Honey Bee Food Plant For Moist Soil For Sale In Washington

Thrives in full sun so long as the soil does not dry out, otherwise it is best grown in partial shade. * Prefers rather moist places such as damp borders, margins of streams and boggy spots.

* Many people perceive Joe Pye weed to be nothing more than a roadside weed and have never seriously considered its outstanding ornamental attributes. They are commonly referred to as Joe-Pye weeds.

* The spongy bark at the base of the trunk is pliable, absorbent and astringent. * Common names include Swamp Cyrilla , Titi (U.S.), Bwa wouj (Caribbean), and Leatherwood . * Bees produce a dark honey from the flowers.

It flowers from mid-summer to the first frosts, makes an attractive backdrop in garden plots, and is very attractive to butterflies, bees, and other nectar-feeding insects. Leaves appear in whorls of 3–5.

* Macedonian pine is also a popular ornamental tree in parks and large gardens, giving reliable steady though not fast growth on a wide range of sites. * Pinus peuce ( Macedonian Pine ) is a species of pine native to the mountains of Macedonia , western...

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

* Bright flowers of daisyish form, yellow ray petals and yellow-brown centers, from July to October; forms large clumps; parent of many hybrids; native to swamps and wet fields over much of the U.S. * The dried nearly mature flower heads are used in a...

Tips of older shoots are cooked like spinach. * Swamp milkweed is an upright, 100- to 150-centimeter (39- to 59-inches) tall plant, growing from thick, fleshy, white roots . The oppositely arranged leaves are 7 to 15 centimeters (2.75 to 6 inches) long...

Tips of older shoots are cooked like spinach. * Swamp milkweed is an upright, 100- to 150-centimeter (39- to 59-inches) tall plant, growing from thick, fleshy, white roots . The oppositely arranged leaves are 7 to 15 centimeters (2.75 to 6 inches) long...

* The roughleaf dogwood is used as a buffer strip around parking lots, in the median of highways and near the decks and patios of homes. At least forty species of birds are known to feed on the fruit of the Roughleaf Dogwood.

* The fruit is edible raw or cooked. The wood is also used for pallets, rough floors, pulpwood, and firewood. Its flowers are an important source of honey and its fruits are important to many bird species.

* White, pink, or rose flowers to 6", usually with a crimson base; a swamp plant; very salt tolerant; flowers in late summer; native to eastern U.S. to Michigan, south to Alabama, * The leaves and roots abound in mucilage.

* This species is grown as a green manure crop in Japan and southern China. * This species used to be cultivated for its edible leaves in China. * The plant is used in the treatment of blennorrhoea and also as an unguent for burns.

* This species is grown as a green manure crop in Japan and southern China. * This species used to be cultivated for its edible leaves in China. * The plant is used in the treatment of blennorrhoea and also as an unguent for burns.

It also grows on damper ground . * The tender young shoots are sometimes added to spring salads. * An herbaceous perennial, forming a basal rosette to 1', from which arise 3' flowering stems with purplish blue (rarely pink or white) flowers resembling...

* It is grown in plantations in Scotland and sold by the thousands throughout the United Kingdom and Ireland. * Flowering in May, with seeds ripe form September to October * They often form forests of considerable extent at elevations of 1200 - 1800 metres.

It is native to lowland wetlands in the southeastern United States , from Delaware and southern Illinois south to northern Florida and southeast Texas . * The wood is valuable, similar to that of other white oaks, and used for the same purposes.

The fibres are up to 50cm long, they are harvested commercially and used to make brushes, especially where these have to remain stiff in hot water or caustics * The trunks are used to make wharf piles, whilst polished cross-sections of the trunk have...

The dried root of one year old plants is the official herb, but the leaves and fruits can also be used. This plant is native to Europe, but is now widespread throughout most of the United States as a common weed.

It is low to the ground with some of the lower branches rooting in the soil and others extending more outward than upward. The fruit can also be used for making jelly and cider. * Arctostaphylos patula is a species of manzanita known by the common name...

Culms are topped in late spring with dark green spikelets that are clustered into spherical heads. * A sedge with stems to 4 1/2 ft. The terminal inflorescense contains many spikelets that are crowded into dense, nearly spherical heads on rays that angle...

* Compound leaves yellowish when young; found on coastal plain along rivers and swamps; native region from Virginia to Florida and Texas. In the American South it is a dominant plant species found on clay flats and backwater areas near streams and rivers.

Northeastern North America, Greenland. * Native to Northwestern North America. * It is sometimes used for afforestation on infertile soils which it enriches by means of its nitrogen-fixing nodules, while not growing large enough to compete with the intended...

As a popular ornamental used in landscaping its notable features include the red stems in fall (autumn) through late winter, the brightest winter bark of any cornus. * The plant is extremely hardy, to USDA Zone 3.

Two smaller, bushier species have been introduced from Europe into eastern North America: Woodland Germander (T. The leaves are applied externally to cuts etc as an antiseptic dressing.

Twigs are grayish-green, becoming purplish-red. * Cornus amomum subsp obliqua is synonymous with and formerly known as Cornus obliqua. In the words of the Royal Horticultural Society, this subspecies primarily differs from species plants by having "a...

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.