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Will live year after year in zone 5b and maybe colder zones.

CHIVE

Chive Growing Tips: Cut back to 1" high after blossoming. You'll be rewarded with a second flush of growth and will prevent massive reseeding. (Not a worry for "Seed- Free.") All are hardy to at least Zone 5.

Use the flowers fresh in salads for a "No Tears" sweet "Vidalia or Walla Walla" onion flavor. Or how about in vinegars, fresh flower arrangements, or bouquets? Important: Snip leaf blades with scissors to avoid bruising with a knife.

Chives, Curly

Allium senescens var. `Glaucum'

Cold Tolerance: Zone 4a 4b 5a 5b 6a 6b 7a 7b 8a 8b 9a 9b
Light: Full Sun to Full Sun
Height: 4in.
Water: Normal
Soil: Any Soil
Flowers: Early Summer to Middle Summer
Common Uses:Container, Miniature/Faery Garden, Ornamental

You have to see this quirky, miniature, curly, blue-leaved ""Allium"" for yourself. It is too sweet for rock gardens or small pockets. 2"" baby pink blossoms flirt with bees on top of 3-4"" stalks in June or July. Should be sprinkled sparingly due to a strong onion flavor.
$ 3.79

Chives, Garlic

Allium tuberosa

Cold Tolerance: Zone 4a 4b 5a 5b 6a 6b 7a 7b 8a 8b 9a 9b
Light: Full Sun to Full Sun
Height: 1 Foot
Water: Normal
Soil: Any Soil
Flowers: Late Summer to Middle Summer
Common Uses:Butterfly, Culinary, Cut Flower, Edible Flowers, Ornamental

Imagine: pristine, tall, white, 2"" globe, flower clusters in August. Also called ""Flat leaf Chives"" for their wider leaves; Add a mild garlic flavor, by simply sprinkling bits of flowers over chicken, Caesar salad, omelets and bread. I mean what doesn't need a dash of garlic?
$ 3.79

Chives, Onion/Garden, Jupiter

Allium schoenoprasum 'Jupiter'

Cold Tolerance: Zone 4a 4b 5a 5b 6a 6b 7a 7b 8a 8b 9a 9b
Light: Full Sun
Height: 1 Foot
Water: Normal
Soil: Any Soil
Flowers: Early Summer
Common Uses:Butterfly, Culinary, Cut Flower, Edible Flowers, Ornamental

Mulberry Creek introduced and named this for its huge!, dark purple flowers with a large red center, that reminded us of the spot on our solar system's 5th planet. Foliage remains upright and stately for a year long harvest. Astronomically and horticulturally - big news!
$ 3.79

Chives, Onion/Garden, Mercury

Allium schoenoprasum 'Mercury'

Cold Tolerance: Zone 4a 4b 5a 5b 6a 6b 7a 7b 8a 8b 9a 9b
Light: Full Sun
Height: 1 Foot
Water: Normal
Soil: Any Soil
Common Uses:Butterfly, , Culinary

It's easy to remember this Mulberry Creek introduction. "Mercury's" flowers are smaller than "Jupiter's" but as purple. It is fast blooming and in most seasons has re-bloomed for us throughout the season.
$ 3.79

Chives, Onion/Garden, Seed-free

Allium schoenoprasum

Cold Tolerance: Zone 4a 4b 5a 5b 6a 6b 7a 7b 8a 8b 9a 9b
Light: Full Sun to Full Sun
Height: 1 Foot
Water: Normal
Soil: Any Soil
Flowers: Early Summer
Common Uses:Butterfly, Culinary, Cut Flower, Edible Flowers

Carefree, seed-free, just not free. Looks and tastes exactly like Garden Chives"", but will not form any viable seed. Wake Up! That means it will not take over the yard, while you're on vacation, if you forget to remove seed heads. It also blooms about 6 weeks longer since it's not ""worried about the kids"".
$ 3.79

Chives, Onion/Garden, Solaris White

Allium schoenoprasum 'Album'

Cold Tolerance: Zone 4a 4b 5a 5b 6a 6b 7a 7b 8a 8b 9a 9b
Light: Full Sun
Height: 1 foot
Water: Normal
Soil: Any Soil
Flowers: Early Summer to Late Spring
Common Uses:Butterfly, Culinary, Cut Flower, Edible Flowers, Ornamental

