Heirloom Vegetable, Herb & Flower Seeds

Holy Basil is a native herb in India, where it is known as Tulsi.

It is sacred in the Hindu religious tradition and is regarded as one of the most important plants used in Ayurvedic medicine. You will see holy basil growing in profusion around Hindu temples in India.

Sweetly fragrant, clove-like flavor. The aromatic leaves can be used in salads, cooking, herb butters or tea. Also repels mosquitoes.

Certified Organic

Approx 50 seeds per pack

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Magical Michael basil has Incredible fragrance from a compact, ornamental bush making this is a bee magnet.

Lush aromatic, green leaves are rich in essential oils for cooking with lots of cream-white blossoms. Young leaves are great for cooking, plants used by top landscapers for unique presentation. The small flowers are attractive for use as a garnish, adding color to any salad since the calices are purple and corollas white.

Approx 50 seeds per pack

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Thai basil's name is Bai Hora-pa, also called Asian basil.

Highly aromatic, they are slightly sweeter but more intense in flavor and are more stable when cooked than the Mediterranean basil. Leaves are narrower than the more rounded Mediterranean version. Wonderful container plant, as they only grow to about 24 in. tall.

Approx 50 seeds per pack

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Also known as wild chamomile, Hungarian chamomile, pineapple weed and scented mayweed, German chamomile (Matricaria recutita) is completely different than Roman or English chamomile (Chamaemelum nobile).

Both are one of the most widely used flowers for calming herbal teas, to treat digestive disorders, to relieve muscle spasms, and to treat a range of skin conditions. The tiny daisy-like flowers have a strong, aromatic smell, and bloom in early to mid summer.

Certifed Organic. Annual

Approx 250 seeds per pack

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Garlic chives, or Chinese Chives are perennial in all but the coldest climates. Producing purple-flowered seed heads. A subtle garlic flavor of is perfect for use in uncooked dishes where raw regular garlic might be overwhelming or too spicy. Also used in many dishes from dips to steaks.

Certified Organic.

Approx 500 seeds per pack

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The Rampion (or Ramps as it's better known) was extensively cultivated in English kitchen gardens, and is still grown widely in France, Germany and Italy. The roots are used young like parsnips and eaten hot with a dressing of a sauce.

Ramps are a relative of the turnip, and have a similar root. The biennial plant is usually grown as an annual vegetable for its leaves and roots. The stem grows 2-3' tall with 1-3" long narrow small toothed leaves. Reddish purple, blue or white flowers appear in July to August and are 3/4" long.

Biennial, grown as annual

Approx 50 seeds per pack

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The Nodding Onion is a native plant. Blooms June through early fall. Erect stems hold globes of drooping or nodding, white, bell-shaped flowers that turn lilac as they age and form exquisite seed heads.

A member of the lily family, Native Americans and early settlers used nodding onion to flavor food and to treat croup, colic, colds, fevers, kidney stones, dropsy and respiratory disorders.

Perennial

Approx. 35 seeds per pack

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The Tennessee Coneflower has bright pink 12-24" flowers are different from other coneflowers because of their upright petals and centers of deep chocolate brown.

As the flowers age they develop a beautiful silvery tone. Excellent for cut flowers and attracts butterflies.

Perennial zn 3-9.

Approx 50 seeds per pack

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Anise hyssop is a native plant with showy lavender flowers from July-September that add a lively licorice taste to salads, fruit dishes, baked goods and drinks.

Extra-sweet, anise-flavored leaves make soothing teas to settle upset stomachs, respiratory disorders and fevers. Attracts butterflies and bees, producing a fine, mildly anise-tasting honey. Its aromatic properties were known to the North American Indians, who used the leaves as a cough medicine.

Certified Organic.

Approx 100 seeds per pack

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Lavender has abundant, grey-green spikes tipped with sweet-scented, powder blue/mauve flowers.

Add them to vinegars or jams or crystallize in desserts. Lavender cookies are elegant; lavender pillows are used to treat travel nausea, insomnia, headaches. Traditional in potpourris, arrangements, wreaths and as teas. Lavender angustifolia is one of the richest in essential oils, meaning more fragrance both fresh and dried.

