Pinetree Garden Seeds Order
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ysabetwordsmithToday I picked out what I wanted from Pinetree Garden Seeds.
Pinetree Garden Seeds
Aunt Molly's Ground Cherry (Organic Heirloom 70 Days)
$ 2.60 for 40 seeds
Aunt Molly's Ground Cherry is an 1837 Polish Heirloom. Smooth, marble-sized fruits are indigenous to the high altitudes of South America, eventually finding their way to Europe in the 18th century. Aunt Molly's Ground Cherry has a sweet, tangy, citrus flavor ending with a hint of vanilla- plus after an employee taste test. Julie claimed that it tasted like a pina colada. Abundant harvests of golden fruit are enclosed in papery husks turning green to yellow/brown, dropping to the ground when ripe, and continuing to sweeten while waiting to be harvested. Sweet or savory uses: add these to salads, jams, smoothies, preserves, pies, and even dry like raisins. When stored with the husk on Aunt Molly's Ground Cherry can last a month. Grows to 2 feet high by 4 feet wide.
Green Striped Cushaw Winter Squash (Heirloom, 105 Days)
$ 2.60 for 15 seeds
Heirloom 1820’s. The Green Striped Cushaw Winter Squash is a crookneck and will run up to 20” long, weighing up to 12 pounds. Skin is creamy white with mottled green stripes. The slightly grainy texture of the flesh is sweet with a distinctive cushaw flavor. The Green Striped Cushaw Winter Squash is great for pies. Tolerates squash vine borer.
Pineapple Ground Cherry (Heirloom 75 Days)
$ 2.35 for 40 seeds
It really tastes like a pineapple! The large spreading plants are 3 feet across and covered with hundreds of fruit that are quite different from other tomatillos. They are only about 3/4 inch in diameter and soft so they are great for eating fresh. They fall from the plant when ripe. The Pineapple Ground Cherry is great for preserves and pies.
Rainbow Blend Swiss Chard (Organic 55 Days)
$ 3.50 for 75 seeds (organic)
The Rainbow Blend Chard is a brilliant blend of colors decorative enough to grow in a flower garden. Yellow, red, orange, white, and pink stems have dark green savoy leaves. Use all season; the baby greens can be added to salad mixes while the large leaves can be filled with veggies and grains and used as a carb-free wrap. When cooked the colors hold and brighten your dishes.
Catnip
$ 2.35 for 100 seeds
People use Catnip as a tea, and of course, it drives cats wild. Gray green leaves and white blooms that are similar to other mints. Commonly known as catnip, catswort, or catmint.
Corsican Mint
$ 2.85 for 10 multipelleted seed
Corsican Mint is the smallest member of the mint family, also known as mini mint. This diminutive mint creeps along, hugging the ground with its deeply scented leaves and tiny purple flowers. The leaves are not as palatable like peppermint but release a more intense scent and are used as the flavoring of creme de mint. It likes a moist, dappled light location and can be used in containers or as a filler around stepping stones. Corsican Mint is grown as an annual. It will often self-seed in colder zones. Spreads well even during its first year.
Feverfew
$ 2.35 for 200 seeds
Feverfew is a a southeastern European native with small, cheery daisy-like white flowers with tiny yellow centers. Grows to 2 feet, forming a rounded clump of foliage, and has long stems, making a good cut flower. Historically, Feverfew was valued for treating migraines, allergies, arthritis, and inflammation.
Autumn Beauty Sunflower
$ 1.85 for 20 seeds
The 6 foot, slender stalks are covered with five-inch blooms in a range of colors you don't normally associate with sunflowers, light cream to deep mahogany with many bi-colors. They begin flowering in July but are truly beautiful in autumn.
Bloody Mary Nasturtium
$ 3.60 for 30 seeds
Flowers come in a blend of colors in varying shades and patterns of dark red, orange, soft yellow, and cream. Foliage is blue-green to medium green and consists of mounding and trailing types. Grows to 16-36”.
Hello Yellow Milkweed
$ 4.95 for 40 seeds
Hello Yellow Milkweed has flowers that are golden yellow and displayed in a flat-topped arrangement, providing a nectar-rich feast for a variety of pollinators, especially the monarch butterfly. This easy-to-maintain, long-lived perennial likes full sun in well-drained, to gritty soil and tolerates dry conditions. For long-lasting cut flowers sear the ends of the stem with a flame. Stimulate a second bloom cycle by deadheading. Grows to 20-24”.
Knee High Fragrant Mix Sweet Pea
$ 1.60 for 20 seeds
This dwarf strain is a mix of old fragrant varieties. Two-and-a-half foot vines provide a nice blend of colors (violet, crimson, lilac, dark purple, white); The stems are shorter and the flowers are smaller than newer strains, but they have a heavenly, rich, sweet fragrance. Sweet peas are not edible, all parts are poisonous.
