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Black Sea Tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum) 3.78 $ ~~3.78 $~~ 3.7800000000000002 CAD This tobacco comes from Turkey, in the region of Samsun, very close to the Black Sea. Prized for its rich flavor and unique aroma, it is nonetheless smooth to smoke. For cigarettes or pipes. Very adapted to the Quebec climate, it approaches very pretty and slender pink flowers. BOTANICAL INFORMATION Latin name: Nicotiana tabacum Common names: Tobacco from the Samsun region, Tobacco from Turkey English: Black Sea Tobacco Family: Solanaceae MAINTENANCE AND OTHER CONSIDERATIONS If you are planting tobacco for leaf harvest, remove the flowers. The leaves are picked when yellow or brown. If you want to collect seeds and leave food for pollinators, let the flowers bloom. You can also harvest the leaves, but there will be fewer of them.	Cockerel (Lychnis coronaria) 3.78 $ ~~3.78 $~~ 3.7800000000000002 CAD Originally from Europe, the garden cockle is easy to grow and very beautiful, capable of establishing itself in the most difficult soils. Its beautiful pale gray felted foliage admirably highlights its long-lasting flowering. deep and velvety purple-pink. Reseeds itself in the garden. Short-lived, biennial perennial. BOTANICAL INFORMATION Latin name: Lychnis coronaria Family: Caryophyllaceae	St. John's wort (Hypericum sp.) 3.78 $ ~~3.78 $~~ 3.7800000000000002 CAD St. John's wort is a perennial and hardy plant that is found naturally in meadows near roadsides, in infertile soils. This plant produces many starry yellow flowers with a balsamic smell. Easy to grow and adapting to any type of soil, St. John's wort will be very useful for pleasantly furnishing difficult cultivation sites in your garden. BOTANICAL INFORMATION Latin name: Hypericum sp. Common names: St. John's wort, common, perforated English: St. John's Worth Family: Hypericaceae MAINTENANCE AND OTHER CONSIDERATIONS Reseeds itself year after year.
Woodland Tobacco (Nicotiana sylvestris) 3.78 $ ~~3.78 $~~ 3.7800000000000002 CAD There are several varieties of tobacco, but among all of them, wild tobacco stands out as a giant. The plant is growing rapidly. The erect stems can branch. They have large, long, oblong, light green leaves, while the flowers, grouped in tight panicles, are a beautiful pure white. As night falls, their scent intensifies and attracts moths. BOTANICAL INFORMATION Latin name: Nicotiana sylvestris Common names: Giant tobacco or sylvatic tobacco English: Woodland tobacco, flowering tobacco, South American tobacco Family: Solanaceae MAINTENANCE AND OTHER CONSIDERATIONS If you are planting tobacco for leaf harvest, remove the flowers. The leaves are picked when yellow or brown. If you want to collect seeds and leave food for pollinators, let the flowers bloom. You can also harvest the leaves, but there will be fewer of them.	Russian Red Tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum) 3.78 $ ~~3.78 $~~ 3.7800000000000002 CAD This tobacco is small (3 or 4 feet), with very dark green, round-shaped leaves. It reminds us of Cuban varieties. It bears pretty, slender, dark red flowers, making it an excellent variety for an ornamental plant. MAINTENANCE AND OTHER CONSIDERATIONS Needs light to germinate. If you are planting tobacco for leaf harvest, remove the flowers. The leaves are picked when yellow or brown. If you want to collect seeds and leave food for pollinators, let the flowers bloom. You can also harvest the leaves, but there will be fewer of them.	Virginia Gold Tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum) 3.78 $ ~~3.78 $~~ 3.7800000000000002 CAD This tobacco has a particularly sweet taste and is commonly used for light cigarettes. The plant can reach 1.5 to 2 meters. It bears pretty, slender, trumpet-shaped flowers in pale pink, which attract pollinators. Flowering in August and September. Very popular variety in the United States. MAINTENANCE AND OTHER CONSIDERATIONS If you are planting tobacco for leaf harvest, remove the flowers. The leaves are picked when yellow or brown. If you want to collect seeds and leave food for pollinators, let the flowers bloom. You can also harvest the leaves, but there will be fewer of them.
