Garden Flower Shade Tolerant Plant For Sale In Grand Rapids

The species name, Latin for naked-flowered, refers to the fact that the flowers often appear before its leaves are fully expanded. * Pinxterbloom azalea is a deciduous shrub that is native to moist woods, swamp margins and open areas from Massachusetts...

Formerly known as Rhododendron roseum. Pink flowers appear in early spring (April-May in St. Louis) before or at the time of the emergence of the foliage. Flowers (to 1.5" long) are in trusses of 5-9 flowers each and have a pleasant, clove-like fragrance.

* Silky camellia is an under-story woodland species with rich brown colored bark * It grows best in partial shade in well draining soils. * It has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit.

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

* Silky camellia is an under-story woodland species with rich brown colored bark * It grows best in partial shade in well draining soils. * It has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit.

The flower buds resemble white pearls, hence the common name. * Medium green leaves, of loose upright habit; "spectacular in flower...does extremely well in Southeast" (Dirr); flower buds pearllike; 11/2" flowers, not long-lasting, in pendulous panicles...

[10] The centres of diversification are in the Himalayas and Malaysia , [38] with the greatest species diversity in the Sino-Himalayan region, Southwest China and northern Burma , from Uttarakhand , Nepal and Sikkim to northwestern Yunnan and western...

The pinnate leaves usually have five soft green leaflets, although three and seven occur as well, each with a shape ranging from lanceolate-oblong to rhombic, and a pattern of distinct teeth along the margins.

* Plants can be used as a tall ground cover for large areas of land. It is somewhat slow to establish, but if given space to fully develop becomes a magnificent specimen. * It is grown as an ornamental plant in gardens, where its August flowering attracts...

Grown primarily for its beautiful foliage which provides color, contrast and texture to the landscape. Dense foliage crowds out most garden weeds. * Features a mound of narrow, medium green leaves edged with pure white, with racemes of orchid-like, purple...

* Near California shores, it is common under coast redwood. In the northern part of its range, which includes southern British Columbia, extreme southwestern Alberta, Washington, Oregon and east to Montana, Wyoming and northern Colorado, it often grows...

Grown primarily for its beautiful foliage which provides color, contrast and texture to the landscape. Dense foliage crowds out most garden weeds. * Features a mound of narrow, medium green leaves edged with pure white, with racemes of orchid-like, purple...

Bell-shaped, fragrant, white flowers with showy yellow stamens appear in pendulous, terminal racemes (to 8" long) in May-June (somewhat late for trees). * Fragrant snowbell is a small, slender, upright tree with ascending branches and rounded crown or...

* Annual or biennial; parent is dwarfish, dark blue flowers throughout summer; does well in hot, dry sun. * Cynoglossum amabile is a flowering plant native to Asia , which is also called Chinese hound's tongue , or Chinese forget-me-not .

* Spiny, shiny, dark green leaves, fragrant white flowers in May; quarter-inch red fruit, very attractive; parent of many cultivars. Noxious weed in California * Ilex aquifolium ( Holly , or European Holly to distinguish it from related species, may also...

The very fragrant flowers are used by the Chinese to impart a pleasant aroma to tea, wine and sweet dishes such as lotus seed soup, pastries and steamed pears. * The unripe fruits are preserved in brine like olives.

* A small tree of horizontal branching habit, creating a tiered effect. * The tree is regarded as attractive because of its wide spreading shelving branches and flat-topped head, and is often used in ornamental plantings.

* In traditional herbalism columbine was considered sacred to Venus; carrying a posy of it was said arouse the affections of a loved one. The seed can be slow to germinate. Stored seed can be sown in late winter in a cold frame.

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

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

Itea virginica also known as Virginia Sweetspire is a deciduous to semievergreen shrub, growing 3' to 6' tall. Individual shoot rise up and then arch over to some degree. * Itea virginica is a shrub with alternate, simple leaves , on arching stems.

The leaves have blades that are lanceolate to broadly ovate or elliptic in shape with out lobes. The leaf bases are attenuate to cordate in shape and the margins of the leaves are usually entire or serrate, or sometimes lacerate.

* The parent of many camellia cultivars; shiny leathery dark green leaves; flowers red, white, or pink, often produced in great quantity, in winter or spring; handsome gray trunk; wants a rich, acid soil and part shade or full sun; may grow as a shrub...

* The flowers are purple, borne in summer. * Astilbe chinensis is a herbaceous plant with alternate, pinnately compound leaves, on thin stems.

* Mostly identical to the species, which see, but with white flowers.

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

* Native to the southern and eastern parts of the United States , found from Illinois to Virginia in the north and from Texas to Florida in the south. * When grouped or massed in light shade provided by pines the effect can be spectacular.