Borage is also known as starflower and originated in Syria. This annual has oval leaves on hairy stems, which are both cucumber scented when crushed, and blue flowers with black stamens. The flowers have a sweet honey-like taste and are used to decorate salads and cakes and are frozen in ice cubes. The cooling, mineral-rich leaves flavor drinks, dips and salt-free diets. In Liguria, Italy, borage is commonly used as a filling of ravioli.
Approx 40 seeds per pack
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Cat Grass is our special blend provides great nutrition, assists digestion and hair-ball control and includes catnip and flax, which is good for your cat's coat. 99% effective in keeping your cats from eating your house or garden plants, and much better for them. Grow in gardens, containers or on windowsills. For more treats for your cat, see Catnip. Approx 200 seeds per pack
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Catnip is a powerfully fragrant plant whose little clusters of white spotted-lavender flowers have been cultivated for centuries for medical purposes. The leaves and flowering tops resemble mint, with greyish-green leaves that treat colds, calm upset stomachs, reduce fevers and soothe headaches and scalp irriations. The leaves are also used for cat toys. Approx 100 seeds per pack
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Fireweed has showy pink to purple flowers in long, dense clusters bloom late summer. High in vitamin A and C, the young spring shoots are a nutritious vegetable, a tea from the leaves tastes similar to black tea and is used to relieve stomach aches. Older stems are used for thread or fibre. Fireweed, an early colonizer of burned, disturbed areas, was one of the first plants to appear in bomb sites during the London Blitz of World War II, and at Mt. St. Helens after its' eruption. Direct sow fall or early spring.
Approx 50 seeds per pack.
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Joe Pye Weed is an amazing plant that is a native herb, a wildflower, a butterfly plant and an ornamental for the flower bed. Composite, rose-purple flowers have a vanilla-like scent. Possibly named for a Native American doctor, Joe Pye, who used it medicinally in early Massachusetts. It reputedly stimulates circulation and sweating, makes a gentle laxative and is used for kidney problems. Some Native American tribes still consider Joe Pye Weed to be an aphrodisiac. In danger of extinction in the wild, direct sow outdoors in fall.
Approx 100 seeds per pack
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Lemon Bee Balm is a long flowering native annual wildflower with unusually fragrant, curved, tubular flowers in purple to pink. Heavenly fragrant, sweet, green leaves make refreshing, calming, lemon teas. Plants are conversation pieces in the garden; dried seed heads are distinct in everlasting floral arrangements. Attracts multitudes of hummingbirds and butterflies. Easy to grow and often forms large colonies.
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Lime Balm has bright green leaves, strong lime scent and flavor - for salads, salsas, margaritas and teas that calm, relax, relieve digestion, insomnia, depression, tension stress and headaches. Approx 250 seeds per pack
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Navajo/Hopi Tea, aka Greenthread has coreopsis-like blooms that stand out like radiant, yellow beams from June - Sept. Revered since Ancient Puebloan times, the slightly smoky, jasmine-scented drink from stems and leaves is one of the best wild, herb teas.
Approx 100 seeds per pack
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Nutmeg Flower or Black Cumin have fringed, double, white or blue blossoms, are followed by unusual seed pods which can be used as-is or turned inside-out as dried ornamentals. Velvet-black seeds (Four Spice) have a lemon-carrot scent and strawberry-pepper taste for flavoring curries, breads, cakes. Ancient medicinal with documented benefits for headaches, nasal congestion, toothache, intestinal worms, asthma, diarrhea and allergies.
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Papaloquelite is a fabulous ancient Mexican herb. The name comes from the word papalotl, Nahuatl for butterfly.
Unusual, piquant, fresh green leaves have a marvelously complex, distinctive flavor - like cilantro on steroids! Predates the Chinese introduction of cilantro and used for tacos, salsas, meats and cheeses. It is used fresh or only added at the last moment to cooked dishes.
Does not bolt in summer like Cilantro. The herb must be used fresh as it does not dry well, and is never cooked.
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Annual
Approx 40-50 seeds per pack
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Peppergrass Cress grows quickly and produces medium green leaves, which are cut deeply giving them a lacy look. Easy to gro, spicy, peppery salad green similar to watercress.
