Crop Plant Herbaceous Plant For Sale In Carlsbad

* Summer savory ( Satureja hortensis ) is the better known of the Savory species. A tangy, marjoram-like flavour. * The leaves can be used fresh or dried. The flowering shoots contain about 0.5% essential oil, this is used as a food flavouring.

Timothy-grass can be confused with Meadow Foxtail ( Alopecurus pratensis ) and Purple-stem Cat's-tail ( Phleum phleoides ). The flowerhead is 7–15 cm long and 8–10 mm broad, with densely packed spikelets.

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

* These are the sweet white onions famous raw on hamburgers and salads. 110 days to harvest. 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...

* Fordhook is a well known and very popular variety of Swiss Chard. * The large stalks are topped by deep green leaves. Excellent for use in salads or steamed. It is cold hardy as well as tolerant of heat.

* 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.

They are best harvested when 8" long. Golden summer turns deeper yellow as it matures. This squash is very tender and full of flavor. * Golden Summer Crookneck is a bush type plant that yields of buttery-yellow squash with narrow curved neck that are...

* The flowers appear from late spring to summer in umbelliform cymes of about 4 flowers.The seeds are small and black, borne in a long capsule . * It is considered an aggressive invasive plant in natural areas (both woods and fields).

* 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.

The stiff straw is exceptional as field borders and wind barriers and its extensive root system provides an excellent stabilizing force for soil erosion and control. The stiff-stemmed, upright growth is highly rated for wildlife nesting, brood rearing...

It is native to Europe and Asia; in the USA it grows best in American Horticultural Society zones 8 to 1. It is a fairly short variety, growing only to 3 feet high. Integrifolia bears nodding, urn-shaped blue flowers in summer that are 1.5 inches wide.

* The dried leaves can be ground and used as a sweetener or soaked in water and the liquid used in making preserves. * Other reports say that they contain 'estevin' a substance that, weight for weight, is 150 times sweeter than sugar.

* Coreopsis basalis is a bushy annual species with finely cut foliage and showy round flowers. Golden-mane Coreopsis is native from the south Eastern and south central states of the USA.

* Chervil ( Anthriscus cerefolium ) is a delicate annual herb related to parsley . * It has a mild aromatic flavour that is suggestive of aniseed. * The leaves are ready for harvesting in about 8 weeks from sowing, the plant responds well to cut and come...

* The plant's forked root and leaves were traditionally used for medicinal purposes by Native Americans. Many ginseng growers in Wisconsin are represented by the "Ginseng Board of Wisconsin", whose seal is often sought after on ginseng products to certify...

Mature in 45 to 65 days. * They should be harvested when under 10 inches for the best flavor. It is an early bush zucchini that produces a high yield of straight dark green cylindrical fruit.

* The Cubanelle, also known as "Cuban pepper", is a variety of sweet pepper of the species Capsicum annuum. It is used extensively in the cuisine of Cuba, the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico.

* Liriope muscari is a species of low, herbaceous flowering plants from East Asia . * Prefers a sandy soil. * Seedlings grown from our seed will not be variegated as the plants are in some of the pictures above.

* This Clematis is very fast growing and will cover an area quickly with beautiful yellow flowers that last most of the season.

* These scallions are perfect for adding mild flavor to salads of all kinds. * Can be overwintered if mulched to zone 4. * Many Welsh onions can multiply by forming perennial evergreen clumps.

* Plants form impenetrably dense clumps and when planted close together in drifts make an excellent ground cover. If soil fertility is low, a large portion of the total production occurs in the spring, but if the soil is highly fertile, production is...

* This species can be distinguished from the oneseed bur cucumber (Sicyos angulatus) by the six-lobed corolla and the lack of the clustered fruits that that plant bears. * The pulverized root is used as a poultice for headaches.

A mucilage from the seed coats is used as a fabric stiffener. Lanceolata is used frequently in tisanes and other herbal remedies. An extract of them has antibacterial properties. Lanceolata contains phenylethanoids such as acteoside (verbascoside), cistanoside...

* An attractive garden flower, blooms in May or June, 1 1/2" flowers, several per stem. * Plants can be grown on walls. Succeeds in dry soils and in poor soils. * Prefers a neutral to slightly alkaline soil in a sunny well-drained position.

The dried leaves are a very pleasant tea substitute. * Sow seed early spring in a greenhouse. Tolerates semi-shade though fruit production will be reduced when plants grow in such a position.

Although the Sweet William is a perennial species, it is quite short-lived and degenerates after its second year. * The popular old-fashioned flower; likes limey soil; native to Russia and China.

* White clover ( Trifolium repens ) is a species of clover native to Europe , North Africa , and West Asia . Thick growing and winter hardy. Thrives in moist soil conditions, Prefers medium fertility soils with a pH between 6.0 - 6.5. Plants produce uncertain...