POPPY - BREADSEED PINETREE MIX
$ 2.20 for 300 seeds
The 3 foot tall plants with blue green foliage carry an abundance of lovely 3 inch, papery blooms in shades of purple, dark pink, and light pink. Some are double and some are single. The seed pods that follow the blooms can be as big as golf balls and provide a bounty of brown poppy seeds for use in baking.
Scarlet Sage
$ 2.60 for 100 seeds
Fiery red spikes attract butterflies, hummingbirds, and other pollinators. A southern native wildflower that can take on hot, dry summers with grace. Flowers continuously from mid-summer into fall. Dramatic plants grow 24-36 inches tall, covered with flashy scarlet blossoms. Blooms first year from seed for us northerners. A perennial in zone 9-10. Naturalizes in most areas.
Stars and Stripes Mirabilis
$ 2.05 for 50 seeds
Also known as Four O'Clocks, since the fragrant, 3 inch, trumpet-shaped flowers open in the late afternoon. A quite different look. Most of the blooms are striped bi-colors so when they open it produces a very dramatic effect. Includes shades of yellow, rose, red, and white.
Stocks - Mammoth Excelsior Mix
$ 2.35 for 70 seeds
These 2-foot tall plants bloom with single and double fragrant flowers. This is a good cut flower with a very strong but pleasant smell, a favorite in the cut flower industry. They can be dried by hanging them in a dry spot out of the direct sun. The deeper shades hold their color best. The fragrance endures as well. Shades include white, pink, and violet.
Sweet William Dianthus
$ 2.35 for 100 seeds
This familiar biennial features large 4" clusters of 1/2" flowers on 18-24"stems. Blooms in June and thereafter, in lots of different colors from white through deep red. Reseeds itself vigorously. The 1936 Vicks Seed catalog describes Sweet William as a favorite of old-time gardens, so it has been around a century or more and remains a personal favorite.
Tall Mix Centaurea
$ 2.70 for 300 seeds
Also known as Bachelor’s Buttons or Cornflower. A native of Europe, they were brought to America in the 17th century and have been loved by gardeners since. Tuck them among annuals, perennials, or even in the veggie garden where the flowers can be used for attracting pollinators, for an edible garnish or cut flower. The 1-2” blue, purple, pink, red, and white flowers bloom nonstop midsummer on.
White Moonflower Morning Glory
$ 1.95 for 20 seeds
Vines are exceptionally vigorous growing to a length of twenty feet. Large, fragrant, white flowers open only in the evening. This variety is also called Moon Vine.
Pinetree Garden Seeds
Aunt Molly's Ground Cherry (Organic Heirloom 70 Days)
$ 2.60 for 40 seeds
Aunt Molly's Ground Cherry is an 1837 Polish Heirloom. Smooth, marble-sized fruits are indigenous to the high altitudes of South America, eventually finding their way to Europe in the 18th century. Aunt Molly's Ground Cherry has a sweet, tangy, citrus flavor ending with a hint of vanilla- plus after an employee taste test. Julie claimed that it tasted like a pina colada. Abundant harvests of golden fruit are enclosed in papery husks turning green to yellow/brown, dropping to the ground when ripe, and continuing to sweeten while waiting to be harvested. Sweet or savory uses: add these to salads, jams, smoothies, preserves, pies, and even dry like raisins. When stored with the husk on Aunt Molly's Ground Cherry can last a month. Grows to 2 feet high by 4 feet wide.
Green Striped Cushaw Winter Squash (Heirloom, 105 Days)
$ 2.60 for 15 seeds
Heirloom 1820’s. The Green Striped Cushaw Winter Squash is a crookneck and will run up to 20” long, weighing up to 12 pounds. Skin is creamy white with mottled green stripes. The slightly grainy texture of the flesh is sweet with a distinctive cushaw flavor. The Green Striped Cushaw Winter Squash is great for pies. Tolerates squash vine borer.
Pineapple Ground Cherry (Heirloom 75 Days)
$ 2.35 for 40 seeds
It really tastes like a pineapple! The large spreading plants are 3 feet across and covered with hundreds of fruit that are quite different from other tomatillos. They are only about 3/4 inch in diameter and soft so they are great for eating fresh. They fall from the plant when ripe. The Pineapple Ground Cherry is great for preserves and pies.
Rainbow Blend Swiss Chard (Organic 55 Days)
$ 3.50 for 75 seeds (organic)
The Rainbow Blend Chard is a brilliant blend of colors decorative enough to grow in a flower garden. Yellow, red, orange, white, and pink stems have dark green savoy leaves. Use all season; the baby greens can be added to salad mixes while the large leaves can be filled with veggies and grains and used as a carb-free wrap. When cooked the colors hold and brighten your dishes.
Catnip
$ 2.35 for 100 seeds
People use Catnip as a tea, and of course, it drives cats wild. Gray green leaves and white blooms that are similar to other mints. Commonly known as catnip, catswort, or catmint.