One of Mark's ""Holy Grails"". We finally found seed for this White Garden Chive and selected out the best flowering seedlings from which to multiply. Great tasting ""Onion Chive"" flavor flowering in late spring with other Garden (Onion) Chives.
$ 3.79

Chives, Onion/Garden, Staro

Allium schoenoprasum 'Staro'

Cold Tolerance: Zone 4a 4b 5a 5b 6a 6b 7a 7b 8a 8b 9a 9b
Light: Full Sun
Height: 1 Foot
Water: Normal
Soil: Any Soil
Common Uses:Butterfly, , Culinary

Chose this "Oniony Chive" because of its heavier, thicker leaves which makes harvest, fresh use and freezing easier. Freeze by snipping leaves into 2 or 3" lengths, placing it on a cookie sheet and "flash freezing" it for about 30 minutes or until stiff. Throw them in labelled "Zip-loc" bags. This insures being able to pull out the leaves individual.
$ 3.79

Chives, Onion/Garden, Venus

Allium schoenoprasum 'Venus'

In honor of the second planet, we introduced this pink REPEAT bloomer. With a savory onion flavor, you might be inclined to add it to deviled eggs or tuna salad.
$ 3.79

Chocolate Flower

Berlandiera lyrata

Cold Tolerance: Zone 5b 6a 6b 7a 7b 8a 8b
Light: Full Sun
Height: 12in.
Water: Dry-Normal
Soil: Organic-Loamy
Flowers: Late Summer to Middle Summer
Common Uses:Borders, Fragrant

Chocolate guaranteed: If you don't agree that these yellow daisy flowers aren't fragrant or smell like baking chocolate, you get your money back and keep the plant. 2-1/2" gold wildflowers rise in clustered stalks above green-blue rosettes and repeat flower the entire growing season. The scent downwind is intoxicating. Best planted in mass, 6 or more plants, to achieve this effect. Kid's garden candidate.
$ 3.79

Coltsfoot

Tussilago farfara

Cold Tolerance: Zone 4a 4b 5a 5b 6a 6b 7a 7b 8a 8b
Light: P.Shade-P.Sun to P.Shade-Shade
Height: 12in.
Water: Normal
Soil: Organic
Flowers: Middle Spring
Common Uses:Medicinal

In April, dandelion-like flowers appear before leaves emerge. Colt's foot shaped leaves, up to 4" across, enjoy a shady, moist spot under our blue spruce. We make a strong tea, sweetened with honey, and sip it to soothe coughs. Caution, it can really take over provided the right conditions. Limit its growth with lawn edging and it obeys.
$ 3.79

Costmary, Bible Leaf

Tanacetum balsamita

Cold Tolerance: Zone 4a 4b 5a 5b 6a 6b 7a 7b 8a 8b 9a 9b
Light: Full Sun to Full Sun
Height: 2-3 Feet
Water: Normal
Soil: Loamy
Common Uses:Bath, Culinary, Medicinal, Potpourri

Its 6"" long, strap shaped leaves and mint fragrance served as a bible marker and ""stimulant"" during lengthy sermons. Fine hairs give a light gray look. Spreads by underground branches which bolt in June to form dandelion-like, frankly unattractive, flowers. Remove prior to flowering if you find them undesirable. Use fresh leaves sparingly in salads and soup, also dried leaves in sleep pillows.
$ 3.79

Curry Plant

Helichrysum italicum (angustifolia)

Cold Tolerance: Zone 10a10b6a6b7a7b8a8b9a9b
Light: Full Sun to Full Sun
Height: 6-12in.
Water: Normal
Soil: Sandy-Loamy
Common Uses:Borders, Fragrant, Ornamental, Potpourri

Ornamental narrow gray leaves adorn this upright growing plant. We got it because it smells great, but it's at home as a white foliage feature in our moonlight garden. Has tiny bright yellow buds from July to September. Delightful curry scent, but don't confuse it with curry powder: a blend of cumin, turmeric, & assorted Mid-East spices. One of our retail customers uses it to flavor vinegar.
$ 3.79

