Acid Loving Plant Fragrant Flowering Plant For Sale In Lansing

* Shiny dark green evergreen leaves, emerging bronzy in spring; white slightly fragrant flowers in pendulous masses; neat upright habit; prefers moist, well-drained, acid soil, but doesn't insist on it; needs shade in the U.S. South; parent of many cultivars;...

Succeeds in open woodland or along the woodland edge. Plants are very cold-hardy, tolerating temperatures down to about -30°c. Dislikes dry soils, requiring cool, permanently moist conditions at the roots.

Rhododendron ponticum subsp. The leaves are evergreen , 6-18 cm long and 2-5 cm broad. Baeticum (Boiss. & Reut.) Hand.-Mazz. The flowers are 3.5-5 cm diameter, violet-purple, often with small greenish-yellow spots or streaks.

Pinky-purple flowers, 1 1/2"; a deciduous species that blooms before leafing out, the earliest of all to bloom; site to protect from late freezes; leaves to 4" x 1 1/4", light green, yellows and reds in fall; needs acid soil; parent of several cultivars;...

Grow in full to partial sun in welldrained soil. Fertilize after flowering with a balanced fertilizer for acid-loving plants. Recommended for a fragrance garden, you'll enjoy the intoxicating scent from late spring through summer.

* The plants tolerate clipping and make an attractive informal hedge. * Clethra alnifolia ( Sweet Pepperbush , Anne Bidwell or Summersweet ), is a flowering plant in the genus Clethra , native to eastern North America from southern Nova Scotia and Maine...

* A tea is made from the leaves. * The leaves are used as a condiment in gravies etc. * Sweet bay magnolia is native to the southeastern United States north along the Atlantic coast to New York.

* It was the first magnolia to be scientifically described, and is the type species of the genus Magnolia ; as Magnolia is also the type genus of all flowering plants , this species can be seen to typify all flowering plants.

* 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...

* Rhododendron catawbiense ( Catawba Rhododendron ) is a species of Rhododendron native to the eastern United States , growing mainly in the Appalachian Mountains from Virginia south to northern Alabama .

* It flowers in mid summer from July to August. * An erect, clump-forming perennial which features pale pink to white flowers enclosed in spiny, reddish-purple bracts and arranged in vertical rows on substantial flower spikes rising well above the foliage...

It can reach a height of 10 m. * Sakaki is one of the common trees in the second layer of the evergreen oak forests. * The small, scented, cream-white flowers open in early summer, and are followed later by berries which start red and turn black when...

* This species is unusual in having alternate leaves whilst almost all other members of this genus have opposite leaves. * The tree is regarded as attractive because of its wide spreading shelving branches and flat-topped head, and is often used in ornamental...

Flowers are often partially obscured by the large, velvety, oval-rounded, medium green leaves (to 8" long). Smooth gray bark exfoliates on the trunks of older trees revealing an attractive orange inner layer and resulting winter interest.

* A very spiny deciduous shrub with lots of strongly fragrant 3/4" bright yellow pealike flowers in spring and sporadically later; leaves are few and small; often rather weedy; grows on sand, likes neutral or acid soil; needs full sun; native to Europe,...

* Considered rare, the species is threatened by habitat loss, and only nine populations are known to remain in the wild, all of them in Anhui and Zhejiang provinces. * Heptacodium miconioides, commonly known as the Seven Sons plant, is a member of the...

* An evergreen shrub 2' to 4' tall 6' wide widespreading branches medium-coarse texture moderate growth rate * Landscape use: naturalizing borders with other ericaceous plants facer plants with taller plants shady bank stabilization * Fall Foliage: reddish,...

Mollis is widely grown as an ornamental plant, valued for the strongly-scented flowers appearing in winter when little else is growing. X intermedia, source of most cultivars. * The flowers are yellow, often with a red base, with four ribbon-shaped petals...

The flowers are only open for a short time at night and are typically pollinated by bats and large moths. If pollinated the flowers can mature into deliciously edible fruit. May be at there best when grown in hanging baskets where the flat arching stems...

* Considered rare, the species is threatened by habitat loss, and only nine populations are known to remain in the wild, all of them in Anhui and Zhejiang provinces. * Heptacodium miconioides, commonly known as the Seven Sons plant, is a member of the...

Great in hanging baskets. Hybrid Orchid Cactus typically open at night but often last well through the next day. If pollinated the flowers can mature into deliciously edible fruit.

* Vaccinium arboreum ( Sparkleberry or Farkleberry ) is a species of Vaccinium native to the southeastern United States , from southern Virginia west to southeastern Missouri , and south to Florida and eastern Texas .

Their large hanging trumpet shaped flowers release their heady fragrance most readily in the evenings and at night to help the moths and other creatures that might pollinate them locate them in the dark.

* Sweet Azalea is tall and fast-growing for a native azalea. Drought sensitive, it requires moist, partially shaded sites. Fragrant, funnel-shaped, white or pink-tinged flowers with protruding, red stamens cluster in subtle groups of 3 to 6 after the...

Use rainlilies at the front of the border, as an accent plant, in rock gardens, along stepping stones and walks, or allow them to naturalize in meadows and lawns. They do their best flowering when grown in full or mostly sun locations.

* 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;...

* 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...