Dye Plant Seeds For Sale In San Antonio

It attains a tallow-like consistency on standing and is used to make candles. * An oil is extracted from the seeds.

Wood - close-grained, soft, brittle. A dark grey to green dye can be obtained from the fruit. The bark can also be made into a string. It is sometimes used for furniture because it takes a high polish.

* A quick-growing, not to say rampant vine; can be pruned as a shrub; usually grown on a trellis for commercial production of the hops used in beer making; hops are produced on female plants; native to Eurasia, has escaped in the U.S.

Jasminoides has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit. They are followed by small oval fruit. * Evidence of Gardenia jasminoides in cultivation in China dates to the Song Dynasty (960-1279 AD), where both wild and double-flowered...

* Urtica dioica, often called common nettle, stinging nettle (although not all plants of this species sting) or nettle leaf, is a herbaceous perennial flowering plant in the family Urticaceae.

* An excrescence produced on the leaf by an insect Melaphis chinensis or M. Paitan is antiseptic, astringent and haemostatic. It is used applied externally to burns, bleeding due to traumatic injuries, haemorrhoids and ulcers in the mouth.

It fell out of favour in the nineteenth century but recent research has brought it back to prominence as an extremely valuable remedy for nervous problems. Perforatum is sometimes called Common St John's wort to differentiate it.

* Stems can be hollowed out and used for spouts, musical instruments, and toys. * Leaves and inner bark can be used as an insecticide and a dye. The berries and flowers are edible.

Plants will generally selfsow and come back from year to year. The dried petals are used in pot-pourri in order to add colour. Cyanus from these it is sometimes called Common Cornflower .

* Calia secundiflora is a species of flowering shrub or small tree in the pea family, Fabaceae , that is native to the southwestern United States ( Texas , New Mexico ) and Mexico ( Chihuahua and Coahuila south to Hidalgo , Puebla and Queretaro ).

Sweet and juicy with a pleasant flavour, it makes good raw eating. In English it is known as salal , shallon , or in Britain simply Gaultheria . * Gaultheria shallon is a leathery-leaved shrub in the heather family ( Ericaceae ), native to western North...

Junipers are an outdoor tree, they like a sunny area with afternoon shade and need to be protected below 15 degrees F in winter. * The red inner bark is a source of a red dye. * The bark of the tree is useful as tinder in starting fires Boy Scout style.

* A fine yellow dye is obtained from the juice of the plant, it is very durable. * A perennial with tubular reddish-purple flowers in small terminal clusters; native to Europe, North Africa, and Siberia.

* Covered in beautiful white flowers! * The Forking Larkspur ( Consolida regalis syn. Delphinium consolida ) is an annual plant in the Buttercup family Ranunculaceae . * A strong tincture of the fresh seed is used externally to kill lice and nits in the...

* The fruit is a capsule 1.5 cm (0.59 in) broad, red ripening brown, with two to four wings. In New Zealand, where it is the heaviest of any native wood, the Maori have traditionally used it for making weapons, carved walking staves, axe-handles, and...

* A blue dye is obtained from the inner bark. * Fraxinus quadrangulata ( Blue Ash ) is a species of Fraxinus native primarily to the Midwestern United States , as well as the Bluegrass region of Kentucky and the Nashville Basin region of Tennessee.

It also contain the iridoid glycosides aucubin and catalpol. It is obtained by macerating the seed in hot water. * Considered to be an indicator of agriculture in pollen diagrams, P.

Sativus) was formerly widely used in textile processing, providing a natural comb for cleaning, aligning and raising the nap on fabrics, particularly wool. * The flowering heads are also much prized by flower arrangers because they keep their colour almost...

Jasminoides has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit. They are followed by small oval fruit. * Evidence of Gardenia jasminoides in cultivation in China dates to the Song Dynasty (960-1279 AD), where both wild and double-flowered...

Conservation Plant Characteristics Alnus rhombifolia Nutt. * It is in flower in March, and the seeds ripen from Oct to January. * A decidious Tree growing to 12 m at a fast rate. * Native to western North America , from Washington east to western Montana...

All Bonsai need root protection in below freezing temperatures. Also known as The Common or European Privel, this tree is often used as a hedge. The trees are beautiful in the spring with white blooms and in the fall the dark berries appear.

The seed can be harvested 'green' (when it has fully developed but before it has dried and produced any germination inhibitors) and sown immediately. * This tree has been widely planted as a street tree in many North American cities.

* They are occationally grown as ornamentals for their yellow flowers and interesting rattling seed pods. * Crotalarias are grown in the tropics as green manure cover crops due to their nitrogen fixing capabilities and drought tolerance.

Flavorful, large, orange heads. 25 times more beta-carotine than the white varieties.

After danger of frost, set 2 to 3 feet apart in garden, but before doing so, harden the plants by gradually exposing them to the outdoor air for about a week. Disease Resistant to Verticillium Wilt, Fasarium Wilt and Nematodes.

Sweet and juicy with a pleasant flavour, it makes good raw eating. In English it is known as salal , shallon , or in Britain simply Gaultheria . * Gaultheria shallon is a leathery-leaved shrub in the heather family ( Ericaceae ), native to western North...

Traditional southern variety that is heat and cold tolerant. Non-heading, juicy blue-green leaves will stand light frost which improves the cabbage-like flavor.