Biennial Plant Herbaceous Plant For Sale In Massachusetts

The flowers have a strong clove-like scent. It is best treated as a biennial in the garden. Although the Sweet William is a perennial species, it is quite short-lived and degenerates after its second year.

* Succeeds in a fertile well-drained soil in a sunny position. Plants are not very cold-tolerant, but they can beoverwintered outdoors in areas where winter temperatures do not fall below about -5°c.

* The seed contains arctiin, this excites the central nervous system producing convulsions an increase in respiration and later paralysis. * Native to Europe, naturalized in North America, tends to be very weedy.

To produce seed for future years the bulbs need to be left in place and mulched heavily over winter and allowed to grow until the second summer when they will produce flowers and seed.

* It is fragarnt and attracts bees and butterflies! * It is a short lived perennial or biennial but will self seed. * It tolerates a wide range of soil types and will grow in full sun or partial shade.

* Celery is used in weight-loss diets, where it provides low-calorie dietary fibre bulk. The leaves are pinnate to bipinnate with rhombic leaflets 3–6 cm long and 2–4 cm broad.

* They are quite frost tolerant and become even more flavorful after some frosty nights. * Try them as a fall crop by sowing seed in late summer. * Vates Collards have dark green very tasty leaves with a mild cabbage like flavor.

It is native to Morocco , but it can be found elsewhere growing wild as an introduced species , such as California . * This is an annual herb growing erect to approach half a meter in maximum height, its stem with linear leaves 2 to 4 centimeters long.

* In the laboratory it is a model organism,[6] for example containing the gene DEFICIENS which provides the letter "D" in the acronym MADS-box for a family of genes which are important in plant development.

It is native to northern Africa. Commonly known as Smooth Luffa and Egyptian Luffa , sometimes under the obsolete name Luffa cylindrica and frequently misspelt "Luffa aegyptica", it is cultivated and grown for its fruit.

Golden-mane Coreopsis is native from the south Eastern and south central states of the USA. * The species range in the eastern part of the USA is increasing as plants are used in landscaping.

* Stipa capillata is a perennial grass species in the family Poaceae , native to Europe and Asia . * A perennial grass, to 3', with erect stems and leaves, very narrow; flowers and seedheads lax; native to Eurasia.

* The root is boiled and eaten like salsify. Wholesome and nutritious.A peppery taste. Fleshy, sweet and succulent. * Oenothera biennis ( Common evening primrose or Evening star ) is a species of Oenothera native to eastern and central North America ,...

* Heart-shaped shiny dark green leaves with prominent veins, 9" x 5"; dark violet flowers in August; a 2' mound, flowers to almost 3'; native to China. * A good ground cover plant, succeeding in dense shade but rather slow to spread.

They are sticky hairy above, and white woolly below.Atop each stem is an almost perfectly spherical inflorescence up to 6 cm in diameter, packed with blue-gray disc florets . * It grows in sunny, rocky or brushy places, with more or less mineral rich...

* Machaeranthera tanacetifolia is a species of flowering plant in the aster family known by the common names tansyleaf tansyaster and Tahoka daisy . Tahoka-daisy is a low, spreading, 6-12 in.

* Scabiosa ochroleuca, commonly called cream scabious, is a species of scabiosa with creamy yellow flower heads. It is native to Europe and western Asia.

* A slender-stemmed, sometimes creeping, semi-woody perennial that may attain a length of 10-12 ft. The seed floss can be used as an insulation in shoes etc. * An excellent garden plant for areas east of the Cascades.

The fresh or dried leaves are used as a tea substitute. It is native throughout the cooler regions of the Northern Hemisphere in Europe , northern Asia , and northern North America .

* Use for border garden. * Many Adenophora species have been used in traditional Chinese medicine. * Prefers well-drained soil. * Adenophora (Lilyleaf Ladybell) is a genus of flowering plant within the family Campanulaceae.

It grows wild in cracks in old walls where drainage is excellent. * Yellow corydalis grows to 30–38 cm (12–15 in) tall. Corydalis lutea; Yellow Corydalis) is a short-lived perennial plant native to the southern foothills of the south-western and central...

The roasted roots are used with dandelion and chicory roots for making coffee. However, internal consumption, such as in the form of herbal tea , is discouraged, as it can cause serious liver damage.

* Succeeds in a fertile well-drained soil in a sunny position. Plants are not very cold-tolerant, but they can beoverwintered outdoors in areas where winter temperatures do not fall below about -5°c.

* All parts of the plant contain nicotine, this has been extracted and used as an insecticide. It is found only in cultivation, where it is the most commonly grown of all plants in the Nicotiana genus, and its leaves are commercially grown in many countries...

* This species is native to the temperate regions of the old world, from Scandinavia to the Mediterranean, and from the British Isles through Russia, and the Middle East to China and Japan, including India.

* A form with reddish-purple flowers, otherwise similar to the species, which see.

* Symphyotrichum lateriflorum is a herbaceous plant with alternate, simple leaves , on stiff, purplish stems. The flowers are white, borne in fall.