Honey Bee Food Evergreen Plant For Sale In Alaska

The leaves are ground in a mortar to obtain a kind of "green cotton wool". Alata is native to Mexico, and can be found in diverse habitats. * This species is easy to grow from the seed.

Too small for commercial exploitation, the wood is used locally for turnery, inlay work, woodenware etc. Wood - hard, heavy, strong, close grained. * Ilex vomitoria ( Yaupon Holly , Yaupon , or Cassina ; the latter shared with Ilex cassine ), is a species...

* The seeds are "negatively photoblastic", or photodormant, and will only germinate in darkness. * It is also attractive to hoverflies (family Syrphidae), which are useful as biological pest control agents because they eat aphids and other pests.

The foliage is bright-green and glossy. When in bloom, they cover the plant creating a fragrant, white cloud. * A small delicate shrub with 1" white bell-shaped flowers in small clusters from the leaf axils, in early or mid summer; bright green flowers;...

The fruit contains about 20% sugars and can be used to make delicious and nourishing jams and preserves. * The Strawberry Tree grows to 5-10 m tall, rarely up to 15 m, with a trunk diameter of up to 80 cm.

Many of them are hardy to –18 °C., with flowers ranging in color from violet, to violet-blue, rosy pink, and even white. Long, in dense, terminal racemes. The plant prefers full sun, good drainage, and moderate weekly watering.

* Bark of mature trees is fissured, prominently ridged and pale gray-brown. * Catalpa ovata, the yellow catalpa or Chinese catalpa , is a pod-bearing tree native to China. * The flowers are considered to be one of the best bee plants in Japan.

The foliage is bright-green and glossy. When in bloom, they cover the plant creating a fragrant, white cloud. * A small delicate shrub with 1" white bell-shaped flowers in small clusters from the leaf axils, in early or mid summer; bright green flowers;...

* Though one of the most shade-tolerant roses, this species grows best in open, sunny locations. * The fragrant flowers emerge in early summer and are light pink in color. * White or pink flowers to 2 1/2"; pear-shaped 1/3-2/3" hips, shiny red or red-orange;...

* Marjoram ( Origanum majorana , Lamiaceae ) is a somewhat cold-sensitive perennial herb or undershrub with sweet pine and citrus flavours. It is a good general tonic, treating various disorders of the digestive and respiratory systems.

* In Mexican Spanish, the plant is called nopal, while the fruit is called tuna, which are names also used in American English, especially as culinary terms. A position at the base of a south-facing wall or somewhere that can be protected from winter...

It is low to the ground with some of the lower branches rooting in the soil and others extending more outward than upward. The fruit can also be used for making jelly and cider. * The fully ripe fruit is pleasantly acid with a flavour resembling green...

* Leaves to 6"; branches brown and fuzzy; small clusters of 7-10 flowers; rounded fruit; native to northeast Asia.

* Ratibida columnifera , commonly known as Upright Prairie Coneflower or Mexican Hat , is a species of flowering plant in the daisy family, Asteraceae , that is native to much of North America .

Grows best in a woodland situation, young plants tolerate a reasonable level of side shade. Dislikes exposed positions. Succeeds in sun or semi-shade. Nutlets are attached to narrow bract-like wings.

The leaves fold in rainy weather and in the evening, hence the name "rain tree" and "five o'clock tree" (Pukul Lima) in Malay. * During his 1799–1804 travels in the Americas, Alexander von Humboldt encountered a giant saman tree near Maracay, Venezuela.

This particular species is known by the common names thinleaf huckleberry, tall huckleberry, big huckleberry, mountain huckleberry, square-twig blueberry, and (ambiguously) as "black huckleberry".

* Lilac flowers in nodding terminal clusters to 6"; leaves to 6"; native to China. The flowers are fragrant and range in colour from pink to mauve, sometimes with a white base; they are produced in early summer on panicles 4-25 cm long and are attractive...

* Sakaki ( Cleyera japonica ) is a flowering evergreen tree or shrub native to warm areas of Japan , Korea and mainland China . * Sakaki is one of the common trees in the second layer of the evergreen oak forests.

Mearnsii plays an important role in the ecosystem in its native Australia. Mearnsii is a tree of tall woodland and forests in subtropical and warm temperate regions. Seeds may remain viable for up to 50 years.

* The lance-leaved coreopsis , Coreopsis lanceolata , is a species of coreopsis (Tickseed). It is commonly kept as an ornamental plant. * Lance-leaved coreopsis produces yellow flowers in late summer.

The latter species grows in dryer habitats. * It grows as a tree to around 20–30 metres tall, with a straight trunk up to 1 metre in diameter. It has long, spreading, irregular branches, and a dense canopy .

* The seeds are "negatively photoblastic", or photodormant, and will only germinate in darkness. * It is also attractive to hoverflies (family Syrphidae), which are useful as biological pest control agents because they eat aphids and other pests.

A pink variety of this species is sometimes grown commercially. * Symphyotrichum novae-angliae (formerly Aster novae-angliae), commonly known as the New England aster, is a flowering herbaceous perennial plant in the Asteraceae family.

Hairy red drupes are produced, which can be brewed into a tea. The mixture should not be boiled since this will release tannic acids and make the drink astringent. * The leaves and stems of fragrant sumac have a citrus fragrance when crushed, and it inhabits...

Marilandica) is a more southern species with fewer flowers and bigger leaflets. * Senna hebecarpa ( American Senna or Wild Senna ) is an ornamental plant native to North America , specially Canada and the United States .

* Inland it is usually deciduous, especially where the winter season is very dry or there is risk of frost. * The weeping boer-bean is easily grown, and is remarkably hardy in both poor soil and very dry conditions.