Butterfly Attracting Plant Medicinal Plant For Sale In Newport News

Rose of Sharon is lovely all through the growing season. Rose of Sharon Hedge is a practical, lovely frame for your landscape. (Our choice of color.) Plants may have single or double blooms.

Native to moist prairies and sedge meadows. It is commonly grown in gardens for its showy purple flowers (pink or white in some cultivars). * The plant is said to be extremely efficacious when used as a local application in the treatment of sore throats...

Purple Coneflowers are practically indestructible because they are sub-zero hardy and withstand heat, grow in dry locations and love poor soil. Charming 5'' purple daisy-like blooms with orange-brown raised centers.

The root is cardiac and febrifuge. They are best used with Foeniculum vulgare seeds in order to counteract a tendency to cause gripe. * The leaves and seedpods are cathartic, diuretic and vermifuge.

* A good fibre is obtained from the leaves, it is said to be suitable for textiles. It is obtained by macerating the seed in hot water. Something that is considered to be an indicator of grazing in that area.

Both the dill "weed" and seed is used. * Depending on where it is grown, is either a perennial or annual herb. * The leaves lose their flavour if the are cooked for any length of time and so are best used raw or added to cooked dishes only a few minutes...

We send assorted colors: rich purples, orchid-pinks and lilacs, vibrant reds, and pure whites. These plants are deer and drought resistant. This plant is a main stay of the perennial border.

Ptarmica yields an essential oil that is used in herbal medicine. * Leaves can be eaten raw or cooked. * So called because the roots were once ground for snuff. * The leaves are used as an insect repellent.

* t is a deciduous shrub, growing to 1.5 m tall. It is native to eastern North America , from southern Quebec south to the extreme north of Georgia , and west to Minnesota . It is still used for most of the same purposes in modern herbalism.

* t is a deciduous shrub, growing to 1.5 m tall. It is native to eastern North America , from southern Quebec south to the extreme north of Georgia , and west to Minnesota . It is still used for most of the same purposes in modern herbalism.

The Candlestick Tree does readily reseed, consider removing ripe seed pods to prevent unwanted seedlings. The University of Florida recommends pruning last year's plants hard in spring to promote branching and strengthening of the trunks.

The sweetly scented foliage gives it its common name. A beautiful and eye-catching addition to any garden setting as well as a long lasting cutflower for arrangements. Along with 'Herbstonne', the Sweet Coneflower is one of the latest to flower.

* Succeeds in most reasonably good soils in an open sunny position. Dislikes dry soils. * A small tree with compound leaves, white flowers in clusters to 4", 1/4" orange-red fruit; native to northern China.

This Passionvine along with many of Myles Irving's Riverside hybrids appear to rarely produce fruit and are often triploid to tetraploid in nature. Snow Queen Passionflower is a vigorous, hardy, and exceptionally free-flowering Riverside hybrid created...

The basal leaves are long and slender or very narrowly lanceolate. * Echinacea paradoxa ( Bush's purple coneflower , Yellow Coneflower ) is a perennial species of flowering plant in the genus Echinacea .

Perennial Verbenas make wonderful additions to the butterfly garden providing nectar even in late winter for early visitors. Use Blue-Violet Tapien Verbena as a groundcover, a spiller in containers, or as a beautiful hanging basket.

* Plant forming huge clumps with white or grayish spherical flowers 2-3" across, in late summer; rough, thistley foliage, dark green, good for the back of a large border. * This is a glandular, woolly perennial which approaches a maximum height of two...

The Duranta can easily be overwintered indoors as a container plant where it is provided with direct sunlight to high light conditions. Interestingly this is another plant, along with Porterweed, that I consistently find when visiting butterfly conservatories.

The Flutterby series of Butterfly Bushes or Buddleias were selected not only for their compact habit, fragrant colorful flowers, their ability to flower continuously throughout the growing season, and landscape potential but also for their sterility or...

2001 RHS Award of Garden Merit winner. Zagreb Coreopsis is slightly more compact than Moonbeam. Provide Zagreb Coreopsis with good drainage and medium to low moisture. Deadheading will help ensure a fall repeat.

* Dietary amounts of red clover are safe, but medicinal quantities may cause rash-like reactions, muscle ache, headache, nausea, vaginal bleeding in women, and slow blood clotting.

With most passionflowers the 5 stamens (pollen producing glands) arch downward once they are ready to release their pollen (and nectar) then on the next flower, hopefully, the 3 stigmas will arch downward once they are ready to receive pollen thus doing...

* The young leaves can be eaten raw or cooked as a potherb, added to soups etc. Picked when first opened, the flowers are fermented with waterand sugar to make a very pleasant and intoxicating wine.

It is an essential ingredient of the herb mix 'bouquet garni'. An aromatic tea is made from the fresh or dried leaves. * A woody-stemmed aromatic plant, long used for flavoring foods; sometimes used as a ground cover or rock garden plant; 1/2" evergreen...

Batface Cuphea, or Georgia Scarlet Batface Cuphea, is a tough and reliable low mounding perennial which blooms from late spring to frost. Provide a well-drained soil with full to mostly sun for the best results.

* On account of its aromatic properties, fennel fruit forms one of the ingredients of the well-known compound liquorice powder. The seed can also be sown in situ in the autumn. * Seed propagaqtion- best sown in early spring in situ.

Provide Peach Perfectiontm Abelia with a full to mostly sunny position in most any well-drained soil for the best color and optimum flowering. Spring and summer bring clusters of large bell-shaped, nectar rich, white flowers that draw butterflies, bees,...