Plant For Summer Color Herbaceous Plant For Sale In Lowell

Leaves typically form a thick, slowly-spreading clump of foliage to 12" tall. * Leaves are often used in floral arrangements. * Foliage turns purplish-bronze in winter. * Features large rosettes of leathery, glossy, toothed, rounded, dark green leaves...

The flowers are trumpet-shaped, 4-9 cm diameter, most commonly blue with a white to golden yellow centre. Seed used by Aztecs as a hallucinogen. The leaves are spirally arranged, 3-7 cm long with a 1.5-6 cm long petiole.

Japonica has been used as traditional medicine by native people, and extracts from the plants were found to be bioactive. * Tolerates most soils, but prefers a good loamy soil, abundant moisture and full sunlight.

* The red anthocyanin constituent of the flowers is used as a litmus. * The plants are easily grown from seed, and readily self-seed. They are useful in the treatment of chest complaints.

* 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.

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

It is sometimes smoked as an intoxicant, despite the danger of illness and/or death due to the cyanide. Wood - hard, white, fine grained. * In late summer parent has much larger flowers, first white, then purplish-pink, then brown; to 12" x 18", especially...

* Many people perceive Joe Pye weed to be nothing more than a roadside weed and have never seriously considered its outstanding ornamental attributes. Border rears, cottage gardens, meadows, native plant gardens, wild/naturalized areas or water margins.

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. It is an herbaceous, perennial dicot native to eastern and central Canada and United States.

* The narrow, divided leaves are almost thread-like and grow close together on the stems. * This peony can reach between 30 and 60 centimeters in height. It is native to the Caucasus Mountains of Ukraine , as well as areas north of the Black Sea and westward...

Leaves are glabrous above and hairy below. Synonymous with Buphthalmum speciosum. Blooms appear in late summer to early fall on branching-at-the-top stems rising to 4-6' tall. Features sprays of single, daisy-like flower heads (to 3.5” across) with...

Mirabilis jalapa is said to have been exported from the Peruvian Andes in 1540. * Very fragrant trumpet-shaped flowers, 1-2" red, pink, yellow, white, or variously mottled with different color combinations, in quantity; the common name is based on the...

* It is native to China,and it is cultivated worldwide as an ornamental plant. * This is an annual or biennial herb with one erect, mostly unbranched stem growing 20 to 100 centimeters tall.

* The seeds provide food for birds. The paired spikelets are generally oval in shape and measure a few millimeters long. * This rhizomatous perennial grass has stems which can exceed two meters in height.

* It is an important crop for subsistence farmers in Africa. They are eaten cooked or ground into a powder and used for making cakes etc. * The mild-flavoured leaves (cooked as a spinach) are rich in vitamins and minerals.

* 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.

* In Europe it was believed that the plant could cure alcoholism . * Plants are reliably perennial if they are prevented from setting seed. * The stalks can be eaten like celery and the flavor is similar.

It is a naturalized species and often a weed in parts of North America, but it is probably native in Alaska and Greenland . Children can't resist testing their friends to see if they like butter.

Flowers- raw or cooked. The common name is primrose , or occasionally common primrose or English primrose to distinguish it from other Primula species also called primroses. Both the flowers and the leaves canbe made into a syrup or a tea.

* 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 when young; needs sun; native to China.

A starchy and slightly sweet taste. Used like potatoes or as a thickener in soups. * The bulb is eaten cooked. Common names include, Turk's Cap Lily , Turban Lily , Swamp lily or American Tiger Lily .

The red petals are long and strap-like, and dangle over the umbrella-like style of the flower, which is held upside down at the end of a 50 cm long scape. Sarracenia rubra is generally clump-forming.

The adult leaves , produced on branches of mature trees, are nearly round, slightly wider than long, 2–8 cm diameter, with a coarsely toothed margin and a laterally flattened petiole 4–8 cm long.

The sturdy leaves each have a prominent central vein. * Important member of wetland communities. * Cool-season grass has broad, pale leaves and very loose, open flowering stalks. It is most commonly found in wet areas such as riverbanks and ponds.

* It is in flower in May, and the seeds ripen in August. * Fall color orange, scarlet, yellow; extremely hardy Conservation Plant Characteristics Acer spicatum Lam. * A species of maple native to northeastern North America from Saskatchewan to Newfoundland...

Racemosa grows in dependably moist, fairly heavy soil. * Native Americans used black cohosh to treat gynecological and other disorders, including sore throats, kidney problems, and depression.

* Foot-long clusters of yellow flowers in midsummer, followed by red or brownish "pods" that persist into fall; Dirr calls it a "beautiful dense tree of regular rounded outline, sparingly branched" * It is popularly grown as an ornamental tree in temperate...