Echinacea, Paradox Yellow

Echinacea paradoxa var. paradoxa

Cold Tolerance: Zone 4b 5a 5b 6a 6b 7a 7b 8a 8b 9a 9b
Light: Full Sun to Sun-P.Sun
Height: 3-4 Feet
Water: Normal
Soil: Sandy-Loamy
Flowers: Late Summer to Middle Summer
Common Uses:Borders, Butterfly, Medicinal, Ornamental, Tea

The paradox of this ""Purple Coneflower"" is that it's yellow! This refreshing early summer blooming perennial has the classic rosette plant from which emerge majestic daisy-like flowers. Has many of the same medicinal components as E. angustifolia.
$ 3.79

Echinacea, Pastel Pink

Echinacea pallida

Cold Tolerance: Zone 4b 5a 5b 6a 6b 7a 7b 8a 8b 9a 9b
Light: Full Sun to Full Sun
Height: 2-4 Feet
Water: Normal
Soil: Sandy-Loamy
Flowers: Late Summer to Middle Summer
Common Uses:Borders, Butterfly, Medicinal, Ornamental, Tea

Considered by many, to be the most medicinally active species of all the ""Purple Coneflowers"" and suspected to be sold in Europe as E. angustifolia. Subtler beauty than E. purpurea, with pale, pink, droopy, more narrow flowers petals, and just as potent.
$ 3.79

Echinacea, Purple

Echinacea purpurea

Cold Tolerance: Zone 4b 5a 5b 6a 6b 7a 7b 8a 8b 9a 9b
Light: Full Sun to Full Sun
Height: 2-3 Feet
Water: Normal
Soil: Sandy-Loamy
Flowers: Late Summer to Middle Summer
Common Uses:Butterfly, Cut Flower, Medicinal, Ornamental, Tea

We chose this herb as part of our logo because of its beauty and multiple use: the quintessential herb. 4"" large, purple, daisy shaped blossoms are held upright on sturdy stems. ""Echinacea,"" is one of America's favorite medicinal herbs for the colds and flu. You can imagine my face when Mark pointed to the newly purchased Vodka saying "" It's for medicinal purposes,"" but he wasn't kidding. He made a tincture by stuffing a canning jar with coneflower leaves and filled it with 100 proof Vodka. We placed it in the closet and shook it daily for two weeks. Tasted awful, but seemed to work for us and we take it by the dropperful. We use it ONLY at the onset of symptoms, or when we're exposed to ""snotty"" folks, then we quit taking it, within 3 weeks. Pick leaves before it flowers and harvest flowers in their peak. Some folks believe the roots are the most therapeutic, but we've used all parts, in their prime.
$ 3.79

Echinacea, Tennessee

Echinacea tennesseensis

Cold Tolerance: Zone 4b 5a 5b 6a 6b 7a 7b 8a 8b 9a 9b
Light: Full Sun to Sun-P.Sun
Height: 3-4 Feet
Water: Normal
Soil: Sandy-Loamy
Common Uses:Butterfly, Cut Flower, Medicinal, Ornamental, Tea

This Echinacea does not stop flowering. We predict that this species, which was almost dug to extinction, (and was placed on the National Endangered Species list) will become one of America's most popular flowering perennials. What a great medicinal herb too. It is similar to Echinacea angustifolia in its medicinal chemistry. Smaller flowers than other ""Purple Coneflowers"", but the petals on this variety turn upright and are darker purple rather than droopy and washed out.
$ 3.79

Elderberry, Black

Sambucus canadensis

Cold Tolerance: Zone 5a 5b 6a 6b 7a 7b 8a 8b 9a 9b
Light: Sun-P.Shade to P. Shade
Height: 10 Feet
Water: Wet-Normal
Soil: Organic-Loamy
Flowers: Early Summer
Common Uses:Bees, Borders, Culinary, Edible Flowers, Hedges/Shrubs, Medicinal, Ornamental, Tea

This hardy small tree is loaded with 5"" white flower clusters in early summer which turn into small black tasty berries, rich in Vitamin C and used to make wine, jelly, and pies. Flowers can be used in a tea for colds, as a face wash, or battered and deep fried. Leaves can comfort minor bruises. Berries are best in pies (See our recipe) and immune building syrups, especially safe for children. The prime component of ""Sambucol"" (childrens' syrup) sold in health food stores.
$ 5.29

Elderberry, Madonna

Sambucus nigra 'Madonna'

