Hedge Plant Drought Tolerant Plant For Sale In Cedar Rapids

Plants grow in poor dry soils in the wild. Requires very good drainage with abundant moisture in the summer and a sunny position. The whole leaf can be used in weaving. * Easily grown in a rich strong loam enriched with leafmold and sand.

'Northern Pearls' is a compact cultivar that grows to 6-8' tall and features racemes (3-5" long) of 5-petaled white flowers (to 2" diameter) which bloom in early spring. Flower buds purportedly resemble white pearls, hence the cultivar name.

* The Chinese make fences around their compounds with interlaced branches of this plant.These branches take root and form a very graceful hedge. * Shrub with upright stems; narrow bamboolike leaves, shiny bright green; small whitish flowers; a roughish...

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 is a large shrub or tree growing to 22 m tall.

The cultivar 'Tallhedge (syn 'Columnaris') is very suitable for this purpose. * This variety is upright growing, very columnar. * Plants can be grown as an informal (untrimmed) hedge, though they are also amenable to trimming.

It is occasionally used as a condiment. * Styrax offinalis is a shrub native to southern Europe and the Middle East. It has a simple, relaxed form, with very thin elliptical leaves 5-10 cm long and 3.5-5.5 cm wide, alternate and widely spaced on thin,...

* A large specimen planted in 1550 stands before the church in the village perche of Fox-Amphoux in the Provence region of southern France. * A yellow dye is obtained from the bark * It is often planted as an ornamental as it is resistant to air pollution...

* Gossypium hirsutum , known as Upland Cotton or Mexican Cotton , is the most widely planted species of cotton in the United States, constituting some 95% of all cotton production.

The plant produces pods containing yellow seeds with papery wings. The flowers attract bees , butterflies , and hummingbirds . Yellow Trumpetbush is a ruderal species , readily colonizing disturbed, rocky, sandy , and cleared land and occasionally becoming...

* Common names for this species include Poinciana , Peacock Flower , Red Bird of Paradise , Mexican Bird of Paradise , Dwarf Poinciana , Pride of Barbados , and flamboyan-de-jardin .

* Paliurus spina-christi , commonly known as Jerusalem Thorn , Garland Thorn , Christ's Thorn , or Crown of Thorns , is a species of Paliurus native to the Mediterranean region and southwest and central Asia , from Morocco and Spain east to Iran and Tajikistan...

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

* Common names in other Namibian language groups Oshiwambo Otjiherero Kavango languages Omuwombamenje Caprivi languages Setswana Afrikaans Lemoendoring Deutsch Khoekhoegowab Bushman languages Gruenhaarbaum ?Khas

Among the Navajo, the plant is used to make blankets. * The plant was used for food and fiber by local Native American peoples such as the Havasupai. The fruits are capsules 1 to 3 centimeters long and containing black seed.

* Rough gray bark, bright green leaves; native to Monterey County, California * Cupressus goveniana is a species of cypress endemic to coastal California in the United States , where it is found in small, scattered populations, not in large forests.

* A good fast growing hedge for the milder areas of Britain, tolerating maritime exposure. The surviving trees from this forest are as old as 2000 years. * Dirr calls this tree "genuinely beautiful" but says it's not for the Southeast states in U.S.;...

It is native to southern Europe ( Sicily ), southwestern Asia ( Lebanon , Syria , Turkey ) and eastern Asia ( China ), with two well-separated populations. * Fontanesia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Oleaceae , usually treated as comprising...

* Plants can be used for informal hedging in areas that are frost free or almost so. It is often found in commercial as well as in private landscapes. * Indian hawthorn is a mainstay horticultural specimen in southern United States.

The foliage grows in sparse, very fragrant, sprays varying from dull gray-green to glaucous blue-green in color. * This cypress was discovered in 1907 by Mrs. The leaves are scale-like, highly glandular, resinous and aromatic, 2-5 mm long, and produced...

Common names include Mexican Palo Verde , Parkinsonia , Jerusalem Thorn , and Jellybean Tree . It is native to the southwestern United States (western Texas , southern Arizona ), Mexico , the Caribbean , South America south to northern Argentina , and...

It is also commonly planted as an ornamental, especially in xeriscapes. * Datura wrightii or Sacred Datura is the name of a poisonous perennial plant and ornamental flower of southwestern North America.

* The stems of most members of this genus contain the alkaloid ephedrine and are valuable in the treatment of asthma and many other complaints of the respiratory system. * A delicious tea is made by steeping the green or dried twigs inboiling water until...

Mainly used for charcoal and fuel, it is occasionally sawn into lumber. Rosin is the substance left after turpentine is removed. It weighs 32lb per cubic foot. This species occasionally hybridizes with other pine species such as Loblolly Pine ( P.

* An attractive plant with small pink flowers; can be grown as an annual in cold areas; native to the tropics. * The stem is erect in young plants, but becomes creeping or trailing with age.

The common name is large-flowered tickseed. * 3" yellow-orange flowers in midsummer; native to southern U.S. * Coreopsis grandiflora is a perennial plant species of the tickseed genus, Coreopsis, in Asteraceae.

This perennial is a native plant found throughout the eastern part of the United States and in many parts of the western U.S., Canada , and Mexico . * Lance-leaved coreopsis produces yellow flowers in late summer.

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