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Canfield University at Silsoe.[23] Soil structure: Admundson, Ronald. The general method is to cut, flatten, or mow existing surface vegetation. The E horizon is an eleuvian or leached layer consisting of demineralized sand and silt.
California
El Segundo
Jacobs Ladder, Charity Polemonium caeruleum   Album
Prices start at : 3.95 USD / 1 packet

* The plant produces cup-shaped, lavender-coloured or white flowers. * The plant was first used as a medicinal herb in ancient Greece. * Today, the plant is usually used in potpourris.
  • Cultivar: Album
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 3
  • Quantity: 0.44 lb
  • Germination: 82%
  • Crop Year: 2013
  • Family: Polemoniaceae
New York
Locke
Charity, Jacobs Ladder Polemonium caeruleum
Prices start at : 4.95 USD / 1 packet

* The plant produces cup-shaped, lavender-coloured or white flowers. * The plant was first used as a medicinal herb in ancient Greece. * Today, the plant is usually used in potpourris.
  • Height: 18-24 inches
  • Seeds Per Pound: 499,400
  • Crop Year: 2014
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 3
  • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 75
  • Family: Polemoniaceae
New York
Locke
Charity, Jacobs Ladder Polemonium caeruleum
Prices start at : 4.95 USD / 1 packet

* The plant produces cup-shaped, lavender-coloured or white flowers. * The plant was first used as a medicinal herb in ancient Greece. * Today, the plant is usually used in potpourris.
  • Quantity: 0.05 lb
  • Seeds Per Pound: 499,400
  • Germination Test Type: Actual
  • Germination: 90%
  • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 75
  • Species: caeruleum
New York
Locke
Field Scabious, Blue Buttons, Field Scabiosa Knautia arvensis
Prices start at : 8.95 USD / 1 packet

A homeopathic remedy is made from the plant. * Blue, pinky-blue, lilac, or lavenderish flowers 1 1/4" wide atop 3' stems; native to meadows and grassy hills, particularly on limestone; good for wild garden; native to E.
  • Quantity: 0.11 lb
  • Species: arvensis
  • Collection Locale: Germany
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 4
  • Seeds Per Pound: 85,352
  • Genus: Knautia
New York
Locke
Field Scabious, Blue Buttons, Field Scabiosa Knautia arvensis
Prices start at : 8.95 USD / 1 packet

A homeopathic remedy is made from the plant. * Blue, pinky-blue, lilac, or lavenderish flowers 1 1/4" wide atop 3' stems; native to meadows and grassy hills, particularly on limestone; good for wild garden; native to E.
  • Quantity: 0.11 lb
  • Germination: 98%
  • Purity: 99%
  • Species: arvensis
  • Botanical Name: Knautia arvensis
  • Family: Dipsacaceae
New York
Locke
Flowering Ash Fraxinus ornus
Prices start at : 2.95 USD / 1 packet

* With attractive, frilly white or pale yellow fragrant flowers in May; smooth gray beechy bark; leaves dark green; sap, known as manna, has been used as a mild laxative; native to southeast Europe, western Asia.
  • Common Name: Flowering Ash
  • Quantity: 3.56 lb
  • Species: ornus
  • Family: Oleaceae
  • Genus: Fraxinus
  • Purity: 97%
New York
Locke
White Rose of Montana, White Coral Vine
Prices start at : 9.99 USD

An uncommon selection of Rose of Montana, this is a beautiful climbing perennial which produces sprays of lacy white flowers all summer and fall. It is easy and fast growing, and is muchly treasured in old gardens in the south.
  • pH Range: Mildly Acidic, Neutral, Mildly Alkaline
  • USDA Cold Hardiness Zones: 8,9,10
  • Outdoor Light: Full sun, Part sun, Part shade
  • Native To / Origin: Mexico
Louisiana
Merryville
Variegated Monkey Ball Vine, Ornamental Yam, Variegated Potato vine
Prices start at : 12.99 USD

A vigorous but manageable unusual perennial tropical vine. Large deep green heart shaped foliage is veined with silver and randomly splotched with maroon and black.
  • Container Size: 4.5 inch / 20 fl.oz. / 591 ml
  • Indoor Light: High
  • Grows To: 8-15'H
  • USDA Cold Hardiness Zones: 8B,9,10,11
Louisiana
Merryville
Climbing Pinkie Rose
Prices start at : 9.99 USD