Cold Tolerance: Zone 5a 5b 6a 6b 7a 7b 8a 8b 9a 9b
Light: Sun-P.Sun to P. Shade
Height: 10 feet
Water: Wet-Normal
Soil: Organic-Loamy
Flowers: Early Summer
Common Uses:Bees, Culinary, Edible Flowers, Hedges/Shrubs, Medicinal, Ornamental, Tea

Oddly enough, 'Madonna' exhibits a golden variegation as opposed to the white color on Variegated Elderberry. Otherwise, it is the same. Because of its overall warm appearance, it is a welcome backdrop for wildflowers or English Cottage gardens. Native elderberries, run amuck, may have scared gardeners away from their beauty. You have nothing to fear with this magnificent shrub.
$ 5.29

Fennel, Bronze

Foeniculum vulgare `Bronze'

Cold Tolerance: Zone 5a 5b 6a 6b 7a 7b 8a 8b 9a 9b
Light: Full Sun to Full Sun
Height: 2-4 Feet
Water: Normal
Soil: Sandy Sandy-Loamy
Flowers: Late Summer to Middle Summer
Common Uses:Butterfly, Culinary, Edible Flowers, Medicinal, Ornamental, Tea

This beauty need not provide anything useful, but boy does it ever! Imagine fine feathery foliage with a bronze-red cast, tickling yellow hued ""Queen Anne Lace""-like flowers above. Does not produce a bulb but leaves and stems are tasty, finely chopped, added to salads, fish, and soups. A tea from the leaves or seeds eases our indigestion. After seeds begin to mature, cut entire stalks. Hang them upside down in a paper bag to finish ripen, and avoid self-seeding all over the garden.
$ 3.79

Feverfew

Tanacetum parthenium

Cold Tolerance: Zone 4b 5a 5b 6a 6b 7a 7b 8a 8b 9a 9b
Light: Full Sun to Full Sun
Height: 2 Feet
Water: Normal
Soil: Loamy
Flowers: Late Summer to Middle Summer
Common Uses:Bees, Borders, Medicinal, Ornamental

Clusters of 1/2"" white daisy flowers reach 6"" above green, deeply lobed leaves that forms a 2 foot tall by 2' wide rosette. Customers have tried fresh leaves hidden in a mayonnaise sandwich (to mask bitterness) for reducing the severity & frequency of migraines.
$ 3.79

Feverfew, Mini Pompom

Tanacetum parthenium 'Plenum Florum'

Cold Tolerance: Zone 4b 5a 5b 6a 6b 7a 7b 8a 8b 9a 9b
Light: Full Sun to Sun-P.Shade
Height: 2 feet
Water: Normal
Soil: Loamy
Flowers: Early Summer to Late Summer to Middle Summer
Common Uses:Bees, Borders, Ornamental

We love medicinal herbs which are exceptional. Just being among them, heals our soul. Lilliputian white ""pompoms"" adorn this charming herb early summer through fall. We grow it from cuttings to insure fully double flowers, which seed grown plants cannot reliably produce.
$ 3.79

FOXGLOVE

Why do we offer so many foxglove varieties? They stand up to our hellacious winds that inevitably arrive in March, departing before summer's heat, here on the farm. These "slim Paris models" perform best in crowded gardens, where they tower, then disappear, "off-stage." Many rebloom for us in the fall. Although we provide their first winter chill, some varieties may not flower this year. Please note height & hardiness when making selections, or just order 1 each. All varieties are hardy to as cold as Zone 5 through the warmer Zone 8, with "Dwarf Amber" to Zone 6. Although they are rooted in medicinal use, ALL FOXGLOVES ARE CONSIDERED POISONOUS TO DEER, RABBITS AND HUMANS.

Foxglove, Chocolate

Digitalis parviflora

Cold Tolerance: Zone 5a 5b 6a 6b 7a 7b 8a 8b 9a 9b
Light: Full Sun to Sun-P.Shade
Height: 2 Feet
Water: Normal
Soil: Organic-Loamy
Flowers: Late Summer to Middle Summer
Common Uses:Bees, Borders, Butterfly, Cut Flower, Ornamental

Milk chocolate-red flowers look good enough to eat- but don't. You couldn't squeeze in another flower between the narrow, glossy green leaves on sturdy stems. Seed stalks are dried for outrageous flower arrangements.
$ 3.79

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