Biennial Plant Herbaceous Plant For Sale In Allentown

* The popular old-fashioned flower; likes limey soil; native to Russia and China. * Dianthus barbatus ( Sweet William ) is a species of Dianthus native to the mountains of southern Europe from the Pyrenees east to the Carpathians and the Balkans , with...

* The flowers can be added to salads or used as a garnish. * 2 1/2" deep purple flowers on a plant that resembles a small hollyhock; likes full sun; biennial or perennial; native to Europe, north Africa, and northwest China.

* A blue dye is obtained from the dried plant, an indigo substitute. However, some people who weave wool still prefer to use teasels for raising the nap, claiming that the result is better; in particular, if a teasel meets serious resistance in the fabric,...

* The leaves are cardiac, stimulant and tonic. * An easily grown plant, succeeding in ordinary garden soil, especially if it is rich in organic matter. They are often used in the treatment of certain heart complaints.

Around the 16th century the milk thistle became quite popular and almost all parts of it were eaten. The roots can be eaten raw or boiled and buttered or par-boiled and roasted. The medicinal parts of the plant are the ripe seeds.

It has deep lobed green leaves that are very sweet and tender. It is ready to harvest in about 60 days from sowing and does well in cool weather in the spring and early summer. It is slow to bolt as summer progresses so it can be grown later in the spring...

* The root is harvested when the plant is dormant in the autumn or winter and is dried for later use. When prescribed internally it is always used dried and in conjunction with fresh ginger root.

* The leaves contain 'stevioside', a substance that is 300 times sweeter than sucrose. * Stevia has become very popular as a natural sugar substitute with almost zero calories! * Because stevia has a negligible effect on blood glucose it is attractive...

It is native to northern Africa. Young fruit can be eaten as a vegetable while ripe fruits can be use to make bath sponges. They may also be grown as an ornamental plant . The fruit resembles a cucumber .

Other common names are Bouncing Bet and Sweet William; locally it is simply "the Soapwort" although there are about 20 species of soapworts altogether. Its strongly irritant action within the gut is thought to stimulate the cough reflex and increase the...

The species name campestre means "of the fields". * Trifolium campestre , commonly known as Hop Trefoil and Low Hop Clover , is a species of clover native to Europe and western Asia , growing in most areas, but specifically thriving on dry, sandy grassland...

* Something like a 6" wide daisy, with this difference: it is stemless, growing prostrate on the ground; blooms in May or June; coarse, deeply lobed leaves; likes a scree soil; a rock garden plant or curiosity native to the Mediterranean.

Yellow to white flowers, 10–13 cm across, bloom from April to June. The divided leaf segments are ovate , cuneate , and often are oblique and abruptly cut off at the base. Above the plant is glabrous and dark green; below it is lighter green, glaucescent...

Several of the B-group vitamins are present but most of the vitamin C is lost in cooking. Its long tuberous root has cream-colored skin and flesh and can be left in the ground when mature as it becomes sweeter in flavor after winter frosts.

* They are quite frost tolerant and become even more flavorful after some frosty nights. * They are very late to bolt and can be grown year round in mild climates. * Try them as a fall crop by sowing seed in late summer.

The flowers are white, borne in fall. * Symphyotrichum lateriflorum is a herbaceous plant with alternate, simple leaves , on stiff, purplish stems.

In China, it, and other false hellebore species are collectively called "li lu". * Veratrum nigrum ( Black Hellebore ) is a medicinal plant and poisonous plant native to Asia and Europe .

* It is hardy to zone 3 and is not frost tender. * Plants seem to be immune to the predations of rabbits. * It is in leaf 12-Jan It is in flower from Mar to April. * A very ornamental plant, it is hardy to about -20°c.

All parts of this plant are likely to be poisonous , containing (like all poppies) toxic alkaloids . In particular, P. The wild species blooms in white or yellow, and is hardy from USDA Zones 3a-10b.

* The wild carrot, when freshly cut, will draw or change color depending on the color of the water it is in. Carnation also exhibits this effect. The dried roasted roots are ground into apowder and are used for making coffee.

* A blue dye is obtained from the dried plant, an indigo substitute. However, some people who weave wool still prefer to use teasels for raising the nap, claiming that the result is better; in particular, if a teasel meets serious resistance in the fabric,...

* Echinocystis is a monotypic genus in the gourd family, Cucurbitaceae. Give the plants some protection, such as a cloche, until they are growing away well. It is an annual, sprawling plant that is native to North America.

The foliage forms a tight rosette at ground level in the first year. Cultivated forms often show flowers completely surrounding the central spike, in contrast to the wild form, where the flowers only appear on one side.

Flowers are heart-shaped and 1–2 inches (3–5 cm) long, with pink outer petals and white inner petals , hanging in a horizontal raceme . * The plant most of us think of as Bleeding Heart; extremely popular, and for good reason; each arching spike,...

Requires a sunny position. * Prefers a sandy soil. * Seedlings grown from our seed will not be variegated as the plants are in some of the pictures above. Succeeds in full sun so long as the soil does not dry out in the summer, otherwise it should be...

The plant is sometimes nicknamed "Molly the Witch", a humorous mispronunciation of the species name, which most non-Poles find difficult to pronounce. * It was discovered by the Polish botanist Ludwik Mlokosiewicz in 1897, after whom it was named by Aleksandr...

Like many members of that genus, it is prized by gardeners for its showy flowers. * An herbaceous perennial that sends up new stems each spring, each shoot emerging from leaf pairs like clasped hands, to culminate in 1 1/2 " down-facing blue flowers with...