Plant For Summer Color Seeds For Sale In Charleston

Japanese Maple produces magnificent fall color and is very hardy and flexible branches making it an ideal specimen for bonsai. It is frost hardy to about 14 F , and recommended to be in a sheltered area for the first few years.

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

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

It prefers moist soil. It is in flower in May, and the seeds ripen from Aug to September. It is hardy to zone 6. * A small tree grown for its ornamental red new growth and its red and yellow fall color.

The plant is also known as an introduced species across much of the rest of the world, including Australia . It is a naturalized species and often a weed in parts of North America, but it is probably native in Alaska and Greenland .

However some may find the plant to be too tall for normal gardens. Robustus has a stem six to ten feet high, with leaves as long as 48 inches, and 4 inches in width, the widest in its genus.

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

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

* It is in flower from July to August, and the seeds ripen from September to October. * A decidious Tree growing to 10 m (32ft) by 10 m (32ft) at a fast rate. * Foot-long clusters of yellow flowers in midsummer, followed by red or brownish "pods" that...

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

* The plant has one simple erect stem, which is green with purple dots or longitudinal dashes. Leaves appear in whorls of 3–5. The upper stems are reddish or purplish. Leaves are large, long and sharply toothed.

Southwest China is the center for biodiversity of the species. * Spiraea japonica was introduced in North America as an ornamental landscape plant and first cultivated in the northeastern states around 1870.

Big pluses : it grows fast if watered/fertilised regularly and will even get a few blooms right away. Germination is usually fairly rapid. * Flowers are white in the morning, turning pink during noon and red in the evening of the same day.

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

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. Fruit is very astringent, hence the common name.

* The plants are easily grown from seed, and readily self-seed. * 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 young seed heads are used as a condiment, they are hot and acrid. * The familiar large-flowered poppy with 3-6" flowers, usually red but sometimes orange or pale pink; foliage dies back in midsummer; long-lived; wants full sun, good drainage; native...

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

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 .

* Our Majestic seed source is the only one that we sell that has a better blue color than Kaibab. * The specific epithet pungens means "sharply pointed", referring to the leaves. * It is also grown for the cut Christmas tree industry.

Generally the best harvest period lasts about 3 weeks (longer in cool, fall weather), after which time the roots may crack or the taste and appearance may decline. Cercospora blight first appears as small dark spots with yellow margins on the younger...

In cultivation, it is sometimes grown as a large shrub or screen. Foliage produces no appreciable fall color. It is noted for its graceful form, large heart-shaped leaves, scaly fissured bark, large fruiting catkins and large winter buds.

Plants are often used in informal hedging. It is particularly noted for its attractive form, glossy green leaves, dark red autumn fruit and autumn foliage colors. * Spreading cotoneaster is an upright, rounded, densely branched, deciduous shrub that matures...

It prefers moist soil. It is in flower in May, and the seeds ripen from Aug to September. It is hardy to zone 6. * A small tree grown for its ornamental red new growth and its red and yellow fall color.

Early- to mid-season sprout producing smooth, round, well-spaced, tasty, bright dark-green buttons from October onwards through the winter. These early-to-arrive, pretty, dark-green, mini-cabbages are delectable roasted, steamed or blanched, their rich,...

The seeds are legumes with large numbers of black seeds that contain cytisine (an alkaloid extremely poisonous to humans but also goats and horses, especially when not ripe. * The wood is coarse grained,durable, dark coloured and very hard, it can be...

It is being investigated as a food that is capable of reducing the incidence of cancer and also as a means of halting or reversing the growth of cancers. The fruit of many members of this genus is a very rich source of vitamins and minerals, especially...