Seeds Herb Plug Trays For Sale In Winnipeg

Leaves contain the intensely sweet compound hernandulcin (1000 times sweeter than sugar) but high camphor content makes them unsuitable for use as a sugar substitute. Mexican herb used since at least the time of the Aztecs for coughs, colds, bronchitis,...

RICHTERS EXCLUSIVE CANADIAN INTRODUCTION. Developed from apple and lime mint, it has the sweet, fruity, spearmint-like aroma of apple mint lined with a citrus edge from its lime parent.

Dried leaves scent potpourris. Pineapple mint is less invasive than some other varieties but enjoys the same optimum growing conditions of part shade and moist soil. It is well worth the effort, as it is one of the best mints for the kitchen garden.

An infusion of the herb is good for weak stomach, lack of appetite and persistent bronchitis. Horehound candies were once the standard remedy for coughs in Europe and North America.

Lavender-coloured flowers. It's easy to fall in love with one! Has an amazing geranium rose-like scent owing to its high geraniol oil content. Excellent for potpourri and tea. Robust growth habit.

Also in homemade sausage, omelettes, cheese and bean dishes. Sage tea gargle is valuable for sore throat. Dwarf version of the standard ariety. Excellent for small areas, rockeries, borders.

Like most mints, applemint can threaten the garden with too much of a good thing, and in its optimum growing conditions of part shade and moist soil will quickly introduce itself to neighbouring beds and lawns.

Much like black tea is in England and India, and green tea is in China, preparing and serving Moroccan tea is a traditional art form and a symbol of hospitality. An exceptional sweet mint used widely throughout North Africa to brew Moroccan-style mint...

Strengthens the heart and often prescribed for palpitations. Especially valuable for PMS, menstrual pain and delayed menstruation. Gentle sedative. Helps calm the entire nervous system.

Noted for soothing irritations and inflammations of the skin, throat, eyes, lungs and urinary organs.

Blue boy is drought tolerant, and should be located in full sun. Ht 4-6ft (120-180cm). Spread 4-6ft (120-180cm). This container favourite could be woven into a kitchen centerpiece, supplying an ongoing yield of highly aromatic and flavourful needles,...

Small upright bushy habit; dark green leaves.

Velvety, purple streaked leaves. Strong minty scent that some noses swear has a hint of chocolate.

Very effective as an edging for gardens and along pathways. Flowers dry well for arrangements. Ht. 30-60cm/1-2ft. Forms beautiful dense carpets covered with masses of purple flowers in late summer.

Traditional ground cover in English gardens and pathways, where it is cut like grass.

As we suspected, most are pretty much the same as true peppermint, but one strain surprised us. Hard to pin down as truly 'chocolate', but its clean fragrance of peppermint is overlaid by something else that adds up to a striking 'peppermint patty' scent.

‘Grenadin' is a mixture of pink, red and white double flowers. (Carnation) Clove-scented flowers were once used to flavour ales and wines, especially celebration cups at coronations, hence its name “carnation”.

Also in homemade sausage, omelettes, cheese and bean dishes. Sage tea gargle is valuable for sore throat. Aromatic foliage with white and pink streaks. Grow in/outdoors in full sun.

Upright growth habit; prolific bloomer. Lovely pink-flowered version of ‘Majorca'.

Small dainty plant with a spicy nutmeg scent.

Smaller leaves are more concentrated in flavour and a little will go a long way. True French sorrel, although garden sorrel is much more commonly used for sorrel soup.

One of the definitive perfumes of the Orient and of India in particular. Widely used in perfumes and soaps, and even to perfume India ink. Leaves are excellent in potpourris and sachets.

Lovely cut flower and border plant in a mixture of red, rose and white. Also source of insecticide.

Along the way I couldn't resist sneaking a whiff of a small container marked ‘Candied Fruit'. One day I was given the job of stocking a small seasoning rack. It seems that I NEVER forgot that delicious aroma.” And so years later that memory lives...

Lacking scent or flavour, its virtues are mainly visual and tactile. Lovely low carpets of grey, woolly leaves and pale pink flowers. Superb contrast plant for greener herbs.