Herb Seeds Seeds For Sale In Nova Scotia

This showy North American native displays its deep violet flowers in the fall. The Iroquois used it as a ‘love medicine' and as a ‘smudging' herb to revive the unconscious. Native people have used the roots of this plant for fever, catarrh and pain.

Valuable for all chest complaints, including pleurisy. Roots act specifically on the lungs as an expectorant and anti-inflammatory. (Butterfly weed) Bright orange-red flowers are worthy of attention as an ornamental.

Bright yellow flowers. Young shoots are eaten raw, mixed with coconut, or cooked with other greens. Indonesian favourite with a strong, pungent scent and flavour. Height 75cm/30”

It is a small tree with fragrant showy pink flowers in summer. Prefers full sun and is drought tolerant. It is gaining a reputation among western herbalists as a fast and highly effective treatment for depression, anxiety, insomnia, poor memory and irritability.

However it is a valuable medicinal. Because of the risk of toxicity, stramonium is prohibited for sale in Canada. A potent plant with many possibilities to professional researchers.

Rich source of protein, vitamin A, C, calcium and iron. From Papua and New Guinea but widely cultivated throughout the tropics. Not well known to gardeners because traditional varieties fail to produce before the frosts arrive in autumn; but our variety...

It is biennial, self-seeding to come back year after year. A soothing herb for irritations of the skin and mouth. Double hollyhock grows to between 1.2-2.5m (4-8ft), and features huge, full blooms that are attractive to birds, bees, butterflies – and...

The plant also has potent herbicidal properties, and new herbicides now on the market were inspired by compounds found in it. The leaves are wonderfully lemony and can be brewed into a delicious refreshing tea.

Traditionally used like other echinaceas for its antiviral, anti-inflammatory and immune-boosting effects. Flowers are 7cm/3” across with a chocolate brown centre. Ht. 75cm/30”.

Can be grown for interest as a potplant in a bright window or greenhouse. Tender biennial or triennial. Contains gossypol, which research has revealed has important anti-parasitic and antiviral effects, and has shown promise as a male anti-fertility drug...

Its legendary healing powers are summed up in the Arab proverb, “In the black seed is the medicine for every disease except death.” Seeds can be ground and used with near abandon like black pepper.

Large tropical-looking foliage. Can reach as high as 150cm/60in. Oil extracted from the seeds of the green form is a commonly used laxative for temporary constipation and acute diarrhea.

Also helps to clear vision. Used in China for stopping hemorrhages and diarrhea. Brilliant orange or red crested flowers resemble a rooster's comb. Fine garden annual, easily grown.

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

Used by the Aztecs as a hallucinogen in religious ceremonies. Ideal for walls, trellises or tall fences. Lovely fast growing vine with dark sky-blue flowers.

Needs long growing season; sow early in peat pots. Do not disturb roots when transplanting. Cultivated in India and China since remote times for the oil used in cooking, medicine and as fuel for lamps.

Its flowers are brightly colored which makes it an ideal plant for attracting milkweed butterflies like the monarch! Interestingly enough, when monarch caterpillars are raised on milkweed, they develop a bitter taste that makes birds sick when they feed...

Beautiful double upright trumpet-like flowers are purple and white. Angels trumpets are popular in containers for the patio, balcony or deck. They are also used externally in the form of poultices or ointments for the treatment of aches, pains, arthritis,...

They are attractive to butterflies and hummingbirds, and are good cut flowers. The strong spikes of rosy-purple flowers are the most prominent feature of the plant, rising 75-90 cm (29-35 inches) in a feathery burst of colour.

Said to be anthelminthic, nervine and antispasmodic. (Cardinal flower) One of our favourite wildflowers which provides a briliant splash of red color in damp, partially shaded locations.

Attractive white lacy flowers are excellent for fresh floral arrangements. (Bishopsweed) Known to the ancient Egyptians as a treatment for skin diseases this humble wild plant of the Nile valley was recently catapulted to the forefront of modern cancer...

Grows best in dry alkaline soil. Produces white flower umbels July to October. (Lesser burnet) A tea made from the root and sweetened with honey was recommended for the bubonic plague! Used for stomach and intestinal inflammations, catarrh, cough and...

Yellow, droopy daisy-like flowers in summer. Also used as a treatment for poison ivy. Native wildflower used by the Navajo and Cheyenne Indians as an analgesic for chest pains, wounds and fevers.

Its slightly heavier, thicker leaves cure nicely with a high percentage of mahogany and orange leaves. It was developed by crossing Canadian and American varieties to improve quality and disease resistance and to lower nicotine.

Tall, vigorous habit. Coarser foliage; almost completely lacks the odour and flavour characteristic of the true French variety. Not recommended.

Ht. 40-45cm/16-18”. 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.