Acid Loving Plant Shade Tolerant Plant For Sale In Cambridge

1998 onwards Salisbury RA. In some areas, larger rhododendrons can be pruned to encourage more tree-like form, with some species such as R. Gray (2 species) ( * Subgenus Choniastrum Franch.

* 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 leaves or bark have been placed in cupped hands over the nose and inhaled as a mild hallucinogen. * It needs acid soil and doesn't mind wet or shade. * Sweet bay magnolia is native to the southeastern United States north along the Atlantic coast...

Too small for commercial exploitation, but it is valued for use in cabinet making and the interior finishes of houses, it is also used for making small items such as tool handles. * Ilex opaca is a medium-sized broadleaved evergreen tree growing to 10-20...

* The resins are obtained by tapping the trunk, or by destructive distillation of the wood. Rosin is the substance left after turpentine is removed. * The Pitch Pine ( Pinus rigida ) is a small-to-medium sized (6-30 m) pine , native to eastern North America...

* 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...

* Arctostaphylos uva-ursi is a small procumbent woody groundcover shrub 5–30 cm high. * The dried leaves have been used for smoking as an alternative to tobacco. The fruit is a red berry.

* Kalmia latifolia , commonly called Mountain-laurel or Spoonwood , is a species flowering plant in the blueberry family, Ericaceae , that is native to the eastern United States . Mountain-laurel is the state flower of Connecticut and Pennsylvania .

* The wood is strong, hard, durable,and takes a good polish. * Tallowwood is so named owing to the greasy feel of the wood when cut. * Tallowwood ( Eucalyptus microcorys ) is a native Eucalypt species common in New South Wales and Queensland , Australia...

* A very popular curiosity plant. 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. Well known and especially interesting for children.

It weighs 47lb per cubic foot. * It is native to the eastern United States, where it is one of the most important ridgetop trees from southern Maine southwest to central Mississippi, with an outlying northwestern population in southern Michigan.

Sarracenia rubra is generally clump-forming. * In spring, the plant produces small, bright red flowers with 5-fold symmetry. * Sarracenia rubra , also known as the Sweet pitcher plant , is a carnivorous plant in the genus Sarracenia .

* The fruit is not at all insipid, it has a very strong spicy taste of germolene, just like being in a hospital waiting room. * Gaultheria procumbens ( Eastern Teaberry , Checkerberry , Boxberry , or American Wintergreen ) is a species of Gaultheria native...

Bright green foliage (grayish woolly beneath) turns bronzish in fall. An upright, rounded shrub which typically grows 4-8' tall (less frequently to 15' tall) and as wide. * This deciduous azalea (commonly called early azalea or roseshell azalea) is a...

* The Vaccinium angustifolium plant is fire-tolerant and its numbers often increase in an area following a forest fire. * The native plant Lowbush Blueberry is also grown commercially in Canada, Maine, and Massachusetts, mainly harvested from managed...

A decoction of the roots has been used in the treatment of kidney complaints and TB. * Habitat and Range: sandy, gravelly, or rocky slopes, often growing in areas underlain by limestone bedrock.

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. Plants can be grown in containers in pond margins but are then best kept in drier conditions over winter.

* The wood is strong, hard, durable,and takes a good polish. * Tallowwood is so named owing to the greasy feel of the wood when cut. * Tallowwood ( Eucalyptus microcorys ) is a native Eucalypt species common in New South Wales and Queensland , Australia...

* Arctostaphylos uva-ursi is a small procumbent woody groundcover shrub 5–30 cm high. * The dried leaves have been used for smoking as an alternative to tobacco. The fruit is a red berry.

It blooms from April to May, with trusses of 6–12 flowers, campanulate, white to pink, and fragrant. * Fragrant white or pink flowers to 3" across; 8" evergreen leaves; parent of many hybrids; native to eastern China.

Bell-shaped, fragrant, white flowers with showy yellow stamens appear in pendulous, terminal racemes (to 8" long) in May-June (somewhat late for trees). * Fragrant white flowers in 8" clusters in spring; large dark green leaves, to 8" long; smooth gray...

* The fruit is eaten raw, cooked or dried for later use. 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 .

* This plant grows in thickets in moist areas, such as the margins of bogs and ponds. There are about 37 occurrences for an estimated total of 4000 individuals. * Ilex collina is a species of holly known by the common name longstalk holly.

But it is thinly distributed over much of its native range, and is becoming rare in many areas. * Halesia tetraptera, commonly known as the common silverbell is a species in the family Styracaceae, native to the southeastern United States.

Very vigorous, it can swamp out small plants. * A low shrub with dark green evergreen leaves, shiny on the undersides; 2-3" flowers, bright yellow, throughout summer; easy to grow--tolerates dry soil; said to grow best in shade; grows quickly; native...

* The pin oak is in the red oak subgenus: pointed lobes.The sinuses are very deeply cut and u-shaped.The amount of sinus area is approximately equivalent to the amount of actual leaf area.The upper branches point upwards, the middle branches are perpendicular...

It is also the official state flower of Alabama . It is called 'tsubaki oil'. * The Japanese Camellia ( Camellia japonica ) is one of the best known species of Camellia . It is a flowering shrub or a small tree native to Japan , Korea and China .