Urban Tolerant Plant Honey Bee Food For Sale In Maryland

* Native to the southern and eastern parts of the United States , found from Illinois to Virginia in the north and from Texas to Florida in the south. * When grouped or massed in light shade provided by pines the effect can be spectacular.

* Native to the southern and eastern parts of the United States , found from Illinois to Virginia in the north and from Texas to Florida in the south. * When grouped or massed in light shade provided by pines the effect can be spectacular.

The drupes are black when ripe and 12 mm (0.47 in) in diameter. An excellent fibre is obtained from the leaf stalks. The trunk reaches 12–15 m (39–49 ft) in length and 30 cm (12 in) in diameter.

It will tolerate as low as minus 20 degrees Celcius for brief periods. A tapped trunk yields up to ½ litre a day. * The sap has a sweet taste. It is obtained by making wounds in the bark during spring.

The fruit can also be dried and ground into a powder then mixed with corn meal and used in cakes, porridges etc. Hairy red drupes are produced, which can be brewed into a tea. The mixture should not be boiled since this will release tannic acids and make...

* Plants seem to be immune to the predations of rabbits. 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 pleasant tasting tea is made from the leaves and flower heads. * It inhabits prairies , plains, roadsides, and disturbed areas from southern Canada through most of the United States to northern Mexico .

* Flowering period during the summer is long, attrracting many pollinators. * 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.

It is used in the treatment of persistent cough with blood, chronic diarrhoea, spontaneous sweating, night sweats, bloody stool, urorrhoea and bloody sputum. It is used applied externally to burns, bleeding due to traumatic injuries, haemorrhoids and...

* Templetonia is a dryland shrub that grows 3-7 feet tall. * Templetonia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae. The genus is named in honour of John Templeton, an Irish naturalist and botanist.

The leaves are used as a flavouring for salad dressings, vegetables and legumes,and are frequently included in strongly flavoured dishes with chillies, garlic, onions etc. * Oregano is an important flavouring herb in Mediterranean cookery,and is often...

They are very tolerant of trimming and have prickles which make them an effective barrier to larger creatures. * Bright green leaves, very dense, with a horizontal habit; orange, scarlet, and reddish purple in fall; yellow flowers followed by bright red...

They are very tolerant of trimming and have prickles which make them an effective barrier to larger creatures. * Bright green leaves, very dense, with a horizontal habit; orange, scarlet, and reddish purple in fall; yellow flowers followed by bright red...

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

This resistance to splitting led to its use for making mauls, pulleys, wheel hubs, agricultural rollers, bowls, and paving blocks. * Nyssa sylvatica is found in a variety of upland and wetland habitats in its extensive range.

* Plants seem to be immune to the predations of rabbits. 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 refreshing tea is made from the fresh or dried leaves, flowers and stems. It was formerly very popular either on its own or added to China tea, having a peculiar delicacy and aroma.

The flowers are produced a few together on short racemes, the individual flowers yellow, 12–16 mm long. And that is the entire reason for planting it. These butterflies lay their eggs on the plant in order for their larvae to feed and grow.

* The whole plant is pleasantly scented when bruised. It is found throughout much of Europe but seldom as far north as Scotland . * Ononis spinosa is a plant belonging to the family Fabaceae , that is commonly known as spiny restharrow or just restharrow...

Tiny, white flowers appear in terminal or axillary spikelets in July. * This herb is commonly called Greek oregano or winter sweet marjoram, and is a hardy perennial grown primarily in herb gardens for culinary use.

* The bark shreds often, peeling in large strips. * The plant was first described by the French botanist Jacques Labillardiere in his publications Relation du Voyage a la Recherche de la Perouse (1800) and Novae Hollandiae Plantarum Specimen (1804).

* The stalk of the blossom is used as a soap substitute. * Clethra alnifolia ( Sweet Pepperbush , Anne Bidwell or Summersweet ), is a flowering plant in the genus Clethra , native to eastern North America from southern Nova Scotia and Maine south to northern...

* Red-brown bark, pink flowers, bright green leaves. It is low to the ground with some of the lower branches rooting in the soil and others extending more outward than upward. The fruit can also be used for making jelly and cider.

The plant contains various toxic compounds, including daphnetoxin and mezerein, and these are currently being investigated (1995) for their anti-leukaemia effects. It is generally confined to soils derived from limestone .

* The species is native to the Indian subcontinent and adjacent regions of Southeast Asia. Though its use in herbalism has been attested to for millennia, little research has been conducted in modern times.

It has been introduced in the US (New England). * Tilia platyphyllos is a deciduous tree native to much of Europe , including locally in southwestern Great Britain , growing on lime -rich soils.

Speciosa, it is much smaller, typically reaching heights between 20 and 30 feet. * The flowers are very fragrant. * The flowers are considered to be one of the best bee plants in Japan.