Cut Flower Drought Tolerant Plant For Sale In Huntsville

* Mirbelia is a plant genus belonging to the Fabaceae family. It is endemic to Australia, occurring in every mainland state except South Australia.

Stored seed can be sown in late winter in a cold frame. * The plant is short lived but self sows freely producing a good quantity of seed each year. * In traditional herbalism columbine was considered sacred to Venus; carrying a posy of it was said arouse...

Seeds are produced in pea like pods. Blooms, 6 to 18 inches long, late spring to early summer. The flowers, blue to blue violet, pea like and produced at the end of branches. Each leaf has 6 to 9 narrow leaflets.

* Echinacea is considered to be the most effective detoxicant in Western herbal medicine for the circulatory, lymphatic and respiratory systems. Its use has also been adopted by Ayurvedic medicine.

Although not a true buckeye, it is so called because of the similar large capsules and seeds. It is often multi-trunked with with light gray to brown bark, smooth on young branches, becoming fissured with age.

* A shrub or tree in the legume family. * Grows very fast with masses of tiny yellow flowers, blue leaves and delicate textures. * Native to Southeast Australia. * The scientific name of the species honors the botanist Frederick Manson Bailey.

This plant is often used as an ornamental plant in gardens. * Annual or biennial; parent is dwarfish, dark blue flowers throughout summer; does well in hot, dry sun. * Cynoglossum amabile is a flowering plant native to Asia , which is also called Chinese...

* It is considered to be a desirable plant in the garden due to its deep blue to violet spring flowers, the attractive light green compound leaves, and also for the somewhat unusual oblong fruits that emerge in the late summer.

* It is a frequent component in butterfly gardens. * Yarrow has also been used as a food, and was very popular as a vegetable in the 17th century. * The Navajo considered it to be a "life medicine", chewed it for toothaches, and poured an infusion into...

* Parent has an abundance of pinkish plumes. * Noxious weed in California. * This is an outstanding ornamental that can be used as an effective screen or accent plant.

* A versatile mid sized, prolific flowering shrub that is quite cold hardy. Very worthy of greater use, especially in areas where flowering shrub choices are limited by lack of drought tolerance and/or cold hardiness.

* 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. The common name is large-flowered tickseed.

* Calia secundiflora is a species of flowering shrub or small tree in the pea family, Fabaceae , that is native to the southwestern United States ( Texas , New Mexico ) and Mexico ( Chihuahua and Coahuila south to Hidalgo , Puebla and Queretaro ).

They keep their blue color well after drying. * It is very cold hardy, coming from Siberia, and will also tolerate drought and saline conditions. * This is an excellent plant to use for cut flowers and dried flowers.

* The young seed heads are used as a condiment, they are hot and acrid. * Papaver orientale ( Oriental poppy ) is a perennial flowering plant native to the Caucasus, northeastern Turkey, and northern Iran.

* It was the favorite flower of John F. Thin out to 8 to 12 inches apart. * A hardy cool season annual with blue, pink, or white 1 1/2" flowers, Branching, slender stemmed, spreading to 10 to 12 inches.

* Strelitzia reginae is a monocotyledonous flowering plant indigenous to South Africa . * A curious plant, with a flower stalk rising to several feet, at the top is a sheath from which up to six conspicuous orange or yellow flowers, each with a dark blue...

It is native to eastern Asia from the Himalaya east to Japan * Evergreen except in cold climates; delicate compound leaves, reddish when new, later blue-green; attractive white flowers in panicles atop the stems, followed by beautiful bright red berries;...

* Succeeds in ordinary garden soil but prefers a deep rich loam with plenty of leafmold and a sunny position. Plants normally grow with one unbranched stem in the wild, but often produce multi-stemmed clumps in gardens.

The ashes can be used like baking soda. The fruit stem resembles a mass of corn flakes. * It is most readily identified by its fruits, which have four wings at roughly 90 degree angles and are densely packed on long stems.

* Aquilegia caerulea is the state flower of Colorado. * It is also an ornamental plant in gardens, with numerous cultivars selected for different flower colors. * Aquilegia caerulea is a species of Aquilegia flower native to the Rocky Mountains from Montana...

* Leycesteria formosa ( Himalayan Honeysuckle , Flowering Nutmeg , Himalaya Nutmeg or Pheasant Berry ) is a deciduous shrub in the family Caprifoliaceae , native to the Himalaya and southwestern China .

The seeds are perfectly safe to eat, containing very little if any of the narcotic principles. The Latin botanical name means, loosely, the "sleep-bringing poppy", referring to the sedative properties of some of these opiates.

* Ilex aquifolium ( Holly , or European Holly to distinguish it from related species, may also be called Christmass Holly or Mexican Holly) is a species of holly native to western and southern Europe , northwest Africa and southwest Asia .

* Unusual perennials with 2" spherical blue flowers in mid to late summer; the plant itself is rather rough and thistly with dark green leaves; good for middle or back of border; wants full sun and good drainage; can be dried for winter arrangements.

* They are commonly served raw and peeled. * The fruit contains about 4.9% sugars, 3.2% protein, 0.9% pectin. * The average yield from wild trees in the Himalayas is 83kg per year, though some trees yield up to 200kg.

* The vines produce tubular bell-shaped flowers each about two centimeters long. It is native to the tropical Americas but it is widespread in warm areas of the world where it is an introduced species and often a noxious weed .