Honey Bee Food Wildlife Food For Sale In Santa Rosa

Hairy red drupes are produced, which can be brewed into a tea. * 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...

Hairy red drupes are produced, which can be brewed into a tea. * 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...

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

It is native to almost every area in North America east of the Rocky Mountains, but excluding the far north of Canada as well as some of the southern United States. A pink variety of this species is sometimes grown commercially.

* Nyssa sylvatica is cultivated as an ornamental tree in parks and large gardens, where it is often used as a specimen or shade tree. The wood is also used for pallets, rough floors, pulpwood, and firewood.

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 . Thick growing and winter hardy.

* The unopened flower buds are eaten cooked. * The sprouted seeds can be eaten. They are used like broccoli. It grows in sandy soils and appreciates lots of sunlight. * Asclepias syriaca , commonly called Common Milkweed , Butterfly flower , Silkweed...

They are useful in the treatment of chest complaints. * A nutritious starch is obtained from the root. * The plants are easily grown from seed, and readily self-seed. * The flowers are demulcent, diuretic and emollient.

* Cosmos bipinnatus, commonly called the garden cosmos or Mexican aster, is a medium-sized flowering herbaceous plant native to Mexico. It can be part of butterfly gardening and pollinators-honey bee habitat gardens.

It is only produced by bees during the spring when the orange trees blossom. Drizzle over yogurt, cereal, and ice cream, or let a few drops of this pure honey dissolve into hot teas.

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

* Edible Uses: Fruit - cooked. * A tree to 60 ft. A lime substitute. Long, dark-green leaves are velvety beneath. Large with an agreeably acid flavour, theymake good preserves and a refreshing lemonade-like drink.

Adverse conditions will affect the growth rate, with poor conditions considerably slowing the speed of growth. The tree gets its new leaves in spring, usually early to mid-September.

* An extremely hardy apple with very fragrant white flowers, dark red or yellow fruits, 3/8" (but variable), persisting into winter; of full rounded habit; formerly much used in hybridizing to improve hardiness; native to northeast Asia.

* 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), and are darkly green.

* At least 55 million tonnes of apples were grown worldwide in 2005, with a value of about $10 billion. * It is one of the most widely cultivated tree fruits, and the most widely known of the many members of genus Malus that are used by humans.

* Native to forests; 100-800(-1600) m. Anhui, Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Hainan, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangxi, Taiwan, Zhejiang [Japan (Ryukyu Islands)].

It is low to the ground with some of the lower branches rooting in the soil and others extending more outward than upward. It can be dried, ground into a powder then used in making cakes etc.

* The flowers and leaves are diaphoretic, diuretic and rubefacient. Caution is advised since this is a poisonous plant. It is used in the treatment of rheumatism and skin eruptions.

* An extremely hardy apple with very fragrant white flowers, dark red or yellow fruits, 3/8" (but variable), persisting into winter; of full rounded habit; formerly much used in hybridizing to improve hardiness; native to northeast Asia.

The plant prefers loamy acid and neutral soils, and can grow in very acid soils.It can grow in semi-shade (light woodland) or no shade. * White flowers in long clusters; may be a tree or shrub; egg-shaped fruit with five "wings"; prefers moist sandy loam;...

It is the larval host and a nectar source for the yellow-banded sphinx butterfly. The shoots are harvested as they emerge in the spring, and whilst they are still young and tender.

* Native to forests; 100-800(-1600) m. Anhui, Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Hainan, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangxi, Taiwan, Zhejiang [Japan (Ryukyu Islands)].

Once established, it succeeds in excessively moist soils and also tolerates drought. It may still take another 18 months to germinate. They are especially indicated in the treatment of weak heart combined with high blood pressure.

It is a rapidly growing large shrub or small tree, and rarely survives to 100 years. * Compared to the closely related Parkinsonia microphylla (foothill paloverde), it appears more decumbent in overall form, is taller, and matures more quickly.

* A pleasant tasting tea is made from the leaves and flower heads. * It inhabits prairies , plains, roadsides, and disturbed areas from southern Canada through most of the United States to northern Mexico .

* A very ornamental plant, the fruit is a good wildlife food source, especially for birds. Grows well in heavy clay soils. The flavour improves when the fruit has been frosted, so it is best to delay harvesting as long as possible.