Acid Loving Plant Shade Tolerant Plant For Sale In Gainesville

Timber Press, 2005. In some areas, larger rhododendrons can be pruned to encourage more tree-like form, with some species such as R. : 11 species Clade B Subgenus Hymenanthes (Blume) K.Koch: Large leaf or elepidotes (without scales), including deciduous...

* 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. * 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 .

Formerly known as Rhododendron roseum. 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.

* Beautiful fragrant pale pink small flowers in clusters to 6"; deciduous; acid soil, although may be more tolerant of lime than most; needs protection from hot sun and late freezes; dark green leaves to 5 1/2" x 3", red, yellow, and orange in fall; native...

* In spring, the plant produces small, bright red flowers with 5-fold symmetry. The uppermost part of the leaf is flared into a lid (the operculum), which prevents excess rain from entering the pitcher and diluting the digestive secretions within.

* Upright flower clusters separate it from P. * Soils should be acidic and very well-drained but not excessively dry. * Leaves are dark green and leathery. Japonica which has pendulous flower clusters.

* It needs acid soil and doesn't mind wet or shade. * Dirr describes this as a really beautiful plant. * The leaves are used as a condiment in gravies etc. * Cone-like fruits with bright red seeds mature in fall and can be showy.

* A handsome tree, light to dark green needles and yellowish-green cones. * Said to be heat tolerant and grows throughout the South. * Native to central and Southern Japan * Momi Fir is sometimes used as an ornamental tree, particularly in warm temperate...

Bell-shaped, fragrant, white flowers with showy yellow stamens appear in pendulous, terminal racemes (to 8" long) in May-June (somewhat late for trees). Typically grows 20-30' tall.

It weighs 47lb per cubic foot. * Wood - close-grained, heavy, hard, rather tough, strong, durable in contact with the soil. * The chestnut oak is readily identified by its massively-ridged dark gray-brown bark, the thickest of any eastern North American...

The Western Azalea is known to occur as far north as Bandon , Oregon . * Rhododendron occidentale ( Western Azalea ) is one of two deciduous Rhododendron species native to western North America (the other is Rhododendron albiflorum ).

* The dried leaves have been used for smoking as an alternative to tobacco. The leaves are evergreen, remaining green for 1–3 years before falling. One report says that it is unclear whether this was for medicinal purposes or for the intoxicated state...

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

* Clethra alnifolia ( Sweet Pepperbush , Anne Bidwell or Summersweet ), is a flowering plant in the genus Clethra , native to eastern North America from southern Nova Scotia and Maine south to northern Florida , and west to eastern Texas .

* Upright flower clusters separate it from P. * Soils should be acidic and very well-drained but not excessively dry. * Leaves are dark green and leathery. Japonica which has pendulous flower clusters.

Gallberry nectar is the source of a pleasant honey that is popular in the southern United States. * A good hedging plant. * Ilex glabra is one of the very few evergreen shrubs (broadleaf or narrowleaf) to thrive in wet sites, noted for its evergreen foliage...

The roots and rhizomes have long been used medicinally by Native Americans. Following the arrival of European settlers in the U.S. who continued the medicinal usage of black cohosh, the plant appeared in the U.S. Pharmacopoeia in 1830 under the name “black...

When it is sufficiently boil'd, and become cold, add to it three or four Spoonfuls of good Ale to make it work...and when the Test begins to settle, bottle it up . In individuals younger than five years, the bark appears brown with white lenticels, making...

* This is a grand, tall, graceful conifer with shiny dark green foliage. It adapts well to pruning and makes a magnificent hedge. It is best planted out of strong winds and sun in moist, acid soil, although may tolerate some lime.

It has evergreen leaves that are about 3 to 6 inches long with a lance shape. The leaves vary in color from bright green to dark green. * The fresh or dried leaves can be used as a flavouring in soups etc.

To be able to compete successfully in such habitats, it has adapted greater shade tolerance than most other pines. * Pinus glabra differs markedly from most other pines in that it does not occur in largely pure pine forests, but is typically found as...

* Habit and Form a semievergreen to deciduous shrub typically 5' to 6'; can reach 10' upright, spreading branching habit shape is irregular to mounded multi-stemmed, suckering and colony-forming coastal plants are low-growing, often only 1' to 2' tall

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

* 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 to southeast Europe, Asia Minor.

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 often cultivated by plant nurseries for use as a broadleaf...

Clusters of soft pink to white to lavender, slightly fragrant, funnel-shaped flowers (to 1.5” across), each with 5 long curved stamens, bloom in April immediately preceding the emergence of the foliage.