Honey Bee Food Flowering Tree For Sale In Nebraska

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

Alata is native to Mexico, and can be found in diverse habitats. The leaves are ground in a mortar to obtain a kind of "green cotton wool". * Its laxative effect, due to its anthraquinone content, is also well proven.

* Succeeds in most reasonably good soils in an open sunny position. Dislikes dry soils. 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...

It can be part of butterfly gardening and pollinators-honey bee habitat gardens. * Half-hardy annual. Colors are hues of pink, white, gold yellow, orange, red, crimson. * The flowers of Cosmos bipinnatus attract birds and butterflies, including the Monarch...

The species epithet and common names are from the Amur River region, where the tree originated. * Attractive compound leaves, gray-green when young, olive green when mature; white flowers in 5" erect clusters in June and July, "smell like new mown grass"...

Fragrant, pale yellow flowers in 3-20 flowered pendulous cymes bloom in late spring to early summer (June). Fall color is an undistinguished pale green to pale yellow. Succeeds in sun or semi-shade.

It has been introduced in the US (New England). It is frequently planted as an ornamental tree in parks, or as a shade tree or a lawn tree. * Tilia platyphyllos is a deciduous tree native to much of Europe , including locally in southwestern Great Britain...

* Clematis recta , the Erect Clematis or Ground virginsbower , is a species of Clematis unusual in that it is a free-standing shrub rather than a climbing plant . A homeopathic remedy is made from the plant.

It is the type species of the subgenus Padus with flowers in racemes , which are hermaphroditic and pollinated by bees and flies; it is a deciduous small tree or large shrub 8–16 m tall.

* 2" pinkish-purple flowers; scarlet hips to 1/2"; red branches; spreads into dense thickets by suckering from roots. * The fruit contains about 2.8% dry weight vitamin C.

A favorite of bees they make good honey from the nectar. The soft, light wood is especially useful for making food boxes, yardsticks, furniture, and pulpwood. Broadly oval leaves sometimes change to yellow in fall but often turn brown and become somewhat...

* Used as a rootstock for the cultivated apples. * The fruit can be eaten raw, cooked in pies, cakes etc or fermented into cider. * The leaves contain up to 2.4% of an antibacterial substance called 'phloretin'.This inhibits the growth of a number of...

* Arctostaphylos patula is a species of manzanita known by the common name greenleaf manzanita . The fruit can also be used for making jelly and cider. * Red-brown bark, pink flowers, bright green leaves.

It is possible to produce apples from these trees in places like California, Hawaii and Florida. * The fruit can be eaten raw, cooked in pies, cakes etc or fermented into cider. * Used as a rootstock for the cultivated apples.

* The fruit is edible raw or cooked. The wood is also used for pallets, rough floors, pulpwood, and firewood. * Nyssa sylvatica is found in a variety of upland and wetland habitats in its extensive range.

* Fruits are very narrow, foot-long pods. * The leaves are very similar in shape to those of Paulownia tomentosa, having three lobes (two are abruptly truncated on either edge, with a third, central, slightly acute, pointed lobe forming the leaf apex),...

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.

* The fruit can be eaten raw or cooked. Fruit from the typical species is about 1cm in diameter, though there are sub-species and cultivated forms with considerably larger fruits. It is often dried for winter use and also makes an excellent jelly.

They sometimes produce so much nectar that it drips from the flowers. * The "weeping" label in some of its common names refers to the copious quantities of nectar that may rain from the flowers when shaken rather than a tendency of the foliage to "weep"...

Citrus trifoliata ) is a member of the family Rutaceae , closely related to Citrus , and sometimes included in that genus, being sufficiently closely related to allow it to be used as a rootstock for Citrus .

* This species is grown as an ornamental and used for timber. * This is a lovely tree with fragrant red flowers in the spring and beautiful evergreen foliage.

The flowers are pink, borne in summer. * Rosa palustris is a shrub with alternate, pinnately compound leaves , on thorny stems.

* 1" flowers in large or small clusters. * The fruit is being investigated as a food that is capable of reducing the incidence of cancer and also as a means of halting or reversing the growth of cancers.

They sometimes produce so much nectar that it drips from the flowers. * The "weeping" label in some of its common names refers to the copious quantities of nectar that may rain from the flowers when shaken rather than a tendency of the foliage to "weep"...

* Agrimonia eupatoria is a species of agrimony that is often referred to as common agrimony , church steeples or sticklewort . * A refreshing tea is made from the fresh or dried leaves, flowers and stems.

All are perennial, with numerous leafy stems growing from the base at the beginning of summer. The many inflorescences have closely spaced whorls of small flowers with brightly colored calyces.

* Grows very fast with masses of tiny yellow flowers, blue leaves and delicate textures. * The scientific name of the species honors the botanist Frederick Manson Bailey. * A shrub or tree in the legume family.