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Welcome to the Willow
Oak product catalog. Inside is a wide variety of fresh and
dried plants, handcrafted items and kits, and more! |
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| Marigold, Lemon Gem |
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The marigold is an immensely popular warm season annual, and rightly so, because it has many positive qualities and few potential problems. No other plant is faster or easier to grow. Flowers are produced over a long period of time and are long lasting when used as a cut flower. There is a whole spectrum of interesting and different cultivars from which to choose.
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$1.95 (3 inch pots) |
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| Marjoram, Sweet |
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Sweet or Knotted Marjoram is not an annual, but is usually treated as such, as the plants - native to Portugal - will not stand the winter elsewhere, so must be sown every year.
Seeds may be sown, for an early supply, in March, on a gentle hot-bed and again, in a warm position, in light soil, in the open ground during April. Plants do well if sown in April, though they are long in germinating.
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| Price:
$4.50 (3 inch pots) |
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| Mints |
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Types: Apple, Orange, Pineapple, English Pennyroyal, Peppermint, Spearmint, Blue Balsam, Mountain, Chocolate, Curly.
The various species of mint have much in common and have all been held in high medical repute. Dr. Westmacott, the author of a work on plants published in 1694, mentioning the different kinds of mint, states that they are well known to:
'the young Botanists and Herb Women belonging to Apothecarys' shops.... In the shops are 1. The dry Herbs. 2ndly. Mint Water. 3rdly. Spirit of Mints. 4th. Syrup of Mints. 5th. The Conserve of the Leaves. 6th. The Simple Oyl. 7th. The Chemical Oyl.' He says 'the Mints have a biting, aromatick bitterish Sapor with a strong fragrant Smell abounding with a pungent Volatile Salt and a Subtil Sulphur which destroyeth Acids, and herein doth lodge the Causation of such medicinal Virtues in this Herb and others of the like Nature.'
All the Mints yield fragrant oils by distillation.
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$3.50 (3 inch pots) |
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| Myrtle |
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Types: Dwarf, Variegated, Large Leaf.
Myrtle has come to symbolize love and constancy, as well as an aphrodisiac, and brides often carry it in their bouquets or wear it in wreathes.
With its beautifully fragrant flowers, myrtle is a wonderful herb to grow in the garden or in containers, and is also an excellent culinary herb. The spicy flavor works well with light meats, barbecued food and strong fish dishes.
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$4.50 (3 inch pots) |
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