Butterfly Attracting Plant Seeds For Sale In Cambridge

Prefers a calcareous soil but tolerates mildly acid soils. * A very ornamental plant. * An annual with white, lilac, pink, maroon, and carmine flowers; easy from seed, they start flowering 6 weeks after sowing and continue until frost; native to Europe.

Trunk to 30 cm d.b.h. or more. Petiole 2-4.5 cm; leaf blade often purplish red when young, greenish when mature, cordate or triangular-orbicular, * Open or dense forests, mountain slopes, along valleys near roads, on rocks; 600-1900 m.

* Succeeds in most reasonably good soils in an open sunny position. Tolerates light shade, though it fruits better in a sunny position. A fast-growing tree, especially in its first few years from seed.

The leaves area safe and effective cathartic. The root is cardiac and febrifuge. The seeds have been soaked in water until they are mucilaginous and then swallowed as a treatment for sore throats.

Branchlets glabrous, puberulent, or pubescent. Corolla purple, lilac, or sometimes white; tube subcylindric, 0.6-1.7(-2.2) cm; lobes ovate-orbicular to oblong or obovate-orbicular, 4-8(-10) mm, spreading.

* Modern research has shown that the plant increases the white blood cell count and is of value when used to prevent bone marrow loss in cancer chemotherapy patients, it also has potential in the treatment of AIDS.

This Hackberry produces a pale trunk and branches with green leaves . It is fast growing and relatively drought resistant making it a good bonsai.The flowers bloom in the spring followed by mini orange fruits.

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

Tall, summer perennial with a somewhat branched stem. It is hardy and not easily outcompeted by other plants. It can grow in moist or dry habitat. * Gray-head mexican-hat is a 3-5 ft.

Tall, with a wide, wispy, open crown. When in bloom, they cover the plant creating a fragrant, white cloud. The foliage is bright-green and glossy. * A small delicate shrub with 1" white bell-shaped flowers in small clusters from the leaf axils, in early...

The fruits are popular with birds, who distribute the seeds. * The fruit is a bright red or sometimes purple drupe containing 3 to 5 seeds. * The blossoms have been used in the treatment of measles.

The basal leaves are long and slender or very narrowly lanceolate. * The yellow rays are strongly downturned and the disk is dark brown. Flower stalks are sturdy and straight, with solitary terminal flowers, and are smooth or slightly hairy.

Trifolium pratense is used in traditional medicine of India as deobstruent, antispasmodic, expectorant, sedative, anti-inflammatory and antidermatosis agent. * Dietary amounts of red clover are safe, but medicinal quantities may cause rash-like reactions,...

The fresh or dried flowering plant can be used, with or without the roots. A homeopathic remedy is made from the plant. An infusion is used internally as a blood purifier and externally for treating cuts, burns and bruises.

* 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...

Trunk to 30 cm d.b.h. or more. Petiole 2-4.5 cm; leaf blade often purplish red when young, greenish when mature, cordate or triangular-orbicular, * Open or dense forests, mountain slopes, along valleys near roads, on rocks; 600-1900 m.

* Syringa josikaea ( Hungarian Lilac ) is a species of Lilac , native to central and eastern Europe , in the Carpathian Mountains in Hungary , Romania , and western Ukraine . * A good hedging plant, it is very tolerant of trimming.

An extract of them has antibacterial properties. * A good fibre is obtained from the leaves, it is said to be suitable for textiles. A mucilage from the seed coats is used as a fabric stiffener.

Beautifully complements the deer-red flower explosion known as Buddleia ‘Miss Molly'. Fragrant floriferous beacon draws an admiring entourage of hummingbirds and bees. Keep cutting the flowers, and the plants keeps blooming.

It is a member of the Gerbera genus . * No serious insect or disease problems. * Grow in average to organically rich, medium moisture, well-drained soils in full sun. The Gerbera daisy is perennial.

Tall, with a wide, wispy, open crown. When in bloom, they cover the plant creating a fragrant, white cloud. The foliage is bright-green and glossy. * A small delicate shrub with 1" white bell-shaped flowers in small clusters from the leaf axils, in early...

Also called "summer lilacs", these butterfly bushes have a long blooming season (August into September), need little care and butterflies as well as hummingbirds really do love them! Space 4-6 ft.

* Lilac flowers in nodding terminal clusters to 6"; leaves to 6"; native to China. The leaves are oval-oblong, 5-19 cm long and 2-7 cm broad. The panicles often hang limply, which is how the plant got its common name; the clusters look as though they...

* This is a lovely tree with fragrant red flowers in the spring and beautiful evergreen foliage. * This species is grown as an ornamental and used for timber.

* It inhabits prairies , plains, roadsides, and disturbed areas from southern Canada through most of the United States to northern Mexico . * Ratibida columnifera , commonly known as Upright Prairie Coneflower or Mexican Hat , is a species of flowering...

* The berries which are small drupes are purple. This species can be found in China and Japan. The fruits grow closely together in large clusters. * The flowers are pink to white. * Callicarpa dichotoma (common names, Purple Beautyberry or Early Amethyst...

* The droopy long leaves provide a 'sleepy' aura to the summer landscape. * The fruit falls from the tree in autumn and is then stored until fully ripe. * The flowers are produced in early spring at the same time as or slightly before the new leaves appear.