Acid Loving Plant Seeds For Sale In Cedar Rapids

* Upright flower clusters separate it from P. Japonica which has pendulous flower clusters. * Soils should be acidic and very well-drained but not excessively dry. * Fairly dense and bushy, especially when young.

* Rhododendron atlanticum ( Dwarf azalea or Coastal azalea ), is a species of Rhododendron native to coastal areas of the eastern United States , from New Jersey south to Georgia .

* It is a small to medium-sized evergreen tree growing up to 10–20 m (33–66 ft) high, with smooth gray bark and a uniform spherical to hemispherical crown. * An extract from fruit called myricerone blocks a receptor for the peptide, endothelin, an...

* This much-branched shrub is especially showy in flower. The species name, Latin for naked-flowered, refers to the fact that the flowers often appear before its leaves are fully expanded.

It is the namesake of the city of Laurel, Mississippi (founded 1882). Succeeds in open woodland or along the woodland edge. Mountain-laurel is the state flower of Connecticut and Pennsylvania .

Plants require continuously moist conditions in a loose compost of sphagnum peat, live sphagnum and coarse acid sand. * Sarracenia flava , the Yellow pitcher plant , is a carnivorous plant in the family Sarraceniaceae .

* 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 .

* Indigenous peoples of North America found the plant and its fruit very useful. * The bark or leaves of the plant were brewed for a bitter cold remedy, made as tea or smoked. * The fruit is an edible red to orange berry 6-millimetre (0.24 in) to 10-millimetre...

Its range extends from southern Mississippi , through southern Alabama , the Florida panhandle and Georgia , to the coastal plains of Virginia and South Carolina . * In spring, the plant produces small, bright red flowers with 5-fold symmetry.

* Sarracenia minor , also known as the Hooded pitcher plant , is a carnivorous plant in the genus Sarracenia . Like all the Sarracenia , it is native to the New World .

* Prefers a light well-drained soil and a sunny position. Likes plenty of moisture and a rich loamy slightly acid soil. Requires a lime-free soil. Kaempferi; native to Korea, China, Central Asia, and Japan.

* Northern Highbush Blueberry ( Vaccinium corymbosum ) is a species of blueberry native to eastern North America , growing from Nova Scotia and Ontario south to Alabama , and west to Wisconsin .

White flowers in upright clusters to 12" in early summer it has nice brown exfoliating bark and spreads by stolons to form mound like colonies. * Hydrangea quercifolia ( Oakleaf hydrangea ) is a species of hydrangea native to the southeastern United States...

* Tallowwood ( Eucalyptus microcorys ) is a native Eucalypt species common in New South Wales and Queensland , Australia . It has many commercial uses. * Tallowwood is so named owing to the greasy feel of the wood when cut.

* The shiny, alternately arranged leaves are 2 to 3 centimeters long and about a centimeter wide with finely serrated edges. * Vaccinium ovatum is a small to medium sized evergreen shrub native to the Western Pacific Coast of the United States and coastal...

* Closely related to and in the same family as witch hazel. * Best grown in acidic, organically rich, medium moisture, well-drained soils in full sun to part shade. Tolerates average garden soils, but not unamended heavy clays.

The height of this tree is 20–35 m. 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...

* This much-branched shrub is especially showy in flower. The species name, Latin for naked-flowered, refers to the fact that the flowers often appear before its leaves are fully expanded.

It is not known to occur east of the Cascade and Sierra Nevada mountain ranges. * Rhododendron occidentale ( Western Azalea ) is one of two deciduous Rhododendron species native to western North America (the other is Rhododendron albiflorum ).

It is brown otherwise. * A beautiful yellow dye is obtained from the flowers. Its specific epithet , meaning "false acorus," refers to the similarity of its leaves to those of Acorus calamus , as they have a prominently veined mid-rib and sword-like shape.

The flowers are inconspicuous, whitish to greenish-yellow, produced on slender peduncles 25 mm or more long; it is usually dioecious, with male and female flowers on separate plants.

Bulgaria east to Georgia. Description It is a dense, suckering shrub or small tree growing to 5 m tall, rarely 8 m. Baeticum (Boiss. Rhododendron ponticum subsp. & Reut.) Hand.-Mazz.

* Cornus canadensis is native to Northern China, far eastern Russia, Japan and North America in montane coniferous forests, where it is found growing along the margins of moist woods, on old tree stumps, in mossy areas and amongst other open and moist...

The leaves are oval with an acute apex, 7-13 cm long and 3-6 cm broad, and turn orange, red, or gold when the tree becomes dormant in the fall. * Stewartia ovata (Mountain Camellia; also Stuartia ovata) is a species of Stewartia native to low to mid-elevations...

* Acanthus balcanicus, is an endemic herbaceous perennial plant in the genus Acanthus, native to the Balkan peninsula, up to Dalmatia. * An erect, clump-forming perennial which features pale pink to white flowers enclosed in spiny, reddish-purple bracts...

* It has been in cultivation in China for at least a thousand years, and was introduced to English gardens in the mid 18th century. * Gardenia jasminoides fructus (fruit) is used within Traditional Chinese Medicine to "drain fire" and thereby treat certain...

* Upright flower clusters separate it from P. Japonica which has pendulous flower clusters. * Soils should be acidic and very well-drained but not excessively dry. * Fairly dense and bushy, especially when young.