Acid Loving Plant Seeds For Sale In Montgomery

The general shape of the tree is conical with tiered, horizontal branches that are often somewhat pendulous toward the tips. Used in construction, ship building etc wherever great strength is required.

It typically matures to 10-15' tall and as wide. * Native to China, common pearlbush is a loose, upright, early-blooming, deciduous shrub with a broad rounded shape. * Medium green leaves, of loose upright habit; "spectacular in flower...does extremely...

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

The branches were used as brooms, and the twigs were used to fasten western skunk cabbage leaves into berry baskets. Dried berries were stewed and made into sauces, or mixed with salmon roe and oil to eat at winter feasts.

The leaves can be poisonous. The flowers are 2.5-3 cm (1 in) diameter, white, pink or pale purple, often with small greenish-yellow spots. Succeeds in sun or shade, the warmer the climate the more shade a plant requires.

Needs pruning and needs to be protected from frost. It is important to have healthy branching or the overall growth of the tree will suffer. * Beautiful fragrant pale pink small flowers in clusters to 6"; deciduous; acid soil, although may be more tolerant...

The edges of the lobes are fringed by stiff hair-like protrusions or cilia, which mesh together and prevent large prey from escaping. * Venus Flytraps are not as humidity-dependent as are some other carnivorous 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...

They can be eaten raw or cooked. * Amelanchier spicata, also referred to as the thicket shadbush, low juneberry, dwarf serviceberry, or low serviceberry (historically also called "pigeon berry"), is a species of serviceberry that has edible fruit, which...

* Evidence of Gardenia jasminoides in cultivation in China dates to the Song Dynasty (960-1279 AD), where both wild and double-flowered forms have been depicted in paintings, such as those of the Song Emperor Huizong, and the Tenth century artist Xu Xi

* Cornus canadensis is a slow growing perennial herbaceous subshrub growing 10–20 cm tall, forming a carpet-like mat. * The fruits look like berries but are drupes . * The fruit is rich in pectin.

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;...

* Bark peels off in sheets, revealing reddish-brown underbark; may grow 1-2' a year; shiny green leaf changing to yellow in fall; variable; likes rich, moist, acid soil; good for for wet spots; native to eastern U.S.

* 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 .

The plant prefers loamy acid and neutral soils, and can grow in very acid soils.It can grow in semi-shade (light woodland) or no shade. * White flowers in long clusters; may be a tree or shrub; egg-shaped fruit with five "wings"; prefers moist sandy loam;...

* Externally it is a very beneficial treatment for a variety of skin complaints, wounds, sores, burns, boils etc and is used in the form of liniment plasters, poultices, herbal steam baths and inhalers.

It typically matures to 10-15' tall and as wide. * Native to China, common pearlbush is a loose, upright, early-blooming, deciduous shrub with a broad rounded shape. * Medium green leaves, of loose upright habit; "spectacular in flower...does extremely...

* Its flowers emerge dramatically on a bare tree in early spring, with the deciduous leaves expanding shortly thereafter, lasting through summer until autumn. * Magnolia × soulangeana has alternate, simple, shiny, dark green oval-shaped leaves on stout...

* 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 .

* Landscape use: naturalizing borders with other ericaceous plants facer plants with taller plants shady bank stabilization * Fall Foliage: reddish, bronze winter color * An infusion of the leaves and stems has been used to bathe itchy skin.

An insectivorous plant, it is best grown in a boggy position and prefers a soil low in nitrogen. This conflicts with the hardiness rating of 7 (temperatures down to between -5 and -10°c) given in .

Plants can be grown in containers in pond margins but are then best kept in drier conditions over winter. Requires a lime-free soil. * Prefers a light well-drained soil and a sunny position.

* Ilex glabra is one of the very few evergreen shrubs (broadleaf or narrowleaf) to thrive in wet sites, noted for its evergreen foliage and upright, spreading, and suckering shrub growth habit when in species form.

* Sarracenia rubra , also known as the Sweet pitcher plant , is a carnivorous plant in the genus Sarracenia . Its range extends from southern Mississippi , through southern Alabama , the Florida panhandle and Georgia , to the coastal plains of Virginia...

* Evidence of Gardenia jasminoides in cultivation in China dates to the Song Dynasty (960-1279 AD), where both wild and double-flowered forms have been depicted in paintings, such as those of the Song Emperor Huizong, and the Tenth century artist Xu Xi

* One of the most handsome plants for landscape designers. * Hydrangea quercifolia ( Oakleaf hydrangea ) is a species of hydrangea native to the southeastern United States , from North Carolina west to Tennessee , and south to Florida and Louisiana .

An upright, rounded shrub which typically grows 4-8' tall (less frequently to 15' tall) and as wide. Bright green foliage (grayish woolly beneath) turns bronzish in fall. Formerly known as Rhododendron roseum.