Herbaceous Plant Seeds For Sale In Philadelphia

* Seeds are started after all danger of frost is past and the soil is warm or within 3–4 weeks before the predicted last frost date in the area. * It is a winter squash with distinctive longitudinal ridges and sweet, yellow-orange flesh.

* Vates Collards have dark green very tasty leaves with a mild cabbage like flavor. * Try them as a fall crop by sowing seed in late summer. * They are quite frost tolerant and become even more flavorful after some frosty nights.

It is native to Morocco , but it can be found elsewhere growing wild as an introduced species , such as California . The inflorescence is a raceme of flowers occupying the top of the stem.

* Coreopsis basalis is a bushy annual species with finely cut foliage and showy round flowers. * The species range in the eastern part of the USA is increasing as plants are used in landscaping.

* The flowers are purple, borne in summer. * Astilbe chinensis is a herbaceous plant with alternate, pinnately compound leaves, on thin stems.

Research shows that it has the ability to raise the body's resistance to bacterial and viral infections by stimulating the immune system. In Germany over 200 pharmaceutical preparations are made from Echinacea.

* The tops can also be eaten when young as greens or in soups. * Purple Top White Globe Turnip is an outstanding Heirloom variety. * High in Vitamins! * This is a very easy to grow and rewarding vegetable.

* Elecampane , also called Horse-heal ( Inula helenium ) or Marchalan (in Welsh ), is a perennial composite plant common in many parts of Great Britain , and ranges throughout central and Southern Europe , and in Asia as far eastwards as the Himalayas...

Adapted to cool climates as a cool seasons turfgrass. * It is a perennial which grows between 30 and 120 cm (47 in), flowering from June until July. It grows in meadows, on roadsides, riversides etc.

110 days to harvest. * These are the sweet white onions famous raw on hamburgers and salads. To produce seed for future years the bulbs need to be left in place and mulched heavily over winter and allowed to grow until the second summer when they will...

This species is known as platycodon or Chinese bellflower . In Korea, white flowers are more common. * Platycodon grandiflorus is a species of perennial flowering plant of the family Campanulaceae and the only member of the genus Platycodon.

* Machaeranthera tanacetifolia is a species of flowering plant in the aster family known by the common names tansyleaf tansyaster and Tahoka daisy . Annual with delicate but showy, aster-like flowers.

* Forms mats of small green leaves and stemless sky-blue flowers, as large as 3"; wants good soil, cool, moist conditions; native to Swiss Alps. Most species will grow well in the rock garden.

Bur Marigold seeds are sometimes eaten by ducks. It grows from 30-100cm tall in wet areas. Where the range of this species and Smooth Bur Marigold (B. Cernua is much less prevalent.

The flower consists of six petals curving backward from the center. * Lilium pensylvanicum reaches a height of 30 cm to 70 cm and has a width up to 25 cm. The bulb is roundish with a diameter of about 2 cm.

Silene chalcedonica ) is a flowering plant in the family Caryophyllaceae , native from central and eastern European Russia east to Kazakhstan , Mongolia and northwestern China . * Lychnis chalcedonica ( Burning Love , Dusky Salmon , Flower of Bristol...

The plants are very cold tolerant, but they can be damaged when dormant if the soil is too moist. * The species, from central Europe and Russia, has blue-purple, lavender, or white flowers, but there are dozens of cultivars, in a varied range of splendid...

* Centaurea montana ( Perennial Cornflower, Mountain Cornflower, Bachelor's Button, Montane Knapweed or Mountain Bluet ) is a species of Centaurea endemic to Europe . * Mountain cornflower is seldom used in modern herbalism, though it does still have...

* Plant forming huge clumps with white or grayish spherical flowers 2-3" across, in late summer; rough, thistley foliage, dark green, good for the back of a large border. * It grows in sunny, rocky or brushy places, with more or less mineral rich soils,...

* Mostly identical to the species, which see, but with white flowers.

* A slender-stemmed, sometimes creeping, semi-woody perennial that may attain a length of 10-12 ft. An infusion of the leaves alone, or the leaves and stems, has been used as a hair wash to prevent gray hair.

It contains some of the most bitter compounds known and is used as a scientific basis for measuring bitterness. * Gentiana lutea ( Great Yellow Gentian ) is a species of gentian native to the mountains of central and southern Europe .

Flowers are heart-shaped and 1–2 inches (3–5 cm) long, with pink outer petals and white inner petals , hanging in a horizontal raceme . * The plant most of us think of as Bleeding Heart; extremely popular, and for good reason; each arching spike,...

* Paeonia anomala has an immense range of wild habitat, stretching from the Ural Mountains of Russia to the Pamir Mountains of Central Asia, then to the Mongolian Gobi Desert and the Tien Shan Mountains of Kazakhstan .

This occurrence is a popular science experiment in primary grade school. Chinese studies have also indicated that the seeds blockprogesterone synthesis, which could explain this effect.

* Blue-purple flowers in a mass at the top of the stalks in June and July and perhaps again in late summer; likes sun, grows quickly in good soil, propagating by runners * The seed usually germinates in 2 - 4 weeks at 18°c.

It is cultivated as an ornamental plant in temperate regions – growing to 60 centimetres (24 in) (less in poor soils), and producing pale lilac and white flowers in spring. * Iris magnifica is a bulbous flowering plant in the genus Iris, native to the...