Herb Seeds Vegetable Seeds For Sale In Springfield

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

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

Dense clusters of small, yellow, button-like flowers.

(Blueweed) Bristly native of Europe with brilliant blue flowers from June til frost. Infusion of leaves is helpful for fevers, headaches and nervous complaints. Thrives in dry, poor soils.

Excellent for dillweed production and potted plants. Finely cut foliage. All America Winner for 1992. Unique dwarf plants (45cm/18in); dark green leaves. For fresh use as dillweed, or allowed to go to seed for dill pickles.

Formerly recommended for gout and rheumatism. Since earliest times used to dye wool bright yellow.

What happens is the mouth goes numb briefly, followed by an intense cooling sensation. 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...

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

It must receive full sun. Flax sown for its fibre should be sown close together; that for seed, further apart. Flax should be sown in the spring, in moist fertile soil with good drainage.

The infusion made from the flowering tops is high in rutin which combats arteriosclerosis (hardening of the arteries and veins). Well known as a grain, cover crop and beeplant; not so well known is its medicinal value.

(Pedunculata lavender) Similar to the standard form, but has large magenta flower bracts and elongated 20-30cm/8-12in flower stalks. Stronger scent; bushier habit. Height up to 75cm/30”.

(Miner's lettuce) During the California gold rush miners ate this wild green to avoid getting scurvy. 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...

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.

Like parsley, the fresh leaves are chopped and added at the last minute to traditional spring soups. The flavour hints of anise but is never overbearing and it can liven up many dishes including salads.

But it does more: it has adaptogen-like properties, it has anticancer activity, it is a bitter tonic, and it is an antioxidant that has been shown to protect the liver. (Kalmegh) In Scandinavia this is the main herb used to fight the common cold, flu,...

Sow every 14 days indoors or out for a continuous supply of fresh leaves. Delightful companion to mustard cress #4150. Ready to use when seedlings have 3 or 4 leaves.

This strain of the lowly dandelion boasts tender fleshy leaves, topping all other fruits and vegetables for iron content. Treat as a biennial -- sow one year, pick the next. Enjoy in a spring salad, or cooked like spinach.

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

Easy to grow, tolerates part shade, and is very hardy. (Japanese rose; Saltspray rose) Hips are tomato-red and are large, up to an inch across. 120cm/4ft x 90cm/3ft. Excellent for group or hedge plantings.

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

Long and has approximately 415 seeds. The seed tape is 15 ft. Good choice for clay soil. Ready to harvest in 75-days. Stores well and stays crisp. Danvers Half Long Carrot produces blocky-topped, tapered roots chunk up nicely at 6 in.

Papery daisy-like blossoms, over 100 to a plant, in shades of pink, rose, red, purple and white.

(Paperbark) Source of cajeput oil, a pungent oil distilled from the leaves of this aromatic tree from Australia. The oil is antiseptic, decongestant, analgesic, promotes circulation, reduces fevers and relieves cramps.

Medium-hot at 5,000 Scoville units. Excellent in soups, chilli, and stews. Looks like a cayenne pepper with long glossy scarlet pods 15-17cm/6-7" but the flavour is sweet and tart with undertones of strawberry and apples and no bitterness.

Grows in coastal areas from northern California to southern B.C. Excellent for moxa, and as such it is decidedly less harsh than the common mugwort, . It is more yin-like, and burning moxa made with this mugwort helps to soothe the nerves and induces...

Renegade Spinach smooth leaf, well for spring, summer and fall with great disease resistance and flavor. Delta Swiss Chard- green leaves with green veins, excellent at baby leaf stage and mature size.

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 especially in the cities where it helped...