Organic Seeds

Sweet Annie - This is the old standard variety, it grows to a height of 6ft.  Wonderful scent can fill the atmosphere, when used as a cut flower. Gladly Reseeds freely.  Good for the Medical herb garden or as a background for flower beds.

• Annual

• Medicinal

• Full sun

• plant height: 6ft.

• 90-100 days

One of the most widespread immune boosters in Ayurvedic medicine. The plant is a small attractive shrub that bears currant-sized red fruits. The roots are commonly ground and used for loss of appetite, cardiac disorders and also for it's amazing Gingseng like qualities. Pretty shrub, a must for the Medical herb collector. I always get asked "What is that?" Resistant to drought and heat grows well in the desert.

• Perennial

• Medicinal

• Full Sun

• Plant Height 2ft.

Herbaceous perennial in the tropics, annual in temperate zones. Start indoors and transplant as you would tomatoes. Does not tolerate cold conditions well. Ginseng like Ayurvedic tonic mainly for physical and mental exhaustion.

Green foliage that resembles a thick crunchy lettuce is used as a salad green. Once used to relieve depression -- it has many Medical benefits. A good bee plant with lovely sweet-smelling delightfully blue edible flowers. Visitors will love this plant!

• Annual

• Medicinal

• Culinary

Biennial native to Europe and Asia

Nutritious, blood cleanser, used for centuries to treat a host of ailments. Chinese medicine used Burdock root, with other herbs, to treat symptoms of measles, tonsillitis, sore throats, gout, fevers, kidney stones, and the common cold. In Japan, it is eaten as a vegetable. Burdock has also been used to detoxify blood and eliminate waste. Today, it is sometimes used to treat cancer.

A special Heirloom strain, delightful combination of single and double, yellow and orange flowers. Extremely popular medical addition to Herbal + Homeopathic preparations. Homeopathy

7 Thin, long dark fruits. Used for food or medical purposes including  boosting circulation and in helping digestion. This organic seed is extremely reliable in germination it produces abundant fruited plants. Cayenne pepper is considered Official

• Annual

• Full Sun

• Sow in spring

Prolific producer of tiny white daisy-like flowers on apple-scented foliage. A useful calmative herbal tea, soothing and often used to treat stomach disorders and nervous troubles.

• Annual

• Medicinal

• Gladly reseeds freely

• Full sun

• plant height: 18in.

• 90 days

A small shrub or tree bearing fingered aromatic leaves (the aroma resembles sage) and panicles of purple blooms in the spring.  The blooms are followed by berries containing small seeds.  Used in medieval times by Catholic monks to repress sexual urges, the effects of the plant are also said to produce the opposite results.  Long used as a balancer for female hormones, it is said to ease the symptoms of pre-menstrual syndrome and menopause.  Hardy to -10F (-23.3C); height: 20ft.

Purple Coneflower. Used to treat colds, flu and infections.  Stimulates the immune system. Less commonly for wounds and acne. Strikingly beautiful flowers. Herbaceous perennial.  Derived strain from rare, wild collection, not modified or hybridized in any way from original source. This species adapts to a wide array of growing conditions. No stratification needed.

 Organically grown.

• Sow in spring

• Full sun to part shade

• Plant 1 foot apart

• Flowers 3 to 4 feet tall

3in.Vibrant yellow starbursts crown sturdy stems of this  quite large bushy plant.  It is said that Helen of Troy was claimed to have carried a handful of this plant when she was abducted by Paris, thus leading to the name helenium. Used for centuries to treat ailments of the lungs.

• Perennial

• Medicinal

• Full sun or partial shade

• plant height: 6ft

North American native biennial plant, found east of the Rockies to the Atlantic. Found growing in dry open soils, meadows and old fields. The plant is tall, often 4 to 5 feet or more in height. The stem is erect, stout, soft-hairy, reddish and branching forming a shrub. Leaves are alternate, rough-hairy, about 3 to 6 inches long and lemon-scented, it prefers acid, neutral and basic (alkaline) well-drained soils and requires full sun. Plant last two years and are self sowing.

Edible and medicinal and has a long history of use as an alternative medicine . The leaves are cooked and eaten as greens and the roots are said to be sweet succulent and delicious when boiled like potatoes. Flowers are a sweet addition to salads or as a garnish and young seedpods are Steamed. This plant was a staple food for many Native American tribes. Formerly cultivated for its nutritious edible roots, it is being increasingly cultivated for the oil contained in its seeds which contains certain the essential gamma-linoleinc acid (GLA), a very valuable fatty acid that is not found in many plants and has numerous vital functions in the body.
 

Lacy dark green leaves surround tiny white flowers that resemble double daisies. Used in the control of migraines and the pain of arthritis, psoriasis and tension. Pretty cut flower as well.

• Perennial

• Medicinal

• Full sun

• plant height: 1-1/2 to 3ft.

This very pretty border plant producing adorable blue flowers.  Flax seeds are used to make linseed oil and are used to treat diarrhea, coughs, they also have many uses against inflammation. 

• Full sun

• plant height: 24in.

Hardy tree, very resistant to pollution and disease considered to be one of the oldest living tree species on earth.  Trees are either female or male - only the female trees bear a foul-smelling fruit (takes about 20 years for a tree to bear fruit).  Ginkgo has been touted as a tonic for the brain, increasing circulation and improving neural functions.  Seeds can take up to 3 months to germinate and must be stratified.

• Full sun

• Plant height:  60ft.

