Uses Seed Farm Seed For Sale In Richmond

The proazulene add a distinctive blue colour to the essential oil. Elite variety for commericial production, rich in proazulene, a powerful anti-inflammatory agent. High yielding variety for medicinal use.

Excellent for pots and for borders. More uniform than other varieties. Superb dwarf basil with large leaves.

Prefers dry, well-drained sandy loam. Saponin content is somewhat lower than . (Chinese ephedra) Properties and uses are similar to those of but contains the additional anti-inflammatory compound, ephedroxane.

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

Excellent for pots and borders. Bush type with small leaves and a highly uniform dwarf compact habit.

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

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

Seeds stored with clothing repel insects. Seeds used in curries and bread, although its close cousin black cumin is better. Valued in perfumery trade. (Love-in-a-mist) Finely divided leaves create a mist effect surrounding the lovely blue flowers.

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

Sow outdoors anytime from spring to autumn. Very easy to grow. The name means "land seaweed" and indeed it has a salty flavour and crispy texture that suggests seaweed but is easily cultivated on land.

Leaves nearly pure purple-bronze; very little green. Significant improvement over the Dark Opal variety. Fine flavour and aroma.

Fresh leaves burst of lemon when squeezed. Uniform, compact, erect form, 25-30cm/10-12in high with medium-large to large leaves. Has double the oil content of other varieties, up to 0.4%.

(Mousemelon; Sandita; Mexican sour gherkin)

Perfect for pot production. But what the breeder has done to the variety's performance, leaf quality and disease resistance is far more inspired. The breeder's choice of variety name 'Gecofure' is an unimaginative contraction of 'GEnovese COmpatto FUsarium...

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

Dried roots are very popular as a coffee substitute. Universally despised as a pesky weed, the lowly dandelion is actually one of the more useful herbs around. Promotes bile secretion.

Sow in open ground in May; pull roots in October. Although the process is lengthy it is possible to extract molasses, and even sugar, at home from sugar beets grown in your garden.

White Tailed Deer, Bison and Prairie Dogs utilize it for forage, and it is a larval host for the Green Skipper. Once established, it is extremely drought tolerant and tough. Buffalo Grass is a warm-season grass and predominant component of the shortgrass...

A safe and effective hair dye, it covers hair with fiery copper or red tones. It grows up to 5 m (16ft), but can be trimmed to create a hedge. Grown as an ornamental in California and Florida, it requires full sun and easily withstands periods of drought,...

Plants tend to be a little stronger and more uniform than other bush varieties. A most attractive form of bush basil with larger leaves (1 cm) and uniform dense globular little bushes.

Fresh flower petals are excellent in salads and can be used to make medicinal creams. The flowers are unusually long lasting, and if flowers are dead-headed, the flowers will just keep coming right up until frost.

Chamaecyparissus, it is particularly effective in knot gardens when clipped as low hedges. Like its grey cousin, S. Likes to be pruned; perfect plant to shape into your own masterpiece! Aromatic sprigs are placed among clothing to repel moths.

Traditional Maori remedy for kidney and bladder complaints, and to combat the miseries of the common cold. Attractive New Zealand shrub called the Tea Plant by Captain Cook because of the agreeably bitter tea his men made from the leaves.

Purple-rose flowers in spring. New research shows that it relieves the symptoms of hay fever and other seasonal allergies without the drowsiness that antihistamine drugs cause. Prefers wet locations.

Winter hardy nearly anywhere, and won't go to seed until its second year of growth. Cool wheat grain is quick to germinate and cold tolerant! Adaptable to a wide range of soils, Winter Wheat is sown in late summer for erosion control and tilled under...

Improved plainleaf variety with dark green flat leaves and upright growth habit. Strong powdery mildew tolerance.

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