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Mini Sprouting Kit - Free Shipping

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 22:56:25 -0500

$12.00
Just in time for the holidays! Infinite Gardens brings you the *Mini* Sprouting Kit with 3 ounces of sprouting seeds. The perfect gift for your veggie friends or as an educational tool for children. It is the perfect size for individuals who want to make only a small batch of sprouts; however, the lid will also fit on the larger sized (wide mouth) jars if you want to upgrade later.

Kit includes:
- Mini Sprouting Jar (half pint)
- Hand-assembled Strainer Lid
- Instruction sheet
- 1 oz. Alfalfa seed
- 1 oz. Mung Bean
- 1 oz. Sprouting Seed Blend (Includes: alfalfa, broccoli, Chinese cabbage, radish, mung bean)
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*** Want larger quantities of a specific sprouting seed?
- Send us a Conversation message with your requirements, and we will be happy to create a special order that meets your needs.

Lance-Leaved Coreopsis seeds, 200 ct.

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:54:35 -0500

$3.00
Common Name: Lance-Leaved Coreopsis, lance-leaved tickseed
Scientific Name: Coreopsis lanceolata

- Package contains approximately 200 seeds.
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Description: Lance-Leaved Coreopsis is a perennial that can reach a height of 1-2 feet. It has alternate, mostly basal lance shaped slightly hairy leaves 6-8 inches long. Lower basal leaves are mostly entire, while smaller stem leaves may be pinnately lobed. It flowers from late spring through to late summer or fall frost depending on your zone. Flowers measure 2-3 inches in diameter with yellow ray toothed florets circling a yellow center of disc florets. The bright yellow flowers are a favorite of bees and butterflies. The flowers give way to a cup of seeds that resemble ticks. The seeds are a preferred food for small birds. May spread up to 1-2 ft and can be divided every 1-2 years. It is a prolific seed setter and will form naturalized colonies where planted if not kept in check. This native plant is found throughout the eastern part of the United States and in many parts of the western U.S., Canada, and Mexico. It is easily grown and does well on poor soils and dry sites throughout zones 3-9.

Growing information and photographs of plants are available at:
- USDA PLANTS: http://plants.usda.gov/java/profile?symbol=COLA5
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coreopsis_lanceolata

Switchgrass seeds, 200 ct.

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:54:15 -0500

$3.00
Common Name: Switchgrass
Scientific Name: Panicum virgatum var virgatum

- Package contains approximately 200 seeds.
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Description: Panicum virgatum, switchgrass, is a warm season perennial grass that thrives best in full sunlight but tolerates partial shade. Switchgrass is one of the dominant species of the central North American, tall-grass prairie grasses. It is a sod builder and will form clumps about 3-4 feet wide and 3-4 feet tall. The ripe seeds sometimes take on a pink or dull-purple tinge and turn golden brown with the foliage in the fall.

Growing information and photographs of plants are available at:
- USDA PLANTS: http://plants.usda.gov/java/profile?symbol=PAVIV
- Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Switchgrass

Candle anemone seeds, 50 ct.

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:53:46 -0500

$3.00
Common Name: Candle Anemone, Long-head thimbleweed
Scientific Name: Anemone cylindrica

- Package contains approximately 50 seeds.
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Description: This native buttercup relative favors wet areas and partial to full shade but will also do well on drier sites with full sun. The leaves are an attractive cut leaf foliage about a central stem. The show stopper with this plant is not its greenish white small flowers but the green eventually turning brownish to light tan cylindrical seed head that can be from 1/2 an inch to 2 inches on 1-3 feet tall stalks in more mature plants. The seed heads are a mass of cottony seeds that last through fall and provide winter interest.

Growing information and photographs of plants are available at:
- USDA PLANTS: http://plants.usda.gov/java/profile?symbol=ANCY
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anemone_cylindrica

Hops seeds, 30 ct.

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:53:46 -0500

$6.00
Common Name: Wild common hops
Scientific Name: Humulus lupulus

- Package contains approximately 30 seeds.
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Description: Humulus lupulus is an herbaceous, perennial vine that thrives best in full sunlight but tolerates partial shade. This variety is especially cold-hardy. The twining vines bloom from July to August with aromatic cones that could be used in tea or for beermaking.

