Squirrel Food Producing Plant Wildlife Food For Sale In Waterbury

* Luther Burbank was the first to describe Paradox Black Walnut, "As compared with seedlings of either the California or the Persian Walnut this manifests an enormous capacity for growth.

* The acorns provide food for raccoons, White-tailed Deer, Wild Turkeys, squirrels, ducks, Bobwhite Quail, and small birds and rodents. * It is grown and marketed mainly as pulpwood.

The acorns form a valuable food resource for several small mammals and some birds, notably Eurasian Jays Garrulus glandarius. * A specimen of notable longevity is one in Stelmuz , Lithuania which is believed to be approximately 1,500 years old, possibly...

Very popular in America, the seed is sweet and well-flavoured with a thin shell. The seed ripens in mid to late autumn and will probably need to be protected from squirrels. The seed can be dried and ground into a powder which is added to cereals and...

* Wyman says the kernals come out whole. * The very bold, decorative leaves and the attractive catkins produced in spring make it an excellent ornamental tree for planting in parks and large gardens.

* An ornamental and shade tree, it is also suitable for hedges, screens, and windbreaks. Specific epithet comes from Latin and means to place in an overlapping order, as with tile or shingles.

A staple food for some native North American Indian tribes. * Water oak is particularly suited for timber, fuel, wildlife habitat, and environmental forestry . The wood is generally sold as "red oak", mixed with the wood from other red oaks.

The dark-green leaves are usually small, 2.5-7 cm long and 2-5 cm broad, thick and often spiny-toothed, particularly on young trees. * It is a large shrub or tree growing to 22 m tall.

It is most common in chaparral habitat in central Arizona , through the transition zone of the Mogollon Rim – White Mountains , but also southeast Arizona in the Madrean Sky Island mountain ranges of sky islands .

* A shrub at Kew was 2 metres tall and 2 metres wide inJuly 1996 with a reasonable crop of immature fruit. The branchlets are a purplish-brown colour, and are slender and sparsely villous.

* Corylus heterophylla , the Asian Hazel , is a species of hazel native to eastern Asia , from northern China , eastern Mongolia , Korea , Japan , and southeastern Siberia . The seed, which has a hard shell, is of relatively good flavour.

The dark-green leaves are usually small, 2.5-7 cm long and 2-5 cm broad, thick and often spiny-toothed, particularly on young trees. * It is a large shrub or tree growing to 22 m tall.

* The seed is eaten raw or cooked. Rather thin-shelled, the seed is small and sweet. The seed is up to 3cm long. The seed ripens in late autumn and, when stored in its shell in a cool place, will keep for at least 6 months.

Three consecutive years of shoot destruction may kill all plants affected. As of 1991, no known fire has killed this plant's roots. In winter, the seeds are important foods for the Carolina Wren and species of Tree Sparrow .

* Lithocarpus densiflorus , commonly known as the Tanoak or Tanbark-oak , is an evergreen tree in the beech family Fagaceae , native to the western United States , in California as far south as the Transverse Ranges and north to southwest Oregon .

* Shumard Oak lumber is grouped with other Red Oak lumber for use in flooring, furniture, interior trim, decorative molding, paneling, and cabinetry. It is cultivated at least as far north as Ottawa, Ontario and as far south as Lake Worth, Florida.

* It is a deciduous tree reaching 30 m tall (exceptionally up to 50 m), with a rounded crown and thin, scaly or flaky bark on the trunk. * It is rarely a predominant tree, but it grows in association with many other species.

* Shumard Oak lumber is grouped with other Red Oak lumber for use in flooring, furniture, interior trim, decorative molding, paneling, and cabinetry. It is cultivated at least as far north as Ottawa, Ontario and as far south as Lake Worth, Florida.

* 3" grayish leaves; in early summer, bell-shaped 1/4" pink flowers, with protruding stamens and style; white fruit; native from British Columbia to New Mexico, east to Illinois and Michigan .

* Oats are an easily grown crop that succeeds in any moderately fertile soil in full sun. Used as a cereal, it is probably best known as the breakfast cereal porridge but it can also be used in many other ways.

* It is a small to medium-sized evergreen tree, growing 10-15 m tall and with a trunk up to 50 cm diameter, rarely more. * Modern research has shown that it contains the substance 'taxol' in its shoots and bark.

* It is a medium-sized tree growing to 20-30 m tall (exceptionally to 39 m), with a trunk up to 1-1.5 m diameter (exceptionally 2 m). It is distinguished from most other oaks by its leaves , which are shaped like willow leaves, 5-12 cm long and 1-2.5...

* In cooler, more exposed areas, scrub oak is usually a small, compact shrub, but in warm or sheltered areas the plant can spread out and grow several meters high. * The word chaparral is derived from the Spanish word for scrub oak, chaparro.

* It is planted as a specimen tree or in mass screenings. * Douglas fir seeds are an extremely important food for small mammals. Glauca is the commonly cultivated variety of this tree for areas outside of the Pacific Northwest, and is clearly a better...

* Cornus alba (red-barked or Siberian dogwood) is a species of flowering plant in the family Cornaceae, native to Siberia, northern China and Korea. * For the brightest winter bark, young shoots are encouraged by cutting to the ground some older stems...

Not of a good taste. These can be removed by soaking the seed in water for a few days, changing the soak water regularly. The poor taste is probably due, at least in part, to the presence of tannins.

* Lathyrus tuberosus, also known as the tuberous pea, tuberous vetchling, earthnut pea, or aardaker, is a small, climbing perennial plant, native in moist temperate parts of Europe and Western Asia.