Fragrant Flowering Plant Flowering Shrub For Sale In Iowa

; Japanese : ??? They are also added to herbal medicines in order to disguise obnoxious flavours. Sweet osmanthus is also the 'city flower' of Hangzhou , China. The flowers have a scent of apricots.

* Closely related to and in the same family as witch hazel. Tolerates average garden soils, but not unamended heavy clays. Flower buds are susceptible to damage from early spring frosts.

* The plant is often used as a rootstock for the various ornamental cultivars of lilac. * The lilac is a very popular ornamental plant in gardens and parks, because of its attractive, sweet-smelling flowers, which appear in early summer just before many...

* The fruit can be used as a pickle like olives. * Grown for its masses of glorious, delicate, white, slightly fragrant flowers in May; of open, spreading habit; native to the southeastern United States but hardy nearly everywhere; dark green leaf sometimes...

The plant has a lignified stem with green branches bearing five to nine leaflets. * These shrubs are usually found in wooded and bushy areas, on sunny, warm and dry slopes and around forest edges.

* 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.

Features toothed, ovate-elliptic leaves (2-5" long) which emit a minty fragrance when crushed. * Prune in late winter before new growth appears. May be cut to the ground in late winter each year and grown as an herbaceous perennial in somewhat the same...

* The flowers are large, 15-25 cm diameter, with six to nine creamy-white petals and a large red style, which later develops into a red fruit 10 cm long, containing several red seeds .

* The fresh leaves are chewed for their refreshing taste and to relieve thirst. * The leaves have been woven into skirts and aprons. * Yerba Santa (the name means Holy weed) is a famous domestic remedy from south-western N.

Prick out the seedlings into individual pots when they are large enough to handle and grow them on in the greenhouse for at least their first winter. * With its small but abundant flowers it can colour a whole hillside white, almost giving the appearance...

* The young pliable twigs are woven into baskets. Despite the common name Desert-willow , given because of its willow -like leaves, it is actually a member of the bignonia family, Bignoniaceae .

* The young leaves are used as a tea substitute. * The leaves contain the dyestuff quercetin. They also contain about 30% tannin. * Acer ginnala is grown as an ornamental plant in northern regions of Europe and North America, where it is the most cold-tolerant...

* The young leaves are used as a tea substitute. * It is a small Maple with deciduous leaves that is grown as a garden subject or boulevard tree. * The leaves contain the dyestuff quercetin.

* From a distance the plants in full flower resemble redbuds or peaches. Although not a true buckeye, it is so called because of the similar large capsules and seeds. This distinct plant, alone in its genus, commemorates Baron Ferdinand von Ungnad, Austrian...

It is cultivated for its foliage effect and as groundcover. * Tender evergreen perennial that is winter hardy to USDA Zones 9-10. Start seed indoors 6-8 weeks before last frost date.

We are pleased to offer you a very unusual find in rhododendrons. Polar Night blooms mid-late season and is a compact 3' tall by 6' wide. Blooms mid-late season. When just beginning to show color the flowerbuds on Polar Night Rhododendron are so dark...

* Rosa glauca ( Red-leaved Rose or Redleaf Rose ; syn. Rubrifolia ) is a species of rose native to the mountains of central and southern Europe , from Spanish Pyrenees east to Bulgaria , and north to Germany and Poland .

It is generally confined to soils derived from limestone . * Daphne mezereum is a species of Daphne in the flowering plant family Thymelaeaceae , native to most of Europe and western Asia , north to northern Scandinavia and Russia .

Spires that droop with the arching branches. Itea virginica also known as Virginia Sweetspire is a deciduous to semievergreen shrub, growing 3' to 6' tall. It is a multistemmed, suckering and colonizing plant.

Native Carolina allspice (Calycanthus floridus) and was formerly called Calycanthus chinensis. * This Chinese native allspice is closely related to U. Camellia-like flowers (to 4” diameter) with blush-pink to white outer tepals, yellow inner tepals...

This spring and each May-June ruby-red trumpet shaped flowers smother the Bristol Ruby Weigela with hundreds of blooms. Sun or semi-shade. Attracts butterflies and hummingbirds, fragrant, great cut flower.

It is generally confined to soils derived from limestone . * Daphne mezereum is a species of Daphne in the flowering plant family Thymelaeaceae , native to most of Europe and western Asia , north to northern Scandinavia and Russia .

* A shrub or tree, resembling S. Pseudocamellia, which see, but with longer leaves, smaller flowers (in June and July), and petals that are reddish at the base; needs acid soil; native to Japan.

* The fruit can be used as a pickle like olives. * Grown for its masses of glorious, delicate, white, slightly fragrant flowers in May; of open, spreading habit; native to the southeastern United States but hardy nearly everywhere; dark green leaf sometimes...

Flowers (to 1.5" long) are in trusses of 5-9 flowers each and have a pleasant, clove-like fragrance. * This deciduous azalea (commonly called early azalea or roseshell azalea) is a Missouri native shrub which typically occurs on wooded, north-facing slopes...

* Succeeds in a good loamy soil that does not become too dry in summer, in full sun or light shade. * Holodiscus discolor is a shrub of western North America that is commonly known as ocean spray , creambush or ironwood .

Young seedlings produce normal leaves for the first few months; these are trifoliate, resembling a small clover leaf. * The species has been introduced to other areas of Europe, and also to the Americas, New Zealand and Australia, where it is often considered...