Herb Seeds Vegetable Seeds For Sale In Waterbury

When plants are in bloom it looks like the angels draped celestial white lace everywhere. Ht. 100-125cm (40-50in). Excellent garden annual for tall borders. The white flowers are large flat umbels floating above the dark green foliage.

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

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.

Adds gorgeous colour to tossed salads. Striking in the garden too, reaching 2-3ft/60cm. The tender young shoots can be boiled and buttered, creamed, added to quiches, or rolled up in crepes.

Can be direct sown outside. A perfect border plant for the garden, it does best in part shade. Berries are very sweet, with a faint pineapple tang, excellent for eating fresh out of hand, or for use in jams.

They keep up to six months! Start seeds in March. (Horned melon) Quite unlike other cucumbers, this one has small orange spiny fruits, 8-13cm/3-5” long, possessing a subtle banana-lime flavour.

Cooling tea made from leaves is useful for fevers, dysentery and morning sickness. Poultice of fresh leaves helps reduce swellings and boils and relieves pain. Tart fruits are commonly used in Indian curries, sauces, chutneys and beverages, and in Indian...

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

Caution: although the oil is safe, raw seeds are poisonous. Oil extracted from seeds is a commonly used laxative for temporary constipation and acute diarrhea. Large tropical-looking foliage.

Can reach as high as 150cm/60in. Has large maroon leaves, red stems, and spiky red seedpods. A showy form of the venerable castor bean long used in medicine. Oil extracted from the seeds of the green form is a commonly used laxative for temporary constipation...

Water trapped in leaf basins is valued as an eyewash. Comb-like flowerheads were once used for raising nap on woolen cloth. Excellent in dried arrangements.

Ht 24-60in (60-180cm). The yellow pigment is found primarily in the seeds, although can also be extracted from the leaves. Well known as a source for high quality yellow dye since ancient times; pigments used for oil paint as well as dyeing wool, cotton,...

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

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

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

Fragrant golden yellow flowers are delightful in potpourris and as cutflowers. Old English favourite for cottage gardens.

Ht. 70-80cm/28-32. Excellent cutflower. Impressive new series from Germany with abundant large flowers, 10-12cm/4-5 across. Attracts butterflies. Good heat and drought tolerance.

They are self-fertilizing, producing small purple-red fruits after they flower. They may be bothered by fruit flies, but are generally disease-free. They are drought tolerant and somewhat hardy, tolerating limited cold temperatures but not extended freezing.

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

Excellent in soups, chilli, and stews. Heavy yields, about twice as much as cayenne. Medium-hot at 5,000 Scoville units. 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...

Like , germination rates are often less than 40% and may benefit from pretreatments suggested for . Wagner of the University of Munich, the leading European research group working on echinacea, suggest that is the correct name for the plant commonly traded...

Ht. 50cm/20”. Variety typical of the Provence region of France. Despite the popularity of hybrid lavender among French growers, this original Provencal lavender, with its deep blue shades and its more refined fragrance, is still commonly grown.

It is still used in medicine, but not without medical supervision. Tolerates deer and rabbits, but not drought. It contains aconitine, an analgesic, sedative and a neurotoxin at higher concentrations.

Excellent as cutflowers in floral arrangements and bouquets. Airy masses of small white flowers (50% doubles) in summer.

A good gargle for mouth and throat sores. (Red root) Used as a tea substitute during the American Revolution. Indians made a wash for skin problems including skin cancer and venereal sores.