Growing information and photographs of plants are available at:
- Infinite Gardens Blog: http://infinitegardens.blogspot.com/2008/03/growing-hops-from-seed.html
- USDA PLANTS: http://plants.usda.gov/java/profile?symbol=HULU
- Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humulus_lupulus

Spreading dogane seeds, 200 ct.

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:53:46 -0500

$3.00
Common Name: Spreading dogbane
Scientific Name: Apocynum androseaemifolium

- Package contains approximately 200 seeds.
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Description: Spreading dogbane has dainty red, pink, white or pink and white bell shaped flowers at the end of a stalk of oval leaves. Similar to, but not related to, milkweeds, it is also a bee and butterfly favorite. Stalks of this plant were once rhetted and used to make rope like that made with Indian Hemp, a close relative. Spreading dogbane prefers well drained sites with full to partial sun.

Growing information and photographs of plants are available at:
- USDA PLANTS: http://plants.usda.gov/java/profile?symbol=APAN2
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spreading_dogbane

Blackeyed Susan seeds, 300 ct.

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:53:46 -0500

$3.00
Common Name: Blackeyed Susan
Scientific Name: Rudbeckia hirta

- Package contains approximately 300 seeds.
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Description: Blackeyed Susan is a perennial that can reach a height of 1-3 feet. It has alternate, mostly basal leaves 6-8 inches long, covered by coarse hair. It flowers from June to August, with inflorescences
measuring 2-3 inches in diameter with yellow ray florets circling a brown, domed center of disc florets.

Growing information and photographs of plants are available at:
- USDA PLANTS: http://plants.usda.gov/java/profile?symbol=RUHI2
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudbeckia_hirta

Joe-pye weed seeds, 100 ct.

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:53:46 -0500

$2.80
Common Name: Spotted joe-pye weed
Scientific Name: Eupatoriadelphus maculatus

- Package contains approximately 100 seeds.
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Description: Eupatoriadelphus maculatus is an herbaceous, perennial plant that thrives best in wetland and marsh-like settings, but if kept well watered, also does well in the home flower garden. The plants grow to 2-5 feet tall and produce pink to purple flower clusters from July to September. Joe-pye weed provides valuable food and habitat for a variety of butterfly species and beneficial insects.

Growing information and photographs of plants are available at:
- USDA PLANTS: http://plants.usda.gov/java/profile?symbol=EUMAB
- Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eutrochium

Perennial Sundial Lupine seeds, 50 ct.

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:53:46 -0500

$3.00
Common Name: Sundial Lupine, Perennial Lupine, Indian beet, Old maid's bonnets
Scientific Name: Lupinus perennis

- Package contains approximately 50 seeds.
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Description: Sundial Lupine is a perennial herb with a 2-5 ft central woody stalk ending in a blue/purple/pink spike arrangement of pea like flowers. Lupine is a favorite of butterflies (for example the endangered Karner blue butterfly)and bees. This plant thrives in sandy well drained sites and prefers to not be transplanted.

Growing information and photographs of plants are available at:
- USDA PLANTS: http://plants.usda.gov/java/profile?symbol=LUPE3
- Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wild_Perennial_Lupin

Trumpet Creeper

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:53:46 -0500

$3.00
Common Name: Trumpet Creeper, Trumpet vine, hummingbird vine
Scientific Name: Campsis radicans

- Package contains approximately 50 seeds.
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Description: A fast growing native that is a favorite of hummingbirds and bumble bees. Can be gown as a shrub with diligent pruning but prefers to climb and has the ability to grasp on nearly any surface with root like feet. Blooms red to red orange trumpets in cymes at the ends of vines mid to late summer depending on your zone. Is cold hardy to zone 3 but does benefit from winter mulch in zones 3/4. May take a full year or more before blooming when grown from seed.

Growing information and photographs of plants are available at:
- USDA PLANTS:http://plants.usda.gov/java/profile?symbol=CARA2
- Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trumpet_vine

Perennial Sweet Pea, 30 ct