Honey Bee Food Perennial Plant For Sale In Fort Worth

It has been widely introduced worldwide as a pasture crop, and is now also common in most grassy areas of North America and New Zealand. Thrives in moist soil conditions, Prefers medium fertility soils with a pH between 6.0 - 6.5. Plants produce uncertain...

* The root contains about 30% gum (an arabinic acid derivative) and this makes a goodquality glue. The bulb is dried and powdered and then used for sizing cloth, bookbinding etc. It is hardy to zone 6 and is not frost tender.

* A nutritious starch is obtained from the root. * The plants are easily grown from seed, and readily self-seed. * The red anthocyanin constituent of the flowers is used as a litmus.

* It tolerates a wide range of soil types and will grow in full sun or partial shade. * 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...

The fruit can also be used for making jelly and cider. * Red-brown bark, pink flowers, bright green leaves. This shrub reaches between one and two meters in height. It can be dried, ground into a powder then used in making cakes etc.

* The roots and the leaves are aphrodisiac, digestive, mildly expectorant and sedative. The plant is little used in modern herbalism but has been employed in the treatment of laryngitis and bronchitis.

It is the larval host and a nectar source for the yellow-banded sphinx butterfly. Its range extends east to the Rocky Mountains and discontinuously to the Great Lakes Region. An infusion has been taken by women when their periods are unusually long.

Grow them year round in your kitchen! The foliage is upright growing or horizontally orientated, with leaves having narrowly winged petioles or being unwinged. This will make them less bitter, but they will also contain less vitamins and minerals.

* No serious insect or disease problems. * It was named in honor of the German naturalist Traugott Gerber, a friend of Carolus Linnaeus. Raised beds should be considered in areas with poorly-drained soils.

Some of this nitrogen is utilized by the growing plant but some can also be used by other plants growing nearby. A very ornamental plant, it prefers a continental climate with hot summers and cold winters.

Its typical habitat is rough grassy places, broad-leaved woodland, forest margins, hedgerows and banks. The plant is a trailer or weak climber, supported by tendrils, growing to 1.2 m tall.

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

* When the fruit is in a state described as incipient decay,the stage when the flesh turns from white to brown it becomes very soft and is quite sweet with an absolutely delicious flavour that somewhat resembles a luscious tropical fruit.

Anhui, Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Hainan, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangxi, Taiwan, Zhejiang [Japan (Ryukyu Islands)]. * Native to forests; 100-800(-1600) m.

* It tolerates a wide range of soil types and will grow in full sun or partial shade. * 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...

It has been shown to stimulate resistance to viral and bacterial infections, and reduces fevers by encouraging sweating. The plant, however, should be used with some caution since large doses are laxative and emetic and the plant might contain potentially...

Tall, with a wide, wispy, open crown. The foliage is bright-green and glossy. * 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; grayish fruit in fall; prefers...

It is commonly grown in gardens for its showy purple flowers (pink or white in some cultivars). It is also used in treating kidney diseases. Excellent for attracting birds and butterflies.

* Bright green leaves, very dense, with a horizontal habit; orange, scarlet, and reddish purple in fall; yellow flowers followed by bright red fruit, very attractive in winter; generally a good, tough plant; good deciduous hedge plant.

* The flowering heads are also much prized by flower arrangers because they keep their colour almost indefinitely when dried. Sativus) was formerly widely used in textile processing, providing a natural comb for cleaning, aligning and raising the nap...

Tall, with a wide, wispy, open crown. The foliage is bright-green and glossy. * 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; grayish fruit in fall; prefers...

* A good bee 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 soil the plants grow too fast and need staking; may...

* 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.

The plant prefers loamy acid and neutral soils, and can grow in very acid soils.It can grow in semi-shade (light woodland) or no shade. * Pterostyrax corymbosa is a deciduous Tree growing to 12 m (39ft 4in) at a fast rate.It is hardy to zone 6.

It is the larval host and a nectar source for the yellow-banded sphinx butterfly. Its range extends east to the Rocky Mountains and discontinuously to the Great Lakes Region. An infusion has been taken by women when their periods are unusually long.

* Clusters of light yellow to orange flowers atop a sparsely branched perennial or in axils of compound leaves. Marilandica) is a more southern species with fewer flowers and bigger leaflets.

* Half-hardy annual. * Germination takes between 7 and 10 days at the optimal temperature of 75 degrees Fahrenheit (24 °C); flowering begins between 60 and 90 days after germination.