Herb Seeds Vegetable Seeds For Sale In Portland

(Egyptian privet) The world's most popular dye plant for thousands of years. It does not damage hair even when used for years, and covers white and grey hair. A shrubby desert plant native to North Africa and the Middle East, henna has naturalized to...

Growing Licorice is very beneficial to your garden. Its use is associated with longevity, mainly helping to relieve chronic gastric issues and respiratory symptoms. Chinese Licorice produces long pinnate branches, broad leaves, and clusters of lupin-like...

Bears sweet; juicy, highly flavoured fruits, in a fine balance between acid, sugar and pectin. Eaten fresh, or in jellies, preserves and pastes. Shrub or small tree. A sunny window suits this plant well.

No plant symbolizes the alpine regions of Europe quite like the edelweiss. But edelweiss has important medicinal and cosmetic uses, and is now grown as a cultivated crop in Europe for those purposes.

Roots produce a red dye. (Cleavers) Fresh juice or infusion is applied to skin diseases and eruptions with good success. Said to remove freckles.

One of four herbs in the Essiac anti-cancer formula. Useful for skin diseases, including eczema. Recent medical evidence supports folkloric use for tumours. Roots of this common wildplant are said to have “blood-purifying” properties.

Do not use without medical supervision. Often grown for hedging in the tropics or as pot plants in temperate areas. Like other oleanders, all parts are poisonous. Grows to 6m/20ft.

Also used to make Chartreuse, the famous liqueur made by the Carthusian monks in the mountains of France, Low mat-forming plant with grey felt-like leaves; excellent for rock gardens.

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

Good spicy flavour. A spectacular refinement of bush basil from Italy where the variety is known as (“very fine green, like a ball or globe”). Forms dense globular little bushes 50-70cm/20-28” across so perfectly uniform they look pruned.

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

We urge everyone to try it. Proven effective against herpes. Has double the oil content of other varieties, up to 0.4%. Fresh chopped leaves are also interesting in salads, soups and stews.

We now know that the leaves are very rich in vitamin C. The succulent heart-shaped leaves have a fresh water chestnut-like taste and can be eaten raw in salads or cooked like spinach.

The same studies showed that testosterone levels rise significantly with treatment. The leaves produce a tingling sensation when eaten fresh like cress. Recent animal studies have confirmed that improves penile erection and sexual desire, and that the...

The red colour, crisp, crunchy texture, and slightly bitter taste add distinction to any green salad. (Red endive) Grows like Belgian endive. Rootstocks produce compact rounded heads of purplish red foliage when being forced after fall harvest of roots.

Important medicinally for its calming effect. Tall growing vine, ideal for covering antenna towers. Only seeds may be imported into the U.S. (plants not permitted). Seeds will yield a mixture of male and female plants.

Under study as a potential booster of the immune system. Showy American native with blue-violet flower spikes and majestic, upright growth habit. Used by Amerindians as a purgative, emetic, and anti-inflammatory.

Gaining a well-deserved reputation as a highly effective remedy for colds and flus. Very similar to American elder in appearance and used in the same ways. (Common Elderberry) Source of fruit for elderberry wine, pie and jelly, possesses extraordinary...

Or for fun freeze the flowers in ice cubes for drinks. Flowers all summer in full sun or partial shade. Dwarf non-climbing growth habit is ideal for borders, window boxes and hanging baskets.

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

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

Lovely in rock gardens. Improves the appetite by stimulating bile flow, gastric juices and pancreatic secretions. Petite woolly rosettes of leaves resemble a cat's foot.

Experiment inside as well as outside. Start your own herb garden, indoors, outdoors, on your kitchen counter top or on your window sill. Quality and quantity guarantee: Each Packet comes with lots of seed, grow herbs indoors and outdoors.

Unlike some other fresh greens, the curled leaves don't easily fall flat in tossed salads. Very quick and easy to grow. Excellent salad green, with ruffled leaves and a nice sweet spicy flavour.

Germination is slow and sporadic. Source of commercial chocolate substitute used in making health food candy bars. Handsome dark green leaves; fine specimen plant for sunny window or greenhouse.

Thought to have a carminative and anti-spasmodic effect, ajmud is traditionally used against intestinal upset, asthma and bronchitis. Native to India and cultivated extensively in southeast Asia as well, the seeds are similar to caraway.

Ht. 1-1.5m/3-5ft. This is the true that is cultivated and used in India, and is completely different from what is commonly sold in America incorrectly under the same name. Commercial source of camphor.