Herb Seeds Vegetable Seeds For Sale In Newport News

It helps to protect the brain, the liver and the cardiovascular system. While it is a tropical tree, it can withstand a little frost, and does well in containers if the tap root is pruned.

They can be brewed into beer or roasted to make a delicious coffee-like beverage. Nutritious soft-shelled seeds are widely consumed in macrobiotic cuisine. In Chinese medicine, the seeds strengthen the spleen and counteract damp heat, and are used for...

The Shoshoni Indians of Nevada used the leaves for coughs and colds. The low grey-green shrub is found from California to New Mexico north to Montana. The black sagebrush is one of the most common shrubs of the United States.

Easy to use: chopped roots are soaked in water and stirred to a lather. Roots contain 2% saponin, a soapy substance valuable in shampoos; leaves a fine sheen to hair. Spectacular towering spikes of creamy white flowers.

Handsome dark green leaves; fine specimen plant for sunny window or greenhouse. Source of commercial chocolate substitute used in making health food candy bars. Germination is slow and sporadic.

Its large yellow flower spikes look like candle sticks and make an impressive festive show as they appear around Christmas time. In Africa the plant is widely cultivated as a medicinal plant used to treat painful constipation, intestinal parasites, ringworm,...

The medium green leaves have excellent flavour and aroma. The internodes -- the length of the stem between leaves -- are extremely short, which is why the plants are exceptionally compact and bushy.

Cooling tea made from leaves is useful for fevers, dysentery and morning sickness. Tart fruits are commonly used in Indian curries, sauces, chutneys and beverages, and in Indian medicine for their carminative and laxative properties.

The seeds have no aroma or taste but they add to the cooling effect of the drink and are believed to boost body strength. Has religious significance to Muslims in India ever since the great Moghul emperor Aurangzeb decreed that this basil be planted on...

They keep up to six months! Start seeds in March. (Horned melon) Quite unlike other cucumbers, this one has small orange spiny fruits, 8-13cm/3-5” long, possessing a subtle banana-lime flavour.

Leaves somewhat smaller than Rubin basil and less prone to lean. Darkest of the purple basils. Height 50cm/20”.

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

Blue-violet flowers appear all winter. Soft, lacy, deeply-cut blue-green foliage.

Easy to grow in moist soil in full sun. Ht. 90-150cm/3-5ft. Indeed, the Royal Horticultural Society has honoured it with an Award of Garden Merit, and it is an excellent as a cut or dried flower.

Yellow, droopy daisy-like flowers in summer. Also used as a treatment for poison ivy. Height 30-100cm/12-40”. Native wildflower used by the Navajo and Cheyenne Indians as an analgesic for chest pains, wounds and fevers.

Striking head of star-like pistils, suspended by delicate cup-like calyces.

Tea stimulates the central nervous system, is diuretic and astringent, relaxes smooth muscles, and increases coronary flow. Can be grown indoors in a cool window. Young leaves are processed to make fermented, semi-fermented or green teas/beverages.

Young tender plants are a pleasant spinach substitute when boiled and served with butter. Common weed, popular as a pot-herb. Rich source of vitamins A and C.

Hard nuts are used for making rosaries. (Bead tree) Beautiful tree, native of China and India; much cultivated in southern U.S. Bark used as an emetic and to expel worms. Hardy along southern B.C. coast.

The leaves have a mild anesthetizing effect and are useful for treating toothaches and sore gums. The same studies showed that testosterone levels rise significantly with treatment.

Tea made from the plants has been used in the past to relieve chronic cough, asthma and nervousness. 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.

(Huang shu kui; Yellow sichuan mallow)

Leaves of the plant are used as a substitute for celery or parsley. Native to India and cultivated extensively in southeast Asia as well, the seeds are similar to caraway. Thought to have a carminative and anti-spasmodic effect, ajmud is traditionally...

Can be toxic if improperly used. Chinese herb used traditionally to treat headache and to nasal congestion. Pungent, bitter flavour. Also used for pain of the extremities, sciatic neuralgia, ezcema and itching.

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

Slow to germinate. (Mexican tarragon; Mexican marigold) Sweet-smelling leaves and flowers with a flavour similar to tarragon. Golden yellow flowers. In warm areas where French tarragon will not grow, this is an excellent substitute.