Honey Bee Food Perennial Plant For Sale In Virginia

Taste trials consistently place this root very highly, it is certainly one of our favourites. * Lathyrus tuberosus is a perennial plant with edible tubers 3 to 5 cm (1.2 to 2.0 in) long attached to its roots.

* Erect, many-branched perennial with ovate or lace-shaped to oblong, notched, wrinkled, mid-greed leaves, to 4 in. From summer to autumn, bears violet to purple, or white to pink flowers, to 1/2in.

Marilandica) is a more southern species with fewer flowers and bigger leaflets. * Senna hebecarpa ( American Senna or Wild Senna ) is an ornamental plant native to North America , specially Canada and the United States .

An excellent fibre is obtained from the leaf stalks. Spikes 1.2–1.8 m (3.9–5.9 ft) in length yield small bisexual flowers . The following reports are for S. The roots contain tannin.

* Marjoram ( Origanum majorana , Lamiaceae ) is a somewhat cold-sensitive perennial herb or undershrub with sweet pine and citrus flavours. It is a good general tonic, treating various disorders of the digestive and respiratory systems.

Thick growing and winter hardy. * A low growing, persistent, perennial, cool season legume. * White clover ( Trifolium repens ) is a species of clover native to Europe , North Africa , and West Asia .

The mixture should not be boiled since this will release tannic acids and make the drink astringent. The fruit can also be dried and ground into a powder then mixed with corn meal and used in cakes, porridges etc.

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. * The Lesser Burdock , Arctium minus , is a biennial thistle , also known as Burweed, Louse-bur, Common Burdock, and Button-bur.

* 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...

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

The flowers are fragrant and range in colour from pink to mauve, sometimes with a white base; they are produced in early summer on panicles 4-25 cm long and are attractive to bees, butterflies, and birds.

* The yellow rays are strongly downturned and the disk is dark brown. * Echinacea paradoxa ( Bush's purple coneflower , Yellow Coneflower ) is a perennial species of flowering plant in the genus Echinacea .

The flowers are hermaphrodite (have both male and female organs) and are pollinated by Bees, flies, beetles.The plant is self-fertile. The plant prefers light (sandy), medium (loamy) and heavy (clay) soils and requires well-drained soil.The plant prefers...

It is grown as a horticultural annual in zones 3-5. * It is a herbaceous, short-lived perennial plant, variable in size, growing to 20–80 cm tall. Several cultivar groups have been selected for agricultural use, mostly derived from T.

* The dog rose was the stylized rose of medieval European heraldry, and is still used today. * It can be used in making delicious jams, syrups etc. The syrup is used as a nutritional supplement, especially for babies.

* Berberis thunbergii ( Japanese barberry or Thunberg's Barberry , also Red Barberry ) is a species of Berberis , native to Japan and eastern Asia . * Bright green leaves, very dense, with a horizontal habit; orange, scarlet, and reddish purple in fall;...

Membranaceumoften dominates the forest understory during early to mid stages of succession. * Vaccinium membranaceum is this species that is the most commonly collected of all of the wild western huckleberries, and it has great commercial importance.

It also lowers the blood pressure by dilating the blood vessels. * The Lesser Burdock , Arctium minus , is a biennial thistle , also known as Burweed, Louse-bur, Common Burdock, and Button-bur.

The plant often self-sows. * The seeds are "negatively photoblastic", or photodormant, and will only germinate in darkness. * It is also attractive to hoverflies (family Syrphidae), which are useful as biological pest control agents because they eat aphids...

Border rears, cottage gardens, meadows, native plant gardens, wild/naturalized areas or water margins. * Eutrochium is a genus of herbaceous flowering plants in Asteraceae. They are commonly referred to as Joe-Pye weeds.

* The latex in the stems is a suitable replacement for chicle and can be made into a chewing gum. This species is native to most of North America east of the Rocky Mountains , excluding the drier parts of the Prairies .

* A poultice of the bruised root has been used as a dressing and salve on burns, inflammations and cuts. * Does well along woods edges as a background plant in perennial gardens. * The large leaves, up to 1 foot long, are interesting.

Buergeri coming from further north is likely hardier than the species. * Attractive compound leaves, gray-green when young, olive green when mature; white flowers in 5" erect clusters in June and July, "smell like new mown grass" (Dirr); attractive bark,...

* Templetonia is a dryland shrub that grows 3-7 feet tall. The genus is named in honour of John Templeton, an Irish naturalist and botanist. * Templetonia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae.

* A decidious Shrub growing to 5 m. * 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.

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