Scent of Italy tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum) 3.78 $ ~~3.78 $~~ 3.7800000000000002 CAD This tobacco was grown in the 1930s in Quebec. It bears pretty, slender, trumpet-shaped flowers in pale pink, which attract pollinators. Flowering in August until the first frosts. Its taste is a little more pronounced than Virginia Gold. MAINTENANCE AND OTHER CONSIDERATIONS If you are planting tobacco for leaf harvest, remove the flowers. The leaves are picked when yellow or brown. If you want to collect seeds and leave food for pollinators, let the flowers bloom. You can also harvest the leaves, but there will be fewer of them.	Arnica (Arnica chamissonis) 3.78 $ ~~3.78 $~~ 3.7800000000000002 CAD Arnica originates from the American West. Once implanted, this beautiful hardy plant will form beautiful covering mats. Its yellow flowers will provide excellent pasture for bees and butterflies. It is sometimes called "fall grass" ... arnica is a particularly effective remedy, for external use, to relieve hematomas, inflammations and other sprains. Difficult and slow germination, needs light to germinate. BOTANICAL INFORMATION Latin name: Arnica chamissonis Common names: Arnica Chamissonis, Arnica de Chamisso, Plains Arnica, Falls Grass English: chamisso arnica Family: Asteraceae MAINTENANCE AND OTHER CONSIDERATIONS Sowing is relatively difficult. The plant prefers to do the following: Do not cover, just press them into the soil gently, as they need light to germinate. Sow in early spring indoors. Transplant the seedlings into individual pots as soon as the first true leaf appears and plant them after the last expected frost.	Rabbit's ear ( Stachys byzantina, Stachys lanata) 3.78 $ ~~3.78 $~~ 3.7800000000000002 CAD Stachys byzantina is a perennial, woolly, gray-white herbaceous plant reminiscent of rabbit ears in its fluffy appearance. The lower leaves form a rosette from which emerges a stem 60 high. Some gardeners remove the flower stalks as soon as they appear (judging that they spoil the silhouette of the plant) yet the flowers have the advantage of being nectariferous and of attracting bees and butterflies. This low plant elegantly adorns all gardens by serving as a border or ground cover without being invasive. In Provence, it was called the "hand of God" because of its healing and vulnerary properties. BOTANICAL INFORMATION Latin name: Stachys byzantina, Stachys lanata Common names: Bear's ear, Hare's ear, Rabbit's ear, Woolly Epiaire, Byzantium Epiaire English: Lamb's ear Family: Lamiaceae MAINTENANCE AND OTHER CONSIDERATIONS Accommodates, and even appreciates, poor and stony soils (those that make up the embankments or other places difficult to flower!)
