Drought Tolerant Plant Seeds For Sale In Olathe

* Quercus turbinella is a species of oak known by the common names Sonoran scrub oak and shrub live oak . It is most common in chaparral habitat in central Arizona , through the transition zone of the Mogollon Rim – White Mountains , but also southeast...

* 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.

Foliage is considered to be evergreen (leaves persist on the tree until new growth commences in spring). * It is native to dry sandy soils of dunes, sandhills, dry ridges and hammocks, from sea level to 350' in elevation, primarily along the coastal plain...

* With needles 4-6", stiffer and darker green than the typical species. Turkish pine is also known by several other common names, Calabrian pine (from a naturalised population of the pine in Calabria in southern Italy, from where the pine was first botanically...

Populations are found in northern Guangdong, southern Hunan, and Jiangxi provinces. Fall color is a respectable yellow. * The plant species is endemic to Southeast China in forest thicket habitats at 500–800 metres (1,600–2,600 ft) of elevation.

* Cynoglossum amabile is a flowering plant native to Asia , which is also called Chinese hound's tongue , or Chinese forget-me-not . * Annual or biennial; parent is dwarfish, dark blue flowers throughout summer; does well in hot, dry sun.

Needles tend to be quite long but can be reduced with the pruning techniques. * Native to Japan. * Extremely salt tolerant, good for seaside planting and holding beach sand in place.

Very vigorous, it can swamp out small plants. The green, ovate leaves grow in opposite pairs. It is indigenous to southeast Europe and southwest Asia . A yellow-orange dye is obtained from the flowers.

* Cones can remain closed on the tree for a number of years, opening after the heat of a forest fire to scatter their seeds which then germinate and grow rapidly in the ashes of the fire.

* Seedlings have up to 24 cotyledons on germination (the most of any plant)! * A very attractive tree. * It has started being cultivated recently and is a very attractive ornamental tree.

Glauca is the commonly cultivated variety of this tree for areas outside of the Pacific Northwest, and is clearly a better selection for midwestern climates than the species because of its better cold tolerance (species is hardy to USDA Zone 6, but var.

* Cynoglossum amabile is a flowering plant native to Asia , which is also called Chinese hound's tongue , or Chinese forget-me-not . * Annual or biennial; parent is dwarfish, dark blue flowers throughout summer; does well in hot, dry sun.

They are very drought -tolerant and fast-growing and favor climates that are rainy throughout the year or at least with high summer rainfall. Unlike Bald Cypress and Pond Cypress , Montezuma Cypress rarely produces cypress knees from the roots .

Elliptic, serrate, pale green leaves (to 3" long) turn yellow in fall. Flower buds purportedly resemble white pearls, hence the cultivar name. 'Northern Pearls' is a compact cultivar that grows to 6-8' tall and features racemes (3-5" long) of 5-petaled...

* An excellent fuel. * The fruit is a small, dark-purple berry-like drupe, 1 cm wide, hanging in short clusters, and are extremely popular with birds and other wildlife. * The flexible thin shoots are used as walking sticks.

* Roots yield up to 6% gutta-percha, a non-elastic rubber used as an electrical insulator and in making plastics etc. Its growth is quite variable under both cultivated and wild conditions.

* The seed is used in pinole or ground into a meal and used as a thickener in making bread or mixed with flour in making bread. The water in which the leaves are cooked is used in making corn pudding .

* Cupressus bakeri , the Modoc Cypress , Siskiyou Cypress or Baker Cypress , is a species of cypress native to the United States , in a restricted area of northern California ( Siskiyou , Modoc , Shasta and Plumas Counties) and southwest Oregon (very...

Fortunei, but is shorter, broader, and more densely branched; small whitish flowers; native to Asia Minor. It is native to southern Europe ( Sicily ), southwestern Asia ( Lebanon , Syria , Turkey ) and eastern Asia ( China ), with two well-separated populations.

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

Some of this nitrogen is utilized by the growing plant but some can also be used by other plants growing nearby. * This species has a symbiotic relationship with certain soil bacteria, these bacteria form nodules on the roots and fix atmospheric nitrogen.

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

* 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 seed cones are globose to oblong, 15-33 mm long, with 6 or 8 (rarely 4 or 10) scales, green at first, maturing gray or gray-brown about 20–24 months after pollination. It grows to heights of 10-25 m, and its trunk diameter reaches 0.5 m.

* This species often grows in mixed in stands with several other pines and/or junipers, in Arizona most often with Apache Pine and Alligator Juniper, but also grows in pure stands.

* Seed - sow the seed thinly in early spring in a cold frame in light shade. Grow the seedlings on in the pot in light shade in the greenhouse for their first growing season, giving occasional liquid feeds to ensure they do not suffer nutrient deficiencies.

* It has green arching foliage to 3 feet in USDA 8, with highlights of orange, copper, and gold, especially in drier soils. * It is marginal in zone 8, going dormant and deciduous in cold winters, but usually evergreen to semi-evergreen.