Vegetable Plants Plants For Sale In Oakland

Famous for its gorgeous flavour: sweet and tangy, and fruity, with the heat building slowly and never getting unpleasant. Heat 10,000-30,000 Scoville units. Unique three or four-sided shape resembles a hat or a crown -- or maybe a flying spaceship.

Boosts and tonifies qi (chi). Beneficial effect on kidneys, liver, and endocrine system. Tonifies the spleen, especially in cases of fatigue. See also Sha Yuan (#5395) (Chinese milkvetch; Huang qi) One of the most important Chinese medicinal herbs, especially...

Its strong flavour and aroma make it an excellent seasoning for meat dishes, stuffings and salad dressings. Ht. 20-25cm/8-10in. A cute little English thyme that grows into beautiful dense mounds.

Slight pungent scent. Attractive dark green leaves and brilliant cerise flowers.

Plant with strong menthol scent. Fine houseplant with attractive, almost circular, wavy-edged, fleshy leaves.

(Bible leaf) The sweet-scented leaves may be used for tea or in herb pillows. Fresh leaves, picked before flowering, used in salads, sauces, soups and in cold drinks where a little goes a long way.

Like other citrus marigolds, with bright red flowers.

Source of atropine, valuable in treating eye diseases and spasms. Externa applications lessen local inflammation and pain. Stratification at 5°C/40°F for 4-12 weeks or gibberrelic acid pre-treatment is reported to speed germination.

"Bouncing bet" is an old Elizabethan term for laundry woman. Ht 24in (60cm). Attractive pale pink flowers appear in dense clusters. Soapwort is easy to establish in the garden. Soapwort is well known to the Mahuna and Cherokee, who used it to make poultices...

Mediterranean favourite for its bitter stomachic properties. Striking small tree with soft, feathery grey-white leaves.

Providing us with lifesaving medications and beauty in the garden, purple foxglove is a truly fascinating plant, worthy of our respect and continued investigation. Nowadays foxglove is safely enjoyed by the home gardener as an ornamental, gracing the...

Blooming with pretty little lavender flowers, it is native to Europe and has naturalized to North America. A favourite in container gardens, it may be happiest in hanging baskets, trailing straight down 1m (3 ft) or more.

It is also a feature of Cambodian, Loatian, Thai, Indonesian and Malay cuisines. (Mitha-neem) The fresh curryleaf provides distinctive flavour of South Indian and Sri Lankan cooking.

Produces lots of edible foliage and edible yellow flowers. Effective when used in mass plantings because it blooms freely throughout the summer. A robust, fast grower, easily attaining a height of 90cm/30”.

(Plectranthus; Spurflower)

One of the best storage tomatoes we've found, and worth keeping for its delicious flavor. Plants are available only within the contiguous US Before shipping, each transplant is hardened-off in the crisp night air of our short season farm.

Commercial growers need to plant about 10% of the orchard with male plants. Home gardeners need 1-3 males for every 5 female plants. Male pollinator variety required to get good fruit set among the elite female varieties.

Has also been used for rheumatism, arthritis and skin irritations. Woodland native, 30-90cm/1-3ft. American Indians used the root for upset stomach, excessive menstruation, general debility, lung problems, cough, insomnia, and as a laxative.

You can mix and match your plants just the way you want. Overall Rating:. This should not harm the plants. The peppers emerge a deep green with the purple tone quickly saturating the skin, and eventually ripening to blood red.

Beaverlodge Series We were so impressed by everything about these tomatoes at our trials, that we saved the seed and spent a few seasons building our inventory in order to share it with you.

Thick, fleshy, grey-green leaves are sliced lengthwise and placed cut side on the wart for 8-12 hours daily. Succulent shrub with showy coral flowers on a stem up to 60 cm/2 ft. Works on pets too.

'Vern's' is a reliable producer of large tasty sweet figs with a dark brown skin and a light amber flesh. It can usually be counted on producing crops in summer and in fall. This is an improvement over a well-known but mostly unreliable 'Brown Turkey'...

(Spanish lavender) The standard form with narrow, grey downy leaves and dark violet flowers. Camphor-rosemary scent.

It was also used in the middle ages to balance spicy foods and was even used by the Egyptians as a drink flavouring. Ht 36in (90cm). In fact, glycyrrhizin (the sweet compound) is 50 times sweeter than sucrose! Licorice produces clusters of lupin-like...

Does well in containers, producing an early crop of figs as soon as growth starts in spring. The sweet strawberry flesh is excellent, and the figs keep well. It is a reliable producer of delicious small purple figs.

Also for coughs, bowel complaints, hemorrhages, asthma, lung disorders and for skin irritations. Woodland perennial, 15-40cm/6-16” high, with deep red flowers in spring. Tea made from the roots was used for menstrual problems, to induce labour, for...

Slow growing shrub whose leaves possess a remarkable sweet anise scent.