Acid Loving Plant Seeds For Sale In Elgin

* A beautiful very vigorous variety well know for its extreme cold hardiness.

Shrub, (usually closer to 6 ft.) with picturesque, horizontal branching above. Smooth, medium-green, deciduous foliage turns dull yellow in fall. Pinxter means Pentecost (seventh Sunday after Easter) in Dutch, in reference to the bloom time for this shrub.

* Prefers a light well-drained soil and a sunny position. Requires a lime-free soil. Plants can be grown in containers in pond margins but are then best kept in drier conditions over winter.

The height of this tree is 20–35 m. * Light blue-green or bright to dark green needles, 3-5"; of irregular, picturesque habit, with crooked leaning branches; bark orange-red or orangish; much used for bonsai and in the landscape for its appealing form;...

The fruit can also be used for making jelly and cider. This shrub reaches between one and two meters in height. It can be dried, ground into a powder then used in making cakes etc.

* Red or orange berries in the fall; peeling bark reveals reddish inner bark. * An evergreen Tree growing to 15 m. * It is in flower from Apr to May, and the seeds ripen in October.

* It is a shrub or small tree that grows to 3–12 metres (9.8–39.4 ft) in height, with leathery leaves that are oblong to oblong-elliptic, 8–14.5 cm (3 1?8–5 3?4 in) by 3–9.2 cm (1 3?16–3 5?8 in) in size.

White flowers in upright clusters to 12" in early summer it has nice brown exfoliating bark and spreads by stolons to form mound like colonies. * Hydrangea quercifolia ( Oakleaf hydrangea ) is a species of hydrangea native to the southeastern United States...

* 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...

* Ilex collina is a species of holly known by the common name longstalk holly. There are about 37 occurrences for an estimated total of 4000 individuals. It is dioecious, with male and female reproductive parts on separate plants.

Rich-green foliage. The showy part of the floral display, however, is the white, pink or rose sepals that become petal-like and reminiscent of poinsettias. * 1/2-1" yellow-green trumpet-shaped flowers backed by white, pink, or rose sepals, "beautiful...

* Northern Highbush Blueberry ( Vaccinium corymbosum ) is a species of blueberry native to eastern North America , growing from Nova Scotia and Ontario south to Alabama , and west to Wisconsin .

Gallberry nectar is the source of a pleasant honey that is popular in the southern United States. * A good hedging plant. * Ilex glabra is one of the very few evergreen shrubs (broadleaf or narrowleaf) to thrive in wet sites, noted for its evergreen foliage...

* Sarracenia minor , also known as the Hooded pitcher plant , is a carnivorous plant in the genus Sarracenia . Like all the Sarracenia , it is native to the New World .

* Few trees flower more elegantly-- white, bell-shaped, 3/4" blooms dangling like raindrops in rows along year-old branches; spring flowering; the limbs arch up and out to form a rounded, horizontal canopy; few pests; likes rich, acid soil; an understory...

* Prefers a light well-drained soil and a sunny position. Requires a lime-free soil. Plants can be grown in containers in pond margins but are then best kept in drier conditions over winter.

It usually grows to only 3-5' tall and features 5-petaled, showy, white flowers in drooping clusters which appear before the leaves emerge in early spring. * The fruit is sweet and juicy with a good flavour that has a hint of apple.

* Typical flora associates are such plants as the western sword fern (Polystichum munitum), coastal woodfern (Dryopteris arguta), California snowberry (Symphoricarpos mollis), common snowberry (Symphoricarpos albus), and thimbleberry (Rubus parviflorus).

Dried berries were stewed and made into sauces, or mixed with salmon roe and oil to eat at winter feasts. * The bark or leaves of the plant were brewed for a bitter cold remedy, made as tea or smoked.

It is rather small, about 8mm in diameter. * Amelanchier spicata, also referred to as the thicket shadbush, low juneberry, dwarf serviceberry, or low serviceberry (historically also called "pigeon berry"), is a species of serviceberry that has edible...

* This deciduous tree stays under 30 ft., and, though it looks shrubby for several years, eventually makes a slender tree with smooth, cinnamon-colored trunks; abundant, showy, whorled clusters of airy, white blooms; and dark-green leaves.

* The plant is also part of a North American formula called essiac which is a popular treatment for cancer. * Rumex acetosella is a species of sorrel bearing the common names sheep's sorrel , red sorrel , sour weed , and field sorrel .

* Venus Flytraps are not as humidity-dependent as are some other carnivorous plants. * The trapping mechanism is so specialized that it can distinguish between living prey and non-prey stimuli such as falling raindrops; two trigger hairs must be touched...

* Venus Flytraps are not as humidity-dependent as are some other carnivorous plants. * The trapping mechanism is so specialized that it can distinguish between living prey and non-prey stimuli such as falling raindrops; two trigger hairs must be touched...

* The acorns of the chestnut oak are 1.5–3 cm long and 1–2 cm broad, among the largest of native American oaks, surpassed in size only by the bur oak and possibly swamp chestnut oak.

* Closely related to and in the same family as witch hazel. Tolerates average garden soils, but not unamended heavy clays. Flower buds are susceptible to damage from early spring frosts.

* Sarracenia rubra , also known as the Sweet pitcher plant , is a carnivorous plant in the genus Sarracenia . * In spring, the plant produces small, bright red flowers with 5-fold symmetry.