Heirloom Seeds

Purple Echinacea Coneflower Flower Seeds

Echinacea, also known as purple coneflower or Sampson root, is a true American native and one of the hardiest perennials available. The plant was used medicinally by the Native Americans of the Great Plains more than any other herb. It was the Native...

Bee Balm Herb Seeds

Create your very own historically inspired garden with this packet of Bee Balm Seeds. Native to North American prairies, this plant is valued for its exceptional ability to attract bees, hummingbirds and butterflies, making it an outstanding pollinator...

Columbine Native Flower Seeds

This beautiful woodland wildflower has showy, drooping, bell-like flowers equipped with distinctly backward-pointing tubes. These tubes, or spurs, contain nectar that attracts long-tongued insects and hummingbirds especially adapted for reaching the...

Foxglove Flower Seeds

Create your very own historically inspired garden with this packet of Foxglove Seeds. Native to Europe, North America and Central Asia, Floxgloves have been cultivated in the world’s gardens for centuries and were introduced into American gardens...

Hollyhock Flower Seeds

Create your very own historically inspired garden with this packet of Hollyhock seeds. Native to Turkey and Asia, the hollyhocks we know today probably came from China. The common name originated during The Crusades as “Holly Hoc”,...

Blue Flax Flower Seeds

Early Virginians held great affection for their gardens. Create your very own historically inspired garden with this packet of Blue Flax Seeds. Native to the Great Plains and western North America, this plant is also indigenous to Northern Africa, the...

Wild Bergamot Flower Seeds

Early Virginians held great affection for their gardens. Create your very own historically inspired garden with this packet of Wild Bergamot Seeds. Native to the North American prairies, this perennial plant is valued for its exceptional ability to...

Hollyhock Doubles Flower Seeds

Create your very own historically inspired garden with this packet of Hollyhock Doubles seeds. Native to Turkey and Asia, the hollyhocks we know today probably came from China. The common name originated during The Crusades as “Holy Hoc”,...

Canterbury Bells Flower Seeds

Create your very own historically-inspired garden with this packet of Canterbury Bell Flower Seeds. Canterbury Bells are biennial, blooming most prolifically in the second year and rarely blooming in the first year. The plants need full sun, good...

Rocket Larkspur Flower Seeds

Early Virginians held great affection for their gardens. Create your very own historically inspired garden with this packet of Rocket Larkspur Seeds. Native to the Mediterranean, this plant was introduced into England in the mid-16th century and into the...

Danvers Carrots Vegetable Seeds

Create your very own historically inspired garden with this packet of Danvers Carrot Seeds. Native to the Mediterranean and parts of Asia, wild carrots which come in a variety of colors have been foraged by indigenous peoples for millennia, the carrot...

Josephs Coat Flower Seeds

Create your very own historically inspired garden with this packet of Joseph’s Coat Seeds. Amaranthus means “never waxing old” which refers to the fact that these plants were prized for their everlasting qualities. Native to Peru,...

Georgia Rattlesnake Watermelon Seeds

Create your very own historically inspired garden with this packet of Watermelon Seeds. Introduced around 1870, this much beloved Southern variety has become rare. Large, oblong melons (25-30 lb.) have thin, brittle, pale green rinds with...

Amaranthus Flower Seeds

Create your very own historically inspired garden with this packet of Amaranthus, Love Lies Bleeding Seeds. Amaranthus means “never waxing old” which refers to the fact that these plants were prized for their everlasting qualities. Native to...

Black Seeded Simpson Lettuce Vegetable Seeds

Create your very own historically inspired garden with this packet of Lettuce Seeds. Native to many areas of the world, lettuce has been cultivated since, at least, the 6th century BC. It is a staple food crop for most of the world’s cultures...

Four O'Clock Flower Seeds

Four o'clocks are well known for their bright trumpet-shaped flowers and strong, pleasant fragrance. Native to tropical areas of North and South America, they are also called marvel of Peru. Four o'clocks are actually perennials that are grown as...

Catnip Herb Seeds

Create your very own historically inspired garden with this packet of Catnip Seeds. Native throughout all of Europe and Asia, catnip has been cultivated for at least 2000 years. It came to America with the earliest colonists in the 1600s. The 12-18 in...

Sugar Pumpkin Vegetable Seeds

Early Virginians held great affection for their gardens. Create your very own historically inspired garden with this packet of Pumpkin Seeds. Introduced before 1860, this pumpkin is so good that even today it is the leading pie making pumpkin for the...

Common Sunflower Flower Seeds

Sunflowers should be our national flower, but alas, that honor goes to the rose. The sunflower is native to the Southeastern United States, but eons ago it made its way to South America where it became an important staple crop of the Incans who grew the...

Oregano Herb Seeds

Create your very own historically inspired garden with this packet of Oregano Seeds. Native to the Mediterranean and central Asia, Oregano has been cultivated for thousands of years. For centuries it was cultivated for medicinal applications believed to...

Colonial Williamsburg Flower Garden Seed Collection

Create your very own historically inspired garden with the Colonial Williamsburg Flower Garden Seed Collection. This packet contains eight varieties of flower seeds which were commonly grown in the 18th century: Globe Amaranth, Johnny Jump Up, English...

Colonial Williamsburg Herb Garden Seed Collection

Create your very own historically inspired garden with the Colonial Williamsburg Herb Garden Seed Collection. This packet contains eight varieties of herbs which were commonly grown in the 18th century: Sweet Basil, Dill, English Thyme, Lemon Balm,...

Cardoon Herb Seeds

Create your very own historically inspired garden with this packet of Cardoon Seeds. Native to Southern Europe and North Africa, cardoons were being cultivated 2300 was not widely grown. They began to experience a growth in popularity in the late 20th...

Pickling Cucumber Vegetable Seeds

Create your very own historically inspired garden with this packet of Pickling Cucumber Seeds. Probably native to Asia and Africa, cucumbers have been cultivated for more than 3,000 years. Introduced in 1894, this unusual lemon shaped fruit has great...

Sea Lavender Flower Seeds

Early Virginians held great affection for their gardens. Create your very own historically inspired garden with this packet of Sea Lavender Seeds. Native to many parts of the world including Europe, Asia, Africa and North America, this plant became...

Crookneck Squash Vegetable Seeds

Create your very own historically inspired garden with this packet of Crookneck Squash Seeds. A truly North American squash, the Crooknecks were cultivated by indigenous peoples for centuries. This Crookneck was introduced in the 1700s. The small, open...

Russian Red Kale Vegetable Seeds

Create your very own historically inspired garden with this packet of Kale Seeds. Native to Europe and parts of Asia, kale is believed to be one of the oldest descendants of the original wild cabbage. It has been cultivated for millennia. Red Russian,...

Dipper Gourd Vegetable Seeds

Create your very own historically inspired garden with this packet of Dipper Gourd Seeds. Native to West Africa where in Zimbabwe wild populations can still be found today. Gourds are one of the oldest cultivated vegetables dating back more than 10,000...