Acid Loving Plant Seeds For Sale In Portland

* A small deciduous tree with gray bark and spreading branches; 1/4" bright red fruit; native to West Virginia and southwest Virginia. * Ilex collina is a species of holly known by the common name longstalk holly.

* 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 .

Extremely winter hardy (grows in the wild as far north as Quebec) and is one of the parents of the Northern Lights hybrids developed by the University of Minnesota. Bright green foliage (grayish woolly beneath) turns bronzish in fall.

* Rhododendron viscosum , commonly known as swamp azalea or clammy azalea , is a deciduous shrub which is endemic to the United States .

Plants can be grown in containers in pond margins but are then best kept in drier conditions over winter. * The species has reddish-purple flowers; grows in marshes, ditches, and other wet places, even in shallow water; flowering in June and July; needs...

Mountain-laurel is the state flower of Connecticut and Pennsylvania . Prefers almost full sun. * A lovely evergreen plant for cool, acid, woodsy conditions such as rhododendrons like; 1" flowers in rounded clusters at branch tips, each flower hexagonal,...

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

* The fruit is an edible red to orange berry 6-millimetre (0.24 in) to 10-millimetre (0.39 in) in diameter. Berries were also dried for later use. The bright red, acidic berries were used extensively for food throughout the year.

* 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.

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* 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 .

A great way to promote interest in science. The speed with which traps close can be used as an indicator of a plant's general health. If the prey is too small and escapes, the trap will reopen within 12 hours.

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

It produces large, showy, white to purple flowers each June. Maximum is an evergreen shrub growing to 4 m (13 ft), rarely 10 m (33 ft), tall. * Succeeds in a most humus-rich lime-free soils except those of a dry arid nature or those that are heavy or...

Pseudocamellia, which see, but with longer leaves, smaller flowers (in June and July), and petals that are reddish at the base; needs acid soil; native to Japan. * A shrub or tree, resembling S.

* The fruit is an edible red to orange berry 6-millimetre (0.24 in) to 10-millimetre (0.39 in) in diameter. Berries were also dried for later use. The bright red, acidic berries were used extensively for food throughout the year.

* 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...

* One of the most handsome plants for landscape designers. The leaves do roughly resemble giant oak leaves being shiny dark green, nice purple, red, or orangish brown in fall. * Hydrangea quercifolia ( Oakleaf hydrangea ) is a species of hydrangea native...

It produces large, showy, white to purple flowers each June. Maximum is an evergreen shrub growing to 4 m (13 ft), rarely 10 m (33 ft), tall. * Succeeds in a most humus-rich lime-free soils except those of a dry arid nature or those that are heavy or...

* It has attractive small, deep crimson-pink flowers that occur early summer. * A very ornamental and variable plant. * Sheep laurel is a very poisonous narcotic plant the leaves of which were at one time used by some native North American Indian tribes...

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

Foliage turns deep red to purple in fall. * Sweet Azalea is tall and fast-growing for a native azalea. Fragrant, funnel-shaped, white or pink-tinged flowers with protruding, red stamens cluster in subtle groups of 3 to 6 after the leaves appear.

Needs pruning and needs to be protected from frost. * Rhododendron schlippenbachii ( Royal Azalea ) is a species of Rhododendron native to the Korean Peninsula and adjacent regions of Manchuria ( Liaoning , Nei Mongol ), Japan , and the Russian Far East...

* It is in flower from Apr to May, and the seeds ripen in October. * Native to the west coast of North America , from British Columbia to California. * An evergreen Tree growing to 15 m.

A great way to promote interest in science. The speed with which traps close can be used as an indicator of a plant's general health. If the prey is too small and escapes, the trap will reopen within 12 hours.

* 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 .

* The fruit, which are pomes, are edible and can be eaten raw or cooked. * The bark can be made into a herbal medicine for expectant mothers. * The fruit has a sweet flavor. * The nicest tree form of Serviceberry.