Squirrel Food Producing Plant Wildlife Food For Sale In Athens Clarke County

* In forest stands, black oak begins to produce seeds at about age 20 and reaches optimum production at 40 to 75 years. In Missouri, the average number of mature acorns per tree was generally higher than for other oaks over a 5-year period, but the number...

Rather thin-shelled, the seed is small and sweet. The seed ripens in late autumn and, when stored in its shell in a cool place, will keep for at least 6 months. * The seed is eaten raw or cooked.

* Corylus cornuta ( Beaked Hazel ) is a deciduous shrubby hazel found in most of North America , from southern Canada south to Georgia and California . When kept in a cool place, and not shelled, the seed should store for at least 12 months.

Indeed they sprang forward at such a rate as presently to dwarf their pure breed relatives." * They are commonly used in California as a rootstock for English Walnut, inspiring more vigor in the trees.

The scarlet oak can be mistaken for the Pin Oak , the Black Oak , or occasionally the Red Oak . * This tall tree has lustrous almost reflective dark green summer leaves that yield to brilliant reds and scarlets in the fall.

The branchlets are a purplish-brown colour, and are slender and sparsely villous. * The leaves range from ovate to obovate-elliptic and have a doubly serrated, irregular margin. * This species grows up to 40 metres tall.

Prefers a sheltered semi-shaded position and a light deep moist soil. Plants can only be grown in oceanic and Mediterranean climates, thriving in Britain. * A very ornamental shrub.

* A shrub or small tree, thick-shelled round nuts, 3/4"; native to south central U.S. and northern Mexico. * The seed is sweet and oily but it is rather small and has a thick shell.

Specific epithet comes from Latin and means to place in an overlapping order, as with tile or shingles. * Acorns are an important source of food for wildlife. Reaches its largest size in southern Illinois and Indiana.

Prefers a sheltered semi-shaded position and a light deep moist soil. Plants can only be grown in oceanic and Mediterranean climates, thriving in Britain. * A very ornamental shrub.

* Laurel oak is a medium sized, mostly deciduous oak of the red oak group that typically grows to 40-60' (less frequently to 100') tall with a broad, rounded crown. * The acorns provide food for raccoons, White-tailed Deer, Wild Turkeys, squirrels, ducks,...

* This is a very popular shade and street tree which is conical when young and ultimately forms a rounded canopy with a tall unbranched trunk. It is confined to acidic soils, and does not tolerate limestone , and grows at low altitudes from sea level...

The dark-green leaves are usually small, 2.5-7 cm long and 2-5 cm broad, thick and often spiny-toothed, particularly on young trees. * The Interior Live Oak is classified in the red oak section (Quercus sect.

The scarlet oak can be mistaken for the Pin Oak , the Black Oak , or occasionally the Red Oak . * This tall tree has lustrous almost reflective dark green summer leaves that yield to brilliant reds and scarlets in the fall.

It is native to northwestern Mexico and the southwestern United States from far eastern California to southwest Colorado , Rio Grande New Mexico , to west Texas , where it grows in woodland, chaparral , forest, and other habitat.

* Rosa palustris is a shrub with alternate, pinnately compound leaves , on thorny stems. The flowers are pink, borne in summer.

Cerifera will also provide habitat for the Northern Bobwhite Quail. * The fruit is a source of food for a lot of bird species, including the Northern Bobwhite Quail and the Wild Turkey .

* The wood is similar to, and usually marketed mixed with, other white oaks. The swamp chestnut oak's bark can be sliced into flexible strips suitable for basket weaving, and for this reason the species is sometimes called the "basket oak".

Specific epithet comes from Latin and means to place in an overlapping order, as with tile or shingles. * Acorns are an important source of food for wildlife. Reaches its largest size in southern Illinois and Indiana.

* It is sown as quickly as possible after the removal of a grain crop at the rate of 20-22 kg/ha. * In Great Britain it is most valuable in the south, though less successful in northern regions.

* The fruit is small with very little flesh, but it is easily harvested and when soaked for 10 - 30 minutes in hot or cold water makes a very refreshing lemonade-like drink (without any fizz of course).

This is an evergreen tree growing to 12 meters in height and width. Dudley of the U. * The fruit has a bitter-sweet flavour, tasting like an over-ripe banana. It was introduced to the U.

Tall, with a wide, wispy, open crown. American snowbell's showy, white, bell-shaped flowers are borne in pairs from leaf axils. * A small delicate shrub with 1" white bell-shaped flowers in small clusters from the leaf axils, in early or mid summer; bright...

* Easily grown in a moisture retentive but well-drained loamy soil of at least moderate quality. * It is native to western North America, including British Columbia and much of the western United States.

* Cephalotaxus fortunei, commonly called the Chinese Plum Yew, simply Plum Yew, Chinese Cowtail Pine or in Chinese as San Jian Shan (Chinese: ???; pinyin: s?nji?nsh?n), is a coniferous shrub or small tree in the plum yew family.

* Pinus durangensis is an evergreen tree reaching 25–40 metres (82–131 ft) in height, with a trunk up to 1 metre (3.3 ft) in diameter and a broad, rounded crown. * Pinus durangensis, the Durango pine, is a pine tree species endemic to the Sierra Madre...

The leaves are 1.5-7 cm long and 1-3 cm broad, with an entire or finely serrated margin and an acute apex, and a 0.5–2 cm petiole. The fruit is a red drupe 6–7 mm diameter containing three to five pits