Annual Plant Drought Tolerant Plant For Sale In Grand Rapids

The seed usually germinates in 2 - 3 weeks. Autumn sown plants may require protection from frosts in cold winters. * The California poppy ( Eschscholzia californica ) is native to grassy and open areas from sea level to 2,000m (6,500 feet) altitude in...

They are quite variable in color, in shades of pink, red or lavender with or without white markings. * This is a fast-growing vining annual herb producing long, thin stems with ivylike petioled , heart-shaped leaves 3 to 6 centimeters long.

The thorns of Gleditsia sinensis are used as a medicinal herb in China and Korea and may have antitumor properties. * The fruit extract of Gleditsia sinensis also has inhibitory effects on isolated cancer cell cultures.

The dye gives a lovely colour to linen, but it is transient. Extracts of the plant are added to hair shampoos and rinses. "Cornflower" is also erroneously used for chicory , and more correctly for a few other Centaurea species ; to distinguish C.

The thorns of Gleditsia sinensis are used as a medicinal herb in China and Korea and may have antitumor properties. * The fruit extract of Gleditsia sinensis also has inhibitory effects on isolated cancer cell cultures.

The raceme inflorescence is very tall, reaching a maximum of 4 m (12 ft). The seed usually germinates in 1 - 3 months at 20°c. The sap can also be tapped by boring a hole into the middle of the plant at the base of the flowering stem.

It is sometimes grown as an ornamental plant in gardens , especially because of its bluish leaves, and also sometimes for its tolerance of hot and dry soil conditions. * A hardy perennial with gray or blue-gray rather frilly leaves, extremely fragrant...

* The Bishop Pine ( Pinus muricata ) is a pine with a very restricted range: mostly California , USA , including some offshore islands, and a few locations in Baja California , Mexico , and always on or near the coast, from Trinidad Head in Humboldt County,...

It requires a minimum of 140 days from planting to harvest. * This is the most important cotton of commerce. Worldwide, the figure is about 90% of all production for this species. * Gossypium hirsutum , known as Upland Cotton or Mexican Cotton , is the...

Besides mescaline, it also contains varying phenethylamines and other substances in minimal proportions * Today it is still used by Curanderos (medicine men) of northern Peru. They prepared a brew called "achuma" , "huachuma" or "cimora" which was used...

* A strong tincture of the fresh seed is used externally to kill lice and nits in the head and pubic hair.It is also effective against aphids and thrips. * The roots grow into the soil up to a depth of 50 centimetres (20 in), so the plant can survive...

* In Bangladesh, it is called "time fuul", meaning "time flower", because the flower has a specific time to bloom. In places with old architecture it can grow between the stones of the road or sidewalk.

It generally occurs in foothills , being most abundant in the lower altitudes of the Sierra Nevada , but also widespread in the Pacific Coast Ranges and the San Gabriel Mountains .

Dragon's blood has a number of traditional medical uses, although dragon's blood obtained from Dracaena draco was not known until the 15th century. It has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit.

* Seed germination appears to be dependent on about a 2-week period of moistened seed at a time when soil temperatures have reached 60 degrees Fahrenheit. * Big Bluestem is a perennial grass.

* Cycas revoluta ( sago cycad ), is an attractive plant native to southern Japan . * The leaves are used in the treatment of cancer and hepatoma. Though often known by the common name of king sago palm , or just sago palm , it is not a palm at all, but...

* The Arizona White Oak is a perennial tree and may grow up to 60 ft with a diameter of 3.3 ft. The amount of acorns produced can also vary year to year, one year there may be about 32,000 acorns and the next year there may be very few.

Stored seed can be sown in late winter in a cold frame. * The blue flowers and on occasion white flowers are bonnet shaped. The seed can be slow to germinate. * The plant is short lived but self sows freely producing a good quantity of seed each year.

Extremely adaptable and common in the sandy or clay-sand ridges of Georgia. Dark green needles, to 18" (9" in older trees), in tufts at ends of branchlets; hangs on to its cones (to 20") for as long as 20 years; native from Virginia to Florida and Mississippi.

The seed usually germinates in 2 - 3 weeks. Autumn sown plants may require protection from frosts in cold winters. * The California poppy ( Eschscholzia californica ) is native to grassy and open areas from sea level to 2,000m (6,500 feet) altitude in...

Growing only 20'' tall, you will be able to find several places for it in your garden. You'll be thrilled with the first flush of 3'' purple blooms from June to October. The Purple D'Oro daylily is a wonderfully colored reblooming daylily.

Datura wrightii is classified as a deliriant and an anticholinergic. This makes dosage estimation a difficult and adds further risk to the administration of material that already has potentially lethal side effects.

* This is a timeless classic. * Blocky shape, excellent for stuffing with a sweet mild flavor. * California Wonder peppers are an open pollinated heirloom variety of sweet bell pepper.

Added to salads or used as a potherb. Sow 5-15 lbs./acre. * The leaves can be eaten raw or cooked. The name derives from the Latin for turnip , r?pum or r?pa , and is first recorded in English at the end of the 14th century.

* Roman soldiers were given chestnut porridge before entering battle. * The seed can be eaten raw or cooked. * This tree responds very well to coppicing, which is still practised in Britain, and produces a good crop of tannin-rich wood every 12 to 30...

They burn well and have been gathered and placed at the ends of sticks to make torches. * Variable, often rather scrubby; 3-5" needles, opening yellow green, later dark green; grows well on poor sandy acid soils; salt-tolerant, good for coastal areas,...

It has also been introduced to Belize , Costa Rica and Nicaragua , growing at 1200–3000 m altitude. * Often has drooping branchlets; foliage green; half-inch cones; native to Mexico and Central America.