Nitrogen Fixing Plant Flowering Shrub For Sale In Rockford

* An essential oil obtained from the flowers is used in perfumery. * Make sure to water during the hot months to keep it from fading, and pick off dead flowers to keep the plant blooming till the first frosts of fall.

It grows up to 4 meters tall but generally remains under three, and forms colonies of individuals which tangle together to form nearly impenetrable thickets. The aromatic evergreen leaves are alternately arranged, each up to 8 centimeters long.

* Tolerant of dry alkaline soils. Some of this nitrogen is utilized by the growing plant but some can also be used by other plants growing nearby. A very ornamental plant, it prefers a continental climate with hot summers and cold winters.

* A deep rooted legume found on a variety of soils in prairies & open woods. Seeds are eaten by many birds. Pharmaceutical preparations are manufactured from them. An extract of the plant is of disputed utility in chronic kidney disease.

* Because the plant fixes atmospheric nitrogen, it makes a hedge that enriches the soil rather than depriving it of nutrients. Noxious weed in California. It is fairly fast-growing and very tolerant of pruning, but is rather open in habit and does not...

The Spicy Sweet Shrub develops exotic pods later and is filled with aromatic seeds. Cold hardy 20°-25° below zero. Blooms last for 3-4 weeks and have a spicy strawberry, banana-pineapple fragrance that peaks in late afternoon and early evening when...

* The roots themselves are branched and deep, which helps the plant withstand periods of drought. * It is considered to be a desirable plant in the garden due to its deep blue to violet spring flowers, the attractive light green compound leaves, and also...

* Laburnum alpinum (Scottish Laburnum) is a leguminous flowering tree. It grows well in heavy clay soils and in poor shallow limestone soils. Group as a shrub to maximize effect of the spring bloom.

For a windbreak plant two to five rows for the most effective protection. Shipped 18 to 24 inches tall. Plant six feet apart in rows eight feet apart. Cultivate for the first two years.

Each spring you will be delighted by its sweet fragrance. Can be planted in full sun or partial shade. Sensation is smaller than most lilacs growing to a mature height of 10-15' with a spread of 10-12'.

Bristly locust is primarily used for surface mine spoil reclamation, industrial waste piles, roadbanks, cuts and fills, etc. It provides quick, woody, vegetative cover on droughty, critical areas needing stabilizing cover.

The genus name, Osmanthus, from the Greek words for odor and flower, refers to the fragrant blossoms. * Osmanthus americanus, commonly called American olive, wild olive, or devilwood, is an evergreen shrub or small tree native to southeastern North America,...

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

* Lupinus albicaulis is a species of lupine known by the common name sickle-keel lupine . The inflorescence is up to 44 centimeters long, bearing whorls of flowers each 1 to 1.6 centimeters long.

Fruticosa grows as a glandular, thornless shrub which can reach 5 or 6 meters in height and spread to twice that in width. * Dark purple or purplish blue flowers in spikes; fast, coarse growth, good for dry, poor soil.

* The legume provides an excellent source of high protein cattle fodder. Leucocephala is used for a variety of purposes, such as firewood , fiber and livestock fodder . * During the 1970s and 1980s it was promoted as a "miracle tree" for its multiple...

Cardinal Autumn Olive makes a wonderful hedge and wildlife shelter. Super hardy, even in the meanest soil, in sun or partial shade. Highly recommended by the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

* Bunches of the tied stems have been used as rough brooms. Montanus often remains under 1 metre (3.3 ft) in height because of browsing by elk and deer, but can reach 20 feet (6.1 m).

* Forsythia suspensa (pinyin : lianqiao ) is a flowering plant native to Asia. A bitter tasting pungent herb with an antiseptic effect, it is chiefly used to treat boils, carbuncles, mumps and infected neck glands.

* Native to semiconsolidated sand dunes; 900-2400 m. It is good fodder for animals, improves the soil, allows natural vegetation to become established, and prevents soil erosion by wind and rain.

Branchlets arched, red-brown and yellow tomentose initially, black-brown and glabrous when old; buds ovoid, 2–5 mm, with several scales, pubescent, apex acute or obtuse. Zhong hua xiu xian ju Shrubs 1.5–3 m tall.

* Shrubs to 1.5 m tall. Branchlets glabrous; buds ovoid, slightly pubescent. * A versatile mid sized, prolific flowering shrub that is quite cold hardy. * The Asian and European populations are widely disjunct, separated by over 5000 km.

It is one of two species in the genus Fremontodendron , and it is divided into four subspecies. It is not used commercially due to the small size of the tree. * The California flannelbush ( Fremontodendron californicum , syn.

* A shrub; red flowers in racemes. * The leaves and flowers are boiled and eaten.

* A deep rooted legume found on a variety of soils in prairies & open woods. Seeds are eaten by many birds. Pharmaceutical preparations are manufactured from them. An extract of the plant is of disputed utility in chronic kidney disease.

* The fruit is also used as a hop substitute when making beer and it is added to yeast to make it rise more quickly when making bread. It has been mixed with other medicines in order to give added potency.

Requires an acid to neutral soil. Blooms early to mid season. Seeds should produce mostly blue flowers, but may show some breaks to colors of reds, yellows and bicolors. * An easily grown plant, succeeding in any moderately good soil in a sunny position.