Blossom Farm Herb Plants

STEP~ABLES
Are tough, easy-to-grow plants that endure light to moderate foot traffic. Ideal for both pathways and borders, these tough perennials spread rapidly to fill nooks and crannies along the garden path:
Mother of Thyme, Lime Thyme, Woolly Thyme, Elfin Thyme, White Thyme, Nutmeg Thyme, Brass buttons, Linear Leaf Lilac Thyme. Lemon Thyme, Corsican Mint, Pennyroyal, Blue Star Creeper & Irish Moss.

Nepeta mussinii 'Walker's Low'
Walker's Low Catmint
Height: 12" Zone: 3-10 Light: sun to part shade

Description: Grayish blue aromatic foliage with ever blooming lavender blue flowers. Used traditionally in England to plant under roses to help control the insect population. Hummingbird plant favorite. Do not be fooled by the name: cats usually stay away. Beautiful next to a walkway were it billows and softens the edge.
$4.49

Ocimum basilicum 'Genovese'
Genovese Basil
Height: 30" Zone: 9 Light: sun
Description: 'Sweet Genovese' is considered as the best Basil for pesto, nice large, sweet green leaves.
*NOT AVAILABLE UNTIL MAY 15, FOR SHIPPING, DO NOT ORDER IF YOU CANNOT WAIT FOR YOUR COMPLETE ORDER UNTIL THEN.
$4.25

Opuntia
Red Prickly Pear
Height: 15" Zone: 5-8 Light: sun

Description: Bright red flowers with bright yellow anthers, truly a unique color find. A very winter-hardy cactus here in Ohio. Perfect for a rock garden, container plant or conversation piece. Prefers well-drained soil. Edible.
$5.90

Opuntia humifusa
Yellow Prickly Pear
Height: 15" Zone: 5-8 Light: sun

Description: Very winter hardy cactus with gorgeous yellow blooms in summer. Perfect for a rock garden, container plant or conversation piece. Prefers well-drained soil. Edible.
$4.90

Oregano rotundifolium
Kent's Beauty Oregano
Height: 15" Zone: 5-9 Light: sun

Description: Graceful sprays of a pink hop like flowers, very unusual in the garden, nice for a container or basket. This is a favorite of mine.
$4.90

Origanum heracleoticum
Greek Oregano
Height: 15" Zone: 5-9 Light: sun

Description: Greek oregano is the best for Italian and Mexican cooking. Popular in pasta, tomato dishes, eggs, zucchini and cheese, dishes. Historically used in love spells and mixed with violets to ward off colds. Tea was used to treat indigestion, coughs and headaches.
$4.49

Origanum majoricum
Italian or Sicilian Oregano
Height: 24" Zone: 5-9 Light: sun

Description: Also sold as Sicilian oregano or hardy sweet marjoram. Italian oregano is an exquisite blend of sweet and spicy, without the bitterness of more intense types. That characteristic flavor varies, however, as Italian oregano is a hybrid resulting from crossing sweet marjoram with oregano. Plant form, leaf size, and color can vary depending on the parents, but most plants are upright in growth to 2 feet tall, with small pale green to gray-green leaves. Wonderful fragrance and gourmet flavor.
$4.49

Origanum vulgare humilen cv.
Variegated Dwarf Oregano
Height: 4" Zone: 5-9 Light: sun

Description: A vigorous grower with dark green and white leaves. Very compact with good flavor for Greek and Italian cooking. Would be nice in a container or fairy garden planter.
$4.49

Origanum vulgarus 'Aurea'
Golden Oregano
Height: 8" Zone: 5-9 Light: sun to part shade
Description: Golden foliage adds pizzazz in the garden as well as the kitchen. The brilliant yellow foliage makes this an attractive border plant with fragrant foliage and a mild oregano flavor. Brightens salads, dips, pizza and is perfect in a mix garden herb planter.
$4.49

