Plant For Moist Soil Evergreen Plant For Sale In Fairfield

* The Koyamaki ( Sciadopitys verticillata ), or Japanese Umbrella-pine , is a unique conifer endemic to Japan . * It is a very attractive tree and is popular in gardens, despite its slow growth rate.

* Shiny dark green evergreen leaves, emerging bronzy in spring; white slightly fragrant flowers in pendulous masses; neat upright habit; prefers moist, well-drained, acid soil, but doesn't insist on it; needs shade in the U.S. South; parent of many cultivars;...

* Succeeds in a most humus-rich lime-free soils except those of a dry arid nature or those that are heavy or clayey. The flowers are 2.5-3 cm (1 in) diameter, white, pink or pale purple, often with small greenish-yellow spots.

The erect lower portion of the stem is smooth, but the curved branching inflorescence is covered in glandular hairs. * The seeds have been used in making cough syrups. * In Virginia, Penthorum sedoides grows in habitats such as alluvial swamps, floodplain...

* For the brightest winter bark, young shoots are encouraged by cutting to the ground some older stems at the end of the winter, before leaves are open. * The plant is extremely hardy, to USDA Zone 3.

* A very ornamental plant. Hybridizes freely with other members of this genus. It grows to about a meter tall (when in flower) and has bright red flowers. * Grown for its beautiful red flowers in mid summer.

* The bark and the leaves are mildly diuretic, expectorant and stimulant. The plant is seldom used medicinally, but is sometimes included in propriety medicines for chronic prostate and bladder disorders.

The flowers are hermaphrodite (have both male and female organs) and are pollinated by Bees, flies. * It can grow in semi-shade (light woodland) or no shade.It requires moist soil.

* Needles to 1" long, in 2 rows forming a trough; barrel-shaped cones, 4", dark violet-black. * It is a high altitude mountain tree, growing at altitudes of 3,000-4,000 meters, often occupying the tree line .

Leucophylla produces crimson flowers in the spring before its characteristically small spring pitchers. Like all the Sarracenia , it is native to the New World and inhabits moist and low-nutrient longleaf pine ( Pinus palustris ) savannas along the United...

Conservation Plant Characteristics Abies fraseri (Pursh) Poir. * Fraser Fir has been used more times as the Blue Room Christmas tree (the official Christmas tree of the President of the United States's White House) than any other type of tree.

A tea is made from the dried leaves and roots. * A perennial herb with 8" leaves covered with prickly hairs; flowers to 1/2", yellowish white, pink, or purplish, in summer, in nodding clusters; rather coarse; likes rich, moist, limestone soils; native...

* This rhizomatous perennial grass has stems which can exceed two meters in height. * The seeds provide food for birds. The inflorescence is a panicle with up to 6 branches. * Paspalum floridanum is a species of grass known by the common name Florida...

* Leatherwood was employed medicinally by a number of native North American Indian tribes who used it to treat a wide variety of ailments. A rope can be made from the bark fibres. * Dirca palustris , or Eastern Leatherwood , is a shrub that grows to a...

* These open woodland plants grow 40 cm (16 in) to 80 cm (31 in) tall.The leaves that are coarsely toothed with deeply lobed margins. * The whole plant, but especially the root, is analgesic, antirheumatic, galactogogue and rubefacient.The plant was often...

* Trees have extensive root systems and are sometimes planted on the banks of streams in order to prevent erosion.

It is used in Korea in the treatment of lumbago, neuralgia, arthritis and oedema. It is adaptogenic, analgesic, anti-inflammatory, antipyretic and diuretic. * The root bark contains saponins, acanthosides, cardiac glycosides and polysaccharides.

* A very ornamental plant. Hybridizes freely with other members of this genus. It grows to about a meter tall (when in flower) and has bright red flowers. * Grown for its beautiful red flowers in mid summer.

* Shrub with upright stems; narrow bamboolike leaves, shiny bright green; small whitish flowers; a roughish plant, but extremely tough and vigorous; useful for highways and urban sites; native to China.

It weighs 46lb per cubic foot. The wood is extremely durable and is used primarily for making fence posts. * A spiny tree with small greenish flowers in 4" racemes; leaves pinnate or bipinnate; name suggests it is a good choice for wet areas; native to...

The terminal inflorescense contains many spikelets that are crowded into dense, nearly spherical heads on rays that angle out in different directions. Foliage turns yellow-brown in fall.

In particular, it is a gentle and effective remedy for irritated states of the mucous membranes of the chest, urinary tubules, stomach and intestines. * Slippery elm bark is a widely used herbal remedy and is considered to be one of the most valuable...

It grows in a wide variety of wet habitat types. * The flower looks something like a monkeys face, hence the common and genus names, the latter from the Latin mimus (a buffoon). Best in part shade.

Known for its 1/2-3/4 in. * A tree to 60 ft. Large with an agreeably acid flavour, theymake good preserves and a refreshing lemonade-like drink. It is in flower from Mar to May, and the seeds ripen from Aug to October.

* A vigorous plant, spreading by subterranean suckers and forming thickets. * Spiraea tomentosa , commonly known as the Steeplebush , is a plant similar in characteristic to the Hardhack ( S.

* The common name comes from the acorns being largely enclosed in the cup; the scientific name comes from the lyrate (lyre-shaped) leaves. * The wood is valuable, similar to that of other white oaks, and used for the same purposes.

* Native to North America , occurring in arctic and cool temperate areas from Alaska east to Newfoundland and southern Greenland , and south at high altitudes to northern California and Colorado in the west, and locally south to northern New York in the...