Mexican Tithonia (Tithonia rotundifolia) 3.78 $ ~~3.78 $~~ 3.7800000000000002 CAD The Mexican Sunflower blooms throughout the summer with a profusion of large, daisy-shaped, bright orange flowers. Friend of butterflies like the monarch, bees, bumblebees and hummingbirds, its immense nectariferous flowers will delight everyone. BOTANICAL INFORMATION Latin name: Tithonia rotundifolia Common names: Mexican Tithonia, Mexican Sunflower, Clavel de muerte, Sun of Mexico English: Mexican sunflower, Tithonia seed Family: Asteraceae	Dyer's chamomile (Cota tinctoria) 3.78 $ ~~3.78 $~~ 3.7800000000000002 CAD Pretty little flower, similar to the daisy but entirely yellow. It will brighten up your garden with its abundant flowering from the end of June to the end of September. Dyer's chamomile will also delight pollinators. Its main interest, however, lies in the rich dye that can be obtained from it, as its name suggests. The dyers' chamomile makes it possible to naturally dye natural fibers yellow, buff or orange. BOTANICAL INFORMATION Latin name: Cota tinctoria Common names: Dyer's chamomile, Anthemis tinctoria, dyer's chamomile, dyer's cota English: Golden marguerite, yellow chamomile, oxeye chamomile, dyer's chamomile, Boston daisy, and Paris daisy. Family: Asteraceae MAINTENANCE AND OTHER CONSIDERATIONS reseeds itself	Morning glory (Ipomea purpurea) 3.78 $ ~~3.78 $~~ 3.7800000000000002 CAD With its purple, pink and blue trumpet flowers, sweet fragrance and heart-shaped foliage, morning glories will add a romantic touch to your garden. This climbing plant grows quickly and is therefore ideal for decorating or covering structures such as a pergola. As its name suggests, the flowers prefer to open only when the sun is not too present, especially in the morning. We can therefore see them open in the morning, then closed a few hours later. Morning glories offer abundant flowering from July until the first frosts. Moreover, their magnificent flowers are just as attractive to our eyes as they are to butterflies and hummingbirds. MAINTENANCE AND OTHER CONSIDERATIONS reseeds itself
White Sweet Clover (Melilotus albus) 3.78 $ ~~3.78 $~~ 3.7800000000000002 CAD Boreal vanilla! This very easy to grow plant will add a unique flavor to your desserts. The essence is extracted from the flowers, but the young leaves are eaten in salads, and the seeds can be used as a spice. Its sweet fragrance is reminiscent of tonka bean and vanilla. Honey plant very popular with pollinators. Nitrogen-fixing, which makes it an excellent green manure, very interesting for enriching poor soils. BOTANICAL INFORMATION Latin name: Melilotus albus Common names: White sweet clover, Sweet clover, Boreal vanilla English: White Melilot, White Sweet-Clover Family: Fabaceae MAINTENANCE AND OTHER CONSIDERATIONS White sweet clover can be very invasive! To limit its expansion, cut the flower stalks when they begin to dry out.	Hyssop (Hyssopus officinalis) 3.78 $ ~~3.78 $~~ 3.7800000000000002 CAD Beautiful perennial, aromatic and medicinal plant with a bushy habit. Hyssop is used in the composition of the famous ''Herbes de Provence''. Its small shiny green leaves can be used fresh or dried as a condiment. The ideal way to keep them dried is to cut them before flowering. Its delicate flowers form beautiful deep blue spikes which can also be eaten fresh in a salad, or as an infusion. To make the most of their aromas, it is interesting to cut them at the start of flowering. Very melliferous and appreciated by pollinators. BOTANICAL INFORMATION Latin name: Hyssopus officinalis Common Names: Hyssop officinalis, Sacred Herb, Hyssop English: Hyssop Family: Lamiaceae (Labiae) MAINTENANCE AND OTHER CONSIDERATIONS Not susceptible to pests	Motherwort (Leonurus cardiaca) 3.78 $ ~~3.78 $~~ 3.7800000000000002 CAD Medicinal plant with many uses. Motherwort was used in China and ancient Europe to cure, as its name suggests, all kinds of ailments related to the physical and emotional heart. Brother Marie Victorin reports that it was used against asthma. It would also be useful for problems related to the menstrual cycle. The first western mentions of this plant date back to antiquity. Its foliage is dark green and the leaves are serrated and lobed. It flowers from August to September and its many spikes of small pinkish flowers are well appreciated by pollinators. BOTANICAL INFORMATION Latin name: Leonurus cardiaca Common names: Cardiac motherwort, heartwort English: Motherwort, throw-wort Family: Lamiaceae MAINTENANCE AND OTHER CONSIDERATIONS: To be monitored and pruned to prevent it from becoming invasive.
