Honey Bee Food Plant For Moist Soil For Sale In Virginia

* The stalk of the blossom is used as a soap substitute. * The plants tolerate clipping and make an attractive informal hedge. * Clethra alnifolia ( Sweet Pepperbush , Anne Bidwell or Summersweet ), is a flowering plant in the genus Clethra , native to...

Seed and tubers are poisonous. Plant them in spring or fall in rich, moist but well drained soil in full sun. Grows well in heavy clay soils. * Blooms in late summer, with dark blue-violet, hooded flowers borne in tall spikes.

* The wood of the roots is sometimes used for making floats instead of cork. The seed is mainly distributed by water. It has a swollen base that tapers to a long, clear bole and its root system is periodically under water.

It is nearly always found in low, wet areas and is often found near Phalaris arundinacea (Reed canary grass). It has been shown to stimulate resistance to viral and bacterial infections, and reduces fevers by encouraging sweating.

It is a substantial plant which needs space, but when planted in groups or massed can provide spectacular flowering and architectural height. It includes all the purple flowering North American species of the genus Eupatorium as traditionally defined.

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

The leaf turns purple in autumn, eventually becoming an intense bright scarlet. The wood is also used for pallets, rough floors, pulpwood, and firewood. The fruit is up to 15mm in diameter and is borne in small clusters of 2 - 3.

There are up to five fairly large seeds in the centre of the fruit, these often stick together and so the effect is of eating a cherry-like fruit with a single seed. A position in full sun is best when plants are being grown for their fruit, they also...

It is a rapid-growing, multi-stemmed, suckering, deciduous shrub that grows to a maximum size of 4-7' tall on erect, usually unbranched stems. * ‘Sibirica' is a tatarian dogwood cultivar that is noted for its brilliant red stems in winter that are particularly...

A pea-like flavour, they are very appetizing. * Fragrant pinkish flowers followed by the pods beloved of children. An asparagus substitute. * The young shoots can be eaten cooked. The oppositely arranged leaves are 7 to 15 centimeters (2.75 to 6 inches)...

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

* Alnus acuminata (also called Alder is a species of tree in the Betulaceae family. It is found in Argentina , Bolivia , Colombia , Costa Rica , Ecuador , Guatemala , Mexico , Panama , Peru and Venezuela .

* The plant has one simple erect stem, which is green with purple dots or longitudinal dashes. Leaves appear in whorls of 3–5. Leaves are large, long and sharply toothed. It flowers from mid-summer to the first frosts, makes an attractive backdrop in...

* A lovely native American with shiny dark green leaves, red, yellow, and purple in fall; an ericaceous plant that wants moist, acid soil; fragrant urn-shaped flowers in drooping clusters; habit varies, may have a rounded crown atop a tall stem, or sometimes...

Like many other plants in this family, they are demulcent and emollient and are used in the treatment of dysentery, lung ailments and urinary ailments. The hirsute leaves are of variable morphology, but commonly found as deltoidal in form and sometimes...

These factors combine to make the trees eminently suitable for a mixed woodland planting with shrubs and other trees beneath them. * Logs and lumber are sold mixed with other hickories.

Thrives in full sun so long as the soil does not dry out, otherwise it is best grown in partial shade. Both annual and perennial forms occur throughout the species' range. Grows well in heavy clay soils.

The flowers are inconspicuous, whitish to greenish-yellow, produced on slender peduncles 25 mm or more long; it is usually dioecious, with male and female flowers on separate plants.

* It is often found along waterways and in wetlands, leading to the colloquial name "water maple". * The seeds are the largest of any native maple and are also a food source for wildlife.

It produces a spike of zygomorphic flowers in the late summer. * The Great Blue Lobelia ( Lobelia siphilitica ) is a species within the Campanulaceae family. It is an herbaceous, perennial dicot native to eastern and central Canada and United States.

Diameter, red fruits that are pleasantly flavored and used as a substitute for limes. Known for its 1/2-3/4 in. Large with an agreeably acid flavour, theymake good preserves and a refreshing lemonade-like drink.

The flowers are inconspicuous, whitish to greenish-yellow, produced on slender peduncles 25 mm or more long; it is usually dioecious, with male and female flowers on separate plants.

Oily and sweet tasting with a rich agreeable flavour. * It is a deciduous tree growing to 20 m tall, rarely 30 m, and 40–80 cm stem diameter, with light gray bark . * Butternut grows quickly, but is rather short-lived for a tree, rarely living longer...

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

* It is a large shrub or small tree 3-12 m tall with smooth grey bark even in old age. Northeastern North America, Greenland. Crispa, Mountain Alder). * It is sometimes used for afforestation on infertile soils which it enriches by means of its nitrogen-fixing...

There are up to five fairly large seeds in the centre of the fruit, these often stick together and so the effect is of eating a cherry-like fruit with a single seed. A position in full sun is best when plants are being grown for their fruit, they also...

It is nearly always found in low, wet areas and is often found near Phalaris arundinacea (Reed canary grass). It has been shown to stimulate resistance to viral and bacterial infections, and reduces fevers by encouraging sweating.