Family: Solanaceae. Short lived perennial

As easy to raise as Tomatoes, Golden Berries are intriguing to grow and delicious to eat. The attractive, bushy plants yield golden-yellow berries, enclosed in balloon-like calyces. They can be eaten raw, stewed or as a jam. If picked and kept in their husks, they will store for weeks.

The Greek name Melissa translates as honey bee, and apt name for this sweet lemony smelling herb.  A haven for bees and butterflies, the plant bears small white flowers that bloom from June until frost.  Similar healing benefits as honey and royal jelly, the leaves make a good addition to iced tea it can be brewed to make a soothing tea that calms and soothes colds and sore throats.  

• Perennial

• Medicinal

• useful herb for children

• Full sun or partial shade

• plant height: 18-24in.

Glorious flows of lemon-scented grass that can be used to season foods, soups and as a perfume. It can even be grown in a pot and brought in for winter use. Heat and desert tolerant. 

• Perennial

• Full sun

• height: 4ft.

• Hardy to -10F (-23.3C)

Medical plant true sweet variety.  Licorice root is a fine flavored demulcent and expectorant-essential herbal treatment for Chronic fatigue syndrome, Adrenal exhaustion, or gastric ulcer.

• Perennial

• Plant prefers full sun and dryish soil

• Scarify seeds

• sow in spring

A premier healing agent, marshmallow root is nutritious, soothing to the digestion, stimulating to the immune system and helps prevent and repair ulcerations of the gastric mucosa and duodenum. Sow the seed in the spring. It is easy to grow in regular garden soil in the full sun or part shade. The plant prefers regular watering and makes a lot of biomass, both above the ground and below. Every part of the plant, including leaf, flower (and less useful, the stem) and especially the fresh or dried root, is useful in herbal medicine and is truly indispensable. Organically grown

As an over wintering annual, the best way to grow milk thistle for seed production is to sow it directly in the garden in the summer. The first flush of germination is about 30%, which is fairly typical for a wild plant seed that contains plenty of inhibitors. Over the next year or two, the majority of the seeds will eventually germinate, which you may or may not notice. Anyhow these first plants will develop strong rosettes, which then over winter and go to flower the following spring, producing the thorny capitula filled with liver-protective seeds by midsummer.

Leave plenty of room for these plants to grow -- a good one can easily be 4 feet across and up to 6 feet or so tall. You harvest the capitula as the purple flower dies back to reveal the white pappus, and you can further dry them (after ripen) by putting them in a bushel basket or some such affair and stirring them daily with a stick (not by hand, please!) to afford even drying. After that, you pass them through a chipper and then you winnow out the seed. A seed cleaning screen would be very useful at this point. I use milk thistle seed, about a tablespoon a day, ground up in a little electric coffee grinder, as a valuable nutrient and hepato-protective agent.

For more on all this see my book "Making Plant Medicine" and the compiled set of publications that has a whole section on milk thistle, burdock, and other spiny but helpful plants.

Vibrant lavender fragrant blooms on spikes appear in summer over dark green foliage.  The plant is not especially particular about soil preference but does best in a moist well-drained soil and makes a good bedding or border plant for your medical herb garden. The leaves are used to treat an array of complaints including nervous irritability and  heart palpitations.  It is considered a relaxing sedative. 

• Full sun or partial shade

• Hardy to -30F (-34.4C)

• height: 20in.

Herbaceous Perennial growing to 1.2m by 0.7m  It is in flower from July to September. The flowers are hermaphrodite (have both male and female organs) and are pollinated by Wind.

One of the most useful members of the Artemisia family. Vivid dream inducer. Not good when planted next to other garden plants it has a growth retarding effect. Roots and leaves exude a toxic substance. The soluble toxin, Absinthin soaks into the soil near the nearby plant offering harmful effects.

• Plant 2 feet apart.

• Grows 3 to 4 feet tall.

Bright yellow flower spikes rise from wooly leaves. Mullien tea is used to treat coughs, colds and sore throat.

Mullien is the base ingredient in many native North American Smoking blends. It is commonly mixed with other herbs to add flavor such as mints, sage and tobacco.

• Perennial

• Medicinal

Family: Urticaceae Herbaceous perennial. Native to temperate climates world-wide. Official variety. In the early spring find Chickweed overrunning the rich garden beds, Dandelion in the upland pastures, Dock in the lower pastures, Watercress where the stream runs cold into a pool and Nettles along the edge of the stream. Used together as spring vegetables, salad or tea, the fresher the better, they cleanse and build the blood. Nettles is especially rich in trace minerals, potassium and the blood-like molecule known as chlorophyll. Wait until the little Nettles are four inches high or so, and snip them off. They must be lightly steamed to disarm their stinging hairs. Eat the Nettles, and drink the water in which they were steamed.

Cultivation: Extra care. Sow in fall or very early spring for germ. in spring. To naturalize, transplant seedlings 6 inches apart to an area of dappled shade near running water. Grows to 4 feet. Organically Grown

Czech selection of a pimento pepper. Especially sweet, better when dried and ground to a fine powder for cooking and medical purposes.

Missouri native perennial which occurs in dry soils on prairies and open ground. Typically grows 3-5' tall and features whorls of two-lipped, azure blue flowers in upright spikes which rise above the foliage. Flowers bloom in summer to fall. Narrow, lance-shaped, gray-green, basal foliage (to 4" long) with smaller stem leaves. A mint family member that is attractive to bees and butterflies. A traditional food for the native people, nutritious and sustaining.

• Space 1 foot apart