Shade Tolerant Plant Herbaceous Plant For Sale In Richmond

Plants should be spaced about 60cm apart each way. * A good ground cover plant, succeeding in dense shade but rather slow to spread. * Heart-shaped shiny dark green leaves with prominent veins, 9" x 5"; dark violet flowers in August; a 2' mound, flowers...

It grows from 2–4ft. * The flowers are yellow–orange or orange–vermillion with the petals spotted in purple, somewhat ‘flatfaced' in appearance with irregular distribution of petals around the face of the flower forming a fanshape.

Flowering stem bears 2-4 leaves and 2 flowers. Meadows, valleys, forest margins, along streams in the alpine zone. Leaves falcate, 3-5, in rosette, as tall as stem. P - by division and by seed.

It is not known in the wild; all known plants come from cultivated groups in China. The genus name is Greek - rhapis, meaning "needle"; and the species name is Latin for "tall", an ironic name choice as R.

* All parts of the plant contain nicotine, this has been extracted and used as an insecticide. * In their great first voyage to the New World, Christopher Columbus and his expedition were introduced to a plant whose smoke was called tobacco by the natives...

* The plant is short lived but self sows freely producing a good quantity of seed each year. * In traditional herbalism columbine was considered sacred to Venus; carrying a posy of it was said arouse the affections of a loved one.

Flowering stem bears 2-4 leaves and 2 flowers. Meadows, valleys, forest margins, along streams in the alpine zone. Leaves falcate, 3-5, in rosette, as tall as stem. P - by division and by seed.

* It has green arching foliage to 3 feet in USDA 8, with highlights of orange, copper, and gold, especially in drier soils. * It is marginal in zone 8, going dormant and deciduous in cold winters, but usually evergreen to semi-evergreen.

Generally tolerant of urban conditions. The reddish samarae are relatively small, < 8 mm long, narrowly elliptic with two long incurving stigmas at the tip, and usually disperse by the end of April .

It should also be possible to sow the seed in situ in mid spring. The flowers, blue to blue violet, pea like and produced at the end of branches. It commonly grows along streams and creeks, preferring moist habitats.

Occasional Trillium ovatum plants have petals that are maroon rather than the typical white. Associated understory plants include swordfern, vanilla leaf, violets, redwood sorrel and salal.

It typically matures to 10-15' tall and as wide. * Although floriferous and attractive in early spring, it basically plods though the rest of the growing season as a somewhat nondescript shrub.

* Juniperus communis subsp. The seeds are dispersed when birds eat the cones, digesting the fleshy scales and passing the hard seeds in their droppings. It is dioecious , with male and female cones on separate plants, which are wind pollinated.

* A good border plant with white or pinkish flowers on a vertical stalk; a long-lived plant, makes a substantial clump in the garden. * The name "Burning-bush" derives from the volatile oils produced by the plant, which can catch fire readily in hot weather,...

* Comptonia is a monotypic genus (containing only Comptonia peregrina ) in the family Myricaceae , order Fagales . * A broad, flat-topped shrub native to northeast U.S.; has fragrant foliage, long, narrow, frondlike leaves; a nitrogen-fixer, so good for...

Established plants are drought tolerant. * Requires a well-drained sandy soil and a sunny position. * The leaves are used for flavouring rice dumplings.

Plants should be spaced about 60cm apart each way. * A good ground cover plant, succeeding in dense shade but rather slow to spread. * Heart-shaped shiny dark green leaves with prominent veins, 9" x 5"; dark violet flowers in August; a 2' mound, flowers...

* Aqueous extracts of the roots of the plant have shown significant neutralizing effects in the lethality of the venom of the monocled cobra (Naja Kaouthia). * The stem is erect in young plants, but becomes creeping or trailing with age.

* Common in thickets and in thin secondary forests in lowlands and low mountains of central and southern Japan. The red seed pods are brilliant, opening to revel shiny black seeds.

* The whole plant, but especially the root, is analgesic, antirheumatic, galactogogue and rubefacient.The plant was often used medicinally by North American Indian tribes, though modern users should be aware of the plants potential toxicity.

Flabellata pumila. * Succeeds in ordinary garden soil, preferring a moist but not wet soil and a sunny position. * The name of this species is based on the cultivated form, the true wild form is A.

* This Mexican native is drought tolerant and grows very quickly in tropical areas as a timber tree.

It is used in Korea in the treatment of lumbago, neuralgia, arthritis and oedema. It is adaptogenic, analgesic, anti-inflammatory, antipyretic and diuretic. * The root bark contains saponins, acanthosides, cardiac glycosides and polysaccharides.

Again typically of many maples, it prefers growing in some shade under a protective canopy in soil which remains moist, though experience at Mustila indicates it will grow successfully in herb-rich heath forest soils.

It is named after William Kerr , who introduced the cultivar 'Pleniflora'. * Bright green stems in winter, bright yellow 1 1/2" flowers in spring, bright green leaves in summer; flowers in full shade, although it gets sloppy and gangly if not tended to,...

* It is said to be of great use when applied externally to stimulate hair growth and is an ingredient of many hair lotions and ointments. * The root is said to have a beneficial effect on the liver, stomach and spleen and may be taken to relieve indigestion...

It typically matures to 10-15' tall and as wide. * Although floriferous and attractive in early spring, it basically plods though the rest of the growing season as a somewhat nondescript shrub.