Honey Bee Food Perennial Plant For Sale In Massachusetts

It is a good general tonic, treating various disorders of the digestive and respiratory systems. * Sweet marjoram is mainly used as a culinary herb, but is also medicinally valuable due to its stimulant and antispasmodic properties.

Flower stalks are sturdy and straight, with solitary terminal flowers, and are smooth or slightly hairy. Echinacea paradoxa is native to Missouri , Arkansas , Oklahoma , and Texas , and is listed as threatened in Arkansas.

* The young shoots are eaten cooked. The bulb is dried and powdered and then used for sizing cloth, bookbinding etc. * The root contains about 30% gum (an arabinic acid derivative) and this makes a goodquality glue.

Flower stalks are sturdy and straight, with solitary terminal flowers, and are smooth or slightly hairy. Echinacea paradoxa is native to Missouri , Arkansas , Oklahoma , and Texas , and is listed as threatened in Arkansas.

A pink variety of this species is sometimes grown commercially. * The flower color is variable, ranging from lavender to blue to white. * New England American-aster is large and showy, growing to 6 or more ft.

* No serious insect or disease problems. * The flag and coat of arms of the Province of Mpumalanga include a depiction of this flower. * A flower, the Barberton daisy ( Gerbera jamesoni ) was discovered in Barberton , Mpumalanga Province , South Africa...

The following reports are for S. The best quality is from young leaf stalks still in the bud, whilst coarser material is obtained from older leaves or the bases of old leaf stalks surrounding the bud.

Tolerates light shade, though it fruits better in a sunny position. * Succeeds in most reasonably good soils in an open sunny position. * A small tree with compound leaves, white flowers in clusters to 4", 1/4" orange-red fruit; native to northern China.

The flowers are pink, borne in summer. * Rosa palustris is a shrub with alternate, pinnately compound leaves , on thorny stems.

* The root is eaten cooked or raw. * Lathyrus tuberosus, also known as the tuberous pea, tuberous vetchling, earthnut pea, or aardaker, is a small, climbing perennial plant, native in moist temperate parts of Europe and Western Asia.

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

An infusion of the root has been used to cleanse the afterbirth and aid in convalescence. * An infusion of the leaves has been used as a wash for weak and inflamed eyes. * Western snowberry is grown for use in native plant and wildlife gardens, and as...

When flowering, the trees are full of bees, hence the name Bee-tree; this species is favored by bees over others and produces a strongly flavored honey. The crown is domed, the branches spreading, often pendulous.

* Plants are very vigorous and can be grown as a tall ground cover for large areas. * Rubus odoratus ( Purple-flowering Raspberry , Flowering Raspberry , or Virginia raspberry ) is a species of Rubus , native to eastern North America , from Nova Scotia...

Mature in 45 to 65 days. It is an early bush zucchini that produces a high yield of straight dark green cylindrical fruit. * This is an Heirloom favorite. * The fruits are loaded with vitamins and minerals yet low in calories!

Border rears, cottage gardens, meadows, native plant gardens, wild/naturalized areas or water margins. It is a substantial plant which needs space, but when planted in groups or massed can provide spectacular flowering and architectural height.

* The seeds are "negatively photoblastic", or photodormant, and will only germinate in darkness. The plant often self-sows. The flowers are a rich source of nectar and is occasionally grown commercially as a crop for bees.

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 .

* Our seed produces a very high percentage of Red seedlings. They are very tolerant of trimming and have prickles which make them an effective barrier to larger creatures. * Berberis thunbergii ( Japanese barberry or Thunberg's Barberry , also Red Barberry...

Tallowwood is drought and frost tender. It is one of the species whose leaves are used for food by Koalas. * Tallowwood is so named owing to the greasy feel of the wood when cut. * Tallowwood ( Eucalyptus microcorys ) is a native Eucalypt species common...

* 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.

Grows well in heavy clay soils. * Prefers rather moist places such as damp borders, margins of streams and boggy spots. A poultice of the crushed leaves has been applied to wounds, rope burns etc.

The flowers are a very good source, when used as a body soap they leave behind a pleasant perfume on the skin. This means that when used on the skin it will not remove the natural body oils, but nor will it remove engine oil etc.

* An herbaceous perennial, forming a basal rosette to 1', from which arise 3' flowering stems with purplish blue (rarely pink or white) flowers resembling scabiosa; likes moist, peaty soil in sun or part shade; native to Europe, north Africa, east to...

* Fine plant for naturalizing in moist soils and where there is some shade. * It is in flower in June, and the seeds ripen in September. * A decidious Shrub growing to 5 m. * When grouped or massed in light shade provided by pines the effect can be spectacular.

Marilandica) is a more southern species with fewer flowers and bigger leaflets. Southern Wild Senna (S. The flowers of this large plant are not typically pea-like. * Clusters of light yellow to orange flowers atop a sparsely branched perennial or in axils...

* 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.