Honey Bee Food Herbaceous Plant For Sale In Georgia

This species is native to most of North America east of the Rocky Mountains , excluding the drier parts of the Prairies . * The latex in the stems is a suitable replacement for chicle and can be made into a chewing gum.

* It is also attractive to hoverflies (family Syrphidae), which are useful as biological pest control agents because they eat aphids and other pests. * The seeds are "negatively photoblastic", or photodormant, and will only germinate in darkness.

Seed and tubers are poisonous. Space plants 2' to 3' apart. Also propagates by division of brittle roots in fall or early spring. * Blooms in late summer, with dark blue-violet, hooded flowers borne in tall spikes.

Used for pasture, soil stabilization wildlife forage, hay. * White clover ( Trifolium repens ) is a species of clover native to Europe , North Africa , and West Asia . Thrives in moist soil conditions, Prefers medium fertility soils with a pH between...

* It is fragarnt and attracts bees and butterflies! * It is a short lived perennial or biennial but will self seed. * It tolerates a wide range of soil types and will grow in full sun or partial shade.

They are also added whole as a flavouring to various drinks such as Pimms and wine-based drinks. The leaves are rich in potassium and calcium, they have a salty cucumber flavour. It is said to deter Japanese beetle and tomato hornworms.

* This species is easy to grow from the seed. The leaves are ground in a mortar to obtain a kind of "green cotton wool". * Senna alata is an important medicinal tree, as well as an ornamental flowering plant in the subfamily Caesalpinioideae.

* An infusion of the leaves has been used as a wash for weak and inflamed eyes. * Tolerates most soils and conditions, including poor soils and amongst the roots and under the drip of trees.

* The seed contains arctiin, this excites the central nervous system producing convulsions an increase in respiration and later paralysis. Arctium lappa is the main species used, though this species has similar properties.

* This species is native to the temperate regions of the old world, from Scandinavia to the Mediterranean, and from the British Isles through Russia, and the Middle East to China and Japan, including India.

* A flowering, fruit-producing tree, member of the rose family; flowers resemble those of hawthorn, white or light pink; 1 1/2"; 1" fruits, hard and brownish, inedible until aged or frosted, used in jellies; old trees may be thorny; of rounded habit;...

It is used in the treatment of persistent cough with blood, chronic diarrhoea, spontaneous sweating, night sweats, bloody stool, urorrhoea and bloody sputum. It is used applied externally to burns, bleeding due to traumatic injuries, haemorrhoids and...

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.

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

* Succeeds in most reasonably good soils in an open sunny position. Tolerates light shade, though it fruits better in a sunny position. * A small tree with compound leaves, white flowers in clusters to 4", 1/4" orange-red fruit; native to northern China.

Large with an agreeably acid flavour, theymake good preserves and a refreshing lemonade-like drink. * Edible Uses: Fruit - cooked. A lime substitute. Known for its 1/2-3/4 in. It is in flower from Mar to May, and the seeds ripen from Aug to October.

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

* This species is grown as a green manure crop in Japan and southern China. * The plant is used in the treatment of blennorrhoea and also as an unguent for burns. * This species used to be cultivated for its edible leaves in China.

It is a substantial plant which needs space, but when planted in groups or massed can provide spectacular flowering and architectural height. Eupatorium has recently undergone some revision and has been broken up into smaller genera.

It is an umbelliferous plant, in the same group as fennel, cow parsley, elder and giant hogweed. It is smaller in size than the Giant Hogweed ( Heracleum mantegazzianum ). It prefers rich humid soils.

Several cultivar groups have been selected for agricultural use, mostly derived from T. The leaves are alternate, trifoliate (with three leaflets), each leaflet 15–30 mm long and 8–15 mm broad, green with a characteristic pale crescent in the outer...

* It is said to be of great use when applied externally to stimulate hair growth and is an ingredient of many hair lotions and ointments. It is perhaps best known for its use as a hair tonic whilst the root is also taken internally as a treatment for...

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

* Established plants are drought tolerant. * A good bee plant. * 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...

* However, the wild thimbleberries can be eaten raw or dried and can be made into a jam which is sold as a local delicacy in some parts of their range, notably in the Keweenaw Peninsula of Upper Michigan.

* The wood is strong, hard, durable,and takes a good polish. Tallowwood is drought and frost tender. It grows in forests near the coast on moderate to fertile soils in a protected, sunny position.

* Leaves to 5" long, heart-shaped, dark green; yellowish-white flowers in drooping clusters; of upright, rounded habit, like T. * Tilia platyphyllos is a deciduous tree native to much of Europe , including locally in southwestern Great Britain , growing...