Ready when 6 to 12 inches high, trim shoots for continuous crop. Sow in very early spring. Reseeds, comes up again the following year. Even good on windowsills.
10-45 days
Approx 150 seeds per pack
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Maca or Peruvian Ginseng is rich in iron, protein, iodine and amino acids, used to stimulate immune systems, fight fatigue and were documented to enhance fertility and have an aphrodisiac effect. The root of the Maca plant is highly valued for its use as a food and nutritional value and ethnomedicinal properties linked to fertility and vitality. Approx 25 seeds per pack
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Safflower or False Saffron has brilliant yellow, orange or red flowers grow about 1 to 1 ½” across. This thistle is valued for its flowers in summer and for the oil contained in its seeds. Tender shoots can be eaten as a salad and potherb. Seeds, both edible and nutritious, are eaten roasted or fried and used in chutney.Traditionally used for coloring and flavoring foods, medicines and making red and yellow dyes.
Approx 30 seeds per pack
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Salad Burnet is a perennial herb / green with a nutty cucumber flavor for salads, tomatoes, cheese, teas, etc. An Italian proverb says ‘The salad is neither good nor good-looking when there is no burnet.’ Approx 100 seeds per pack
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Sculpit or Stridolo is a fast-growing, mild-mannered annual blending complex flavors of Chicory, Arugula, Tarragon and other favorite greens. It's milder than that would suggest, with a flavor all its own.
Found on the edge of crop fields and in forests and mountain pastures, the sprigs are harvested before blooming and used in cooking, mainly for pasta, meat, vegetables and salads, omelets and risottos in Italy where this scarce gourmet green is found. Little known outside of Italy.
In Galeata, a village in the Emilia-Romagna region, a festival at the end of April each year celebrates the sculpit. The town's streets come alive with stalls, while in Piazza Gramsci local chefs demonstrate dishes using sculpit, especially pasta and ravioli.
45 days
Approx 30 seeds per pack
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Mexican Marigold have sweet, licorice-flavored leaves and flowers that are a gentle, golden-yellow; bloom all summer and can be dried for a delicious tea. Leaves are a substitute for French Tarragon and thrive in warm areas where tarragon does not grow. Can be added to sangria, punches, mulled cider and used as a tea to calm nerves, stomachs and cure hangovers. Also good in vinaigrettes.
Approx 35 seeds per pack
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Stevia leaves are 100-300 times sweeter than table sugar, have virtually no calories and are not broken down by heat. Studies show this non-caloric, natural sweetener lowers blood pressure, regulates heartbeat, is antimicrobial, antibacterial, antiviral, anti-yeast and retards dental plaque. No calories, no carbohydrates, no tooth decay! Approx 35 seeds per packet.
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Tarahumara Chia has spikes of small, vibrant blue flowers bloom in summer. Chia was the basic survival ration of Aztec warriors. In Mexico, the seeds are still roasted, ground and added to water, forming a gel, one tablespoon of which is said to sustain a person’s energy level for 24 hours. Certified Organic. Approx 100 seeds per pack
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Toothache Plant or Szechuan Buttons is a low-growing plant with bronze-purple leaves host yellow/red "gumdrop" flowers that bloom repeatedly summer through fall. The leaves and flower heads, particularly the young buds, contain a natural analgesic which numbs the tongue and gums. Has natural antibacterial and antifungal properties, efficacy against malaria is well documented. Spilanthol, the main chemical compound, is an effective anti-parasitic. Attractive annual groundcover that's edible. The young leaves have a slight peppery taste when added to salads. Hard to find and a conversation piece. Certified Organic.
Approx. 30 seeds per pack
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Kiss Me Over the Garden Gate boasts fast-growing, pendulous clusters of lightly fragrant, bright-pink blooms that crown lush, heart-shaped leaves. First grown by Thomas Jefferson, it was called Persicary by Bernard McMahon on his 1804 Philadelphia seedlist. A great cut flower that can also be dried. In China, roasted seeds are used as a tonic for lungs, eyes and freshening breath.
Approx 50 seeds per pack
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