Teresa's Plants & More Store

Resurrection fern is a fascinating plant very common in the Southeast

& found from Florida to New York and west to Texas.The fern is an

air plant which means it attaches itself to other plants and gets its

nutrients from the air and from water and nutrients that collect on

the outer surface of bark. Resurrection fern lives on the branches

of large trees such as cypresses and live oaks. It is often found in the

company of other air plants such as Spanish moss & wild pine.

The resurrection fern gets its name because it can survive long periods

of drought by curling up and appearing dead. When just a little

water is present, the fern will uncurl and reopen, appearing to

resurrect. This plant has even been taken on a space shuttle mission

to watch it resurrect itself in space! This tiny, creeping fern has a long

stem to which the fronds are attached. The leathery, evergreen

leaves are called fronds and are 4" to 12" long. The fronds are made of

smaller, rounded, oblong blades alternately arranged but tending to

become opposite. Like all ferns, the resurrection fern does not

reproduce by fruits or seeds but uses spores instead. The spores are

found in clusters, called sori, on the bottom of the blades near the edge.

The sori appear as brown to black scales. The long, horizontal, skinny

stem is less than 1/12" in diameter and is attached to and creeps along

the bark of large trees. This is where the fronds then come out from.

You're getting a section about 4"x4" that will have several fern fronds 

on it for $10.00.

I even have these in my tree frog vivarium and you can make an outside

container shade garden with these too!

Ebony Spleenwort-Asplenium platyneuron

Ebony spleenwort looks something like a smaller, more delicate version of

Christmas fern, though the two ferns are not closely related. To identify ebony
spleenwort, look for a smooth, glossy red-brown stem. The fertile
fronds (female) grow very erect, while the sterile fronds are shorter and more
horizontal.

These can be used in terrariums but may need trimming back in the Spring.

Habitat: rocky woods  Height: 15 inches

Persistence: evergreen  Location of spores: underside of fronds 

Stipe (leaf stalk): glossy red-brown, smooth, & brittle 

Growth pattern: asymmetric clump 

Common Blackberry

Clusters of beautiful berries shown from the Spring Harvest!

Photo above is a plant shown similar to what you will be getting for the $2.49 price.

Photo above is one of my young blackberry patches that I ship plants from.

This photo shows my mature berry patch that I harvest berries from

Common Blackberry

Branch Description:Tall, thorny, arching cane with palmate-compound leaves,

white, 5-petaled flowers and familiar fruit; flowers white to pinkish, 5-petaled, radially

-symmetrical 3/4 inch across, with many bushy stamens, in loose clusters; fruit

aggregate, black, elliptical, faceted, 1/2 to 1-1/2 inches long; leaves palmate-compound,

 up to 7 inches long, 3 to 7-parted, leaflets sharply toothed, up to 2 inches long; stem

biennial cane trailing or up to 9 feet tall, arching, reddish-brown, sharply thorny; roots

 perennial. Wild blackberries are like the ones you buy, but better. Among the

best-known berries in America, you can find them wherever you live. The toothed

leaves are compound —divided into segments, called leaflets. Since the leaflets, like

your fingers, originate from a point rather than a line, the leaves are called palmate-

compound. Each leaf usually has 3-7 sharply-toothed leaflets.

Growth and anatomical description : Blackberries are perennial plants which

typically bear biennial stems ("canes") from the perennial root system. In its first year,

a new stem, the primocane, grows vigorously to its full length of 3-6 m (in some cases,

up to 9m), arching or trailing along the ground bearing large palmately compound

leaves with five or seven leaflets; it does not produce any flowers.

In its second year, the cane becomes a floricane and the stem does not grow longer,

the flower buds break to produce flowering laterals, which bear smaller leaves with

three or five leaflets.First and second year shoots are usually spiny with numerous

short curved very sharp thorns (thorn less cultivars have been developed purposefully).

Unmanaged mature plants form a tangle of dense arching stems, the

branches rooting from the node tip on many species when they reach the

ground. Vigorous and growing rapidly in woods, scrub, hillsides and

hedgerows, blackberry shrubs tolerate poor soils, readily colonizing

wasteland, ditches and vacant lots.

