Edible Leaf Plant Herbaceous Plant For Sale In Houston

It is cold hardy as well as tolerant of heat. * 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.

* The growing plant is an insect repellent, it repels the cabbage white butterfly so is a good companion for brassicas. Dulce) is a plant variety in the family Apiaceae, commonly used as a vegetable.

They should be harvested in the spring before the plant comes into flower. A cucumber flavour they can be added to salads or used as a potherb. The fresh or dried leaves are used as a tea substitute.

* A perennial with striking pink or white five-petaled 2" flowers in summer; often a weed, but a very pretty one; likes sun, grows in grassy places, especially on limestone, often in ditches along roads; native to Europe.

* The plants have a pervading aromatic odour. * Angelica has a long folk-history of use as a medicinal herb, in particular for the treatment of digestive disorders and problems with blood circulation.

* A perennial mint with lemon-scented foliage and clusters of small white flowers in whorls in the leaf axils; the leaves are used in cooking--teas, soups--toilet water, soaps, and medicine; sun or part shade, grows well in dry sites; native to southern...

Successional sowings can be made at intervals of a few weeks in order to ensure a constant supply of young plants. There is a report that secretions from the roots can be effective in controlling nematodes in the soil, but this has not been substantiated.

Established plants are drought tolerant. * Requires a well-drained sandy soil and a sunny position. * The leaves are used for flavouring rice dumplings.

* The leaves are available from early spring until late in the autumn. * The leaves have a mild flavour, somewhat like a cross between garlic and chives, they are delicious in salads.

* High in vitamins A and C. * Fresh petals are chopped and added to salads. It is probably native to southern Europe though its long history of cultivation makes its precise origin unknown, and may possibly be of garden origin.

* It is a sprawling vine 8-10 feet long. * Native to Ethiopia but now found all over the tropics. * This wild cucumber has edible fruit which are very tasty when green and extremely bitter when yellow and fully ripe.

The flowers can also be sprinkled on salads to add colour and fragrance. They are an aid to digestion and so are often used with heavy, oily foods. Spreading growth to 3ft. A popular culinary herb with 1/2in.

The seeds, leaves and roots can be used, but the seeds are most active medicinally and are the part normally used. * Fennel has a long history of herbal use and is a commonly used household remedy, being useful in the treatment of a variety of complaints,...

Aromatic and somewhat bitter. Their addition to the diet aids the digestion and so they are often used in small quantities as a flavouring, especially with fatty foods. They are also used to give colour and flavour to glutinous-rice dumplings (Mochi).

It is one of the earliest producing crookneck squash on the market that produces all summer long. * Golden Summer Crookneck is a bush type plant that yields of buttery-yellow squash with narrow curved neck that are very easy to grow.

Most culinary and ornamental basils are cultivars of the species Ocimum basilicum , but other species are also grown and there are many hybrids between species. * Ocimum basilicum , or Sweet Basil, is a culinary herb of major importance.

They contain sulphur compounds (which give them their onion flavour) and when added to the diet on a regular basis they help reduce blood cholesterol levels, act as a tonic to the digestive system and also tonify the circulatory system * Although the...

It is used to colour vinegar. * They can be used as a pot-herb or be added to salads. * In milder climates, borage will bloom continuously for most of the year. * The growing plant is a good companion for strawberries, tomatoes, courgettes and most other...

* The flowers have a sweet fruity perfume. Succeeds in water up to 2.5 metres deep. The root contains about 1.7% protein, 0.1% fat, 9.7% carbohydrate, 1.1% ash. * Researchers report that the lotus has the remarkable ability to regulate the temperature...

In a prehistoric cave in the Republic of Georgia dyed flax fibers have been found that date to 34,000 BC . * Flax was extensively cultivated in ancient Ethiopia and ancient Egypt .

* The ancestral species of the genus Cucurbita were present in the Americas before the arrival of humans. It includes cultivars of squash and pumpkin. Grow them on fast and plant out after the last expected frosts.

* The root is eaten raw or cooked. * Like most salsifies, the western salsify grows as an annual or occasionally biennial forb, reaching a height of typically 20–60 cm but sometimes almost a metre.

* I just watched a You Tube video of a woman eating 1/4 of a flower. * The leaves and flower heads contain an analgesic agent spilanthol used to numb toothache. She describes it as "like popping candy" and "little needles poking the top of your mouth".

They make excellent jelly or spicy apple butter than can be enjoyed with fresh baked goods all winter. The extremely beautiful tree produces pink buds and large white flowers in the spring.

Young fruit can be eaten as a vegetable while ripe fruits can be use to make bath sponges. They may also be grown as an ornamental plant . It is native to northern Africa. * Luffa aegyptiaca is a species of Luffa .

* This open pollinated variety has been around a long time and is still the favorite. * It produces an abundance of 8-9 inch dark green cucumbers with excellent mild flavor.

* Easily grown in average, medium, well-drained soil in full sun to part shade. Prefers part shade in warmer climates. * Members of this genus are rarely if ever troubled by browsing deer or rabbits.