 
30"
Echinacea purpurea
Purple
Coneflower
$3.50/plant
Roots used
in popular medicinal treatments. A proven immune system stimulant and
is useful to guard against both virus and bacterial infections. Used for
treating herpes sores, canker sores, and colds. A favorite among butterflies.
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24"
Echinacea angustifolia
Black Sampson Conflower
$3.50/plant
Similar to Pale Purple Coneflower but shorter.
Same medicinally to E. pallida.
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36"
Equisetum hyemale
Horsetail or Scouring Rush
$4.00/plant
Hollow jointed stems having a high silica
content. Makes an excellent fungicide for both plants and people, enjoying moist conditions. Waterside plant.
Leaves are very unique, similar to twigs. Can be used to scrub pans due to its high
silica content. Dried bulk herb available also.
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15"
Equisetum scirpoides
Dwarf
Horsetail or Shavegrass
$4.00/plant
Plant makes
an excellent fungicide for both plants and people, moist conditions.
Waterside plant. Leaves are very unique, similar to a
miniature shrub with twigs. This is dwarf variety of above.
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36"
Eryngium yuccafolium
Rattlesnake
Master
$4.00/plant
Interesting
yucca type plant with clusters of white flower in mid summer. Historically
used to treat snakesbites, impotence, veneral disease and gleet.
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60"
Eupatorium purpureum
Joe Pye
Weed
$4.00/plant
An American
native plant, a moisture lover, producing large deep purple flowers
in the fall. Named after a Indian medicine man named Joe Pye who became
famous after curing typhus fever and other diseases. Will also make
a pink dye.
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72"
Eupatorium cannabinum
Hemp Agrimony
$3.50/plant
Aromatic pale purple flowers in crowded masses
in late summer attracting butterflies heading south. Used historical to purify blood and liver problems.
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30"
Foeniciculum vulgare
Bronze
Fennel
$3.50/plant
Lovely deep purple airy fern-like foliage used in
fish dishes and sauces. A very mild licorice flavor. Use fennel leaves and seeds in deserts breads and
beverages. My grandmother spaghetti sauce always contained fennel seeds.
Historically fennel is used by nursing mothers to increase milk flow and relieve infant colic. Appetite stimulator
and soothes upsets stomachs. Externally was used to treat muscular pain. To the medieval mind fennel was on
of the nine sacred herbs with
the power to cure diseases and was placed in windows and doors to keep out evil spirits. Butterfly host plant for
the swallowtail so plan at few extra for them.
Fennel
Face Packs
Fennel herb cleanse, stimulates and smoothes out wrinkles. Chop
fennel leaves and add to plain yogurt. Spread on face, avoiding
eyes leaving on for 15 minutes, rinse with lukewarm water. Do for
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10"
Galium odoratum
Sweet
Woodruff
$3.50/plant
Fragrant ground cover combining the scents of
newly mown hay and vanilla. A calming scent use to stuff pillows and scenting linen. Prefers moist shade and
is sea of white in spring. Used to make May Wine and is (vanilla flavor) and is
an essential in a fairy garden. The FDA as rated unsafe in foodstuff (except wine) due to compounds closely
related to blood thinners. Medieval churches prepared for religious holidays by hanging woodruff. In herbal
folklore this plants signify humility
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24"
Galium verum
Lady Bedstraw
$3.50/plant
Light green sprawling fluffy herb with clusters of
airy yellow flowers. Mary is said to have prepared the Christ child's bed with this herb. Colonials stuffed pillows
with Lady's Bedstraw to induce sleep. Boil the roots for about two hours to extract
he dye, use alum mordant to yield red.
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15"
Geranium robertianum
Herb
Robert
$3.50/plant
Attractive
lacy foliage topped by clusters of small purple flowers. Thrives in
moist shady places. Rudolf Breuss recommend to make a tea from the herb
juice to combat cancer.
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72"
Glycorrhiza echinata
Licorce
$3.50/plant
One of the most widely used medicinal plants in
the world, it is used to treat coughs, sore throats and flavoring candy and beverages. Held in high esteem as
Ginseng by the Chinese. Prolong use can cause loss of potassium and sodium retention.
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18"
Hierochloe odorata
Sweetgrass
$6.00/plant
Sweetgrass
is very historical in Native tribes of North America. Sweetgrass is
used in prayer, smudging or purifying ceremonies and is regarded as
a sacred plant. Sweetgrass is usually braided when burned. Sweetgrass
aroma is strong only when moistened or burned. As the grass dries the
fragrance intensifies. When burned it does not produce an open flame
but smolders. Just as the sweet scent is attractive to people it is
also attractive to good spirits. Native Americans often burned the grass
at the beginning of a prayer or to attract positive energies. A tea
is brewed by Native Americans for coughs, sore throats, chafing and
venereal infections. It is warned that because the roots contain coumarin,
that sweetgrass tea may be considered a carcinogenic.
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Humulus lupulus
Hops
$6.00/plant
Hop's Vine
are used in herbal sleep pillows and are used to treat insomnia. The scent
is soothing and eases tension and anxiety. Hops flowers are unique and
make an excellent dried flower and vines are used in basket making. Flowers
are also used for flavoring beer. Dried bulk herb available also.
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15"
Hypericum perforatum
St. Johns
Wort
$3.50/plant
Spreading
sprawling habit with 1" golden flowers. Historically the astringent
leaves were used medicinally and is still used today by herbalist externally
to treat burns. St. Johns Wort in gaining popularity as " Nature's Prosaic.
The FDA has rated St. John's Wort unsafe. Prolonged use may cause photosensitivity.
Folklore: Northern european women wore hyperium to repel demon lovers,
and was burned in Midsummer to banish devils. Wort is a anglo saxon
word for herb. Dried bulk herb available also.
St.
Johns Wort Oil
Fill pint mason jar with freshly picked St. Johns Wort Flowers.
Add olive oil to cover. Shake daily for two weeks. Strain out
the flowers and add 1 vitamin e capsule to help preserve the oil.
Use on sore muscles.
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24"
Hydrastis canadensis
Goldenseal
$5.00/plant
Large palmate leaves and big bright red berries in
summer. Intensely golden yellow root is used for its astringent, cleansing and contracting qualities.
Beneficial to all mucous membranes. General tonic. Grows best in dappled to full shade in well
composted humusy soil.
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24"
Hyssops officinalis
Blue Hyssop
$3.50/plant
Evergreen,
with deep blue flower spikes in summer makes a nice little hedge. Used
since biblical times for cleansing, medicinal, flavoring meats and liqueurs
adding a slight minty flavor. Use a poultice of hyssop to help heal wounds
and bruises. It has mild germ killing properties. Medieval monastery gardens
all contain Hyssop, believed to ward off the evil eye and used as a purification
herb. An infusion of hyssop was sprinkle around the home or over a person
to rid them of negativity. Hyssop is soothing in a bath and in herbal
facials. Dried bulk herb available also.
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36"
Inula helenium
Elecampane
$3.50/plant
The roots
yield a blue die and is still used as and expectorant in many cough syrup
formulas. Bright yellow flowers are a wecome sign for butterflies heading
south.
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