The flowers are produced in late spring and early summer on short

racemes on the tips of the flowering laterals.Each flower is about 2-3 cm

in diameter with five white or pale pink petals.The newly developed

primocane fruiting produces flowers and fruits on the new growth.

The blackberry is known to contain polyphenol antioxidants, naturally

occurring chemicals that can upregulate certain beneficial metabolic

processes in mammals. The astringent blackberry root is sometimes used

in herbal medicine as a treatment for diarrhea and dysentery.

Nutrients in raw blackberries Nutrient Value per 100 grams % Daily

Value Energy 43 kcal Fiber, total dietary 5.3 g 21% Sugars, total 4.9 g

Calcium, Ca 29 mg 3% Magnesium, Mg 20 mg 5% Manganese, Mn 0.6 mg

32% Copper, Cu 0.2 mg 8% Potassium, K 162 mg 5% Sodium, Na 1 mg 0%

Vitamin C, total ascorbic acid 21 mg 35% Vitamin A, IU 214 IU 4% Vitamin

K, µg 20 µg 25% Folic acid, µg 36 µg 9% Carotene, beta 128 µg ne Lutein +

zeaxanthin 118 µg ne

Blackberries rank highly among fruits for antioxidant strength, particularly

due to their dense contents of polyphenolic compounds, such as ellagic

acid, tannins, ellagitannins, quercetin, gallic acid, anthocyanins and

cyanidins.

Blackberries have an ORAC value (oxygen radical absorbance capacity) of

5347 per 100 grams, including them among the top-ranked ORAC fruits.

Another report using a different assay for assessing antioxidant strength

placed blackberry at the top of more than 1000 antioxidant foods

consumed in the United States.

Nutrient content of seeds Blackberries are exceptional among other Rubus

berries for their numerous, large seeds not always preferred by consumers.

They contain rich amounts of omega-3 (alpha-linolenic acid) and -6 fats

(linoleic acid), protein, dietary fiber, carotenoids, ellagitannins and

ellagic acid.

You will be getting 1 plant which will be cut back and shipped bare root

just like my other perennial plants that I sell here. Remember the rooted

section is where all the plant life is. The third and fith pictures above

show you the size plant I will be digging. They are at least 1-2 year old

plants and some may even be older than that. Price each is only $2.49

Japanese Honeysuckle

(Lonicera japonica) Bare Root

This species is sold by American nurseries, often as the cultivar

'Hall's Prolific' (Lonicera Japonica var. Halliana). It is an effective

ground cover, and has pleasant, strong-smelling flowers. It can be

cultivated by seed, cuttings or layering. In addition, it will spread

itself via shoots if given enough space to grow .You will be getting a

mature plant  shipped bare root with the roots wrapped in moist

packing material then bagged. During transit and planting it is normal

for some leaves to die/fall off.

This is a woody plant like the Virginia Creeper I sell. Some leaf drop is

normal. Keeping the plant well watered until new growth appears is 

the most important thing to remember. Within a few weeks new

growth will appear. Like the Virginia creeper, as the woody stem

touches the ground,it will produce  roots at each leaf node section!

Height:20-30 ft. (6-9 m) Hardiness:USDA Zone 4a: 10b Sun Exposure:Full Sun

Bloom Time: Late Spring/Early Summer,Mid Summer, blooms repeatedly.

This plant is attractive to bees, butterflies and/or birds .  

This native perennial plant is a woody vine up to 60' long. It usually climbs

up trees, shrubs, or fences, but sometimes sprawls across the ground,

forming a ground cover up to 1' tall. The stems are initially green and

hairless, but eventually they become brown and woody. The alternate

leaves  usually are consisting of 5 leaflets (rarely 3 or 7).Each compound

leaf has a long slender petiole up to 6-8" long. The leaflets are up to 6" long

and 2½" across. They are ovate or obovate and coarsely serrated

(at least along the upper half of their margins). The upper side of each

leaflet is dark green, while the lower side is light green and either glabrous

or pubescent. The bottom of each leaflet is often wedge-shaped, while its

outer margins may taper abruptly into a short blunt tip, or they may taper

gradually into a long pointed tip. Opposite from the leaves, are branched

tendrils that often terminate into flattened pads. These pads can cling to

tree bark, wooden fences, brick walls, and other rough surfaces.

During the fall, the foliage becomes colorful! These look great planted together!