Herb Seeds Seeds For Sale In Cary

Something different to try in the garden. The completely white beets won't ever stain your clothes or your tablecloth! This heirloom beet from Holland has a delicious, sweet flavour.

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

Seeds are important in many international cuisines, including those of India and Mexico. Flavour resembles caraway but is hotter. Requires a long warm growing season; should be started indoors in colder climates.

(Tou gu) Familiar garden annual. A medicinal herb in China where it is used to clear obstructions in the throat. Double and semi-double flowers in a wide colour range. Flowers mixed with alum are used to paint fingernails.

Ripens to a brilliant red colour and packs serious concentrated heat. It is still a popular tradition in Mexico to gather them in the sierras. (Chiltepin; Bird pepper) Small pea-sized red pepper thought to be the ancestor of the cultivated peppers.

Spicy fragrance and gorgeous mix of colours. Climber with strong vines up to 2m/6ft high; for trellises, fences or poles. They have unusually high vitamin C content. Immature green seeds can substitute for capers, and in tossed salads flowers add an interesting...

Said to remove freckles. (Cleavers) Fresh juice or infusion is applied to skin diseases and eruptions with good success. Roots produce a red dye.

Dense clusters of small, yellow, button-like flowers.

Not commercially cultivated. Heirloom native from Brazil. Sweet tiny tomatoes.

A beautiful white version of the Lemon heirloom cucumber. The texture is nice and crisp and the flavour is sweet and never gets bitter. Matures in 60 days. The round white fruits are about 7cm/3" across and fit easily in the palm.

The effect is striking, as if masses of butterflies have gathered in the garden. Impressive French stoechas lavender with elongated wing-like magenta petals extending from dark bracts on slender stalks.

The plant looks like chives but its long succulent leaves are crunchy with a mild salty flavour that is a bit bitter and a bit sour. Best sown outdoors as soon as the ground can be worked in spring.

Caper Seeds Commonly used for its buds and berries, which can be pickled and used as seasoning in a variety of dishes, tea made from the root of the Caper bush is known to be beneficial against rheumatism.

Indians made a wash for skin problems including skin cancer and venereal sores. (Red root) Used as a tea substitute during the American Revolution. A good gargle for mouth and throat sores.

This variety is heavy cropping, bearing white fruit all season long on runnerless plants. Berries are very sweet, with a faint pineapple tang, excellent for eating fresh out of hand, or for use in jams.

Yellow flowers bear bladder-like pods which when squeezed go off with a bang. Attractive hardy Mediterranean shrub. Like true senna ( spp.), its leaves have purgative properties, but the effect is much less drastic.

Tender biennial or triennial. Can be grown for interest as a potplant in a bright window or greenhouse. The rootbark once gained notoriety as a powerful abortifacient, particularly in the southern United States.

Excellent for potplant production, reaching only 30-35cm (12-14”) high. Compact variety with leaves larger than bush basil but not as large as Genovese. ‘Medinette' is slow to bolt, especially in hot conditions, and because of this trait it is often...

Easy to grow, tolerates part shade, and is very hardy. Excellent for group or hedge plantings. (Japanese rose; Saltspray rose) Hips are tomato-red and are large, up to an inch across.

Tropical shrub or small tree with pale yellow fragrant flowers. Used in lozenges for sore throat and cough, and for diarrhea and dysentery. Source of important resin. Has protective, soothing effect on inflamed mucous membranes.

Petite woolly rosettes of leaves resemble a cat's foot. Improves the appetite by stimulating bile flow, gastric juices and pancreatic secretions. Lovely in rock gardens.

Strong pungent fragrance. Likely because of its antiseptic properties, it was used by Native Americans like other sagebrushes to treat colds, diarrhea and sore eyes. Long-lived shrubby perennial with blue-grey leaves with a silver cast.

(Carline thistle) Root is used as a liver, gall bladder and kidney tonic, and an ingredient in Swedish Bitters. Extracts used to treat herpes and skin rashes. Not invasive like other thistles; a protected wildflower in Germany.

The hard seeds need to be scarified in order to germinate. The compound responsible for the sweetness is glycyrrhizin, a substance 50 times as sweet as sugar. The roots were used for many conditions including diarrhea, stomach ache, toothache, coughs,...

Can be eaten without fear of indigestion, stomach pains or heartburn. Long, slender fruit with an edible peel. Start early indoors, plant out with support.