Corsican Mint
$ 2.85 for 10 multipelleted seed
Corsican Mint is the smallest member of the mint family, also known as mini mint. This diminutive mint creeps along, hugging the ground with its deeply scented leaves and tiny purple flowers. The leaves are not as palatable like peppermint but release a more intense scent and are used as the flavoring of creme de mint. It likes a moist, dappled light location and can be used in containers or as a filler around stepping stones. Corsican Mint is grown as an annual. It will often self-seed in colder zones. Spreads well even during its first year.
Feverfew
$ 2.35 for 200 seeds
Feverfew is a a southeastern European native with small, cheery daisy-like white flowers with tiny yellow centers. Grows to 2 feet, forming a rounded clump of foliage, and has long stems, making a good cut flower. Historically, Feverfew was valued for treating migraines, allergies, arthritis, and inflammation.
Autumn Beauty Sunflower
$ 1.85 for 20 seeds
The 6 foot, slender stalks are covered with five-inch blooms in a range of colors you don't normally associate with sunflowers, light cream to deep mahogany with many bi-colors. They begin flowering in July but are truly beautiful in autumn.
Bloody Mary Nasturtium
$ 3.60 for 30 seeds
Flowers come in a blend of colors in varying shades and patterns of dark red, orange, soft yellow, and cream. Foliage is blue-green to medium green and consists of mounding and trailing types. Grows to 16-36”.
Hello Yellow Milkweed
$ 4.95 for 40 seeds
Hello Yellow Milkweed has flowers that are golden yellow and displayed in a flat-topped arrangement, providing a nectar-rich feast for a variety of pollinators, especially the monarch butterfly. This easy-to-maintain, long-lived perennial likes full sun in well-drained, to gritty soil and tolerates dry conditions. For long-lasting cut flowers sear the ends of the stem with a flame. Stimulate a second bloom cycle by deadheading. Grows to 20-24”.
Knee High Fragrant Mix Sweet Pea
$ 1.60 for 20 seeds
This dwarf strain is a mix of old fragrant varieties. Two-and-a-half foot vines provide a nice blend of colors (violet, crimson, lilac, dark purple, white); The stems are shorter and the flowers are smaller than newer strains, but they have a heavenly, rich, sweet fragrance. Sweet peas are not edible, all parts are poisonous.
POPPY - BREADSEED PINETREE MIX
$ 2.20 for 300 seeds
The 3 foot tall plants with blue green foliage carry an abundance of lovely 3 inch, papery blooms in shades of purple, dark pink, and light pink. Some are double and some are single. The seed pods that follow the blooms can be as big as golf balls and provide a bounty of brown poppy seeds for use in baking.
Scarlet Sage
$ 2.60 for 100 seeds
Fiery red spikes attract butterflies, hummingbirds, and other pollinators. A southern native wildflower that can take on hot, dry summers with grace. Flowers continuously from mid-summer into fall. Dramatic plants grow 24-36 inches tall, covered with flashy scarlet blossoms. Blooms first year from seed for us northerners. A perennial in zone 9-10. Naturalizes in most areas.
Stars and Stripes Mirabilis
$ 2.05 for 50 seeds
Also known as Four O'Clocks, since the fragrant, 3 inch, trumpet-shaped flowers open in the late afternoon. A quite different look. Most of the blooms are striped bi-colors so when they open it produces a very dramatic effect. Includes shades of yellow, rose, red, and white.
Stocks - Mammoth Excelsior Mix
$ 2.35 for 70 seeds
These 2-foot tall plants bloom with single and double fragrant flowers. This is a good cut flower with a very strong but pleasant smell, a favorite in the cut flower industry. They can be dried by hanging them in a dry spot out of the direct sun. The deeper shades hold their color best. The fragrance endures as well. Shades include white, pink, and violet.
Sweet William Dianthus
$ 2.35 for 100 seeds
This familiar biennial features large 4" clusters of 1/2" flowers on 18-24"stems. Blooms in June and thereafter, in lots of different colors from white through deep red. Reseeds itself vigorously. The 1936 Vicks Seed catalog describes Sweet William as a favorite of old-time gardens, so it has been around a century or more and remains a personal favorite.
Tall Mix Centaurea
$ 2.70 for 300 seeds
Also known as Bachelor’s Buttons or Cornflower. A native of Europe, they were brought to America in the 17th century and have been loved by gardeners since. Tuck them among annuals, perennials, or even in the veggie garden where the flowers can be used for attracting pollinators, for an edible garnish or cut flower. The 1-2” blue, purple, pink, red, and white flowers bloom nonstop midsummer on.
White Moonflower Morning Glory
$ 1.95 for 20 seeds
Vines are exceptionally vigorous growing to a length of twenty feet. Large, fragrant, white flowers open only in the evening. This variety is also called Moon Vine.
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Date: 2026-02-14 06:12 pm (UTC)