Dye Plant Drought Tolerant Plant For Sale In Allentown

* They are occationally grown as ornamentals for their yellow flowers and interesting rattling seed pods. * Crotalarias are grown in the tropics as green manure cover crops due to their nitrogen fixing capabilities and drought tolerance.

It is typically found over calcareous substrates such as limestone , growing on limestone slopes and in moist valley soils, at elevations of 120–600 m. * Fraxinus quadrangulata ( Blue Ash ) is a species of Fraxinus native primarily to the Midwestern...

America, it is seldom used commercially, but is used locally for fence posts,piers, bows etc and makes an excellent fuel. * When Lewis and Clark reached St. Louis in 1804, they were so impressed by the versatile and durable Osage Orange tree that it was...

* This tree is remarkable for the number and length of the spines growing on its trunk, which makes it the most formidably armed of temperate trees. * This species has a symbiotic relationship with certain soil bacteria, these bacteria form nodules on...

* A yellow dye is obtained from the whole plant. It has also been introduced and is now common in North America . A tea made from the plant has been used as an insecticide. * Linaria vulgaris ( Common Toadflax , Yellow Toadflax , or Butter-and-eggs )...

The solitary flowers are 3–5 cm in diameter, a rich yellow, with five petals and numerous yellow stamens . * A low shrub with dark green evergreen leaves, shiny on the undersides; 2-3" flowers, bright yellow, throughout summer; easy to grow--tolerates...

The species is one of three closely related trees known as bristlecone pines and is sometimes known as the Intermountain or Western bristlecone pine . It is a very hard to secure item.

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

* In recent years, this species has been extensively used in Bonsai. * Carpinus orientalis (Oriental Hornbeam) is a hornbeam native from southeastern Europe to northern Iran and occurs usually on hot dry sites at lower altitudes in comparison to the European...

* The human use of the cactus dates back thousands of years to the northern coast of Peru and the monks of a pre-Inca culture known as Chavin . Besides mescaline, it also contains varying phenethylamines and other substances in minimal proportions * Today...

* Thrives in a light well-drained sandy or gravelly loam. * In Israel , the tree has been very successful in Yatir Forest in the northern Negev , where foresters had not expected it to survive.

Flickers excavate larger holes higher on the stem. When the saguaro dies and its soft flesh rots, the callus remains as a so-called "saguaro boot", which was used by natives for storage.

* Thrives in a light well-drained sandy or gravelly loam. * In Israel , the tree has been very successful in Yatir Forest in the northern Negev , where foresters had not expected it to survive.

Useful in coastal landscapes, it adds texture and unique architecture to large scale plantings. * A source of pulp, timber, and turpentine. * A vanillin flavouring is obtained as a by-product of other resins that are released from the pulpwood.

The cones remain closed for many years, only opening after the parent tree is killed in a wildfire , thereby allowing the seeds to colonize the bare ground exposed by the fire. * Trees are very drought tolerant and are planted on slopes in its native...

The fruit can be dried and stored for later use. * A soap is obtained from the fruit by rubbing the fruit in water. It splits easily into thin strips and is often used in basket making.

* This plant occurs in northeastern Spain and in central Mediterranean countries up to northern Europe and to Asia Minor and Tunisia. * Hippocrepis emerus reaches on average 50–150 centimetres (20–59 in) of height, with a maximum of 200 centimetres...

Turpentine has a wide range of uses including as a solvent for waxes etc, for making varnish, medicinal etc. It weighs 32lb per cubic foot. In general, trees from warmer areas of distribution give the higher yields.

* Leonotis nepetifolia is known in Trinidad as shandilay and the leaves are brewed as a tea for fever, coughs, womb prolapse and malaria. * It is native to tropical Africa and southern India.

* Taraxacum officinale grows from generally unbranched taproots and produces one to more than ten stems that are typically 5 to 40 cm tall but sometimes up to 70 cm tall. The stems can be tinted purplish, they are upright or lax, and produce flower heads...

* Leonotis nepetifolia is known in Trinidad as shandilay and the leaves are brewed as a tea for fever, coughs, womb prolapse and malaria. * It is native to tropical Africa and southern India.

* It is an evergreen or semi-evergreen shrub growing to 3 metres (9.8 ft) tall. Tolerates trimming. The leaves are oval-acute, 2–3.5 centimetres (0.79–1.4 in) long and 1–1.5 centimetres (0.39–0.59 in) broad, shiny green above, pubescent below...

Studies in mice suggest that Gleditsia sinensis ethanolic extract could be an effective therapeutic agent for the treatment of allergic asthma. * The fruit extract of Gleditsia sinensis also has inhibitory effects on isolated cancer cell cultures.

The leaves are deciduous in cold areas, but semi-evergreen in warmer climates, < 7 cm long and < 3 cm broad, with an oblique base and a coarsely serrated margin, changing from dark green to yellow in autumn.

Pines make an amazing bonsai because the rough bark on their trunks makes them look old early on. Needles tend to be quite long but can be reduced with the pruning techniques. * Native to Japan.

* Distribution and Ecology USA: Montana (E from 112° W), North Dakota, South Dakota, Wyoming, Utah, E Nevada, Colorado, Nebraska, Oklahoma. * Branches usually drooping, smaller in all its parts, of more columnar habit.

The species is one of three closely related trees known as bristlecone pines and is sometimes known as the Intermountain or Western bristlecone pine . It is a very hard to secure item.