Honey Bee Food Herbaceous Plant For Sale In San Jose

It was formerly known as Mimulus guttatus. Grows well in heavy clay soils. Both annual and perennial forms occur throughout the species' range. A slightly bitter flavour, they are added to salads.The leaves are used as a lettuce substitute.

* Its height of 10-18 inches makes it ideal for the front or closer portion of the meadow. * It is fragarnt and attracts bees and butterflies! * It is a short lived perennial or biennial but will self seed.

* Although no specific mention of medicinal uses has been seen for this species, members of this genus are in general very healthy additions to the diet. * It produces up to 30 pink flowers in characteristic allium umbels in the mid to late summer and...

* Succeeds in ordinary garden soil, preferring a moist but not wet soil and a sunny position. Flabellata pumila. * The name of this species is based on the cultivated form, the true wild form is A.

Taste trials consistently place this root very highly, it is certainly one of our favourites. * The root is eaten cooked or raw. The plant is a trailer or weak climber, supported by tendrils, growing to 1.2 m tall.

The root is thought to be particularly good at helping to eliminate heavy metals from the body. * This species is native to the temperate regions of the old world, from Scandinavia to the Mediterranean, and from the British Isles through Russia, and the...

Echinacea paradoxa is native to Missouri , Arkansas , Oklahoma , and Texas , and is listed as threatened in Arkansas. * The yellow rays are strongly downturned and the disk is dark brown.

* Its height of 10-18 inches makes it ideal for the front or closer portion of the meadow. * It is fragarnt and attracts bees and butterflies! * It is a short lived perennial or biennial but will self seed.

* Sow seed early to mid spring in a greenhouse in a rich soil. * The ancestral species of the genus Cucurbita were present in the Americas before the arrival of humans. Moschata cultivars are generally more tolerant of hot, humid weather than cultivars...

* The leaves are very similar in shape to those of Paulownia tomentosa, having three lobes (two are abruptly truncated on either edge, with a third, central, slightly acute, pointed lobe forming the leaf apex), and are darkly green.

It is one of the species whose leaves are used for food by Koalas. * The wood is strong, hard, durable,and takes a good polish. * Tallowwood is so named owing to the greasy feel of the wood when cut.

The Blackfeet Indians recognized this plant's strong antiseptic action, and used poultices of the plant for skin infections and minor wounds. * This hardy perennial plant grows to 0.7-1.5 m in height, with the stems square in cross-section.

* The latex in the stems is a suitable replacement for chicle and can be made into a chewing gum. They taste somewhat like peas. It is in the genus Asclepias , making it a type of milkweed .

It is commonly kept as an ornamental plant. This perennial is a native plant found throughout the eastern part of the United States and in many parts of the western U.S., Canada , and Mexico .

It can be drunk hot or cold. * Agrimonia eupatoria is a species of agrimony that is often referred to as common agrimony , church steeples or sticklewort . * A refreshing tea is made from the fresh or dried leaves, flowers and stems.

* The root is diaphoretic, diuretic and stomachic. * 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.

* A perennial mint with lemon-scented foliage and clusters of small white flowers in whorls in the leaf axils; the leaves are used in cooking--teas, soups--toilet water, soaps, and medicine; sun or part shade, grows well in dry sites; native to southern...

The bulb is dried and powdered and then used for sizing cloth, bookbinding etc. Considered to be a delicacy in Siberia, the flavour is intermediate between purslane and spinach. * The root contains about 30% gum (an arabinic acid derivative) and this...

* The latex in the stems is a suitable replacement for chicle and can be made into a chewing gum. They taste somewhat like peas. It is in the genus Asclepias , making it a type of milkweed .

Unlike many other members of the genus, it has no prickles. Thimbleberry jam is made by combining equal volumes of berries and sugar and boiling the mixture for two minutes before packing it into jars.

In some middle-eastern countries, Marjoram is synonymous with Oregano, and there the names Sweet Marjoram and Knotted Marjoram are used to distinguish it from other plants of the genus Origanum .

It includes all the purple flowering North American species of the genus Eupatorium as traditionally defined. * Many people perceive Joe Pye weed to be nothing more than a roadside weed and have never seriously considered its outstanding ornamental attributes.

* It is sown as quickly as possible after the removal of a grain crop at the rate of 20-22 kg/ha. The species name incarnatum means "blood red". It is often used for roadside erosion control, as well as beautification; it tends, however, to eliminate...

Native to moist prairies and sedge meadows. Excellent for attracting birds and butterflies. * The plant is said to be extremely efficacious when used as a local application in the treatment of sore throats and gonorrhoea.

They are native to Australia. The genus is named in honour of John Templeton, an Irish naturalist and botanist. * Templetonia is a dryland shrub that grows 3-7 feet tall. It is covered in red flowers in the winter and spring.

* Red-brown bark, pink flowers, bright green leaves. * The fully ripe fruit is pleasantly acid with a flavour resembling green apples. The fruit can also be used for making jelly and cider.

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