Deer Attracting Plant Drought Tolerant Plant For Sale In Antioch

* Asclepias tuberosa is a species of milkweed native to eastern North America . It is a perennial plant growing to 0.6-2 m (1 -2 feet) tall, with clustered orange or yellow flowers from early summer to early fall.

* Trees are probably much hardier when grown in areas with hot summers. * A tall, straight-trunked tree, fastest growing of the hickories; likes deep, rich soil; native to central midwest south to Mexico.

* This is one of the food plants for the caterpillars of several butterflies and moths, including the Gatekeeper and the Meadow Brown. * It succeeds on shallow chalky soils. * It is a perennial plant sometimes found in acidic bogs , for example in the...

Plants have been used to form hedges in Mediterranean areas. Requires very good drainage with abundant moisture in the summer and a sunny position. * Very young leaf buds are cooked as a vegetable.

Soon a crown of terminal buds appears and the plant starts branching. Each branch grows for about 10–15 years and re-branches, so a mature plant has an umbrella-like habit. It grows slowly, requiring about ten years to reach 1.2 metres (4 ft) in height...

* Yarrow has a high reputation and is widely employed in herbal medicine, administered both internally and externally. * The herb combines well with Sambucus nigra flowers (Elder) and Mentha x piperita vulgaris (Peppermint) for treating colds and influenza.

* Flowers to 5 inches, purple, borne in profusion. * A species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae ,native to South China (which includes Hong Kong ) and southeastern Asia * Common names include Hong Kong Orchid Tree, and Hawaiian orchid tree.

* The word chaparral is derived from the Spanish word for scrub oak, chaparro. * The California Scrub Oak ( Quercus berberidifolia ) is a small evergreen or semi-evergreen shrubby oak in the white oak section.

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 also occurs south into northern Baja California in Mexico .

* Yarrow has a high reputation and is widely employed in herbal medicine, administered both internally and externally. * The herb combines well with Sambucus nigra flowers (Elder) and Mentha x piperita vulgaris (Peppermint) for treating colds and influenza.

* Usually a deciduous tree, pale trunk and branches, fast growing, fairly drought resistant, works well for bonsai. * This is a common and widespread forest tree from South Africa to Ethiopia .

* The leaves are alternate, 50–100 mm long, with a 15–20 mm petiole ; they are of two types, with palmately five-lobed juvenile leaves on creeping and climbing stems, and unlobed cordate adult leaves on fertile flowering stems exposed to full sun,...

* A delicious tea is made by steeping the green or dried twigs inboiling water until they turn an amber or pink colour. * Ephedra nevadensis ( Nevada ephedra ) is a species of Ephedra native to dry areas of western North America.

* So called because the roots were once ground for snuff. * The leaves are used as an insect repellent. Ptarmica yields an essential oil that is used in herbal medicine. * The plant can tolerate maritime exposure.

Older leaves areused as a flavouring in cooked foods. * This is the common European catmint and a spreading plant. The tea should be infused in a closed container in order to preserve the essential oils, boiling is said to spoil it.

Cylindrical clusters (1-2" long) of tiny, fragrant, white flowers (1/8") appear on long stalks at the stem ends or upper leaf axils in late spring. Also effective as a shrubby ground cover for hard-to-grow areas such as dry rocky slopes and banks

It weighs 47lb per cubic foot. * The acorns of the chestnut oak are 1.5–3 cm long and 1–2 cm broad, among the largest of native American oaks, surpassed in size only by the bur oak and possibly swamp chestnut oak.

* This species has a symbiotic relationship with certain soil bacteria, these bacteria form nodules on the roots and fix atmospheric nitrogen. * Gleditsia caspica ( Caspian Locust or Persian Honeylocust ) is a species of Gleditsia native to western Asia...

* An excellent fuel. * Celtis australis is supposed to have been the Lotus of the ancients, whose fruit Herodotus, Dioscorides, and Theophrastus describe as sweet, pleasant, and wholesome.

* Echinacea purpurea ( Eastern purple coneflower or Purple coneflower ) is a species of flowering plant in the genus Echinacea . Plants in this genus were probably the most frequently used of N.

The tree is short-lived in temperate climates, rarely reaching more than 60 years of age, but in its native environment may live to between 100 and 150 year. The leaves are deciduous in cold areas, but semi-evergreen in warmer climates, < 7 cm long and...

* Callicarpa dichotoma (common names, Purple Beautyberry or Early Amethyst ) is species of beautyberry . * The flowers are pink to white. They are cultivated for ornamental use in gardens.

* The bark is cathartic, febrifuge and tonic. * Habitat and Range: sandy, gravelly, or rocky slopes, often growing in areas underlain by limestone bedrock. The roundleaf dogwood is also a temperate, northeastern North American species that occurs throughout...

It prefers light soils with a high phosphorus content. In the Mexican part of the Sonoran Desert, it is still being planted and irrigated for livestock grazing. * African foxtail grass is a perennial grass growing to 20 to 120 cm (10 to 50 in) tall.

They are like Catnip for Catfish! * A fast-growing tree with an extensive root system, it has been planted on land that is subject to landslips or erosion in order to stabilize the soil.

The fruit is a long narrow capsule 5–23 cm (2.0–9.1 in) long, which splits open at maturity to release numerous downy seeds .In the past, scented plants were sometimes treated as the distinct species N.

* Linaria vulgaris ( Common Toadflax , Yellow Toadflax , or Butter-and-eggs ) is a species of toadflax ( Linaria ), native to most of Europe and northern Asia , from the United Kingdom south to Spain in the west, and east to eastern Siberia and western...