Acid Loving Plant Evergreen Plant For Sale In Milwaukee

The cones are cylindric-conic, 4-8 cm long and 2 cm broad, maturing pale brown 5-7 months after pollination, and have stiff, smoothly rounded scales. The leaves are needle-like, 12-22 mm long, rhombic in cross-section, dark bluish-green with conspicuous...

* Red-brown bark, pink flowers, bright green leaves. The fruit can also be used for making jelly and cider. * The fully ripe fruit is pleasantly acid with a flavour resembling green apples.

The leaves can be poisonous. Prefers a peaty or well-drained sandy loam. The fruit is a dry capsule 15-20 mm (.60-.79 in) long, containing numerous small seeds . It retains its waxy, deep-green leaves for up to 8 years, but once shed are slow to decompose.

* Red-brown bark, pink flowers, bright green leaves. The fruit can also be used for making jelly and cider. * The fully ripe fruit is pleasantly acid with a flavour resembling green apples.

* Shiny dark green, evergreen leaves; upright, rounded, densely branched; unique among hollies in that it often spreads by suckering; doesn't mind shade but prefers sun; Dirr recommends it for foundations, hedges, and accent plants, particularly the cultivars;...

Succeeds in open woodland or along the woodland edge. Its range stretches from southern Maine south to northern Florida , and west to Indiana and Louisiana . * Requires an acid humus-rich soil, succeeding in part shade or in full sun in cooler areas.

The leaves can be poisonous. Prefers a peaty or well-drained sandy loam. The fruit is a dry capsule 15-20 mm (.60-.79 in) long, containing numerous small seeds . It retains its waxy, deep-green leaves for up to 8 years, but once shed are slow to decompose.

The Japanese red pine prefers full sun on well-drained, slightly acidic soil. * Light blue-green or bright to dark green needles, 3-5"; of irregular, picturesque habit, with crooked leaning branches; bark orange-red or orangish; much used for bonsai and...

The species is highly variable with respect to its pitchers, with plants in some localities reaching almost 1 metre in height, while in others, plants can be diminutive (such as the seldom seen 30 cm high dwarf form encountered at Garcon Point in Santa...

* A beautiful very vigorous variety well know for its extreme cold hardiness.

It burns with a clear, bright flame and is valued as a fuel. * The wood is heavy, close-grained, moderately hard, brittle, not strong. * Requires a free-draining, light, sandy, acid soil with additional leafmould added.

The flower buds resemble white pearls, hence the common name. * Although floriferous and attractive in early spring, it basically plods though the rest of the growing season as a somewhat nondescript shrub.

To be able to compete successfully in such habitats, it has adapted greater shade tolerance than most other pines. * Pinus glabra differs markedly from most other pines in that it does not occur in largely pure pine forests, but is typically found as...

Spain, Portugal. & Reut.) Hand.-Mazz. The fruit is a dry capsule 15-25 mm long, containing numerous small seeds .There are two subspecies : Rhododendron ponticum subsp. The leaves are evergreen , 6-18 cm long and 2-5 cm broad.

Japonica which has pendulous flower clusters. * Soils should be acidic and very well-drained but not excessively dry. * Native to primarily North and South Carolina, but also found in Virginia and Georgia.

Likes plenty of moisture and a rich loamy slightly acid soil. Requires a lime-free soil. * The species has reddish-purple flowers; grows in marshes, ditches, and other wet places, even in shallow water; flowering in June and July; needs acid soil in cultivation;...

* Flat or bell-shaped 1 1/2" flowers in clusters of 5-7, rose, in spring before leaves; of upright habit; deciduous, with red fall color; native to North Carolina, where it grows in moist acid soil.

* Small, delicate plant forms a rounded mound, often loose and open; evergreen; 3" flowers in May, parents of this strain have flowers in variations of pink and purple; acid soil, good drainage; in the U.S. needs light shade in the North, more shade in...

* A beautiful very vigorous variety well know for its extreme cold hardiness.

* Easily grown from seed. * Deeply lobed glossy green leaves (2-3' long) form an ornamental mound which usually remains attractive throughout the growing season. Flowers are on a very long flowering stem and consist of a lower lip and upper tooth-like...

* The fruit is eaten raw, cooked or dried for later use. Sweet and juicy with a pleasant flavour, it makes good raw eating. * Gaultheria shallon is a leathery-leaved shrub in the heather family ( Ericaceae ), native to western North America .

* 1/2-1" yellow-green trumpet-shaped flowers backed by white, pink, or rose sepals, "beautiful for flower effect" (Dirr); dark green simple 4-8" leaves; likes moist acid soil; native to southeast U.S. * In earlier days, malaria and other fevers were treated...

* Native to the west coast of North America , from British Columbia to California. * Red or orange berries in the fall; peeling bark reveals reddish inner bark. * It is in flower from Apr to May, and the seeds ripen in October.

Unripe fruits are sometimes pickled.The fruit is about 4cm in diameter. Prefers moist, acidic, organically rich soils in part shade. May be grown as a large, multi-stemmed shrub or trained as single trunk tree.

* The fruit is not at all insipid, it has a very strong spicy taste of germolene, just like being in a hospital waiting room. * An evergreen groundcover, a source of wintergreen oil; 1/4" very light pink or pinkish white flowers in summer, scarlet fruit;...

* The trapping mechanism is so specialized that it can distinguish between living prey and non-prey stimuli such as falling raindrops; two trigger hairs must be touched in succession within 20 seconds of each other or one hair touched twice in rapid succession,...

* The trees have an extensive root system and are well adapted for growing in poor sandy soils, they are often used as a pioneer tree for reforestation. * In the far west of its range, it hybridizes readily with the closely related lodgepole pine ( P.