Butterfly Attracting Plant Seeds For Sale In Grand Rapids

They are also used to give colour and flavour to glutinous-rice dumplings (Mochi). This species is also occasionally known as Felon Herb , Chrysanthemum Weed , Wild Wormwood , Old uncle Henry , Sailor's Tobacco , Naughty Man , Old Man or St. John's Plant...

* Depending on where it is grown, is either a perennial or annual herb. * In Canada, dill is a favorite herb to accompany poached salmon. * This is common dill that is used in pickles and for flavoring.

It is used in a number of proprietary medicines for treating skin, circulatory and kidney disorders. The species is commonly known as Virginia snakeroot and is native to eastern North America, from Connecticut to southern Michigan and south to Texas and...

Prefers a calcareous soil but tolerates mildly acid soils. * Succeeds in poor soils and on dry walls. * A very ornamental plant. * An annual with white, lilac, pink, maroon, and carmine flowers; easy from seed, they start flowering 6 weeks after sowing...

* The latex in the stems is a suitable replacement for chicle and can be made into a chewing gum. * The unopened flower buds are eaten cooked. They taste somewhat like peas. * Asclepias syriaca , commonly called Common Milkweed , Butterfly flower , Silkweed...

About 35 kilos of oil can be extracted from 1 hectare of the plant (yielding 2,500 kilos of flowers and 25,000 kilos of herbage). The growing plant repels whitefly and can be grown near tomatoes to keep that crop free of the insect.

* The bark or leaves have been chewed by children as a treatment for sore mouth. * Parent has white flowers. * The plant is often used as a rootstock for the various ornamental cultivars of lilac.

* This heirloom variety matures in about 80-90 days but some stems can be cut before maturity. * Chives ( Allium schoenoprasum ) are the smallest species of the onion family Alliaceae * Allium schoenoprasum is also the only species of Allium native to...

It differs from other similar species in that it has 4 lobed flowers, whereas Small Scabious and Field scabious have 5 lobes and hence it has been placed in a separate genus in the same family .

* A species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae ,native to South China (which includes Hong Kong ) and southeastern Asia * Common names include Hong Kong Orchid Tree, and Hawaiian orchid tree.

Acaulis (L.) Hill) is a species of Primula native to western and southern Europe (from the Faroe Islands and Norway south to Portugal , and east to Germany, Ukraine , the Crimea , and the Balkans ), northwest Africa ( Algeria ), and southwest Asia ( Turkey...

* The fruit has been part of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) for thousands of years, used to treat arthritis, leg edema, and cramping in the calf muscle. * This plant is widely cultivated in temperate regions for its twining habit and its showy flowers...

It is best treated as a biennial in the garden. * The popular old-fashioned flower; likes limey soil; native to Russia and China. * Plants self-sow freely when grown in a suitable position.

The flowers of this large plant are not typically pea-like. Marilandica) is a more southern species with fewer flowers and bigger leaflets. * Clusters of light yellow to orange flowers atop a sparsely branched perennial or in axils of compound leaves.

* White or rosy-lilac flowers in 3-7" clusters, often several to each branch tip, in May; flower fragrance, not intense, resembles privet; very hardy; forms a dense, arching shrub with substantial branches; does well in the U.S. Midwest; native to China.

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

* 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 member of the mint family; many small flowers on short spikes, usually blue but rarely pink, purple, or white; forms a dense mounded plant; used in cooking; aromatic; full sun, dry soil; native to southern Europe, Caucasus, Iran, Turkey.

* 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.

Very harsh and acid raw but fragrant when cooked, imparting a strong pleasant flavour to jams and jellies, it is especially good cooked with apples in apple pies. The fruit is edible but not as well known for its jelly and pie making as its cousin Cydonia...

It is used in a number of proprietary medicines for treating skin, circulatory and kidney disorders. The species is commonly known as Virginia snakeroot and is native to eastern North America, from Connecticut to southern Michigan and south to Texas and...

* The plants tolerate clipping and make an attractive informal hedge. * An oval shrub with pleasing dark green leaves and very fragrant white flowers in upright terminal racemes in late summer; does well in heavy shade; yellow or golden brown fall color;...

* 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.

* The latex in the stems is a suitable replacement for chicle and can be made into a chewing gum. * The unopened flower buds are eaten cooked. They taste somewhat like peas. * Asclepias syriaca , commonly called Common Milkweed , Butterfly flower , Silkweed...

It is an herbaceous, perennial dicot native to eastern and central Canada and United States. Growing up to a meter tall, it lives in zones 4 to 9 in moist to wet soils. It produces a spike of zygomorphic flowers in the late summer.

* Easily grown in average, dry to medium, well-drained soils in full sun to part shade. Young twigs are noticeably yellow and stand out in winter. Cylindrical clusters (1-2" long) of tiny, fragrant, white flowers (1/8") appear on long stalks at the stem...

* Lilac flowers in nodding terminal clusters to 6"; leaves to 6"; native to China. It is a shrub growing to 3-6 m tall, with erect branches. * Syringa komarowii is a species of lilac native to central China, commonly called Nodding Lilac.