Plant For Summer Color Perennial Plant For Sale In Pittsburgh

Quite a cold hardy one since it went through 14 F (unprotected). * Flowers are white in the morning, turning pink during noon and red in the evening of the same day. The flowers are antiphlogistic, depurative, febrifuge, pulmonary and stimulant.

It is a substantial plant which needs space, but when planted in groups or massed can provide spectacular flowering and architectural height. * Eutrochium is a genus of herbaceous flowering plants in Asteraceae.

* Hardier than green-leaved types. * Fall color is sensational. * Lacy leaves of a deep red in the spring but foliage color fades to light green in early summer.

* A small variety with deeply cut red leaves. * The crimson fall color is stunning.

It flowers from mid-summer to the first frosts, makes an attractive backdrop in garden plots, and is very attractive to butterflies, bees, and other nectar-feeding insects. The upper stems are reddish or purplish.

Leaves typically form a thick, slowly-spreading clump of foliage to 12" tall. Small dark pink flowers in dense panicles appear within or above the foliage on stout stalks to 16" tall in April.

Check the plant daily for the first week or so and then every other day there after. We recommend feeding your St John's Wort Red Fame in the very early spring and again in mid summer after all new growth has hardened off and it begins to set flower buds.

Plants require continuously moist conditions in a loose compost of sphagnum peat, live sphagnum and coarse acid sand. * Grow in sun or partial shade in peat or moss. Plants can tolerate temperatures down to about -10°c.

* The hardy plant can grow to a height of 60 cm.Comfrey has been used in folk medicine as a poultice for treating burns and wounds. The roasted roots are used with dandelion and chicory roots for making coffee.

We selected this Russian sage because of its strong stems and neat, upright habit. Rocketman produces very aromatic foliage, on strong stems each topped with large, lavender-blue flowers beginning to bloom in mid-summer and lasting through October.

* A perennial poppy with 2-3" pink, red, orange, greenish, or yellow fragrant flowers; most of the leaves are basal; native to Eurasia and to North America from the Arctic to Colorado.

Glossy green leaves turn wine-red in autumn. Deer resistant. With bright ornamental berries, this native plant is very attractive to birds. Provide steady moisture in extreme heat.

Likes shadebut it succeeds in sun or partial shade. * The Globe-flower ( Trollius europaeus ) is a perennial plant of the family Ranunculaceae . * An herbaceous perennial with lemon yellow flowers to 2", May to August; much planted in gardens, where it...

It creates a barrier between the roots of the plant and fungus and pathogens that can cause root rot. For example a one gallon pot would be watered until you count to 5 a three gallon pot would be 15 and so on.

* A very ornamental plant. * Lobelia cardinalis ( Cardinal Flower ) is a species of Lobelia native to the Americas , from southeastern Canada south through the eastern and southwestern United States , Mexico and Central America to northern Colombia .

The plant's forked root and leaves were traditionally used for medicinal purposes by Native Americans. * Requires a deep moist humus rich soil in a shady position in a woodland. Ginseng, though it is said to have a milder action and is more likely to...

It is sometimes smoked as an intoxicant, despite the danger of illness and/or death due to the cyanide. * The bark is used to make Japanese paper. * Hydrangea paniculata , commonly known as the panicled hydrangea , is a species of Hydrangea found in eastern...

Yellow iris-like 2" blooms with brown markings are borne on tall stems practically all year, where protected from frost. Upright sword-like foliage of medium green grows to 30". Produces young plants on spent bloom stems and at the ends of mature foliage.

Blooms early to mid season. It is widespread in the eastern part of the USA (from Florida to Canada), Canada (south of Ontario), and on the coasts of the Arctic Ocean, where it grows on sand hills.

Originating in England, this hard to find Viola produces large fragrant flowers up to 1.75" that are pale yellow with exquisite lavender highlights. Grows 6-8" tall and wide. But, partial shade is usually best.

Esperanzas are root hardy, die-back perennials into zone 8 and can become large shrubs to small trees in tropical climates. Provide a full to mostly sunny location in a fertile, well-drained soil for the best results.

Readily reseeds under good conditions. To create fuller, sturdier and shorter plants tip the Narrowleaf Sunflower in late spring and again in midsummer. The spent seed heads provide food for seed eating birds and other native wildlife.

Includes Blue Fringed and Pink Jewel Aspen Daisies.

They can be cut back to near ground level in winter. Red Spread Lantana produces clusters flowers that open orange and then darken to deep rich red on a mounding to spreading plant.

Clumps tightly, does not run. Available for one year only! This rare plant, once thought to be extinct in the wild, is highly sought after for its unique huge, lotus shaped yellow flowers which appear beneath leathery, tropical leaves through summer.

* It was imported into Europe from southwestern China during, or possibly before, the 15th century. * A refreshing tea is made from the flower petals. * A nutritious starch is obtained from the root.

This exceptionally hardy bamboo keeps its dark, emerald-green appearance even in the presence of snow and harsh winters! Very tough and tolerant of many conditions. Hardy Bamboo grows to about 23' tall and makes a wonderful large screen or windbreak or...