Acid Loving Plant Drought Tolerant Plant For Sale In Connecticut

* A lovely evergreen plant for cool, acid, woodsy conditions such as rhododendrons like; 1" flowers in rounded clusters at branch tips, each flower hexagonal, generally pink, sometimes white, red, or purplish; the tips of the stamens are tucked into little...

* Rhododendron viscosum , commonly known as swamp azalea or clammy azalea , is a deciduous shrub which is endemic to the United States .

Serotina ); the last is treated as a subspecies of Pitch Pine by some botanists . Mainly used for charcoal and fuel, it is occasionally sawn into lumber. Wood - coarse-grained, light, soft, brittle, not strong, very durable, resinous.

It is native to the southeastern United States and as far north as the Great Lakes . * Andropogon virginicus is a species of grass known by several common names, including broomsedge bluestem and yellowsedge bluestem .

* Beautiful fragrant pale pink small flowers in clusters to 6"; deciduous; acid soil, although may be more tolerant of lime than most; needs protection from hot sun and late freezes; dark green leaves to 5 1/2" x 3", red, yellow, and orange in fall; native...

The shoots are orange-brown, glabrous or with scattered pubescence. * It is a medium-sized evergreen tree growing to 30 m tall, and with a trunk diameter of up to 0.8 m. The cones are cylindric-conic, 4-8 cm long and 2 cm broad, maturing pale brown 5-7...

* Fragrant white or slightly pink flowers with a yellow blotch, to 2 1/2"; 4" deciduous leaves, yellow and scarlet in fall; native to the Pacific Coast, and said to fare poorly on the East Coast.

* Medium green leaves, of loose upright habit; "spectacular in flower...does extremely well in Southeast" (Dirr); flower buds pearllike; 11/2" flowers, not long-lasting, in pendulous panicles at branch tips; tough and adaptable; full sun or part shade;...

It is cultivated as an ornamental tree. * Halesia tetraptera, commonly known as the common silverbell is a species in the family Styracaceae, native to the southeastern United States.

* Flat or bell-shaped 1 1/2" flowers in clusters of 5-7, rose, in spring before leaves; of upright habit; deciduous, with red fall color; native to North Carolina, where it grows in moist acid soil.

The inflorescence is a dense raceme of up to 20 flowers hanging pendent or held erect on the branches. The glandular leaves are up to 8 centimeters long and are divided shallowly into a few dully toothed lobes.

* It was the first magnolia to be scientifically described, and is the type species of the genus Magnolia ; as Magnolia is also the type genus of all flowering plants , this species can be seen to typify all flowering plants.

Gallberry nectar is the source of a pleasant honey that is popular in the southern United States. This plant is often used as an ornamental plant . * Shiny dark green, evergreen leaves; upright, rounded, densely branched; unique among hollies in that...

* Seed - surface sow in a light position, April in a warm greenhouse. Seed - ground into a flour. * The heart of the plant is very rich in saccharine matter and can be eaten when baked.

The roundleaf dogwood is also a temperate, northeastern North American species that occurs throughout southern and eastern Ontario; in northern Ontario it occurs farther north than the alternateleaf dogwood, but does not extend past 50°N (Soper and Heimburger...

* It is a fan palm (Arecaceae tribe Corypheae), with the leaves with a long petiole terminating in a rounded fan of 10-20 leaflets; each leaf is up to 1-1.5 m long, with the leaflets 50-80 cm long.

The shoots are orange-brown, glabrous or with scattered pubescence. * It is a medium-sized evergreen tree growing to 30 m tall, and with a trunk diameter of up to 0.8 m. The cones are cylindric-conic, 4-8 cm long and 2 cm broad, maturing pale brown 5-7...

The flowers are camellia-like, 6-12 cm diameter, with five white petals and numerous white, yellow or purple stamens; they appear in early to mid-summer. * Stewartia ovata (Mountain Camellia; also Stuartia ovata) is a species of Stewartia native to low...

The plant may be tall and upright or low if exposed to wind; native to northeast U.S., especially along the seashore. The gray berries appear in large masses, used in candle-making; leaves used to make a gray-green dye.

* Cone-like fruits with bright red seeds mature in fall and can be showy. * The leaves or bark have been placed in cupped hands over the nose and inhaled as a mild hallucinogen. * Sweet bay magnolia is native to the southeastern United States north along...

* The acorns are eaten by jays, pigeons, and squirrels . * Most planting in North America was carried out for wildlife food provision, as the species tends to bear heavier crops of acorns than other native American oak species.

It is threatened by habitat destruction, mainly due to introduced grazing mammals. * Canavalia pubescens, commonly known as ʻawikiwiki or Lavafield Jack-bean, is a species of flowering plant in the legume family, Fabaceae, that is endemic to Hawaii.

The same species is considered to occur native to California (a Mediterranean-American disjunct distribution. Redidivus (Torrey) H. Fulvescens ( Styracaceae ) have generally been regarded as the same species, but recent molecular analysis has suggested...

* The plants tolerate clipping and make an attractive informal hedge. * An oval shrub with pleasing dark green leaves and very fragrant white flowers in upright terminal racemes in late summer; does well in heavy shade; yellow or golden brown fall color;...

* The sap is edible raw or cooked. A pleasant sweet drink, it can also be concentrated into a syrup or sugar by boiling off much of the water. This species is excellent when used in groupings, in groves, or even as a single specimen.

Grow the seedlings on in the pot in light shade in the greenhouse for their first growing season, giving occasional liquid feeds to ensure they do not suffer nutrient deficiencies.

May be grown as a large, multi-stemmed shrub or trained as single trunk tree. Features drooping clusters (usually 2-5 flowers each) of bell-shaped, white flowers (1/2") which appear in April shortly before or simultaneous to the point when the leaves...