Herb Seeds Vegetable Seeds For Sale In Alexandria

Long stems, suitable for cutflowers. Contains 0.3% parthenolide. Dense double white pompon type.

(Money plant) Curiously, it symbolizes both honesty and money. When dried its silver dollar-like seed pods make attractive winter decorations. Edible leaves can be added to salads.

This corn can be roasted and then added to salads, and young ears can be roasted or boiled. Old timers still call it "squaw corn" and remember making a porridge out of it during the cold winter months.

Floral bracts are intensely coloured purple or pink. Infusion used for sore gums. Leaves and seeds increase inebriating quality of liquors when added during fermentation. Fine border plant.

Standard lettuce-leaf type grown in Italy. Large ribbed leaves, strong flavour.

Chinese medicinal herb noted for strengthening the spleen and building energy. Animal studies suggest it strengthens endurance. Rhizomes are used to treat diarrhea, fatigue, lack of appetite and vomiting related to deficiencies of spleen or stomach.

Extracts used to treat herpes and skin rashes. Not invasive like other thistles; a protected wildflower in Germany. Large stemless flower with creamy-yellow centre and silver bracts is excellent for dried arrangements.

In Italian it is known as "Barba di Frate" or "monk's beard" because the Capuchin monks were fond of it. The plant looks like chives but its long succulent leaves are crunchy with a mild salty flavour that is a bit bitter and a bit sour.

(Cancerweed) Medicinal herb with impressive horticultural potential! Its rich bronze-purple foliage can be used for season-long contrast in virtually any garden setting. Tolerates partial shade well.

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

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

Easy to grow, with a long flowering season, the numerous button flowers appear from early spring until late autumn. The name Bellis is Greek for “pretty,” and these charming flowers live up to their name.

(Sticky Oak Goosefoot) Ambrosia is distinguishable by its small oakleaf-shaped, sticky and oily, light green leaves that grow along hairy stems. Flowers are sometimes brewed into tea, though caution should be taken as seeds and leaves contain oxalic acid...

The Ewe name means "ghost eggplant", a potent reminder of the power of this herb, when misused, to turn people into zombie slaves. It is used to treat swollen limbs and swollen areas on the head.

A medicinal herb in China where it is used to clear obstructions in the throat. Double and semi-double flowers in a wide colour range. Flowers mixed with alum are used to paint fingernails.

Improved strain for commercial production. Up to 0.5% hypericin; yields 2.5 tonnes/ha (1 ton/acre).

Ground cover for any unsightly barren patches, south-facing slopes, etc. The plant is being tested as a substitute for purple foxglove in the treatment of heart disorders. Mounds of lacy leaves topped all summer long by a profusion of pink or white flowers.

(Monkshood; Wolfsbane) Majestic perennial for tall borders and as a background for other garden flowers. It contains aconitine, an analgesic, sedative and a neurotoxin at higher concentrations.

Peppery flavour is hot, but does not linger. This herb has lots of potential for experimentation! Served on sashimi (sliced raw fish), tempura, and sushi. (Azabu-tade; Cultivated smartweed) Popular Japanese herb used for sushi.

It is biennial, self-seeding to come back year after year. Double hollyhock grows to between 1.2-2.5m (4-8ft), and features huge, full blooms that are attractive to birds, bees, butterflies – and little children! Buds, flowers and young leaves are edible...

Coarse, broad leaved variety. Yields camphor-like oil used primarily in soaps. Highly productive oil-yielding variety.

Lovely variety with large purple wing-like bracts resting upon a sea of dark purple flowerheads. Stunning in flower beds! Flowers the first season if started early (Jan-Feb). Ht. 35-40cm/14-16.

The white and pink flowers are very fragrant, and are used in the production of perfumes. A shrubby desert plant native to North Africa and the Middle East, henna has naturalized to areas of similar climate, including Australia and the West Indies.

Well known as a source for high quality yellow dye since ancient times; pigments used for oil paint as well as dyeing wool, cotton, and silk up until the Middle Ages. Deep taproot discourages relocation.

Old garden favourite. Sweet-scented, deep violet flowers are candied as decoration for puddings, cakes and ice cream. Important source of perfume.