Herb Seeds Vegetable Seeds For Sale In Lexington Fayette

Best eaten raw, but is cooked also. Has low starch and calories. Produces largest tubers in tropical areas, but will produce equally tasty, smaller tubers in more temperate areas with a 4-5 month growing season.

Excellent lemon scent with larger leaves and more robust growth habit than the standard lemon basil variety. Up to 90cm/3ft with pink flowers.

Ideal for diarrhea and as a soothing application to burns. Sulphur yellow flowers. Rhizomes are rich in tannin. Thrives in dry open areas.

(Yellow dock) Ointment for skin eruptions and itchy skin is made by boiling roots in vinegar, then mixing softened pulp with lard or petroleum jelly. Various plant parts used with mordants yield yellow, green, gold and tan dyes.

We do not honestly know, but we love the name anyway. Even the older less tender leaves can be blanched a few seconds and added to salads. Though the greens are usually collected from the wild they are easy to grow.

They are also used externally in the form of poultices or ointments for the treatment of aches, pains, arthritis, and rheumatism, All parts of the plant are poisonous if used improperly, especially if ingested.

The proazulene add a distinctive blue colour to the essential oil. Elite variety for commericial production, rich in proazulene, a powerful anti-inflammatory agent. High yielding variety for medicinal use.

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

Infusion of leaves makes a pleasant cordial tea. Helps overcome stomach weakness. Has a faint thyme-like aroma. New research shows it is a good skin and wound remedy.

They are also used externally in the form of poultices or ointments for the treatment of aches, pains, arthritis, and rheumatism, All parts of the plant are poisonous if used improperly, especially if ingested.

It is currently being considered as a treatment for chronic fatigue syndrome, in combination with other herbs, for its purported immune stimulating properties. It was much more successful as a medicinal, entering the US Pharmacopoeia (1831-42).

Lovely in fresh or dry bouquets and arrangements. Good container plant and for edging. Masses of double white flowers on neat, compact plants 18cm/7” high. Low parthenolide.

Excellent beeplant. Although it is somewhat bothered by insects and disease, it is tough and will come back over and over. Dragonhead is an easy plant and can be direct-sown into the garden when the soil warms up in the spring.

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

It is a favourite of gardeners for its ferny leaves and clusters of bloom, mixing well with other unfussy perennial blooms in cottage and meadow gardens. Dyers can use a copper mordant to derive a black dye from the roots, and the flowers and leaves can...

Herbs with edible flowers to add to salads, omelettes, desserts, and drinks. They can even be candied. Feast for the eyes -- pleasing to the palate. Borage, Calendula, Heartsease, Nasturtium, Citrus Marigold.

The oil is antiseptic, decongestant, analgesic, promotes circulation, reduces fevers and relieves cramps. It is used in the liniment Tiger Balm and in the decongestant Olbas Oil. Also used in commercial preparations for bacterial and fungal infections...

The rootbark once gained notoriety as a powerful abortifacient, particularly in the southern United States. Contains gossypol, which research has revealed has important anti-parasitic and antiviral effects, and has shown promise as a male anti-fertility...

The leaves and flowers have a hot watercress flavour and are great in salads; and the young seed pods are hotter and can be pickled and used like capers. Easy from seeds; for gardens or in containers.

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

Major improvement on the standard variety. A very regal looking plant! Has dense deep purple inflorescences contrasting with the dark green leaves. All-American winner for 1997. Spicy anise-licorice aroma and flavour; excellent served fresh in such dishes...

It is a shiso like the better known green and purple forms except the leaves have both green on top and purple underneath. (Ear Shiso) The Japanese grow this aromatic herb for its flower tips and buds, and for its leaves.

Improved strain of valerian for commercial production; root yield up to 2.5 tonnes per hectare (1 ton/acre); contains 0.7% essential oil (bornyl acetate, valepotriate and valerenic acid).

Love it or not, the gold and white presence of the ox-eye daisy brings its careless beauty to many abandoned and out of the way places. It can be sown directly in an area that will receive full sun, to bloom from June to August.

Unlike its nasty distant cousin, the stinging nettle, this nettle does not sting which explains the name. (Purple archangel) Attractive beeplant and medicinal herb with purple-tinged foliage and purple-red flowers.

Preliminary research released in 2010 found that upland cress is the best source of phenethylisothiocyanate, a compound found to be effective against chronic inflammation of the bowel.