Fleurs
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This beautiful medicinal plant is not only good for human health but also for the incredibly micro-biological health of the soil. It attracts pollinators, and easily reseeds itself every year. We love using it teas (mixed with sage) or to help clean out infected cuts (soaking your finger or cut in a cooled down calendula tea).
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This beautiful medicinal plant is not only good for human health but also for the health of the soil. It attracts pollinators, and easily reseeds itself every year. We love using it teas (mixed with sage) or to help clean out infected cuts (soaking your finger or cut in a cooled down calendula tea).
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German Chamomile
$4.00German Chamomile
$4.00The name Chamomile comes from the Greek word meaning “ground apple.” Its history dates back at least to ancient Egypt, where Chamomile tea was prescribed as a cold remedy. The Romans enjoyed it as a beverage, as well as an incense.
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A non-trailing dwarf single variety with deep velvety Orange-Scarlet flowers and small, neat dark leaves which are especially pretty in salads.
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The bluest of blue flowers in nature, these bachelor buttons are a must in any garden. I originally knew nothing about them but when I started seed saving my grandmother, Donna Macleod asked me if I had her favorite flowers, bachelor buttons. I can see why she loves them. Easy to grow, love the challenge of tough soils these flowers are great as border or fill in plants for any garden. The origins of the plant are hard to pin down but there are traces of bachelor buttons in the tomb of Tutankhamen in Egypt.
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California Orange Poppy
$4.00California Orange Poppy
$4.00The California orange poppy, belonging to the Papaveraceae family, grows wild throughout California, and became the state flower in 1903.
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Cleome spider flower
$4.00Cleome spider flower
$4.00This is a seed that I picked up at the OSA conference in Oregon in 2016. I really love the colours and height of this plant. You can see it from far far away. It attracts bees and is really good to partner up with tall plants such as sunflowers.
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This was a gift from my friend Carole Dansereau who is an ecological gardener who offers activities in the local elementary school in Notre-Dame de Stanbridge. A beautiful annual flower that is used as a green manure as well as a pollinator plant. This plant flowers all season long so it is a great source of nectar for the bees. The plant originally comes from the deserts of the Southwest US / Northern Mexico / Turtle Island.
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Sussex Flax
$4.00Sussex Flax
$4.00Such a beauty in the garden. I love how it sways in the wind with its green and blue/purple colours. I obtained this seed when I was in Oregon at the OSA conference and had no clue how incredible they would be in the garden. A good source of omega oils, flax is also a natural phytoestrogen.
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Xanthos Cosmos
$4.00Xanthos Cosmos
$4.00Pollinators love this plant. The flowers are a beautiful soft yellow that bloom all season long. A newly developed variety from Van Hemert & Co, this flower gets it’s name from the Greek work for yellow. It will come back every year if you let dead head flowers fall to the ground.
A lovely addition to a flower bed, Xanthos is a must!
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Echinacea
$4.00Echinacea
$4.00We find the Echinacea flower so beautiful and this is why we grow it. It attracts butterflies with their big and beautiful flower and they are perennial! Easy peasy. The flowers, leaves and roots are medicinal but you have to wait a couple of years before harvesting the roots. This plant is a local heirloom variety.
A great pollinator and worth having around, the echinacea will always come back!
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This beautiful dried flower keeps its colour for a very long time after it has been harvested. It is originally a perennial from Australia that acts as an annual here in Quebec. Really a pleasure to have in our garden and on our table, full of color.