Nursery Plants

I run a small edible plant nursery called Aster Lane Edibles that eats up a lot of my time lately. The last few years, I mostly sold plants locally but this year, I plan on venturing into short distance shipping (lower Ontario and Quebec) and seed collection and sales.

Here is the latest plant list for your interest: 

Updating in progress for 2015

Key:

P = Perennial

TP = Tender Perennial

SL = Short lived perennial

HHP = Half Hardy Perennial

Info:

Common Name Botanical Name Key (see above) 'Cultivar' - status

Carrot (Apiaceae) Family:

Mitsuba Cryptotaenia japonica P ‘Green,' 'Purple' - seed grown

Skirret Sium sisarum: limited P - seed grown, divisions

Lovage Levisticum officinale P - seed grown

Sweet Cicely Myrrhis odorata P - seed grown, divisions

Onion (Allioideae) Subfamily:

Red Bunching Onion Allium fistulosum P - 2nd year plants

Perennial Leek Allium ampeloprasum  'Oerprei’ - divisions

Welsh onion Allium fistuloseum - seed grown

Chives Allium schoenoprasum - 2nd year plants

Leek (St. Victor's x Oerprei perennial leek) - seed grown

Walking Onion Allium proliferum P 'red' - bulbil grown

Wild ramps Allium tricoccum: limited P - bulb grown

Blue Chives Allium Xnutans P - divisions

Goosefoot (Amaranthaceae) Family:

Hablitzia Hablitzia tamnoides P ‘Kinburn*’ - seed grown

Good King Henry P Chenopodium bonus-henricus 'Kinburn*' - seed grown, 2nd year plants

Sour/Buckwheat (Polygonaceae) Family:

Buckler Leaf Sorrel Rumex scutatus P ‘Children of Silver Shield’ - seed grown

Common Sorrel Rumex acetosa P - seed grown

Bloody Dock Rumex sanguineus P - seed grown

Patience Dock Rumex patiencia P - seed grown

Mint (Lamiaceae) Family:

Anise Hyssop Agastache foeniculum P ‘Golden Jubilee,’ ‘Regular’ - seed grown, 2nd year plants

Mint Mentha sp. P ‘Grandpas,’ 'Chocolate- divisions

Crosnes Stachys affinis P - tubers or tuber grown plants

Oregano Origanum vulgare P ‘Homestead,’ 'Gold,' 'Common' - divisions, 2nd year plants

Thyme Thymus sp. P ‘Creeping,’ ‘Lemon’ - divisions

Horehound Marrubium vulgare P - '2nd year plants'

Hyssop Hyssop offincialis P ‘Mixed colours’ - 2nd year plants, seed grown

Lemon Balm Melissa officinalis 'Gold Leaf' - seed grown

Lavender Lavandula angustifolia 'Munstead' - seed grown

Brassica (Brassiceae) Family:

Seakale Crambe maritima P ‘Lilywhite,’ ‘Species’ - seed grown lily-white, thongs, divisions

Giant colewort Crambe cordifolia - thongs, division

Landcress Barbarea vulgaris P ‘Wintercream’ - seed grown

Wild Arugula Diplotaxis tenuifolia P ‘Sylvetta’ - seed grown

Horseradish Armoracia rusticana P 'Variegated,' 'Regular' - divisions

Perennial/Walking Kale Brassica oleracea HHP ‘Daubenton,' 'Daubenton Cross' - divisions, seed grown

Turkish Rocket Bunias orientalis HHP - seed grown

Aster (Asteraceae) Family

Jerusaleum Artichoke Helianthus tuberosus P ‘Yellow, large,’ ‘Small red’ - tubers, spring or fall

Maximiliani sunflower Helianthus maximiliani P  - divisions

Scorzonera Scorzonera hispanica P - small seed grown (tap rooted)

Common dandelion Taraxacum officinale 'mild' - division

Pink Dandelion Taraxacum psuedoroseum - seed grown, 2nd year plants

Rose (Rosaceae) Family:

Silverweed Argentina anserina P - divisions

Salad Burnet Sanguisorba minor P - seed grown, 2nd year plants

Alpine strawberry Fragaria vesca v. semipervens 'Golden Alexandria,' 'White berry' - seed grown

Wild strawberry Fragaria vesca 'wild' - division (for installation mostly)

Bellflowers and friends:

Peach leaf bellflower Campanula perscifolia P - seed grown

Balloon Flower Platycodon grandiflorus P- seed grown

Other:

Violet P ‘Bicolor’ - divisions

Sweet Williams Dianthus barbatus SL/B - '2nd year plants'

Red Valerian Centranthus ruber P 'white' - 'seed grown'

Clammy Ground Cherry Physalis heterophylla nees P 

Poppy Mallow Callirhoe involucrata P - seed grown

Groundnut Apios americana P - tubers

Red plaintain Plantago major P- seed grown

Blue alkanet Anchusa azuea  - seed grown

Edible Canna - Canna indica edulis TP - seed grown, divisions

Red Fennel Foeniculum vulgare P - seed grown (small plants, tap rooted)

Companion Plants:

Oriental Poppy P - divisions

Perennial sunflower Heliopsis helianthoides P- divisions

Cup plant Silphium perfoliatum 'seed grown'

Blue onion Allium caeruleum 'bulbil variant' P - bulbil grown

Curly onion Allium senescens P - seed grown

Dianthus P - division

Succulents/Green Roof Plants:

TBA

* Cultivar's with the status 'Kinburn' refer to plants that don't already come with a cultivar name but have adapted locally to our farm and growing conditions. 'Children of-' will often refer to seed grown plants of a particular cultivar (cultivated variety) that will likely not be exactly like their parents. This designation is used for varieties grown from plants that are normally propagated vegetatively to maintain their unique characteristics.