Honey Bee Food Seeds For Sale In Indiana

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

* The fruit can be eaten raw or cooked. * A very ornamental plant, the fruit is a good wildlife food source, especially for birds. The fruit is abundantly produced and hangs on the tree well into winter.

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

It is one of the species whose leaves are used for food by Koalas. * Tallowwood ( Eucalyptus microcorys ) is a native Eucalypt species common in New South Wales and Queensland , Australia .

Grows poorly on any very dry or very wet soil. Flowers give way to ovoid-globose nutlets that ripen in late summer. Dislikes exposed positions. Succeeds in sun or semi-shade. Fall color is an undistinguished pale green to pale yellow.

It is used in the treatment of rheumatism and skin eruptions. * Clematis recta , the Erect Clematis or Ground virginsbower , is a species of Clematis unusual in that it is a free-standing shrub rather than a climbing plant .

Arctium lappa is the main species used, though this species has similar properties. * 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...

A fresh preparation is made every day. Alata is native to Mexico, and can be found in diverse habitats. * Its laxative effect, due to its anthraquinone content, is also well proven.

Paniculate thyrses terminal, apically branched, 10-20 cm, 1- or 2-ramous; rachis and pedicels glabrous or with russet short hairs; pedicels short, jointed at apex. * Many plants in this genus contain compounds of interest for their antitumour activity

The perennial's hairy, clasping leaves are arranged densely on its stout stems. * The flower color is variable, ranging from lavender to blue to white. A pink variety of this species is sometimes grown commercially.

It is in flower from Jun to July. The plant prefers loamy acid and neutral soils, and can grow in very acid soils.It can grow in semi-shade (light woodland) or no shade. * Pterostyrax corymbosa is a deciduous Tree growing to 12 m (39ft 4in) at a fast...

* 2" fragrant rosy-purple flowers, even in full shade, throughout the summer; red fruit, edible but not tasty; thornless; spreads via suckers; used in Europe as an ornamental; native from southeast Canada to Georgia and Tennessee, in moist woods especially...

* The plant is high in certain antioxidants. * Used as understock for hybrid tea roses. * In Bulgaria, where it grows in abundance, the hips are used to make a sweet wine. * The dog rose was the stylized rose of medieval European heraldry, and is still...

* It inhabits prairies , plains, roadsides, and disturbed areas from southern Canada through most of the United States to northern Mexico . * A pleasant tasting tea is made from the leaves and flower heads.

Sweet and starchy, it is delicious when baked with a flavour that is somewhat like a sweet potato. Taste trials consistently place this root very highly, it is certainly one of our favourites.

Diameter, red fruits that are pleasantly flavored and used as a substitute for limes. It is in flower from Mar to May, and the seeds ripen from Aug to October. * A tree to 60 ft. * Edible Uses: Fruit - cooked.

Farther south, plants are nearly evergreen. * In the northern part of its range, the leaves turn rust-red in fall, dropping in spring just as the new leaves unfurl. It has been recommended as a styptic.

* Kennedia prostrata, commonly known as Running Postman or Scarlet Runner, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae, endemic to Australia. * The species was first formally described by Robert Brown in 1812 in Hortus Kewensis.

It is perhaps best known for its use as a hair tonic whilst the root is also taken internally as a treatment for non-malignant swollen glands and especially for mastitis. * Bearsfoot root was used by the North American Indians as a stimulant and laxative...

* This is one of the apple varieties thta does bext under low chill conditions. * The leaves contain up to 2.4% of an antibacterial substance called 'phloretin'.This inhibits the growth of a number of gram-positive and gram-negative bacteria in as low...

They are attractive trees with deciduous glossy pinnate leaves. The small, red-to-black berries are popular with many birds. The seeds start as bright red capsules that when fully ripe open to expose shiny black buckshot seed as Autumn progresses.

* This species has a symbiotic relationship with certain soil bacteria, these bacteria form nodules on the roots and fix atmospheric nitrogen. Some of this nitrogen is utilized by the growing plant but some can also be used by other plants growing nearby.

Thick growing and winter hardy. Used for pasture, soil stabilization wildlife forage, hay. * A low growing, persistent, perennial, cool season legume. It has been widely introduced worldwide as a pasture crop, and is now also common in most grassy areas...

The plant prefers light (sandy), medium (loamy) and heavy (clay) soils and requires well-drained soil.The plant prefers acid, neutral and basic (alkaline) soils..It can grow in semi-shade (light woodland) or no shade.It requires moist soil.

* Annatto, obtained from the oily arils of the seeds is the world's second most important (after caramel) natural colorant (Mercadante and Pfander 1998), yielding yellow to red colors.

* A flowering, fruit-producing tree, member of the rose family; flowers resemble those of hawthorn, white or light pink; 1 1/2"; 1" fruits, hard and brownish, inedible until aged or frosted, used in jellies; old trees may be thorny; of rounded habit;...

Many of them are hardy to –18 °C., with flowers ranging in color from violet, to violet-blue, rosy pink, and even white. The many inflorescences have closely spaced whorls of small flowers with brightly colored calyces.