Butterfly Attracting Plant Drought Tolerant Plant For Sale In Virginia Beach

Both are dried for later use. An infusion has been used in the treatment of fevers and heart problems. The leaves area safe and effective cathartic. The seedpods can also be used and are milder but slower in their action.

The common name is large-flowered tickseed. * 3" yellow-orange flowers in midsummer; native to southern U.S. * Coreopsis grandiflora is a perennial plant species of the tickseed genus, Coreopsis, in Asteraceae.

Ptarmica yields an essential oil that is used in herbal medicine. * Leaves can be eaten raw or cooked. * The plant can tolerate maritime exposure. * The leaves are used as an insect repellent.

An excellent source for cut flowers. You'll enjoy this old-fashioned favorite that bears an abundance of large, hibiscus blossoms in three different colors: red, white and blue. Rose of Sharon grows 5-10' tall.

It is also the state flower of Kerala in India and of immense importance amongst the Malayali population * It is a popular ornamental plant and is also used in herbal medicine. * Various species of bees and butterflies known to be pollinators of Cassia...

* Bright yellow flowers.

Blooms late summer to early fall. * If all the flowers are removed early in the season, the plant will often produce a second flush of bloom later in the summer. * The flowers are often used for dried flower displays.

Drought and deer resistant, attracts butterflies, great cut flower. Charming 5'' purple daisy-like blooms with orange-brown raised centers. The Purple Coneflowers bloom from mid-summer to fall on 2-3 foot stems.

* A shrub or small tree; silvery throughout, with compound leaves and pale yellow flowers in pendulous clusters to 6", each 3/4" wide; pods to 6"; native to seashores of the Old World tropics .

* Thorns showed antibacterial activity against a Gram-positive bacterium Xanthomonas vesicatoria and a Gram-negative bacterium Bacillus subtilis. Gleditsia sinensis has been used in China for at least 2000 years as a detergent.

* Although research and data is limited, some identified compounds in this plant include thujone, miltirone, oxy-miltirone, tanshinones, camphor, limonene, ?-globulol, trans-caryophyllene, ?-humulene, camphene, ?-pinene, ?-caryophyllene, ?-cadinene, and...

It is one of two honeysuckles native to Britain, the other being the Common Honeysuckle ( Lonicera periclymenum ). * Lonicera xylosteum , commonly known as Fly honeysuckle , European Fly Honeysuckle , Dwarf Honeysuckle or Fly Woodbine is a deciduous shrub.

* Yarrow has also been used as a food, and was very popular as a vegetable in the 17th century. * The familiar yarrow from which many garden cultivars have been derived; grows in very poor soil in full sun.

Blooms late summer to early fall. * If all the flowers are removed early in the season, the plant will often produce a second flush of bloom later in the summer. * The flowers are often used for dried flower displays.

* It is widely used as an ornamental plant. * It is native to northwestern China and Japan . * Buddleja davidii , (old spelling Buddleia davidii ); also called summer lilac , butterfly-bush or orange eye ) is a shrub in the Buddlejaceae family .

In fall, after flowering, prune back to within a few inches of ground. A fragrant friend of butterflies and hummingbirds. The Mixed Butterfly Bush has fragrant 8-10'' flower spikes and grows 4-8' tall.

* A shrub or small tree; silvery throughout, with compound leaves and pale yellow flowers in pendulous clusters to 6", each 3/4" wide; pods to 6"; native to seashores of the Old World tropics .

The fruits grow closely together in large clusters. * The berries are bitter and are unfit for culinary use. This species can be found in China and Japan. * The berries which are small drupes are purple.

A decoction of the roots has been used in the treatment of kidney complaints and TB. The roundleaf dogwood is also a temperate, northeastern North American species that occurs throughout southern and eastern Ontario; in northern Ontario it occurs farther...

* Wildlife benefit: Squirrels, chipmunks, deer, birds, and turkeys eat the acorns. * The drought tolerance of the Gambel oak combined with the cold tolerance of the bur oak make this hybrid one the of the hardiest oaks available.

It is a popular, semi- evergreen garden shrub with many named cultivars and hybrids derived from it.In North America the name Rose of Sharon is applied to a species in a different order, Hibiscus syriacus .

Elliptic, serrate, pale green leaves (to 3" long) turn yellow in fall. 'Northern Pearls' is a compact cultivar that grows to 6-8' tall and features racemes (3-5" long) of 5-petaled white flowers (to 2" diameter) which bloom in early spring.

Anhui, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Henan, Hubei, Hunan, Shaanxi, Sichuan, Yunnan, Zhejiang. * Trees, 6-20 m tall. Trunk to 30 cm d.b.h. or more. Petiole 2-4.5 cm; leaf blade often purplish red when young, greenish when mature, cordate or triangular-orbicular,...

It requires a minimum of 140 days from planting to harvest. * Gossypium hirsutum , known as Upland Cotton or Mexican Cotton , is the most widely planted species of cotton in the United States, constituting some 95% of all cotton production.

* Sweet fern was employed medicinally by several native North American Indian tribes who used it especially as a poultice to treat a variety of complaints. * t is a deciduous shrub, growing to 1.5 m tall.

* A pleasant tasting tea is made from the leaves and flower heads. * It inhabits prairies , plains, roadsides, and disturbed areas from southern Canada through most of the United States to northern Mexico .

* It is native to the eastern United States, where it is one of the most important ridgetop trees from southern Maine southwest to central Mississippi, with an outlying northwestern population in southern Michigan.