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WILD LETTUCE - Lactuca virosa
Biennial / Full Sun
Organically Certified Seeds / Open-Pollinated / Untreated / GMO Free
APPEARANCE: Flowers yellow to 6 feet tall.
GROWING INFORMATION: Biennial overwintering in Zones 5 to 9, readily grown as a spring-planted annual, requiring 90 days to flowering. The most cold-hardy of all lettuces. Barely cover seed and keep moist until germ. Lettuce will not germinate when soil temperature exceeds 85 degrees F. Thin to 1 foot apart.
50 Organically Certified Seeds / package
HELICHRYSUM - Helichrysum italicum
Perennial / Full Sun to Part Shade
Organically Certified Seeds / Open-Pollinated / Untreated / GMO Free
Perennial, drought-tolerant plant native to the Mediterranean.
APPEARANCE: Mounding plant produces profuse, yellow flowers to 2 feet tall. Flowers yellow to 2 feet tall on downy, silvery foliage.
GROWING INFORMATION: Perennial in Zones 7 to 12, otherwise grown as a potted plant brought indoors for the winter. Plant thrives in full sun or part shade in very well-drained garden soil or rockery. In the spring, sow in pots or flats. Rough up soil surface, scatter seed, tamp securely and deep evenly moist until germination, which occurs in 10 to 20 days. Tin or transplant to 2 to 3 feet apart.
USE: The plant is used in herbal therapy as an anti-inflammatory on the same level as Arnica.
100 Organically Certified Seeds / package
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