is higher than that of wheat, rice, and corn.High in the essential amino acid, lysine, which is generally low in other grains.

Dragonhead is an easy plant and can be direct-sown into the garden when the soil warms up in the spring. 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...

Under proper directions it is a useful sedative for cases of nervous motor disturbances. Socrates is the most notable to die in this manner. In the fresh state all parts are very poisonous.

Its legendary healing powers are summed up in the Arab proverb, “In the black seed is the medicine for every disease except death.” (Fennel flower; Russian caraway; Black caraway) Commonly featured in Indian dhals and equally at home in Russian rye...

It is still a popular tradition in Mexico to gather them in the sierras. They can be dried like peppercorns or used fresh in salsa. Ripens to a brilliant red colour and packs serious concentrated heat.

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

Used for perfume, sachets and potpourris. As the story goes, Napoleon brought seeds back from Egypt for his wife Josephine and she so loved the plant that she called it "mignonette" or "little darling." It later became a favourite in Victorian England...

Also to flavour bread, soups, potato dishes and to make an aromatic tea. Powdered leaves and flowers used in Switzerland to flavour and colour Schabzieger or Sapsago cheese. Young seedlings as fresh greens with oil and salt.X6554

Amerindian herb, used as a general tonic, emetic, diuretic, and for coughs, asthma and gonorrhea.

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

Beautiful double orange-yellow upright trumpet-like flowers. Angels trumpets are popular in containers for the patio, balcony or deck. (Thornapple; Devils Trumpet) Beautiful hallucinogenic plants from South America where they have a history of shamanic...

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

In historic English ballads “Sweet William” is a nickname meaning a young man in love, and the dianthus is just as irresistible to anyone who encounters its unassuming charm and sweet fragrance in the summertime garden.

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

Height up to 3ft (90cm) Requires staking, and a sunny location. Flowers are arranged in large umbel inflorescence—domes of umbrella forming florets. Umbel stems continue to be sold as natural toothpicks in the Middlle East and Asia.

Steamed or sauteed, and dressed with lemon and oil, it is commonly served with fish. Young leaves can also be added fresh to salads. It grows wild along the coast but the monks were known for growing it in their gardens.

Rich shades of chamois, pink, rose and cream. (Paper daisy) Handsome daisies with papery petals.

Spectacular towering spikes of creamy white flowers. Roots contain 2% saponin, a soapy substance valuable in shampoos; leaves a fine sheen to hair. Easy to use: chopped roots are soaked in water and stirred to a lather.

No blanching required. Aromatic leaves are used to season soups and stews, and like parsley they can be used as a garnish. Outstanding curled leaf variety from Holland that is both ornamental and delicious to use in the kitchen like parsley.

This tall perennial sunflower puts on a spectacular show in August and September with masses of large yellow-gold flowers. Named after the German explorer Prince Maximilian who discovered the plant on an expedition to the Great Plains in 1832-34.