Honey Bee Food Fragrant Flowering Plant For Sale In Illinois

* This species is grown as an ornamental and used for timber. * This is a lovely tree with fragrant red flowers in the spring and beautiful evergreen foliage.

It has been introduced in the US (New England). Cordata; varies a good deal, and several cultivars are grown; often used in Europe, where it is native, but not common in the U.S. * Lime flowers are a popular domestic remedy for a number of ailments, especially...

This means that when used on the skin it will not remove the natural body oils, but nor will it remove engine oil etc. * All parts of the plant are rich in saponins - when crushed and mixed with water they produce a good lather which is an effective and...

* The stalk of the blossom is used as a soap substitute. * The plants tolerate clipping and make an attractive informal hedge. * An oval shrub with pleasing dark green leaves and very fragrant white flowers in upright terminal racemes in late summer;...

* This species has a symbiotic relationship with certain soil bacteria, these bacteria form nodules on the roots and fix atmospheric nitrogen. A very ornamental plant, it prefers a continental climate with hot summers and cold winters.

* It produces up to 30 pink flowers in characteristic allium umbels in the mid to late summer and grows to between 8" and 40" in height. They contain sulphur compounds (which give them their onion flavour) and when added to the diet on a regular basis...

It is in flower from Jun to July. * Pterostyrax corymbosa is a deciduous Tree growing to 12 m (39ft 4in) at a fast rate.It is hardy to zone 6. * White flowers in long clusters; may be a tree or shrub; egg-shaped fruit with five "wings"; prefers moist...

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

It is native to Europe and Asia. * Prunus cerasifera is a species of plum known by the common names cherry plum and myrobalan plum .

This shrub reaches between one and two meters in height. * Red-brown bark, pink flowers, bright green leaves. The fruit can also be used for making jelly and cider. It is low to the ground with some of the lower branches rooting in the soil and others...

Young seed pods, harvested when 3 - 4 cm long - cooked. Tips of older shoots are cooked like spinach. * Swamp milkweed is an upright, 100- to 150-centimeter (39- to 59-inches) tall plant, growing from thick, fleshy, white roots .

* This species has a symbiotic relationship with certain soil bacteria, these bacteria form nodules on the roots and fix atmospheric nitrogen. A very ornamental plant, it prefers a continental climate with hot summers and cold winters.

* Plants are very vigorous and can be grown as a tall ground cover for large areas. * 2" fragrant rosy-purple flowers, even in full shade, throughout the summer; red fruit, edible but not tasty; thornless; spreads via suckers; used in Europe as an ornamental;...

Young seed pods, harvested when 3 - 4 cm long - cooked. Tips of older shoots are cooked like spinach. * Swamp milkweed is an upright, 100- to 150-centimeter (39- to 59-inches) tall plant, growing from thick, fleshy, white roots .

It is native to eastern North America, from southern Pennsylvania south to northwest Florida and west to southern Illinois; it is most common in the lower chain of the Appalachian Mountains.

* It is said to be of great use when applied externally to stimulate hair growth and is an ingredient of many hair lotions and ointments. It is perhaps best known for its use as a hair tonic whilst the root is also taken internally as a treatment for...

Conical in its younger form, the crown becomes rounded with age. The twigs are smooth, reddish-green, becoming light gray in their second year, finally dark brown or brownish gray, marked with dark wart-like excrescences.

The fruit is abundantly produced and hangs on the tree well into winter. * The fruit can be eaten raw or cooked. * An easily grown plant, it succeeds in most fertile soils, preferring a moisture retentive well-drained loamy soil.

* 2" pinkish-purple flowers; scarlet hips to 1/2"; red branches; spreads into dense thickets by suckering from roots. * The fruit contains about 2.8% dry weight vitamin C.

The fruit is abundantly produced and hangs on the tree well into winter. * The fruit can be eaten raw or cooked. * An easily grown plant, it succeeds in most fertile soils, preferring a moisture retentive well-drained loamy soil.

It is used in the treatment of persistent cough with blood, chronic diarrhoea, spontaneous sweating, night sweats, bloody stool, urorrhoea and bloody sputum. Paitan is antiseptic, astringent and haemostatic.

* Agrimonia eupatoria is a species of agrimony that is often referred to as common agrimony , church steeples or sticklewort . It was formerly very popular either on its own or added to China tea, having a peculiar delicacy and aroma.

* By the 20th century, teasels had been largely replaced by metal cards, which can be made uniformly and do not require constant replacement as the teasel heads wear. * The flowering heads are also much prized by flower arrangers because they keep their...

* The latex in the stems is a suitable replacement for chicle and can be made into a chewing gum. They are used like broccoli. * Asclepias syriaca , commonly called Common Milkweed , Butterfly flower , Silkweed , Silky Swallow-wort , Virginia Silkweed...

* The flowers are very fragrant. * Fruits are very narrow, foot-long pods. * 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 basal leaves are long and slender or very narrowly lanceolate. Echinacea paradoxa is native to Missouri , Arkansas , Oklahoma , and Texas , and is listed as threatened in Arkansas.

The roses are quite variable, the characteristics such as leaf tip number of prickles and glandular hairs usually do not always remain constant, thus it is often confused with Rosa arkansana or Rosa carolina, the two other prairie rose species.