Fragrant Flowering Plant Shade Tolerant Plant For Sale In Athens Clarke County

* This flowering shrub is native to the eastern United States, likes a moist shady location. * Well worth growing if you have the right spot to enjoy its fragrant blooms.

It is a shrub which can reach several meters tall and become treelike. Inside are black seeds in a bed of resinous pulp. The leaves are oval in shape with edges that curl under and measure up to 10 centimeters in length.

* The leaves are used as a condiment in gravies etc. * Cone-like fruits with bright red seeds mature in fall and can be showy. * The leaves or bark have been placed in cupped hands over the nose and inhaled as a mild hallucinogen.

* The flowers are deep to bright red, rarely yellow, with four ribbon-shaped petals 7-10 mm long and four short stamens, and grow in clusters; flowering begins in mid winter and continues until early spring.

* Stored seed should be sown as early in the year as possible and given cold stratification - it might not germinate until spring of the following year.

* Creamy white flowers as much as a foot wide, wonderfully fragrant, in May, June or July. * An evergreen Tree growing to 10 m (32ft) by 10 m (32ft) at a medium rate. * It is used in the treatment of malaria and rheumatism.

* Fruit - raw or cooked. * Shiny leathery leaves, coarse, evergreen, dark green or blue green. * Very fragrant yellow flowers in early spring. A pleasant acid flavour, it is nice when added to muesli or porridge.

Juvenile leaves are lobed (as the name suggests) and are deep purple. * An oil obtained from the plant is used as a hair oil. Red, globose, about 5/16 in. The leaves often turn yellow in autumn.

It is however not as fragrant as Calycanthus floridus which does not produce as much fruit per plant. The bright green leaves are opposite, entire, 5–15 centimetres (2.0–5.9 in) long and 2–6 centimetres (0.79–2.36 in) broad.

Blooms, 6 to 18 inches long, late spring to early summer. The flowers, blue to blue violet, pea like and produced at the end of branches. When they are large enough to handle, prick the seedlings out into individual pots and plant them out in the summer.

* Bloodroot is one of many plants whose seeds are spread by ants, a process called myrmecochory. * The crushed root has been applied to the body as an insect repellent. It was used as a face paint by the North American Indians.

* A beautiful very vigorous variety well know for its extreme cold hardiness.

The flowers open at night and fall by the next morning but the profusion of bloom is so abundant that they are hardly ever without a flower during their blooming cycle. This rare plant blooms from late spring through fall, and it should be grown in a...

* Rhododendron catawbiense ( Catawba Rhododendron ) is a species of Rhododendron native to the eastern United States , growing mainly in the Appalachian Mountains from Virginia south to northern Alabama .

Tannins in the bark are believed to be responsible for its astringent are harvested in the spring and an infusion of the leaves is used to reduce inflammations harvested in the summer months.

Mountain-laurel is the state flower of Connecticut and Pennsylvania . A very ornamental plant. Succeeds in open woodland or along the woodland edge. It is the namesake of the city of Laurel, Mississippi (founded 1882).

* It has also been used to combat radiation sickness and exposure to toxic chemicals. It is a pungent bitter-sweet warming herb that is said to be stronger in its action than ginseng.

* Staphylea trifolia ( American Bladdernut ) is native to eastern North America , from southern Ontario and southwestern Quebec west to Nebraska and Arkansas , and south to Florida .

The flower buds resemble white pearls, hence the common name. * Although floriferous and attractive in early spring, it basically plods though the rest of the growing season as a somewhat nondescript shrub.

* The flowers are deep to bright red, rarely yellow, with four ribbon-shaped petals 7-10 mm long and four short stamens, and grow in clusters; flowering begins in mid winter and continues until early spring.

* A decidious Shrub growing to 2 m (6ft 7in). * They are popularly grown in gardens and parks. It is in flower in August, and the seeds ripen in October.

* The root-bark is anthelmintic, antibacterial, antiperiodic, stomachic and tonic. * A small tree but often a shrub of a few spreading stems. * Ptelea trifoliata is the second-northernmost New World representative of the Rue (Citrus) family after American...

The scientific genus name is also used as a common name Kerria . * Bright green stems in winter, bright yellow 1 1/2" flowers in spring, bright green leaves in summer; flowers in full shade, although it gets sloppy and gangly if not tended to, at least...

Thrives in the light shade of trees. The plant blooms in summer to late autumn in reds, pinks, and whites; leaves, appearing after flowers, are often marked with silvery patches. * Prefers a cool habitat and a well-drained humus rich soil.

* It is in flower from Jul to August, and the seeds ripen in September. * A decidious Tree growing to 12 m. * Species of buckeye endemic to California , and the only buckeye native to the state.

They were first collected by the Japanese for Tokugawa shogunate palaces, then popularity spread to Europe, and later to America where its low light and humidity requirements make it a common feature in malls and offices.

* A very spiny deciduous shrub with lots of strongly fragrant 3/4" bright yellow pealike flowers in spring and sporadically later; leaves are few and small; often rather weedy; grows on sand, likes neutral or acid soil; needs full sun; native to Europe,...