Butterfly Attracting Plant Shade Tolerant Plant For Sale In Durham

* Pawpaw is a large shrub or small tree growing to a height of 11 meters. * The fruit can also be used for making preserves, pies, ice cream and other sweet desserts. * The flowers are produced in early spring at the same time as or slightly before the...

The new bark is pleasant to chew. * The dried and powderedfruit is used as a substitute for the spice 'allspice'. The leaves can also be usedas a spice substitute. I never knew about the Spicebush Swallowtail until recently though, thanks to the internet!...

* Pawpaw is a large shrub or small tree growing to a height of 11 meters. * The fruit can also be used for making preserves, pies, ice cream and other sweet desserts. * The flowers are produced in early spring at the same time as or slightly before the...

* The plants tolerate clipping and make an attractive informal hedge. * The stalk of the blossom is used as a soap substitute. * Clethra alnifolia ( Sweet Pepperbush , Anne Bidwell or Summersweet ), is a flowering plant in the genus Clethra , native to...

Reaches 8-10' and can be trimmed to 6-8'. This variety is vigorous and dense-growing. The flowers have same fragrance as honeysuckle vines. Later, brilliant red berries appear that last all summer and throughout the winter.

The genus name is Greek - rhapis, meaning "needle"; and the species name is Latin for "tall", an ironic name choice as R. It is not known in the wild; all known plants come from cultivated groups in China.

* The flowers are pink to white. The fruit provides food for wild life. * The berries are bitter and are unfit for culinary use. They are cultivated for ornamental use in gardens. * The berries which are small drupes are purple.

This perennial is a native plant found throughout the eastern part of the United States and in many parts of the western U.S., Canada , and Mexico . * Lance-leaved coreopsis produces yellow flowers in late summer.

* This is one of the food plants for the caterpillars of several butterflies and moths, including the Gatekeeper and the Meadow Brown. * It succeeds on shallow chalky soils. * Tolerant of constant cutting, this plant is often grown in lawns.

Attract both butterflies and hummingbirds with their delightful scent. Pretty lavender-blue flowers bloom all the way through summer. Plant in full sun. Aromatic gray-green foliage.

, rare), Korea , and southeastern Russia ( Primorsky Krai ). It is listed as an endangered species in Japan. It has escaped from cultivation and become naturalized in New Zealand and the eastern United States ; in the forests of the latter, it has become...

It ranges from southern Pakistan eastward throughout India to Myanmar and Thailand and south to Sri Lanka. * The golden shower tree is a medium-sized tree, growing to 10–20 m (33–66 ft) tall with fast growth.

Aromatic and somewhat bitter. 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 (not to be confused with St John's wort ).

Pubens (native to North America) was known as American red elder. * Tolerates a wide range of soils, but prefers moist, humusy, nutrient-rich, neutral to slightly acidic loams. Many authorities have now grouped both of these red elders together under...

* Leonotis nepetifolia is known in Trinidad as shandilay and the leaves are brewed as a tea for fever, coughs, womb prolapse and malaria. * It is native to tropical Africa and southern India.

* Habit and Form an deciduous shrub dense, rounded habit ascending branches, erect 6' to 10' tall 4' to 10' wide medium texture moderate growth rate * White or rosy-lilac flowers in 3-7" clusters, often several to each branch tip, in May; flower fragrance,...

It weighs about 28lb per cubic foot. It is easily raised from seeds which germinate early in the first season. It also multiplies readily from cuttings. * Wood - coarse and straight-grained, soft, not strong, moderately high in shock resistance, very...

When prescribed internally it is always used dried and in conjunction with fresh ginger root. * The root is harvested when the plant is dormant in the autumn or winter and is dried for later use.

* The plants tolerate clipping and make an attractive informal hedge. * The stalk of the blossom is used as a soap substitute. * Clethra alnifolia ( Sweet Pepperbush , Anne Bidwell or Summersweet ), is a flowering plant in the genus Clethra , native to...

* A good hedging plant, it is very tolerant of trimming. * 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 .

If your Salvia or Sage starts to look unkempt in mid to late summer consider giving it a light shearing or remove the spent flowering spikes to help promote new growth and flower production.

Blue Dragon Nordic Dragonhead can be enjoyed as a container plant or in the garden and landscape as a groundcover or as part of your summer tapestry. Blue Dragon Nordic Dragonhead is clump forming perennial whose brilliant blue flowers are sure to attract...

* Orange flowers in late summer; grows well in dry soil; native to eastern U.S. * Pleurisy root is a bitter, nutty-flavoured tonic herb that increases perspiration, relieves spasms and acts as an expectorant.

The two species are interfertile, and hybrids are common. * It is endemic to the southern Great Plains of the United States . * It is smaller and more likely to be multi-trunked than its close relative, the Shumard Oak .

Coronation Gold Achillea is a clump forming selection and its grayish foliage suggests drought resistance. The flowering begins in late spring and may continue through much of summer.

It is confined to acidic soils, and does not tolerate limestone , and grows at low altitudes from sea level up to 350 m. The leaves are deeply lobed, pointy 3-6" and turn winey red, russet-red or bronzy in fall.

* It climbs by means of aerial rootlets which cling to the substrate. * The leaves are alternate, 50–100 mm long, with a 15–20 mm petiole ; they are of two types, with palmately five-lobed juvenile leaves on creeping and climbing stems, and unlobed...