Shade Tolerant Plant Seeds For Sale In Berkeley

* Habitat and Range: sandy, gravelly, or rocky slopes, often growing in areas underlain by limestone bedrock. The roundleaf dogwood is also a temperate, northeastern North American species that occurs throughout southern and eastern Ontario; in northern...

* Stored seed should be sown as early in the year as possible and given cold stratification - it might not germinate until spring of the following year.

* Fast growing, rounded deciduous broadleaf tree. * The Fall coloration is an outstanding combination of reds and yellows blending with deeper tones of scarlet. The older leaves become a rich green which persists well into the Fall without sunburning.

The wind-dispersed fruit develops in a flat, oval membranous wing ( samara ) 1 - 1.5 cm long and notched at the outer end . The leaves are deciduous in cold areas, but semi-evergreen in warmer climates, < 7 cm long and < 3 cm broad, with an oblique base...

* American beautyberries produce large clusters of purple berries, which birds and deer eat, thus distributing the seeds. * Native to southeastern U.S.; lavender-pink or bluish flowers from mid- to late summer, followed by bright purple, violet, or magenta...

* Cornus racemosa ( Northern Swamp Dogwood or Gray Dogwood ) is a shrubby plant species growing to 5 m tall. * Many species of birds feed on the fruits. * Terminal stems holding the flowers are distinctively red and provide interesting contrast to the...

* The Globe-flower ( Trollius europaeus ) is a perennial plant of the family Ranunculaceae . * An easily grown plant, so long as the soil does not dry out. Hardy to at least -20°c.

* Siberian ginseng is a powerful tonic herb with an impressive range of health benefits. Regular use is said to restore vigour, improve the memory and increase longevity. Unlike many herbs with a medicinal use, it is more useful for maintaining good health...

* 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.

* A broad, flat-topped shrub native to northeast U.S.; has fragrant foliage, long, narrow, frondlike leaves; a nitrogen-fixer, so good for poor soils; takes sun or part shade. * Comptonia is a monotypic genus (containing only Comptonia peregrina ) in...

* A stripebark with vivid white stripes on green or gray-green bark; vivid yellow fall color. * It is in flower in May, and the seeds ripen in July. * A species of maple native to northern forests in eastern North America from southern Ontario east to...

It is an evergreen tree that is native to the Southeastern United States in North America. The leaves vary in color from bright green to dark green. * The wood is hard, heavy, close-grained, very strong, rather brittle.

* The Canary Island Pine ( Pinus canariensis ) is a species in the genus Pinus , family Pinaceae , native and endemic to the outer Canary Islands ( Gran Canaria , Tenerife , Hierro and La Palma ) in the Atlantic Ocean .

The render young seedpods can be cooked and eaten. * Honey locusts can reach a height of 20–30 m (66–100 ft), with fast growth, and are relatively short-lived; about 120 years, some living up to 150.

* Staphylea trifolia ( American Bladdernut ) is native to eastern North America , from southern Ontario and southwestern Quebec west to Nebraska and Arkansas , and south to Florida .

* The leaves are trifoliate, with groups of three leaves growing together at the top of one long stem produced from a corm ; each leaflet is 8-15 cm long and 3-7 cm broad. Germination usually takes place in 1 - 6 months at 15°c.

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

* Acer fabri (Faber's Maple) is a species of evergreen maple tree native to Vietnam and central to southern China. Newly grown leaves and samaras take on a reddish hue. It wmay survive in zone 7, but a cold winter could do it in.

* Silky camellia is a large, open-branched shrub growing up to 10 feet tall. * 'Silky Camellia' has been cultivated in the US since 1752. * It has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit.

* Trillium grandiflorum, commonly known as great white trillium or wood lily, is a simple, graceful perennial that is one of the most familiar and beloved of the spring woodland wildflowers in eastern North America.

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

Fruiting in September. * Native to temperate forests, thickets; 400-2600 m. * Common in mixed and coniferous forests as undergrowth , sometimes, especially in the burned areas and clearings , forms thickets.

Bright green foliage (grayish woolly beneath) turns bronzish in fall. Pink flowers appear in early spring (April-May in St. Louis) before or at the time of the emergence of the foliage.

* Aruncus dioicus (Walt.) (goat's beard or bride's feathers) is a flowering herbaceous perennial plant in the family Rosaceae, and is the type species of the genus Aruncus. * Aruncus, from the Greek aryngos (goat's beard), refers to the showy, finger-like...

* Ilex glabra , also known as Appalachian Tea , Dye-leaves , Evergreen Winterberry , Gallberry , Inkberry , is a species of holly native to the Eastern and the South Central United States and southern Canada ( Nova Scotia ).

* An easily grown plant, it succeeds in any soil of good or moderate fertility, ranging from acid to shallow chalk. * This species is unusual in having alternate leaves whilst almost all other members of this genus have opposite leaves.

* Trillium ovatum, the Western Wake Robin, Pacific Trillium, or Western White Trillium, is a member of the Trilliaceae family, or sometimes included within the Liliaceae or Melanthiaceae.