Plant For Moist Soil Flowering Shrub For Sale In Rockford

* Succeeds in a most humus-rich lime-free soils except those of a dry arid nature or those that are heavy or clayey. The fruit is a dry capsule 15-20 mm (.60-.79 in) long, containing numerous small seeds .

* This plant has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit. * It is grown as an ornamental plant in gardens, where its August flowering attracts butterflies. * Plants can be used as a tall ground cover for large areas of land.

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

Likes plenty of moisture and a rich loamy slightly acid soil. Plants can be grown in containers in pond margins but are then best kept in drier conditions over winter. Requires a lime-free soil.

* Gray-green branches; flowers in late spring; fruit white or bluish; native to Rocky Mountains from southern Oregon south. This is a large shrub or thicket-forming bush with bright green leaves which turn red in fall.

* 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. It produces off white four-petaled open flowers that are followed by small, round fruit that ripen from August to...

* Fragrant white or slightly pink flowers with a yellow blotch, to 2 1/2"; 4" deciduous leaves, yellow and scarlet in fall; native to the Pacific Coast, and said to fare poorly on the East Coast.

* The stalk of the blossom is used as a soap substitute. * Clethra alnifolia ( Sweet Pepperbush , Anne Bidwell or Summersweet ), is a flowering plant in the genus Clethra , native to eastern North America from southern Nova Scotia and Maine south to northern...

It is somewhat slow to establish, but if given space to fully develop becomes a magnificent specimen. * This plant has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit.

It is native to Mauritius , the United States and the west coast of South America in Chile and Peru . It is very good. The young shoots are used in making a refreshing cold drink. * It is a perennial plant that develops in a cultivated or wild in the...

It is little used in modern herbalism and any use should be carried out with caution since even minute doses can cause salivation and burning of the tongue. * Leatherwood was employed medicinally by a number of native North American Indian tribes who...

This plant usually grows in wet places, especially in grasslands and forests . * The Asian Globeflower ( Trollius asiaticus ) is an ornamental plant of the family Ranunculaceae , which is native to Asia and Europe .

Many authorities have now grouped both of these red elders together under the name of Sambucus racemosa. Pubens (native to North America) was known as American red elder. * Tolerates a wide range of soils, but prefers moist, humusy, nutrient-rich, neutral...

* The berries which are small drupes are purple. * The berries are bitter and are unfit for culinary use. * The flowers are pink to white. The fruit provides food for wild life. * Lavender flowers from June until August, followed by violet fruits in October;...

However it is commonly cultivated in gardens away from its native range. * Primula denticulata , commonly known as Drumstick primrose or the Himalayan Primrose is a species of primrose that is native to moist alpine regions and Afghanistan to China .

In China, it, and other false hellebore species are collectively called "li lu". * Veratrum nigrum ( Black Hellebore ) is a medicinal plant and poisonous plant native to Asia and Europe .

* Some native North American Indian tribes used the root as a protection against rattlesnakes. Some tribes even used to chew the root and then hold rattlesnakes with their teeth and were not bitten so long as the scent persisted.

Mulching helps to keep weeds away which will compete with your new investment for water and nutrients. Plants that are deficient in Nitrogen are usually not growing vigorously. These observations should give you a good idea of how the plant tends to grow,...

* The flowers are yellow, often with a red base, with four ribbon-shaped petals 15 mm long and four short stamens, and grow in clusters; flowering is in late winter to early spring on the bare branches.

A sharp cut will heal quicker than a jagged cut, which will also minimize the likelihood of disease investing a cut during pruning. It is noted for producing large, dense, upright, cone-shaped panicles (to 8” across) of mostly sterile flowers that change...

It is commonly found growing in humus-rich areas like marshes, ditches, fens, and beaver dams.The stems are smooth cylinders with light pith filling. The lower leaves are reduced to a brown sheath at the bottom of the stem.

* Wood - fine grained, hard, very heavy, reddish. Used for small articles. Its pome fruits are edible and can be eaten raw or cooked. * Amelanchier ovalis , commonly known as Snowy Mespilus , is a serviceberry shrub.

* Some native North American Indian tribes used the root as a protection against rattlesnakes. Some tribes even used to chew the root and then hold rattlesnakes with their teeth and were not bitten so long as the scent persisted.

The hips are pear- or egg-shaped and borne in clusters, and are decorative in fall and early winter, when they are red or reddish-purple and contrast with yellow foliage. Fall foliage can be yellow or dark red.

The showy part of the floral display, however, is the white, pink or rose sepals that become petal-like and reminiscent of poinsettias. Rich-green foliage. * Fevertree or pinckneya is a large, open shrub or small tree, growing 10-30 ft.

Although it is tempting to spend less time by not raking the mulch back during fertilization, the results will be less than desirable, if the fertilizer is applied on top of the mulch.

* Aconitum napellus (Monkshood, "aconite", "Wolf's Bane", Fuzi , "Monk's Blood", or "Monk's Hood") is a species of Aconitum in the family Ranunculaceae , native and endemic to western and central Europe .