Lavender aromatherapy is highly effective at soothing and healing people, horses and dogs. Read our article - Lavender Soothes Animals Too for the full story!

Approx 50 seeds per pack

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Rosemary is an ancient woody, perennial culinary and medicinal herb with fragrant evergreen needle-like leaves, semi drought tolerant and used in landscaping.

It is a symbol of remembrance and friendship, often carried by wedding couples as a sign of love and fidelity. Easy to grow and very pest resistant.

Fresh and dried leaves are used in cooking, with the flowers and leaves used medicinally. Used in potpourris to freshen the air, and in cosmetics, disinfectants and shampoos. Has a very old reputation for improving memory, and to treat gout. The finest plants are said to be raised from seed.

Approx 50 seeds per pack

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Black Seed Sesame was first domesticated in India, cultivated at Harappa in the Indus Valley between 2250 and 1750 BC.

Single stem with oval leaves and tubular flowers are yellow to blue or purple. Grown for its edible seeds in long pods that burst open when ripe. Seeds are dry roasted and used whole in cooking or ground and used as a paste for flavor. Used extensively in Asian, East Indian and Mediterranean cuisines. Black varieties are prized in the Far East, which have a rich earthy, nutty flavor and have high amounts of protein, phosphorous, iron and magnesium.

Certified Organic.

Approx 100 seeds per pack

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Creeping Thyme is a thick, spreading ground cover with rosy pink flowers and oblong leaves with a lemony scent.

One of the best growing, most versatile ground covers, stands up to being walked on, and has herbal uses. Try in teas, salads, rice, fish, and vegetable and egg dishes. Reliably hardy, softly ornamental, resilient, fragrant to walk on. For paths, rock gardens, pots, etc. Softens edges. Once established, is very drought tolerant, stems root easily.

Approx 200 seeds per pack

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Orange Scented Thyme has the traditional flavor of Old English Thyme with a refreshing orange-mint fragrance and pale pink flowers that attract bees.

When used in cooking, the clear orange flavor lingers without the harsh aftertaste of other thymes. Excellent with fish, roasted vegetables, stews and soups. Grows short & compact to 4” tall & 12” across.

Approx 40 seeds per pack

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Mexican Valerian is a hardy perennial with heads of sweetly scented pink or white flowers that bloom June to September.

Used as a perfume in the sixteenth century, and a medicinal herb since at least the time of ancient Greece and Rome. Commonly used against sleeping disorders, restlessness and anxiety, and as a muscle relaxant. Roots are harvested after leaf fall and dried to be used as a sedative. Valerian is a powerful nervine, carminative and antispasmodic and is beneficial to those suffering from nervous tension as it has none of the after effects felt when using addictive substances.

The United States Pharmacopeial Convention has accepted a valerian monograph for inclusion in the National Formulary (Pharmacopeial Forum, 1998). It is widely used as a sedative and antispasmodic in the United States.

Certified Organic.

Approx 100 seeds per pack

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The classic kitchen herb English Thyme is also known as German thyme and garden thyme.

Thyme is a great garden plant with a neat habit, fragrant foliage, and colorful flowers. It is an ideal edging plant and is a good choice for a windowsill herb.

Thyme goes with everything- all meats, poultry, fish, stuffing, stews, soups, sauces, stock, herb butters, flavored vinegars, beans, lentils, potatoes, tomatoes, cheese, onions, cucumbers, carrots, eggplant, leeks, mushrooms, eggs, and rice.

Annual

Approx 100 seeds per pack

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Virginia Mountain Mint is a slender, erect, native herb with strong, mint-scented, frosty leaves and lavender flowers late summer to fall.

Scent remains when dried. Wonderful for teas, beverages, recipes, dried arrangements. Tea made from the leaves is used in alternative medicine.

Approx 50 seeds per pack

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Clary Sage is both a flower and an herb.

Soft, woolly heart shaped leaves with lilac, pale blue, pink or white flowers form in whorls on top of the stems, with the upper lip curled up. Flavors teas, wines, is used as an eye wash, in cosmetics, potpourris, sachets and for aromatherapy. Attracts hummingbirds and many different species of butterflies.

Approx 35 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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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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