Honey Bee Food Seeds For Sale In Boston

* Native to Europe, naturalized in North America, tends to be very weedy. * Burdock is one of the foremost detoxifying herbs in both Chinese and Western herbal medicine. * The seed contains arctiin, this excites the central nervous system producing convulsions...

It is used applied externally to burns, bleeding due to traumatic injuries, haemorrhoids and ulcers in the mouth. It is used in the treatment of persistent cough with blood, chronic diarrhoea, spontaneous sweating, night sweats, bloody stool, urorrhoea...

* Rubus odoratus ( Purple-flowering Raspberry , Flowering Raspberry , or Virginia raspberry ) is a species of Rubus , native to eastern North America , from Nova Scotia west to Ontario , and south to Georgia and Alabama .

* Fragrant sumac is a woody plant that can grow to around 2 meters tall. The fruit can also be dried and ground into a powder then mixed with corn meal and used in cakes, porridges etc.

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

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

The fan-shaped fronds are 1.5–1.8 m (4.9–5.9 ft) wide and attach to 90–120 cm (35–47 in) spineless petioles . 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...

* This deciduous tree stays under 30 ft., and, though it looks shrubby for several years, eventually makes a slender tree with smooth, cinnamon-colored trunks; abundant, showy, whorled clusters of airy, white blooms; and dark-green leaves.

* The variety Purpurescens has very dark green leaves with burgundy colored undersides. * The trees are fast-growing and make a good windbreak for exposed and maritime areas. * Cark green in colour; some cultivars have purple-tinged or yellowish leaves.

* When grouped or massed in light shade provided by pines the effect can be spectacular. * A decidious Shrub growing to 5 m. * Native to the southern and eastern parts of the United States , found from Illinois to Virginia in the north and from Texas...

* Eremurus spectabilis is a PERENNIAL growing to 1 m (3ft 3in) by 0.6 m (2ft). The bulb is dried and powdered and then used for sizing cloth, bookbinding etc. It is by no means a disagreeable vegetable.

* Rubus odoratus ( Purple-flowering Raspberry , Flowering Raspberry , or Virginia raspberry ) is a species of Rubus , native to eastern North America , from Nova Scotia west to Ontario , and south to Georgia and Alabama .

* Used as a rootstock for the cultivated apples. * This is one of the apple varieties thta does bext under low chill conditions. * The fruit can be eaten raw, cooked in pies, cakes etc or fermented into cider.

* The plant bears pink flowers and bright red spiny fruits which contain red seeds. The fruits dry and harden to brown capsules. * The species is also planted as an ornamental, particularly the varieties with bright pink pods.

Speciosa, it is much smaller, typically reaching heights between 20 and 30 feet. * The leaves are very similar in shape to those of Paulownia tomentosa, having three lobes (two are abruptly truncated on either edge, with a third, central, slightly acute,...

The roots are large, deep, and spreading. Broadly oval leaves sometimes change to yellow in fall but often turn brown and become somewhat unsightly. The tree likes good rich soil, but will grow in dry areas.

* The Bird Cherry ( Prunus padus ) is a species of cherry , native to northern Europe and northern Asia , growing even north of the Arctic Circle in Norway , Sweden , Finland and Russia .

* Arctostaphylos patula is a species of manzanita known by the common name greenleaf manzanita . * Red-brown bark, pink flowers, bright green leaves. It can be dried, ground into a powder then used in making cakes etc.

It attracts large numbers of bees and is sought after by beekeepers as a source of late summer honey. They are attractive trees with deciduous glossy pinnate leaves. * The oil from the fruit is used in making a hair oil.

* There are more than 7,500 known cultivars of apples, resulting in a range of desired characteristics. * It is one of the most widely cultivated tree fruits, and the most widely known of the many members of genus Malus that are used by humans.

* A good bee plant. * Established plants are drought tolerant. * A very ornamental 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...

Prefers a sunny position but succeeds in partial shade though it fruits less well in such a situation. * A very ornamental plant, the fruit is a good wildlife food source, especially for birds.

* Ratibida columnifera , commonly known as Upright Prairie Coneflower or Mexican Hat , is a species of flowering plant in the daisy family, Asteraceae , that is native to much of North America .

* Eremurus spectabilis is a PERENNIAL growing to 1 m (3ft 3in) by 0.6 m (2ft). The bulb is dried and powdered and then used for sizing cloth, bookbinding etc. It is by no means a disagreeable vegetable.

It is good fodder for animals, improves the soil, allows natural vegetation to become established, and prevents soil erosion by wind and rain. * This is one of ther best species for soil stabilization and reviatalization in cold arid zones where few plants...

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

Many kinds of wildlife eat the fruits and it is a favored honey tree. * They are long-lived trees, commencing to bear seeds when about 30 years old and usually producing heavy crops each year.