Acid Loving Plant Seeds For Sale In Fort Wayne

It is low to the ground with some of the lower branches rooting in the soil and others extending more outward than upward. * Arctostaphylos patula is a species of manzanita known by the common name greenleaf manzanita .

* Soils should be acidic and very well-drained but not excessively dry. * Fairly dense and bushy, especially when young. * Native to primarily North and South Carolina, but also found in Virginia and Georgia.

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* 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 in the landscape for its appealing form; prefers well-drained, slightly acid...

Tolerates average garden soils, but not unamended heavy clays. * A shrub grown for its pale yellow, fragrant flowers in spring before leaves emerge; part or full sun; leaves dark green, gold or yellow-green in fall; Japan native.

The bright red, acidic berries were used extensively for food throughout the year. The branches were used as brooms, and the twigs were used to fasten western skunk cabbage leaves into berry baskets.

* Native to China, common pearlbush is a loose, upright, early-blooming, deciduous shrub with a broad rounded shape. It typically matures to 10-15' tall and as wide. * Although floriferous and attractive in early spring, it basically plods though the...

* A lovely evergreen plant for cool, acid, woodsy conditions such as rhododendrons like; 1" flowers in rounded clusters at branch tips, each flower hexagonal, generally pink, sometimes white, red, or purplish; the tips of the stamens are tucked into little...

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.

* Running serviceberry is a deciduous, early-flowering, stoloniferous shrub which typically suckers and spreads to form thickets. It usually grows to only 3-5' tall and features 5-petaled, showy, white flowers in drooping clusters which appear before...

* 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...

* Fragrant white or pink flowers to 3" across; 8" evergreen leaves; parent of many hybrids; native to eastern China. * It is a shrub or small tree that grows to 3–12 metres (9.8–39.4 ft) in height, with leathery leaves that are oblong to oblong-elliptic,...

* A small tree of horizontal branching habit, creating a tiered effect. * The tree is regarded as attractive because of its wide spreading shelving branches and flat-topped head, and is often used in ornamental plantings.

Chokeberries are cultivated as ornamental plants and also because they are very high in antioxidant pigment compounds, like anthocyanins. * The fruits are eaten by birds (birds do not taste astringency and feed on them readily), which then disperse the...

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.

It is in flower in March, and the seeds ripen in June. It is commonly found in flood plains and/or swamps . * Betula nigra ( River Birch ; also occasionally called Water Birch ) is a species of birch native to the eastern United States from New Hampshire...

* In spring, the plant produces small, bright red flowers with 5-fold symmetry. Like all the Sarracenia , it is native to the New World . The red petals are long and strap-like, and dangle over the umbrella-like style of the flower, which is held upside...

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

Drooping flower clusters are easily visible because of the upward posture of the foliage. This tree is in the same family as and closely related to Halesia (silverbell). * Japanese snowbell is a compact, deciduous flowering tree with horizontal branching...

* Stewartia ovata (Mountain Camellia; also Stuartia ovata) is a species of Stewartia native to low to mid-elevations in the southern Appalachian Mountains. A relative of the evergreen Camellias of Asia, other common names include summer dogwood and Mountain...

It likes full sun but needs to be protected during the hot summer afternoons. * Larch is deciduous and the needles turn yellow in autumn. The Bonsai will produce cones but they are small, so they seem in proportion to the tree.

Pubens (native to North America) was known as American red elder. * Historically, Sambucus racemosa (native to Europe and Asia) was commonly known as European red elder and the very similar Sambucus pubens also known as S.

* The species has been introduced to other areas of Europe, and also to the Americas, New Zealand and Australia, where it is often considered a weed and is a serious problem invasive species in some areas (notably the western United States, Chile and...

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

Requires a lime-free soil. Kaempferi; native to Korea, China, Central Asia, and Japan. * 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;...

Sweet and juicy with a pleasant flavour, it makes good raw eating. In English it is known as salal , shallon , or in Britain simply Gaultheria . * Gaultheria shallon is a leathery-leaved shrub in the heather family ( Ericaceae ), native to western North...

This is used by violinists on their bows and also in making sealing wax, varnish etc. Rosin is the substance left after turpentine is removed. Mainly used for charcoal and fuel, it is occasionally sawn into lumber.