Plant For Summer Color Herbaceous Plant For Sale In Birmingham

* A nutritious starch is obtained from the root. * The red anthocyanin constituent of the flowers is used as a litmus. * It was imported into Europe from southwestern China during, or possibly before, the 15th century.

* The plant was introduced from Central Asia in 1874 and is popular in gardens. Inflorescence goes to four feet in length which is covered with many deep to pale pink flowers, four cm across.

* Fall color is sensational. Acer palmatum preers a sunny, airy spot except for in the midday heat where it needs shade. Japanese Maple produces magnificent fall color and is very hardy and flexible branches making it an ideal specimen for bonsai.

* Features large rosettes of leathery, glossy, toothed, rounded, dark green leaves (to 10" long by 8" wide) which are heart-shaped at the base. Small dark pink flowers in dense panicles appear within or above the foliage on stout stalks to 16" tall in...

It is an herbaceous, perennial dicot native to eastern and central Canada and United States. Growing up to a meter tall, it lives in zones 4 to 9 in moist to wet soils. It produces a spike of zygomorphic flowers in the late summer.

Roots should be kept cool, shaded and uniformly moist. It provides good architectural height and framework for small gardens. * Grow in fertile, medium to wet soils in full sun to part shade.

It provides quick, woody, vegetative cover on droughty, critical areas needing stabilizing cover. It is useful for vegetating acid soils with a pH of 3.5 to 4.0, as well as alkaline soils of a pH 8.0. Bristly locust is especially adapted to stabilizing...

* The plant was introduced from Central Asia in 1874 and is popular in gardens. Inflorescence goes to four feet in length which is covered with many deep to pale pink flowers, four cm across.

It is native to the eastern half of North America but uncommon, found in rich woods. The stems are harvested in summer, the leaves are removed and the stems steamed until the fibres can be stripped.

This plant is also cultivated in many European and American gardens. * An erect, clump-forming perennial which features pale pink to white flowers enclosed in spiny, reddish-purple bracts and arranged in vertical rows on substantial flower spikes rising...

Fruit is very astringent, hence the common name. White flowers in racemes in spring give way in summer to clusters of reddish fruit (1/3" diameter cherries) which mature in fall to a dark purple.

* The young seed heads are used as a condiment, they are hot and acrid. * Papaver orientale ( Oriental poppy ) is a perennial flowering plant native to the Caucasus, northeastern Turkey, and northern Iran.

Plants are hardy to about -25°c. This species has a symbiotic relationship with certain soil bacteria, these bacteria form nodules on the roots and fix atmospheric nitrogen. Seeds should produce mostly blue flowers, but may show some breaks to colors...

* This sedge is less prone to summer dieback and remains attractive during warm weather. Its grass-like leaves grow up to 3' tall from short stout rhizomes. * This carex is common throughout southern and central Missouri in the moist soil beside ponds,...

The leaves (made of three leaflets) have a long pedunculus, are smooth on the upperside and hairy on the underside. * Pendulous clusters of golden-yellow flowers; trifoliate leaves; bushy, usually low-branched and spreading; much grown throughout Europe;...

It provides quick, woody, vegetative cover on droughty, critical areas needing stabilizing cover. It is useful for vegetating acid soils with a pH of 3.5 to 4.0, as well as alkaline soils of a pH 8.0. Bristly locust is especially adapted to stabilizing...

* It is native to New Zealand where it grows on sand dunes proving its drought and salt tolerance. * Works well in a perennial border or container in either full sun or partial shade.

* This open pollinated variety has been around a long time and is still the favorite. * It produces an abundance of 8-9 inch dark green cucumbers with excellent mild flavor.

It is native to central North America. * Of upright, arching form; green leaves; flowers in late summer, flowering section of spike to 15" long; likes full sun or part shade, rich soil; tolerates salt, wet conditions; native to cool temperate areas of...

* This sedge is less prone to summer dieback and remains attractive during warm weather. Its grass-like leaves grow up to 3' tall from short stout rhizomes. * This carex is common throughout southern and central Missouri in the moist soil beside ponds,...

It grows to about a meter tall (when in flower) and has bright red flowers. * Grown for its beautiful red flowers in mid summer. * A very ornamental plant. * Lobelia cardinalis ( Cardinal Flower ) is a species of Lobelia native to the Americas , from...

It is a native of Europe. It grows in moist soil, full sun to part shade, and grows up to one meter tall. * A perennial with tubular reddish-purple flowers in small terminal clusters; native to Europe, North Africa, and Siberia.

* The plant is now also widely grown as an ornamental around the world. * Considered rare, the species is threatened by habitat loss, and only nine populations are known to remain in the wild, all of them in Anhui and Zhejiang provinces.

* The Virginia snakeroot is attracting increasing interest for its medicinal virtues and as a result is becoming uncommon in the wild. * Use Ornamental: Showy, Ground cover Conspicuous Flowers: yes Attracts: Butterflies Larval Host: Pipevine swallowtail...

* The peeled roots are cut up and added to soups. * 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...

* Try them as a fall crop by sowing seed in late summer. * They are very late to bolt and can be grown year round in mild climates. * Vates Collards have dark green very tasty leaves with a mild cabbage like flavor.

It differs from other similar species in that it has 4 lobed flowers, whereas Small Scabious and Field scabious have 5 lobes and hence it has been placed in a separate genus in the same family .