Seeds Herb Plug Trays For Sale In Chicago

The oils have anti-oxidant, anti-inflammatory, as well as anti-microbial properties and can even be used to repel bugs! Rosemary should be pruned often to promote regeneration. Ht 3-8ft (90-240cm).

Citrus-scented leaves and flowers make a pleasant, soothing tisane. Enormous violet-purple flowers; keeps blooming until frost. Young leaf tips and flowers improve appearance and taste of salads.

Germination can be slow and erratic -- usually 30-50%. The herb is taken as a tea or in tablet or tincture form. Produces showy sweet-scented flowers and edible fruits. Leaching seeds in running water for 24 hours improves germination.

Thrives in containers, where it should be pruned, and may be trained to take on several growth forms. Bay laurel is an evergreen tree with glossy, deep-green, crinkled leaves that stem from smooth reddish woody branches.

Lacking scent or flavour, its virtues are mainly visual and tactile. Lovely low carpets of grey, woolly leaves and pale pink flowers. Superb contrast plant for greener herbs.

Pretty small leaved trailing species with an aroma and flavour of nutmeg.

Its soft and pleasant aroma persists for at least two years. Old favourite for lavender bags. Large bush with dark purple-violet flowers on long spikes. Was developed at the Seal Herb Farm before 1935 in England, where it was considered to be the best...

Very productive; will bear first year. Sweet, tangy berries about twice the size of the wild ones on compact, runnerless plants. Can even be grown indoors in direct sun. Bears fruit from June till frost.

Named after Hillary Clinton, First Lady of the United States and herb enthusiast. Has tremendous culinary potential according to Jim Westerfield, who tested this mint extensively in the kitchen of his award-winning bed-and-breakfast inn.

Small upright bushy habit; dark green leaves.

The parentage of this lavender is confusing. It does well in hot and humid areas where other lavenders fail. But some believe that this variety is instead. It is assumed to be a cross between and or between and .

Strong upright growth habit. It has a full-bodied aroma with a warm woodsy note and less camphor than other varieties. Some have suggested that this variety was developed for the Spice Islands company for production of dried rosemary; but we don't believe...

Outstanding ornamentals from Mexico and Texas with small, fruit-scented leaves and wonderful bright coloured flowers. Orange-peach flowers, 2.5cm/1in. Called autumn sage because the hot days and cool nights of early fall bring on a glorious spurt of autumn...

Excellent for massing, as ground cover or in rockeries. (Catmint) Smaller ornamental form of catnip with lavender-blue flowers and grey-white foliage. Does not attract cats despite its stronger, more pleasant scent.

Deserving of experimentation in tea, cooking, and as a garnish. Sensational orange scent and flavour. A favourite among West Indians.

‘Grenadin' is a mixture of pink, red and white double flowers. (Carnation) Clove-scented flowers were once used to flavour ales and wines, especially celebration cups at coronations, hence its name “carnation”.

Spicy like nutmeg geranium, but with a hint of apple .

Recent evidence shows it to be effective against high blood pressure and hardening of the veins and arteries. Virility- and longevity-promoting prowess aside, fo-ti is one of the most widely used tonic herbs in traditional Chinese medicine.

One of the definitive perfumes of the Orient and of India in particular. Leaves are excellent in potpourris and sachets. Widely used in perfumes and soaps, and even to perfume India ink.

Smaller leaves are more concentrated in flavour and a little will go a long way. True French sorrel, although garden sorrel is much more commonly used for sorrel soup.

Lovely accent plant. Same flavour and fragrance as English thyme. For hanging baskets and as garden edging.

As we suspected, most are pretty much the same as true peppermint, but one strain surprised us. But customers continued to insist that there is such a thing and brought us plants to prove it.

Foxtail is a playful showy variety with a dense plume-like appearance. Ht 4-6ft (120-180cm). Its unique and eye-catching growth habit falls over the edges of walls and planters, and blooms with small blue flowers.

Try a leaf in salads or throw on the fire to refresh the air. (Old man artemisia) Leaves can be used in sachets and potpourris, and as a moth repellent.

The main culinary varieties popular with onions for poultry stuffing and for flavouring rich meats like pork or duck. Used in stuffings, sausages, omelettes, soups, stews. Also in homemade sausage, omelettes, cheese and bean dishes.

Excellent beeplant. Not exactly sage nor Russian, this hardy native of Crimea, Afghanistan and Pakistan was named Perennial Plant of the Year for 1995. Leaves are pleasantly aromatic with a strong camphor scent works well in potpourris.

Sweet lemon-rose scent; vigorous growth habit. Deeply scalloped leaves resemble tomato leaves.