Acid Loving Plant Plant For Moist Soil For Sale In Tacoma

* Sarracenia leucophylla , also known as the white pitcher plant , is a carnivorous plant in the genus Sarracenia . Like all the Sarracenia , it is native to the New World and inhabits moist and low-nutrient longleaf pine ( Pinus palustris ) savannas...

* Prefers a light well-drained soil and a sunny position. * 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; many elaborate, unusual,...

* 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...

* 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.

Plants are not hardy in Britain, requiring a minimum temperature of 5°c. Plants require continuously moist conditions in a loose compost of sphagnum peat, live sphagnum and coarse acid sand.

* 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.

It burns with a clear, bright flame and is valued as a fuel. * Cliftonia monophylla ( Buck-wheat tree , Buckwheat tree , Titi ) is a tree native to the United States . * The wood is heavy, close-grained, moderately hard, brittle, not strong.

* Shiny reddish-brown or dark brown bark; often of shrubby habit; native to Rocky Mountains * The buds and twigs are used as a flavouring in stews It typically occurs along streams in mountainous regions.

* A large shrub with attractive red-brown bark, white flowers in midsummer, and yellow-orange fall color; native to southeast U.S.

The tree doesn't mind shade but dislikes high temperatures and drought. * This is a grand, tall, graceful conifer with shiny dark green foliage. It is best planted out of strong winds and sun in moist, acid soil, although may tolerate some lime.

The berries are an important food resource for numerous species of birds. * Ilex verticillata ( American Winterberry ) is a species of holly native to eastern North America in the United States and southeast Canada , from Newfoundland west to Ontario...

* Pieris japonica is a shrub with alternate, simple leaves , on brittle stems. The flowers are white, borne in early spring. * Shiny dark green evergreen leaves, emerging bronzy in spring; white slightly fragrant flowers in pendulous masses; neat upright...

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. * It is a medium-sized evergreen tree growing to 30 m tall, and with a trunk diameter of up to 0.8 m.

* Lobelia cardinalis ( Cardinal Flower ) is a species of Lobelia native to the Americas , from southeastern Canada south through the eastern and southwestern United States , Mexico and Central America to northern Colombia .

* The scientific name honors Tsar Boris III of Bulgaria, during whose reign it was described as a new species in 1925. * It is closely related to (and in many respects intermediate between) Silver Fir to the north in central Europe, Greek Fir to the south...

* Needles to 1" long, in 2 rows forming a trough; barrel-shaped cones, 4", dark violet-black. * It is a high altitude mountain tree, growing at altitudes of 3,000-4,000 meters, often occupying the tree line .

Flowers give way to drupes which may persist into late autumn. Bell-shaped, fragrant, white flowers with showy yellow stamens appear in pendulous, terminal racemes (to 8" long) in May-June (somewhat late for trees).

* Mayo or Mayu (Sophora macrocarpa) is a small tree that inhabits the Chilean Matorral.

The fruit is a red drupe 6–7 mm diameter containing three to five pits * Ilex mucronata is a deciduous shrub growing to 3 m (rarely 4 m) tall. The flowers are inconspicuous, whitish to greenish-yellow, produced on slender peduncles 25 mm or more long;...

* Native to North America , occurring in arctic and cool temperate areas from Alaska east to Newfoundland and southern Greenland , and south at high altitudes to northern California and Colorado in the west, and locally south to northern New York in the...

* Black cohosh is used today mainly as a dietary supplement marketed to women as remedies for the symptoms of premenstrual tension, menopause and other gynecological problems. * Native Americans used black cohosh to treat gynecological and other disorders,...

The plant is little used in modern herbalism but has been employed in the treatment of laryngitis and bronchitis. * The roots and the leaves are aphrodisiac, digestive, mildly expectorant and sedative.

* This is the commercial cranberry we eat during the holidays; an attractive plant in its own right, making a low, dense groundcover, with narrow 3/4" shiny dark green leaves, turning reddish purple in fall; pretty little pinkish flowers in May and June;...

Maximum is an evergreen shrub growing to 4 m (13 ft), rarely 10 m (33 ft), tall. * Flowers to 2" across, white, pink, or purplish; likes cool, moist, acid soil and shade; dark green evergreen leaves 4-8"; of open habit; flowering in summer; native from...

* Extracts from the plant have shown anticancer activity. Sinensis to be synonymous with Cephalotaxus harringtonia * Very tolerant of pruning, this plant makes a very good hedge in shady positions.

* The scientific name honors Tsar Boris III of Bulgaria, during whose reign it was described as a new species in 1925. * It is closely related to (and in many respects intermediate between) Silver Fir to the north in central Europe, Greek Fir to the south...

The root is a source of tannin and has been used in making ink. A good black dye is obtained from the root if it is mixed with iron sulphate. A delicately scented essential oil, obtained from the roots, has been used to adulterate the oil of Acorus calamus.