Plant For Summer Color Herbaceous Plant For Sale In Lincoln

They are very showy and have a pleasant fragrance. * Good tree for striking yellow late summer flowers in upright clusters as large as 2' x 1 1/2'; seed "pods" pinkish, very attractive, good for dried arrangements; bipinnate leaves; upright habit; flowers...

* Fall color is sensational. * Lacy leaves of a deep red in the spring but foliage color fades to light green in early summer. * Hardier than green-leaved types.

Mucilaginous, without very much flavour. If growing them as annuals, plant them out into their permanent positions in early summer and protect them with a frame or cloche until they are growing away well.

* A sprawling plant unless staked, perhaps best for romping through a semi-wild border; small blue flowers in considerable numbers in midsummer; full sun or part shade, persistent once established; native to China.

* 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.

* A shrub with smooth bark, dark green spreading branches and pendulous and pubescent twigs. The leaves (made of three leaflets) have a long pedunculus, are smooth on the upperside and hairy on the underside.

However, internal consumption, such as in the form of herbal tea , is discouraged, as it can cause serious liver damage. * The hardy plant can grow to a height of 60 cm.Comfrey has been used in folk medicine as a poultice for treating burns and wounds.

Grows well in a poor sandy soil. * An easily grown plant, succeeding in any moderately good soil in a sunny position. Seeds should produce mostly blue flowers, but may show some breaks to colors of reds, yellows and bicolors.

* A shrub with smooth bark, dark green spreading branches and pendulous and pubescent twigs. The leaves (made of three leaflets) have a long pedunculus, are smooth on the upperside and hairy on the underside.

It grows in moist soil, full sun to part shade, and grows up to one meter tall. It is a native of Europe. * Serratula tinctoria , commonly known as Saw-wort , is a species in the genus Serratula .

The plant is noted for its effectiveness in treating catarrhal problems of many kinds and has also been used successfully in treating diarrhoea, haemorrhoids and infantile cholera.

For a low maintenance planting select an Abelia that grows to the appropriate size for the space given them and periodically remove the oldest non-productive canes or stems every 2-3 years.

* Common Hogweed ( Heracleum sphondylium ) is an herbaceous biennial plant of the family Apiaceae , which grows in the prairies of Eurasia. It prefers rich humid soils. The plant is little used in modern herbalism but has been employed in the treatment...

Plants require continuously moist conditions in a loose compost of sphagnum peat, live sphagnum and coarse acid sand. Plants can tolerate temperatures down to about -10°c. An insectivorous plant, it is best grown in a boggy position and prefers a soil...

* An easily grown plant, so long as the soil does not dry out. It requires a deep rich soil with plenty of moisture. Does well in a bog garden. Likes shadebut it succeeds in sun or partial shade.

Its specific epithet , meaning "false acorus," refers to the similarity of its leaves to those of Acorus calamus , as they have a prominently veined mid-rib and sword-like shape. * A beautiful yellow dye is obtained from the flowers.

* Hydrangea paniculata , commonly known as the panicled hydrangea , is a species of Hydrangea found in eastern China , Korea , Japan , and Sakhalin . It was first formally described by Philipp Franz von Siebold in 1829.

* A small variety with deeply cut red leaves. * The crimson fall color is stunning.

A member of the passionflower genus Passiflora , the Maypop has large, intricate flowers with prominent styles and stamens. * Passiflora incarnata , commonly known as Maypop , Purple passionflower , True passionflower , Wild apricot , and Wild passion...

* Flat or bell-shaped 1 1/2" flowers in clusters of 5-7, rose, in spring before leaves; of upright habit; deciduous, with red fall color; native to North Carolina, where it grows in moist acid soil.

Plants in this genus were probably the most frequently used of N. American Indian herbal remedies. Its cone-shaped flowering heads are usually, but not always purple. It is native to eastern North America and present to some extent in the wild in much...

* A fine blue infusion is obtained from the flowers and this can be used as a litmus substitute to test for acids and alkalis. * Iris versicolor , also commonly known as the Harlequin Blueflag , Larger Blue Flag , Northern Blue Flag , and other variations...

* A horticultural annual grown for it big palmate (roundish) leaves, up to 3' wide; full sun, adequate drainage; can become a 40' tree in tropical areas. * The seedcoat contains an extremely lethal poison that was once used by the KGB to dispose of their...

* Native to mountains from Alaska to California. * Yellow fall color. * A decidious Tree growing to 9 m. * It is in flower in April, and the seeds ripen in September.

* A small variety with deeply cut red leaves. * The crimson fall color is stunning.

However some may find the plant to be too tall for normal gardens. Inflorescence goes to four feet in length which is covered with many deep to pale pink flowers, four cm across. The leaves can vary from a bright green to a bluish-green in color.

* Seed propagation - sow spring or autumn in situ. * It is still used medicinally in the present day; however, there are adverse effects that limit its use. * The foliage was burned by the Cherokee as a natural insecticide, to smoke out gnats.