Heirloom Seeds

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...

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,...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

Snapdragon Flower Seeds

Create your very own historically inspired garden with this packet of Snapdragon Seeds. Snapdragons grow easily from seed which should be started after the danger of frost has passed in the spring. The plants are prolific self-seeders so much so that...

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...

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...

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”,...

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...

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...

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...

Chinese Lantern Flower Seeds

Create your very own historically inspired garden with this packet of Chinese Lanterns Seeds. Native to southern Europe, Asia and Japan, this plant is grown for the bright orange husk that covers its diminutive fruit making it an attractive dried...

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...

Baptisia Flower Seeds

Early Virginians held great affection for their gardens. Create your very own historically inspired garden with this packet of Baptisia Seeds. Native to many parts of the US, Baptisia is a herbaceous, perennial shrub which produces blue to periwinkle...

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...

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”,...

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...

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...

Chamomile Herb Seeds

Create your very own historically inspired garden with this packet of Chamomile Seeds. Native to Europe, Africa and Asia, English Chamomile has been cultivated for centuries. The plant came to the US with the colonists in the late 1600s or early 1700s...

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...

Oriental Poppy Flower Seeds

Create your historically-inspired garden with this packet of Oriental Poppy Flower Seeds. The Oriental poppies that inhabit the historic gardens of Colonial Williamsburg were first found in Turkey, the southern Caucasus, and northwestern Iran...

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...

Black-Eyed Susan Flower Seeds

Indigenous to many parts of the United States, black eyed susans were introduced into Europe soon after Columbus visited America. The plant was named by Linnaeus in 1753 who gave them the Latin name Rudbeckia hirta after his mentor Olaf Rudbeck and hirta...

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...

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...

Nasturtium Flower Seeds

Nasturtiums, also known as Indian cress or flame flower, are annuals, native to Columbia, Bolivia, and Peru where they grow as perennials. They were discovered by the Spanish conquistadors and brought to Spain in the 16th century. The first nasturtiums...

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...