Plant For Summer Color Garden Flower For Sale In Fort Collins

* Callistephus is a monotypic genus of flowering plants in the aster family, Asteraceae, containing the single species Callistephus chinensis. * Its common names include China aster and annual aster.

The leaves can vary from a bright green to a bluish-green in color. However some may find the plant to be too tall for normal gardens. Inflorescence goes to four feet in length which is covered with many deep to pale pink flowers, four cm across.

* A vigorous plant, spreading by subterranean suckers and forming thickets. * Spiraea tomentosa , commonly known as the Steeplebush , is a plant similar in characteristic to the Hardhack ( S.

Leaves typically form a thick, slowly-spreading clump of foliage to 12" tall. * Features large rosettes of leathery, glossy, toothed, rounded, dark green leaves (to 10" long by 8" wide) which are heart-shaped at the base.

Quite a cold hardy one since it went through 14 F (unprotected). Mucilaginous, without very much flavour. * Sow seed early spring in a warm greenhouse. * Flowers are white in the morning, turning pink during noon and red in the evening of the same day.

* Foot-long clusters of yellow flowers in midsummer, followed by red or brownish "pods" that persist into fall; Dirr calls it a "beautiful dense tree of regular rounded outline, sparingly branched" * It is popularly grown as an ornamental tree in temperate...

The leaves are spirally arranged, 3-7 cm long with a 1.5-6 cm long petiole. Seed used by Aztecs as a hallucinogen. * Twining vine with 4 inch dark sky-blue flowers. It is a herbaceous annual or perennial twining liana growing to 2-4 m tall.

The plant is also known as an introduced species across much of the rest of the world, including Australia . Children can't resist testing their friends to see if they like butter.

Its use has also been adopted by Ayurvedic medicine. American Indian herbal remedies. * It is also grown as an ornamental plant , and numerous cultivars have been developed for flower quality and plant form.

* Papaver orientale ( Oriental poppy ) is a perennial flowering plant native to the Caucasus, northeastern Turkey, and northern Iran. * The young seed heads are used as a condiment, they are hot and acrid.

Growth slows or stops in winter. Variegated Bleeding Heart Vine (Clerodendrum thompsoniae ‘Variegata') Here's a beautiful variation of this famous climber that has clusters of brilliant red flowers against white calyces and striking variegated foliage...

Miconioides is a deciduous large shrub or small tree, typically growing to a height of between 4 and 8 m. Miconioides produces large shows of small fragrant white blooms attractive to butterflies, the flowers five-petalled, < 13 mm across.

In China, it, and other false hellebore species are collectively called "li lu". * Veratrum nigrum ( Black Hellebore ) is a medicinal plant and poisonous plant native to Asia and Europe .

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

* The whole plant is very poisonous, even one seed has been known to be lethal to children. * The seedcoat contains an extremely lethal poison that was once used by the KGB to dispose of their enemies.

They are commonly referred to as Joe-Pye weeds. It includes all the purple flowering North American species of the genus Eupatorium as traditionally defined. Border rears, cottage gardens, meadows, native plant gardens, wild/naturalized areas or water...

Quite a cold hardy one since it went through 14 F (unprotected). Mucilaginous, without very much flavour. * Sow seed early spring in a warm greenhouse. * Flowers are white in the morning, turning pink during noon and red in the evening of the same day.

* Schotia brachypetala or weeping boer-bean is a leguminous flowering tree in the family Fabaceae (bean family/pod-bearing family/legumes) and the sub-family Caesalpinioideae. They sometimes produce so much nectar that it drips from the flowers.

It is found in wetlands and along the riverine systems of the southeastern United States from Texas to the Atlantic states, its territory extending northward to southern Ontario . An infusion of the dried stalks has been used in the treatment of inflammation...

* Paeonia tenuifolia is sometimes called the fern leaf peony . It is native to the Caucasus Mountains of Ukraine , as well as areas north of the Black Sea and westward into Romania .

Miyabeanum , and P. * The seed is very agreeable to the taste. In particular, P. Papaver croceum, P. All parts of this plant are likely to be poisonous , containing (like all poppies) toxic alkaloids .

* Of spreading, mound-like habit; shiny dark green leaves; fall color can be long-lasting and impressive in purples, reds, and yellows; dark red fruit; Dirr says it does well in the U.S. Midwest and East, less well in the South; native to China * A rose-tan...

Its use has also been adopted by Ayurvedic medicine. American Indian herbal remedies. * It is also grown as an ornamental plant , and numerous cultivars have been developed for flower quality and plant form.

It is native to a small region of Georgia and has been extinct in the wild for 200 years. It is commercially available for garden cultivation. * The tree has a symmetrical, somewhat pyramidal shape, with different individuals of the species forming almost...

White flowers in racemes in spring give way in summer to clusters of reddish fruit (1/3" diameter cherries) which mature in fall to a dark purple. Fruits are attractive to wildlife.

* A woody vine with 3" orange or reddish-orange flowers in summer; can grow rampageously, but is easily controlled with regular severe pruning; not to be ignored, though, unless you want to cover a barn.

Variegated Tree Ivy (Fatshedera ‘Angyo Star') NEW! Variegated Tree Ivy is one of the most famous foliage plants and has long been admired for its cream-colored leaf edges that accentuate the dark green leaves.