Dye Plant Drought Tolerant Plant For Sale In Sunnyvale

* The roots grow into the soil up to a depth of 50 centimetres (20 in), so the plant can survive long periods of drought. * Covered in beautiful white flowers! * The Forking Larkspur ( Consolida regalis syn.

* 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.

* The wood is extremely tough and durable. * Plants are very tolerant of pruning and make a good hedging plant for windy sites. * Dodonaea viscosa can be grown from seeds. * The fruit is a capsule 1.5 cm (0.59 in) broad, red ripening brown, with two to...

* 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.

Super hardy Edelweiss will survive the coldest winter temperatures and the worst summer droughts. This superb perennial produces beautiful cream colored star-shaped flowers and silvery green foliage.

* It is also extremely vigorous when young, often growing over a metre per year. * It is used for reclaiming eroded hillsides and wastelands and for stabilizing drift sands as well as for fuel.

Small greenish flowers appear in spring, and are borne singly in the centre of the cladodes. Germination can be rather slow, sometimes taking 12 months or more. * Mature shoots are bound into bunches and used as scourers or as besoms.

The raceme inflorescence is very tall, reaching a maximum of 4 m (12 ft). Plant out in late spring or early summer, after the last expected frosts, and give some protection from the cold for at least their first few winters.

* Grown for its white flowers, borne in late summer after most other flowering trees have long finished flowering. * A very ornamental and fast growing tree, it grows best in hot summers.

* A quick-growing, not to say rampant vine; can be pruned as a shrub; usually grown on a trellis for commercial production of the hops used in beer making; hops are produced on female plants; native to Eurasia, has escaped in the U.S.

* It is planted as a specimen tree or in mass screenings. It grows at higher elevations (to 9500') with a slower growth rate, and has shorter cones (to 3"), blue-green needles and better winter hardiness.

* In Israel , the tree has been very successful in Yatir Forest in the northern Negev , where foresters had not expected it to survive. * Good for seashore planting; native to Mediterranean region.

For the densest cover plants should be cut to ground level each April. The solitary flowers are 3–5 cm in diameter, a rich yellow, with five petals and numerous yellow stamens . The green, ovate leaves grow in opposite pairs.

* The bark is cathartic, febrifuge and tonic. * Habitat and Range: sandy, gravelly, or rocky slopes, often growing in areas underlain by limestone bedrock. A decoction of the roots has been used in the treatment of kidney complaints and TB.

It is juicy, sweet, fleshy, slightly aromatic. * American Beautyberry ( Callicarpa americana ) is an open-habit, native shrub of the Southern United States which is often grown as an ornamental in gardens and yards .

* The River Oak is an attractive evergreen tree with fine greyish green needle-like foliage that grows to a height of 60 metres (200 ft) with a spread of about 10 metres. In suitable climates, the plant is much used in windbreaks, shelterbelts and for...

* It is a popular garden plant both for its flowers and for its fragrance. * A very ornamental plant, it should be planted into its permanent position as soon as possible because it dislikes root disturbance.

* The crushed root has been applied to the body as an insect repellent. * Bloodroot is one of many plants whose seeds are spread by ants, a process called myrmecochory. It was used as a face paint by the North American Indians.

* 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,...

It has also been introduced and is now common in North America . * This is considered a noxious weed in some areas. It is obtained from the flowers according to other reports. * Linaria vulgaris ( Common Toadflax , Yellow Toadflax , or Butter-and-eggs...

* Insubstantial purplish or yellow flowers in early to mid summer; more impressive are the large pods that split open to reveal clusters of scarlet or orange-red seeds that remain until midwinter; likes lime; native to western and Mediterranean Europe.

All Bonsai need root protection in below freezing temperatures. A black dye can also be obtained from the fruit as well as an ink. Ligustrum vulgare are hardy plants and tolerate temperatures down to 20 degrees F.

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

* Grown for its masses of glorious, delicate, white, slightly fragrant flowers in May; of open, spreading habit; native to the southeastern United States but hardy nearly everywhere; dark green leaf sometimes a golden yellow in fall.

* 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.

* Slash Pine is named after the "slashes" – swampy ground overgrown with trees and bushes – that constitute its habitat. * Pinus elliottii , commonly known as the Slash Pine , is a pine native to the southeastern United States , from southern South...

* It is a medium-sized evergreen tree with a conic to ovoid-conic crown. The leaves are scale-like, 2-5 mm long, and produced on rounded (not flattened) shoots. * A conifer of narrow conical form with green, gray-green, or blue-green foliage; shiny reddish...