Honey Bee Food Perennial Plant For Sale In Denver

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

A pink variety of this species is sometimes grown commercially. The perennial's hairy, clasping leaves are arranged densely on its stout stems. * New England American-aster is large and showy, growing to 6 or more ft.

It is an umbelliferous plant, in the same group as fennel, cow parsley, elder and giant hogweed. It prefers rich humid soils. * The roots and the leaves are aphrodisiac, digestive, mildly expectorant and sedative.

Considered to be a delicacy in Siberia, the flavour is intermediate between purslane and spinach. It is hardy to zone 6 and is not frost tender. * The root contains about 30% gum (an arabinic acid derivative) and this makes a goodquality glue.

Thrives in moist soil conditions, Prefers medium fertility soils with a pH between 6.0 - 6.5. Plants produce uncertain numbers of 4 leafed clovers considered lucky. Used for pasture, soil stabilization wildlife forage, hay.

* Sweet marjoram is mainly used as a culinary herb, but is also medicinally valuable due to its stimulant and antispasmodic properties. * Marjoram ( Origanum majorana , Lamiaceae ) is a somewhat cold-sensitive perennial herb or undershrub with sweet pine...

* Lathyrus tuberosus is a perennial plant with edible tubers 3 to 5 cm (1.2 to 2.0 in) long attached to its roots. Sweet and starchy, it is delicious when baked with a flavour that is somewhat like a sweet potato.

* The fully ripe fruit is pleasantly acid with a flavour resembling green apples. This shrub reaches between one and two meters in height. The fruit can also be used for making jelly and cider.

Thrives in moist soil conditions, Prefers medium fertility soils with a pH between 6.0 - 6.5. Plants produce uncertain numbers of 4 leafed clovers considered lucky. Used for pasture, soil stabilization wildlife forage, hay.

They are taken both internally and externally in the treatment of syphilitic, cancerous and other foul ulcers. Growing usually on the margins of woodland areas, it is native to Eastern, Southern and Central Europe .

It is found throughout much of Europe but seldom as far north as Scotland . * The whole plant is pleasantly scented when bruised. * Ononis spinosa is a plant belonging to the family Fabaceae , that is commonly known as spiny restharrow or just restharrow...

* The leaves and stems of fragrant sumac have a citrus fragrance when crushed, and it inhabits mostly uplands areas, while poison ivy has no odor and can inhabit various habitats. It produces yellow flowers in clusters before anthesis.

Considered to be a delicacy in Siberia, the flavour is intermediate between purslane and spinach. It is hardy to zone 6 and is not frost tender. * The root contains about 30% gum (an arabinic acid derivative) and this makes a goodquality glue.

Tender young leaves are considerably less bitter than older leaves. The foliage is upright growing or horizontally orientated, with leaves having narrowly winged petioles or being unwinged.

Thimbleberry jam is made by combining equal volumes of berries and sugar and boiling the mixture for two minutes before packing it into jars. Its range extends east to the Rocky Mountains and discontinuously to the Great Lakes Region.

It also lowers the blood pressure by dilating the blood vessels. * Burdock is one of the foremost detoxifying herbs in both Chinese and Western herbal medicine. Arctium lappa is the main species used, though this species has similar properties.

* The plants are easily grown from seed, and readily self-seed. They are useful in the treatment of chest complaints. * A fibre obtained from the stems is used in papermaking. * The flowers are demulcent, diuretic and emollient.

It differs from other similar species in that it has 4 lobed flowers, whereas Small Scabious and Field scabious have 5 lobes and hence it has been placed in a separate genus in the same family .

The common name is Mezereon . In southern Europe it is confined to medium to higher elevations and in the subalpine vegetation zone, but descends to near sea level in northern Europe.

The basal leaves are long and slender or very narrowly lanceolate. Flower stalks are sturdy and straight, with solitary terminal flowers, and are smooth or slightly hairy. * Echinacea paradoxa ( Bush's purple coneflower , Yellow Coneflower ) is a perennial...

* It is in flower in June, and the seeds ripen in September. * 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.

* Established plants are drought tolerant. * A very ornamental plant. * Thistley plants for full sun and poor dry soil; the half-inch flower heads, also like thistles, can be a fine metallic blue or blue purple; flowers in mid to late summer; in rich...

Sativus) was formerly widely used in textile processing, providing a natural comb for cleaning, aligning and raising the nap on fabrics, particularly wool. A homeopathic remedy is made from the flowering plant.

* It is in flower in June, and the seeds ripen in September. * 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.

* Monarda didyma (crimson beebalm, scarlet beebalm, scarlet monarda, Oswego tea, or bergamot) is an aromatic herb in the family Lamiaceae, native to eastern North America from Maine west to Ontario and Minnesota, and south to northern Georgia.

Prefers a moist soil. * It was originally native to the Southwestern United States and northern Mexico, but it is now used in many places in agriculture as a cover crop, a bee plant, an attractant for other beneficial insects, as a green manure and an...

Marilandica) is a more southern species with fewer flowers and bigger leaflets. Two other species, Sicklepod (S. Obtusifolia) and Coffee Senna (S. The flowers of this large plant are not typically pea-like.