Pope's coin (Lunaria annua) 3.78 $ ~~3.78 $~~ 3.7800000000000002 CAD Welcome this charming biennial to your garden. The Pope's currency is a bee plant giving small purple or white flowers. Its fruits, or siliques, look like slightly silvery coins, very decorative you can use them in bouquets of dried flowers! BOTANICAL INFORMATION Latin name: Lunaria annua Common name: Pope's currency, coin grass English: Money plant, annual honesty Family: Brassicaceae MAINTENANCE AND OTHER CONSIDERATIONS: Sow indoors in April or directly in the garden after the risk of frost. Or directly in the fall	Annual lavatera (Malva trimestris) 3.78 $ ~~3.78 $~~ 3.7800000000000002 CAD What is called annual lavatera or annual mallow corresponds to particularly floriferous cultivars of Malva trimestris. Originally from around the Mediterranean where it can grow naturally in the fields, Malva trimestris looks a lot like the wood mallow (Malva sylvestris) as well as the perennial shrub lavatera. It has a bushy shape and its pink flowers, with minutely ribbed silky petals, are a pleasure for the eyes. BOTANICAL INFORMATION Latin name: Lavatera trimestris * now Malva trimestris Common names: Lavatère, Annual Mallow English: Lavatera, annual mallow Family: Malvaceae	Annual wormwood (Artemisia annua) 3.78 $ ~~3.78 $~~ 3.7800000000000002 CAD Mugwort annual is an annual herbaceous plant native to Asia. Used in traditional Chinese medicine to fight fevers, it has been present in its pharmacopoeia for more than 2,000 years. Apart from its interesting medicinal properties, it is a good companion in the garden and its sweet fragrance will enchant you. To go further. BOTANICAL INFORMATION Latin name: Artemisia annua Common names: Mugwort annual, Chinese wormwood English: Artemisia annua, sweet wormwood, sweet annie, sweet sagewort, annual mugwort, annual wormwood Family: Asteraceae MAINTENANCE AND OTHER CONSIDERATIONS Putting the bag 24 hours in the freezer before sowing helps germination. For the seed harvest, October-November but before the frosts
Pink Lupine 3.78 $ ~~3.78 $~~ 3.7800000000000002 CAD This perennial variety of lupine has cut foliage, in rosettes, and beautiful pink flowers. Its early flowering will brighten up your garden in the spring. In addition to being ornamental, lupine has the ability to improve your soil by fixing nitrogen since it is part of the Fabaceae family. In addition, once implanted, it requires little maintenance. Stratification and/or scarification helps enormously with germination. BOTANICAL INFORMATION: Latin name: Lupinus polyphyllus Common names: Lupine, wolf grass English: Lupinus, Lupine, Lupine, bluebonnet Family: Fabaceae MAINTENANCE AND OTHER CONSIDERATIONS ****STRATIFICATION OR/AND SCARIFICATION HELPS GERMINATION HUGELY****	Mammoth Sunflower 3.78 $ ~~3.78 $~~ 3.7800000000000002 CAD These giants won’t go unnoticed in your garden! Indeed, mammoth sunflowers can grow over 3m in height, and they produce gorgeous yellow flowers that can reach more than 30 cm in diameter. Despite their height, they do not require any tutoring. They can however be a tutor themselves for your other climbing plants such as beans! Thanks to their fast growth, these sunflowers can also create seasonal plant walls, hedgerows and windbreaks. The seeds are rich and can be enjoyed by birds as much as by humans! CARE AND OTHER CONSIDERATIONS : Towards the end of September, sunflower seeds start to reach maturity. The stem dries up and the flower starts to bend down. It’s time to harvest! Cut the entire flower heads. Let them dry in a dry space. Check regularly to make sure the sunflowers are not getting moldy. After a few days, the seeds will sound ‘hollow’ and ‘dry’ when running your fingers over them. You then only need to rub over to remove what’s left of the flowers, and scratch with your fingers to detach the seeds.