Herb Seeds Seeds For Sale In Downey

Also in soups, salads and stews. Fennel tea is given to infants for its calming and anti-flatulent effects. Chopped leaves are excellent with oily fish, such as mackerel, eel and salmon, for they improve digestibility.

Flowering stalks, young leaves and buds are delicious steamed, boiled or fried with other vegetables, meat or on its own. Start indoors in April or sow direct after last frost. Broccoli-like vegetable from China.

Use it like parsley and surprise your guests with its rich celery flavour and aroma. More compact than other leaf celeries, reaching only 25-50cm (10-20") in height. A very nice leaf celery with finely cut, dark green glossy leaves.

Young foliage is strongly lemon-scented and excellent in tea. Leaves used by Hopi Indians to flavour wild game. Attractive native of the American southwest with pink-purple flowers.

The infusion made from the pink flowers or leaves is used externally to moisturize and tone the skin and internally to soothe mucous membranes irritated and inflamed by coughs, stomach upsets and other intestinal problems.

Height up to 75cm/30”. Stronger scent; bushier habit. (Pedunculata lavender) Similar to the standard form, but has large magenta flower bracts and elongated 20-30cm/8-12in flower stalks.

Thorn-covered berries harvested in autumn all over China. Also used for pain of the extremities, sciatic neuralgia, ezcema and itching. Chinese herb used traditionally to treat headache and to nasal congestion.

Excellent for potplant production, reaching only 30-35cm (12-14”) high. ‘Medinette' is slow to bolt, especially in hot conditions, and because of this trait it is often preferred over Genovese varieties where the summers are hot or in hot greenhouses.

Fern-like leaves; height up to 1.5m/5ft. Large yellow flowers.

Thick flesh; clean biting heat. Small: 2cm/1” long, 1cm/0.5” across. Use when green or ripened to scarlet. Salsas, pickled, or roasted for sauces. Heat: 10,000-23,000 Scoville units.

The succulent heart-shaped leaves have a fresh water chestnut-like taste and can be eaten raw in salads or cooked like spinach. We now know that the leaves are very rich in vitamin C.

120cm/4ft x 90cm/3ft. Repeat bloomer with purple-red single flowers. Excellent for group or hedge plantings. (Japanese rose; Saltspray rose) Hips are tomato-red and are large, up to an inch across.

(Cape gooseberry; Husk cherry; Goldenberry)

No two are exactly alike, and that's why we've assembled seven different basil varieties into one complete collection. Plant this diverse assortment of basil seeds indoors or outdoors, and enjoy the luscious tastes and aromas of this legendary herb all...

Very quick and easy to grow. Unlike some other fresh greens, the curled leaves don't easily fall flat in tossed salads. Excellent salad green, with ruffled leaves and a nice sweet spicy flavour.

Old timers still call it "squaw corn" and remember making a porridge out of it during the cold winter months. Also excellent as an autumn decoration and sells well at farmers markets.

(Rubra) Red-stemmed variety. Edible and highly ornamental.

Captures the warm flavours and aromas of the sunny south of France where lavender hugs the hills and thyme is plentiful. A classic seasoning for chicken, vegetables or meat.

Anti-flatulent. Best sown in late summer to yield fresh seed the next season. COMMON biennial strain. Spicy caraway seeds add European character to all cabbage dishes, including coleslaw and especially sauerkraut.

Showy U.S. native with large blue or white flower spikes. Employed by Indians along with mayapple ( ) to treat venereal disease.

Contains the same dyestuff as indigo, though in lower concentration. Because it is hardy (unlike indigo) woad is still grown for natural dyeing. For ages the main source of blue dye in Europe, until the introduction of indigo in the 17th century.

Brilliant red tubular flowers. Prefers sandy or gravelly soil on a slope. Considered a ‘life medicine' by the Navajo people who have used it for menstrual pain, stomach ache, wounds, swellings and coughs.

Strongest scent and flavour of all the Thai basils. Superb variety, excellent for Vietnamese and Thai cooking.

The taller (1m/40”) and the paler of the two, and may, in fact, be the more important commercially because much of what is sold as may actually be this species. Wagner of the University of Munich, the leading European research group working on echinacea,...

Medium late maturity. Very uniform mosscurled type suited for fresh-cut and processing use. Leaves are dark green, medium fine curled. Suited also for potplant production.