Dye Plant Drought Tolerant Plant For Sale In Costa Mesa

* Native American Californians used the hard wood for arrows, digging, spearing fish, and digging. * The wood of the shrub extremely hard and reddish, from which the common name comes.

Plants grow in poor dry soils in the wild. * It is a shrub -like clumping palm, with several stems growing from a single base. The whole leaf can be used in weaving. * Very young leaf buds are cooked as a vegetable.

* A bluish-green dye is obtained from the berries, it is more permanent than most greens. Privets are fast growers and do well as long as they are planted in well-drained soil. A black dye can also be obtained from the fruit as well as an ink.

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 Interior Live Oak is classified in the red oak section (Quercus sect. It also occurs south into northern Baja California in Mexico . * It is a large shrub or tree growing to 22 m tall.

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

Plant the roots out very shallowly. * Prefers a humus-rich soil, succeeding in a moist border or by water. The plants are very cold tolerant, but they can be damaged when dormant if the soil is too moist.

In these regions, the waxy coating of the seeds is used for candle and soap making, and the leaves are used as herbal medicine to treat boils. The plant sap and leaves are reputed to be toxic, and decaying leaves from the plant are toxic to other species...

* Succeeds in ordinary garden soil but prefers a deep rich loam with plenty of leafmold and a sunny position. Angustifolia , but plants often grow taller, ranging from 1.5 to 2.5 ft (45 to 75 cm) tall, with some growing 3 feet (90 cm) or more tall.

It is a monotypic genus, with this species as its only member. 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...

Leo Polkinghorn, but it took until 1915 for Leroy Abrams to inspect specimens forwarded by Mrs. The leaves are scale-like, highly glandular, resinous and aromatic, 2-5 mm long, and produced on rounded (not flattened) shoots.

The wax can be used to make aromatic candles. * A wax on the fruit is obtained by simmering the fruit in hot water and skimming off the wax as it rises to the surface. It is native to the southwestern United States , in Utah , Nevada , Arizona , western...

Its showy, yellow, pea-like flowers occur in upper axillary clusters. The leaves are long-stalked and uniquely divided into two leaflets about 1 1/2 inches long. * This attractive perennial maintains a neat mound shape and grows 1-2 ft.

* In traditional herbalism columbine was considered sacred to Venus; carrying a posy of it was said arouse the affections of a loved one. * The plant is short lived but self sows freely producing a good quantity of seed each year.

* The seed can be eaten raw or cooked. A sugar can be extracted from the seed. A somewhat astringent taste raw, it improves considerably when cooked and is delicious baked with a floury texture and a flavour rather like sweet potatoes.

The California varieties Styrax officinalis subsp. It is occasionally used as a condiment. Redidivus (Torrey) H. * Styrax offinalis is a shrub native to southern Europe and the Middle East.

Ruscus aculeatus occurs in woodlands and hedgerows, where it is tolerant of deep shade, and also on coastal cliffs. It has been used to relieve constipation and water retention and improve circulation.

* Shadscale fruits and leaves provide important winter browse for both domestic livestock and native herbivores. The water in which the leaves are cooked is used in making corn pudding .

And it is considered a noxious weed in California! * Very tolerant of maritime exposure and salt-laden winds, it is also very fast growing. Noxious weed in California. Increases in height of between 1 and 2.5 metres per year have been recorded even in...

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

* This species of pearlbush is an early-blooming, upright deciduous shrub that is native to Manchuria and Korea. Flower buds purportedly resemble white pearls, hence the cultivar name.

Wood - coarse-grained, light, soft, brittle, not strong, very durable, resinous. * Variable, often rather scrubby; 3-5" needles, opening yellow green, later dark green; grows well on poor sandy acid soils; salt-tolerant, good for coastal areas, where...

The juice is milky and acrid. The pistillate and staminate flowers are on different trees; both are inconspicuous; but the fruit is very much in evidence. The roots are thick, fleshy, covered with bright orange bark.The leaves are arranged alternately...

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

Its leaves resemble those of an Ash tree. * The whole plant contains a very aromatic essential oil, giving out a scent somewhat like lemon peel. When the plant is bruised, this smell becomes more like fine balsam.

* Eucalyptus perriniana , commonly known as Spinning Gum , is a tree or mallee which is native to New South Wales , Victoria and Tasmania in Australia . * The leaves yield up to 1% essential oil.

The seed is up to 3cm long. * Although it can grow to the height of 25 meters, many specimens are seen as shrubs 3–5 m tall with many small trunks. The seed ripens in late autumn and, when stored in its shell in a cool place, will keep for at least...