Plant For Summer Color Seeds For Sale In Antioch

* Lacy leaves of a deep red in the spring but foliage color fades to light green in early summer. Japanese Maple produces magnificent fall color and is very hardy and flexible branches making it an ideal specimen for bonsai.

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

* This is an annual or biennial herb with one erect, mostly unbranched stem growing 20 to 100 centimeters tall. * The large solitary flower head grows at the top of the stem and sometimes on branches.

Highly recommended for zones 5 and 6. It is sometimes known as a Concolor fir. * The wood lacks a distinctive odor and so does not impart a flavor to items stored in it. Thus it can be used for making tubs for storing food items.

It prefers moist soil. * A small tree grown for its ornamental red new growth and its red and yellow fall color. It is hardy to zone 6. It is in flower in May, and the seeds ripen from Aug to September.

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. It prefers sandy, well-drained soil and full sun.

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

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 plant has one simple erect stem, which is green with purple dots or longitudinal...

It is waterproof, durable, tough and resinous. Only the outer bark is removed, this does not kill the tree. It is most easily removed in late spring to early summer. * An oil similar to Wintergreen oil (obtained from Gaultheria procumbens) is obtained...

It produces a spike of zygomorphic flowers in the late summer. * It was believed by some native North American Indian tribes that if the finely ground roots were secretly added to the food of an arguing couple then this would avert a divorce and they...

Leaves typically form a thick, slowly-spreading clump of foliage to 12" tall. * Foliage turns purplish-bronze in winter. * Leaves are often used in floral arrangements. * Bergenia (also called heart-leaved bergenia) is a clump-forming perennial which...

It is a substantial plant which needs space, but when planted in groups or massed can provide spectacular flowering and architectural height. Border rears, cottage gardens, meadows, native plant gardens, wild/naturalized areas or water margins.

Prick out the seedlings into individual pots when they are large enough to handle. Quite a cold hardy one since it went through 14 F (unprotected). * Sow seed early spring in a warm greenhouse.

Succeeds in part shade. * Plants can be grown as a low hedge. * Clusters of rosy-pink flowers are found at the tips of the branches. Plants can be grown as a ground cover when planted about 1.2 metres apart each way.

Its value for wildlife food is minimal, but is a very attractive shrub when in bloom. It is useful for vegetating acid soils with a pH of 3.5 to 4.0, as well as alkaline soils of a pH 8.0. Bristly locust is especially adapted to stabilizing soils with...

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 . Like many other plants in this family, they are demulcent and emollient...

* Aromatic deciduous shrub or tree; lvs. Broad-ovate, to 5 in. Long,usually 3 lobed; flrs. It is a spreading deciduous shrub or small tree growing to 6 m (20 ft) tall and wide, with glossy aromatic leaves and deep yellow flowers which appear in spring...

Copper fungicides can be employed as a preventive measure or control.Carrot rust flies and wireworms: provide fertile growing conditions and avoid ground recently in sod if possible.

The common name of heartleaf hornbeam and the specific epithet both are in reference to the heart-shaped leaf bases. In cultivation, it is sometimes grown as a large shrub or screen.

* Native to mountains from Alaska to California. * Yellow fall color. * A decidious Tree growing to 9 m. * It is in flower in April, and the seeds ripen in September.

* 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.

It is native from Spain and Morocco through central Europe (north to Germany and Poland ) to central Asia . It grows in moist sites, often by watersides, in regions with hot summers and cold to mild winters.

It has been recommended as a styptic. * Bees produce a dark honey from the flowers. * Common names include Swamp Cyrilla , Titi (U.S.), Bwa wouj (Caribbean), and Leatherwood . * The spongy bark at the base of the trunk is pliable, absorbent and astringent.

Leaves dark green above, lighter green beneath with some rusty hairs, Fall color yellow. Extremely hardy and fond of wet areas and sites with poor drainage; native to central and northeastern U.S. * Logs of wood can be beaten with mauls to separate the...

* This peony can reach between 30 and 60 centimeters in height. The flowers are red and scented with numerous yellow stamens in the centre. It is native to the Caucasus Mountains of Ukraine , as well as areas north of the Black Sea and westward into Romania...

* Carpinus betulus is a shade-loving tree, which prefers moderate soil fertility and moisture. * The wood is heavy, close grained, hard, very tough, very durable. * Carpinus betulus is cultivated as an ornamental tree, for planting in gardens and parks.

* Hamamelis mollis is a species of witch-hazel native to central and eastern China , in Anhui , Guangxi , Hubei , Hunan , Jiangxi , Sichuan , and Zhejiang . Mollis is widely grown as an ornamental plant, valued for the strongly-scented flowers appearing...