Panax quinquefolium
American Ginseng
Height: 10" Zone: 3-8 Light: shade

Description: Ginseng, a popular herb used for enhancing everything from clarity to sex drive, is often poached from forests. Wild harvesting is not generally allowed; it must be cultivated instead. These are from a cultivated source. Ginseng prefers a cool, temperate climate. It prefers cool and well drained soil.
$4.90 TEMPORARILY SOLD OUT

Parcancanda norrisii
Candy Lily
Height: 24" Zone: 5-9 Light: sun to part shade

Description: Not a true lily but with iris-like upright leaves and a rainbow of unusual color combinations: red, orange, yellow blues and purples. Many are pock-a-dotted with a flower displayed from July to frost.
$4.49

PLANTS FOR A DYERS GARDEN
It is not surprising that herbs are a source for medicine, flavors, fragrances and provide color for fabrics as well.
Yarrow, Roman Chamomile, Calendula, Elecampane, Horsetail, Bronze Fennel, Sweet Woodruff, Lady Bedstraw, St. Johns Wort, Woad, Bay Tree, Catnip, Parsley, Weld, Rosemary, Madder, Black Eyed Susan ,Rue, Sage, Betony, Comfrey, Feverfew, Tansy, and Hops.

Passiflora caer
Passion Flower Vine
Height: 15' Zone: 6 Light: sun to part shade
Description: Colorful showy blooms and coiling tendrils. Passionflower has long been used as a calmative agent, sedative and to treat tension. Jesuit priests from Europe professed the symbols of the crucifixion in the plants blossoms to convert the natives of the area to Christianity. The five petals and five sepals of the flower represented the ten faithful apostles (absent Judas the traitor, and Peter who denied he knew Christ) the corona resembled the crown of thorns that Jesus wore, the five stamens represent the hands of Christ persecutors. May not be hardy in Northern below Zone 6? Here in Zone 5 (with winter protection) it dies back to the ground but regains with rampant growth in the summer. Also a host plant for the Gulf Fritillary butterfly.
$8.90 SOLD OUT

Petroselinum crisppum 'Neopol'
Parsley
Height: 15" Zone: 4 Light: sun

Description: An attractive bright green flat leaf variety. Parsley works best with foods that are not sweet. Who could make home made chicken soap with out this herb. A must for a butterfly garden as a host plant for monarch caterpillars.
$4.49

Pogostemon patchouli
Patchouli
Height: 30" Zone: 10 Light: sun to part shade
Description: The leaves of patchouli plant are highly aromatic with a unique exotic sensual fragrance and increases with sunlight. Widely used in cologne's to flavor chewing gums and candies. A good anchor
for other scents and once was the scent of the sensational "60's”. Shawls imported from India were once packed with the leaves to protect form insect damage. A tender plant which is best planted in a terra cotta pot, sunk in the ground in the summer, and used as a house plant in the winter. Not available to ship until after May 10.
$5.90

Poterium sanguisorba
Salad Burnet (Di-yu)
Height: 12" Zone: Light: sun

Description: Brought to us by the early colonists, and was used as a medicinal herb for the primary ingredient in "Green Salve". Thomas Jefferson used it as a salad herb. Delicate bright green foliage arrange in a lovely rosette making a handsome addition in the garden. The tender young leaves are used to add a cucumber flavor to salads, in vinegars, chopped and mixed in cream cheeses, butters, garnishes and used by the French in Burnet sauces.
$4.49

Pycnanthemum tenuifolium
Mountain Mint
Height: 18" Zone: Light: sun
Description: The Eastern Native American Indian Tribes used this plant as an unspecified remedy for baiting their mink trap and believed a tea made from the leaves was a tonic for revival from exhaustion. Early settlers used a poultice of Mountain Mint to prevent rabies. A leaf tea served as a general tonic and as a treatment for indigestion. They also used the leaves as a seasoning in cooking. Intensely mint-scented when crushed they bear clusters of small bluish flowers in late summer making a good honey plant. They also appear to be excellent food sources for beneficial insect. Plants are now popular to be used in dried arrangements.
$4.49