Annual Plant Crop Plant For Sale In Colorado Springs

The whole plant is harvested when in flower and distilled for its essential oil.The oil is used in perfumery, it is blended with sandalwood oil to produce 'attar genda' perfume. * Secretions from the roots of growing plants have an insecticidal effect...

* Silybum marianum has other common names include cardus marianus, milk thistle, blessed milk thistle, Marian Thistle, Mary Thistle, Saint Mary's Thistle, Mediterranean milk thistle, variegated thistle and Scotch thistle.

Paint, varnish, lubricating oil, leather dressings, furniture polish, insecticides, and nitroglycerin are made from peanut oil. * Seed - pre-soak for 12 hours in warm water and sow the seed in mid spring in a warm greenhouse.

Paint, varnish, lubricating oil, leather dressings, furniture polish, insecticides, and nitroglycerin are made from peanut oil. * Seed - pre-soak for 12 hours in warm water and sow the seed in mid spring in a warm greenhouse.

* There is an art to growing the giants so don't be discouraged if you don't get pumpkins weighing hundreds of pounds on your first try. * These are the seeds that can grow the largest pumpkin in the world! * They have pink/orange ribbed skin and given...

They also generally display a greater resistance to disease and insects, especially to the squash vine borer. Evolutionarily speaking the genus is relatively recent in origin as no species within the genus is genetically isolated from all the other species.

* The leaves contain 'stevioside', a substance that is 300 times sweeter than sucrose. * The leaves have a very sweet liquorice-like flavour. * The dried leaves can be ground and used as a sweetener or soaked in water and the liquid used in making preserves.

The leaves are also an important ingredient in Taiwanese oyster omelettes and, when young, are used along with stems to flavor soup and stir-fry. There is a report that secretions from the roots can be effective in controlling nematodes in the soil, but...

Plants often form clumps or mounds. The stems are densely covered with sharp-pointed, deeply cut leaves which appear fern-like. Annual with delicate but showy, aster-like flowers. * Machaeranthera tanacetifolia is a species of flowering plant in the aster...

* The plant is an ingredient of pot-pourri. * The leaves have a sweet aniseed flavour, they are very refreshing to chew and are also nice as a flavouring in salads, puddings, soups, stews etc.

* A hot and aromatic flavour, it is an important ingredient in curries, and is also often used as a flavouring in biscuits, cakes and bread where it also helps in improving the digestion.

* This wild cucumber has edible fruit which are very tasty when green and extremely bitter when yellow and fully ripe. * Native to Ethiopia but now found all over the tropics. * The fruits are beautiful hanging on the vines so it is recommended to grow...

The dried leaves can also be used, they remain effective for 6 months after drying. It is found only in cultivation, where it is the most commonly grown of all plants in the Nicotiana genus, and its leaves are commercially grown in many countries to be...

* Usually flowers blue, pink, white, lavender, and purple. * Nigella damascena ( Love-in-a-mist ) is an annual garden flowering plant , belonging to the buttercup family ( Ranunculaceae ).

* These small round cucumbers ripen to a lemon yellow color.

* Flax was extensively cultivated in ancient Ethiopia and ancient Egypt . * Linseed has a long history of medicinal use, its main effects being as a laxative and expectorant that soothes irritated tissues, controls coughing and relieves pain.

It is hardy to zone 6. It is native to Europe but has been introduced elsewhere, such as the western and eastern parts of the United States. * ANNUAL growing to 0.3 m (1ft). The flowers are hermaphrodite (have both male and female organs) and are pollinated...

* It is an annual plant capable of rapid plant movement—its leaflets fold together when touched. * It is similar to Chamaecrista fasciculata except that the leaves are smaller. * Chamaecrista nictitans (Sensitive Partridge Pea, Small Partridge Pea or...

* Usually flowers blue, pink, white, lavender, and purple. * Nigella damascena ( Love-in-a-mist ) is an annual garden flowering plant , belonging to the buttercup family ( Ranunculaceae ).

* The use of this plant is subject to legal restrictions in some countries. * The thornapple is a bitter narcotic plant that relieves pain and encourages healing. It has a longhistory of use as a herbal medicine, though it is very poisonous and should...

Since most of the vitamins and minerals are found close to the skin many will be lost unless the root is finely peeled or cooked whole. During frosty weather, part of the starch is converted to sugar and the root tastes sweeter.

* The green pods are commonly used as a vegetable, they have a mild flavour and should only be cooked for a short time. They are great fresh, frozen or canned. It is resistant to common bean mosaic virus and New York 15 virus.

* Native to the Mediterranean region, statice (also commonly called notchleaf status) is noted for producing clusters of papery, funnel-shaped flowers in summer. * Excellent as a fresh cut flower and for dried arrangements.

* A tea is made from the petals and flowers, that made from the petals is less bitter. It is also used as a hair rinse, adding golden tints to brown or auburn hair. An edible yellow dye is obtained from the petals.

Taken with Achyranthes spp the seed is used to treat aching teeth and gums, boils etc. * The bottle gourd, Lagenaria siceraria (synonym Lagenaria vulgaris Ser.), also known as opo squash, or long melon, is a vine grown for its fruit, which can either...

This plant is often used as an ornamental plant in gardens. * Annual or biennial; parent is dwarfish, dark blue flowers throughout summer; does well in hot, dry sun. * Cynoglossum amabile is a flowering plant native to Asia , which is also called Chinese...

It spread when the explorer and botanist Joseph Banks took seeds back to Kew Gardens during the latter half of the 18th century. * It is grown for the edible leaves, and can be used as food or an ornamental plant for ground cover.