Herb Seeds Vegetable Seeds For Sale In Bellevue

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

Pleasant alternative to lettuce or endive, possessing its own special piquant flavour. Repeat sowings till mid-August for continuous supply. (Mache; Feldsalat) Frequently found in summer salads in France and Germany.

Said to improve circulation and blood, thereby strengthening the brain and memory. Main value is a tonic, particularly for the digestive system.

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

Added to a bath, it can help ease sunburns, and yeast or fungal conditions. Homey bees love this herb, and for beekeepers having this around adds a light fragrance to the honey. It is also looked at for its anti-inflammatory and anti-bacterial qualities.

Profusion of lavender-blue flowers with dark eyes -- 100 flowers per plant! Ancient love potion.

It was used by the Cherokee for pain, toothache, ulcers, and hemorrhage. Prefers moist conditions but will tolerate a wide range of soils. (New York ironweed) Tall native flower with masses of deep purple fluffy flowers.

Gentians produce some of the bitterest compounds known to man, discernible to our taste buds in concentrations as low as one part in 50,000. It is a real novelty for the mixed border or cottage garden, and it is attractive to bees and butterflies.

According to Greek legends, this flower sprang from the blood of Adonis. Brilliant crimson and black flowers in June-July. Formerly used as a cardiac stimulant like digitalis but is much stronger.

Flowers used to flavour Chinese tea and a source of important essential oil used in perfumery. Seeds should be soaked for 24 hours before sowing. Succeeds as a house plant if kept moist and warm (above 18°C/65°F).

It has become extinct in many areas and is now cultivated to a large extent in British Columbia, Ontario and Wisconsin. The following spring, the seedlings appear, and in 3 to 6 years they mature.

(Purple archangel) Attractive beeplant and medicinal herb with purple-tinged foliage and purple-red flowers. Flowers and foliage stop hemorrhages; tea is useful against chills as it acts on the kidneys and induces sweating.

Tolerates drought well and often self-seeds in optimum conditions. The Navajo and Oglala tribes made a pleasant beverage tea from the leaves and the Comanche, Lokota and Ponca chewed the sweet tasting roots like candy.

Dwarf non-climbing growth habit is ideal for borders, window boxes and hanging baskets. High in vitamin C. Peppery leaves and fragrant flowers are delicious added fresh to salads. Flowers all summer in full sun or partial shade.

Flax should be sown in the spring, in moist fertile soil with good drainage. Linen is the most famous product of flax, but other applications include linseed oil as a furniture varnish and ingredient in paint formulas, and things like waterproof oilcloth...

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

Commonly used in homeopathy. Found mainly in the English and Scottish limestone areas. All parts are bitter. Attractive British wildflower with masses of milky white or purplish flowers.

The name means "land seaweed" and indeed it has a salty flavour and crispy texture that suggests seaweed but is easily cultivated on land. Very easy to grow. (Saltwort; Land seaweed) One of the oldest vegetables of Japan, traditionally used in sushi and...

Mildly narcotic colourless juice was used by Californian Indians to treat toothache. Best sown direct very early in spring as it prefers cool weather. Brilliant orange flowers.

Found throughout the American West, from Washington to California and Colorado, growing on rocky or thin soil, or in very dry sites. (Low sagebrush) A low gray-green sagebrush, no higher than 40cm/16".

Usually grown as an annual. Showy Australian native with flowers of pure white like the beaches of Australia's Gold Coast.

Produces white flower umbels July to October. 15-50cm/6-20” (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.

Also useful for diarrhea and in obstetics to reposition the fetus before birth. Major), having the same broad leaves. Seeds are used to promote urination and to clear heat. (Che qian) Very similar to greater plantain (P.

(Da huang; Chinese rhubarb; Turkey rhubarb)

Employed by Indians along with mayapple ( ) to treat venereal disease. Showy U.S. native with large blue or white flower spikes.