Produces large clusters of loosely double 2" pink flowers from spring to fall.A very free-blooming, disease resistant, and nearly thornless climbing rose.
  • USDA Cold Hardiness Zones: 8,9,10
  • Grows To: 12'H
  • Outdoor Light: Full sun, Part sun
  • Deer Resistance: Frequently Damaged
Louisiana
Merryville
Italian Cypress, Mediterranean Cypress Cupressus sempervirens  Horizontalis
Prices start at : 3.95 USD / 1 packet

Thus it is a cultivar, not a variety or subspecies. It is widely thought that only the horizontal form predates human activity, with the fastigiate form having a horticultural origin dating to early historic or prehistoric times.
  • Quantity: 0.29 lb
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 7
  • Common Name: Italian Cypress, Mediterranean Cypress
  • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 88
  • Species: sempervirens
  • Seeds Per Pound: 49,032
New York
Locke
Italian Cypress Cupressus sempervirens   Stricta
Prices start at : 4.95 USD / 1 packet

* Cupressus sempervirens , the Mediterranean Cypress (also known as Italian, Tuscan, or Graveyard Cypress, or Pencil Pine) is a species of cypress native to the eastern Mediterranean region , in northeast Libya , southeast Greece ( Crete , Rhodes ), southern...
  • Height: 100-115 feet
  • Crop Year: 2015
  • Collection Locale: Italy
  • Germination: 50%
  • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 69
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 7
New York
Locke
Flowering Ash Fraxinus ornus
Prices start at : 2.95 USD / 1 packet

* With attractive, frilly white or pale yellow fragrant flowers in May; smooth gray beechy bark; leaves dark green; sap, known as manna, has been used as a mild laxative; native to southeast Europe, western Asia.
  • Species: ornus
  • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 26
  • Family: Oleaceae
  • Genus: Fraxinus
  • Germination: 63%
  • Purity: 97%
New York
Locke
Yellow Cross Vine
Prices start at : 9.99 USD

In winter it is easy enough to simply remove the flexible vines from their temporary support and retrain them along the fence as well as using periodic redirection during the growing season if you notice a wayward vine.
  • Grows To: 30-50'H, easily trained to a 6'H fence or other support.
  • pH Range: Acidic, Mildly Acidic, Neutral, Mildly Alkaline
  • Deer Resistance: Rarely to Sometimes Bothered
  • Outdoor Light: Full sun, Part sun, Part shade
  • Native To / Origin: US - Central & Eastern
Louisiana
Merryville
Red Cascade Climbing Rose
Prices start at : 12.99 USD

Red Cascade is reported to be somewhat deer resistant according to a Master Gardener in Bexar County, Texas. Excellent for growing on a low fence or on a trellis. See the external info link below for more from Dr. Jerry Parson's of T A&M.
  • Deer Resistance: Somewhat Resistant
  • Grows To: 10-15'H
  • USDA Cold Hardiness Zones: 5,6,7,8,9,10,11
  • pH Range: Slightly Acidic, Neutral
Louisiana
Merryville
Mexican Love Vine (Orange), Mexican Flame Vine
Prices start at : 7.99 USD

Intense orange, 2" daisy-like blooms with yellow centers are borne on a vigorous twining vine. Blooming spring to fall. An easily grown perennial vine.
  • Native To / Origin: N Central Americas
  • Salt Tolerance: Moderate to poor
  • Outdoor Light: Full sun, Part sun, Part shade
  • Grows To: 20'H
Louisiana
Merryville
Giant Dutchman\'s Pipevine, Brazilian Dutchmans Pipe Vine, Aristolochia
Prices start at : 14.99 USD

Large medium to dark green somewhat heart-shaped foliage makes a nice natural screen. Enjoy this amazing vine as a container plant and overwinter indoors or as a die-back perennial in the garden and landscape.
  • Soil & Moisture: Average moist, moderately well-drained soils.
  • Outdoor Light: Full sun, Mostly sunny, Part sun, Part shade
  • Indoor Light: Direct sunlight, High
  • USDA Cold Hardiness Zones: 8B,9,10
  • Container Size: 3.5 inch / 16 fl.oz. / 473 ml
Louisiana
Merryville
Snow-N-Summertm Asiatic Jasmine
Prices start at : 9.99 USD

An excellent ground cover for sun to shade. Rosy pink new growth matures to white and deep rich green creating a snowfall of color in the garden. Evergreen and dense. A beautiful form of the ever durable Asiatic Jasmine.
  • Container Size: 3.5 inch / 16 fl.oz. / 473 ml
  • USDA Cold Hardiness Zones: 7,8,9,10,11
  • Deer Resistance: Rarely Bothered
  • Outdoor Light: Full sun, Part sun, Part shade, Light shade
  • pH Range: Acidic, Mildly Acidic, Neutral, Mildly Alkaline, Alkaline
Louisiana
Merryville
Ogon Nishiki Asiatic Jasmine, Salsa Asiatic Jasmine, Japanese Star Jasmine
Prices start at : 8.99 USD

