Honey Bee Food Crop Plant For Sale In Pennsylvania

* The latex in the stems is a suitable replacement for chicle and can be made into a chewing gum. * Asclepias syriaca , commonly called Common Milkweed , Butterfly flower , Silkweed , Silky Swallow-wort , Virginia Silkweed , is a herbaceous plant species.

The flowers are fragrant and range in colour from pink to mauve, sometimes with a white base; they are produced in early summer on panicles 4-25 cm long and are attractive to bees, butterflies, and birds.

* It is an annual plant capable of rapid plant movement—its leaflets fold together when touched. * It is similar to Chamaecrista fasciculata except that the leaves are smaller. * Chamaecrista nictitans (Sensitive Partridge Pea, Small Partridge Pea or...

This is mixed with the same amount of vegetable oil and rubbed on the affected area two or three times a day. * Senna alata is an important medicinal tree, as well as an ornamental flowering plant in the subfamily Caesalpinioideae.

* Leaves to 6"; branches brown and fuzzy; small clusters of 7-10 flowers; rounded fruit; native to northeast Asia.

Despite its Latin name, which means German or Germanic Medlar, it is indigenous to southwest Asia and also southeastern Europe , mostly the Black Sea coasts of modern Turkey, and was introduced to Germany by the Romans .

* Thistley plants for full sun and poor dry soil; the half-inch flower heads, also like thistles, can be a fine metallic blue or blue purple; flowers in mid to late summer; in rich soil the plants grow too fast and need staking; may make a big clump of...

* Requires a rich, well-drained moisture retentive soil and a very warm, sunny and sheltered position. Prefers a pH of 5.5 to 5.9, but tolerates up to 6.8. Moderate rainfall favours growth, but the roots of most cultivars are sensitive to high soil-water...

Excellent for attracting birds and butterflies. Native to moist prairies and sedge meadows. It is also used in treating kidney diseases. It is commonly grown in gardens for its showy purple flowers (pink or white in some cultivars).

Thick growing and winter hardy. Used for pasture, soil stabilization wildlife forage, hay. * A low growing, persistent, perennial, cool season legume. It has been widely introduced worldwide as a pasture crop, and is now also common in most grassy areas...

Showy, bright, rose-purple flowers with orange-yellow centers bloom in profusion at the tips of the leafy branches. A pink variety of this species is sometimes grown commercially. It is native to almost every area in North America east of the Rocky Mountains,...

* Its height of 10-18 inches makes it ideal for the front or closer portion of the meadow. * It is fragarnt and attracts bees and butterflies! * It is a short lived perennial or biennial but will self seed.

The fruit is a red rose hip which may be over a centimeter long. It is a bushy shrub which grows up to three meters tall, the stems studded with prickles . The deciduous leaves are each made up of several widely-spaced sharp-toothed leaflets up to 5 centimeters...

Many of them are hardy to –18 °C., with flowers ranging in color from violet, to violet-blue, rosy pink, and even white. The many inflorescences have closely spaced whorls of small flowers with brightly colored calyces.

* A decoction of the leaves and stems has been used as a herbal steam bath for chest and back soreness. * Erythranthe guttata, with the common names seep monkeyflower and common yellow monkeyflower, is a yellow bee-pollinated annual or perennial plant.

Several cultivar groups have been selected for agricultural use, mostly derived from T. The flowers are dark pink with a paler base, 12–15 mm long, produced in a dense inflorescence.

* During World War II in the United States Rosa canina was planted in victory gardens. * Used as understock for hybrid tea roses. * The dog rose was the stylized rose of medieval European heraldry, and is still used today.

* The fruit is small with very little flesh, but it is easily harvested and when soaked for 10 - 30 minutes in hot or cold water makes a very refreshing lemonade-like drink (without any fizz of course).

* When grouped or massed in light shade provided by pines the effect can be spectacular. * A decidious Shrub growing to 5 m. * Fine plant for naturalizing in moist soils and where there is some shade.

* The spongy bark at the base of the trunk is pliable, absorbent and astringent. * In the northern part of its range, the leaves turn rust-red in fall, dropping in spring just as the new leaves unfurl.

* 2" fragrant rosy-purple flowers, even in full shade, throughout the summer; red fruit, edible but not tasty; thornless; spreads via suckers; used in Europe as an ornamental; native from southeast Canada to Georgia and Tennessee, in moist woods especially...

It has many common names, including (but not limited to) tree fuchsia, African greenheart and African walnut. The common name of drunken parrot tree is derived from a the fact that the consumption of ample amounts of the nectar seems to have a narcotic...

In some middle-eastern countries, Marjoram is synonymous with Oregano, and there the names Sweet Marjoram and Knotted Marjoram are used to distinguish it from other plants of the genus Origanum .

The fruit is a red rose hip which may be over a centimeter long. It is a bushy shrub which grows up to three meters tall, the stems studded with prickles . The deciduous leaves are each made up of several widely-spaced sharp-toothed leaflets up to 5 centimeters...

In 1966, it was also named the "city tree" of South Miami, Florida. * The Irish botanist Thomas Coulter was the first to categorize Parkinsonia florida. It is a rapidly growing large shrub or small tree, and rarely survives to 100 years.

* 2" fragrant rosy-purple flowers, even in full shade, throughout the summer; red fruit, edible but not tasty; thornless; spreads via suckers; used in Europe as an ornamental; native from southeast Canada to Georgia and Tennessee, in moist woods especially...

A fast-growing tree, especially in its first few years from seed. * A small tree with compound leaves, white flowers in clusters to 4", 1/4" orange-red fruit; native to northern China.