Ogon Nishiki Asiatic Jasmine was rebranded as Salsa Jasmine at one point by another nursery for marketing purposes and that was how we had come to know it. Asiatic Jasmine may spend the first few years getting established before it begins to really fill...
  • Outdoor Light: Full sun, Part sun, Part shade, Light shade
  • Deer Resistance: Rarely Bothered
  • Grows To: 6-8''H and spreading
  • Container Size: 3.5 inch / 16 fl.oz. / 473 ml
  • USDA Cold Hardiness Zones: 7,8,9,10,11
Louisiana
Merryville
Italian Cypress Cupressus sempervirens
Prices start at : 3.95 USD / 1 packet

* An essential oil is distilled from the shoots. * A popular wood for building uses, cabinet making and wardrobes, especially since it retains its fragrance, repels moths and is impervious to woodworm.
  • Species: sempervirens
  • Common Name: Italian Cypress
  • Collection Locale: India
  • Family: Cupressaceae
  • Botanical Name: Cupressus sempervirens
  • Germination Test Type: cut
New York
Locke
Little Kids and Seed Balls
We had to go up a creek to get to Granny Laurie's log house. There was little loss of seeds since they were encased within the clay balls. When we came back in the early fall, we found a watermelon or two, and sometimes a tomato, but always there were...
California
El Segundo
Italian Cypress Cupressus sempervirens
Prices start at : 3.95 USD / 1 packet

* An essential oil is distilled from the shoots. * A popular wood for building uses, cabinet making and wardrobes, especially since it retains its fragrance, repels moths and is impervious to woodworm.
  • Family: Cupressaceae
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 7
  • Seeds Per Pound: 59,874
  • Crop Year: 2016
  • Height: 100-115 feet
  • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 92
New York
Locke
Fruit Trees That Like Wet Soil
It does very well in wet soil and requires regular watering if the soil becomes too dry and in fact, this root stock will become dormant if the soil is too dry. It can grow to a maximum height of twenty-five feet and tolerates wet, dry, and alkaline soil.
California
Santa Monica
Gladwin Iris, Gladdon, Roast Beef Plant, Stinking Iris Iris foetidissima
Prices start at : 8.95 USD / 1 packet

* Iris foetidissima ( Stinking Iris , Gladdon , Gladwin Iris , Roast-beef Plant , Stinking Gladwin ), is a species of Iris found in open woodland, hedgebanks and sea-cliffs. Succeeds in dense shade.
  • Genus: Iris
  • Germination: 99%
  • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 17
  • Collection Locale: England
  • Family: Iridaceae
  • Species: foetidissima
New York
Locke
Gladwin Iris, Gladdon, Roast Beef Plant, Stinking Iris Iris foetidissima
Prices start at : 8.95 USD / 1 packet

* Iris foetidissima ( Stinking Iris , Gladdon , Gladwin Iris , Roast-beef Plant , Stinking Gladwin ), is a species of Iris found in open woodland, hedgebanks and sea-cliffs. Succeeds in dense shade.
  • Quantity: 0.06 lb
  • Species: foetidissima
  • Genus: Iris
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 8
  • Germination Test Type: cut
  • Height: 3 feet
New York
Locke
Spanish Cedar, Mexican Cedar, Cigar-box Cedar, West Indian Cedar, Red Cedar, Cedro Hembra, Cedro Cedrela odorata
Prices start at : 2.95 USD / 1 packet

* Individual trees are generally scattered in mixed semi-evergreen or semi-deciduous forests dominated by other species. * Cedro is an important avenue and shade tree in the West Indies and South America, and where imported, in Africa.
  • Germination Test Type: Actual
  • Collection Locale: Guatemala
  • Height: 60 feet
  • Quantity: 1.43 lb
  • Purity: 97%
  • Species: odorata
New York
Locke
Goldilocks, Goldilocks Aster Aster linosyris
Prices start at : 8.95 USD / 1 packet

* Bright yellow flowers.
  • Collection Locale: Hungary
  • Botanical Name: Aster linosyris
  • Germination: 98%
  • Height: 2-3 feet
  • Germination Test Type: Cut
  • Family: Asteraceae
New York
Locke