Herbaceous Plant Drought Tolerant Plant For Sale In Kent

Super hardy Edelweiss will survive the coldest winter temperatures and the worst summer droughts. It is bound to be a subject of conversation in your garden. This superb perennial produces beautiful cream colored star-shaped flowers and silvery green...

* Native to forest margins, grassy slopes; 400--2700 m. (Gansu, Guizhou, Hebei, Hubei, Heilongjiang, Jilin, Liaoning, Nei Mong) all in China.

* This is considered a noxious weed in some areas. * A yellow dye is obtained from the whole plant. It has also been introduced and is now common in North America . It is obtained from the flowers according to other reports.

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. Plants normally grow with one unbranched stem in the wild, but often produce multi-stemmed clumps in gardens.

* Requires a well-drained sandy soil and a sunny position. Established plants are drought tolerant. * The leaves are used for flavouring rice dumplings.

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

The leaves are spirally arranged, lanceolate, 5-12 cm long and 2-3 cm broad. * Orange flowers in late summer; grows well in dry soil; native to eastern U.S. * Pleurisy root is a bitter, nutty-flavoured tonic herb that increases perspiration, relieves...

Very vigorous, it can swamp out small plants. * A good ground cover plant, succeeding in the heavy shade of trees and in dry shade. For the densest cover plants should be cut to ground level each April.

Isolated populations exist in Alabama, Southern Ontario, and small sections of the Appalachian Mountains. It is typically found over calcareous substrates such as limestone , growing on limestone slopes and in moist valley soils, at elevations of 120–600...

The leaves are spirally arranged, lanceolate, 5-12 cm long and 2-3 cm broad. * Orange flowers in late summer; grows well in dry soil; native to eastern U.S. * Pleurisy root is a bitter, nutty-flavoured tonic herb that increases perspiration, relieves...

* Astilbe chinensis is a herbaceous plant with alternate, pinnately compound leaves, on thin stems. * The flowers are purple, borne in summer.

* All parts of Datura plants contain dangerous levels of anticholinergic tropane alkaloids and may be fatal if ingested by humans, livestock, or pets * Datura wrightii is found in northern Mexico and the adjoining U.

* A good ground cover plant, succeeding in dense shade but rather slow to spread. Plants should be spaced about 60cm apart each way. * Heart-shaped shiny dark green leaves with prominent veins, 9" x 5"; dark violet flowers in August; a 2' mound, flowers...

* The female flowers are followed by a red berry, and the seeds are bird-distributed, but the plant also spreads vegetatively by means of rhizomes. It has been used to relieve constipation and water retention and improve circulation.

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. The foliage grows in dense sprays, varying from dull gray-green to bright...

It also is grown as both a medicinal herb and as a condiment. It is sometimes grown as an ornamental plant in gardens , especially because of its bluish leaves, and also sometimes for its tolerance of hot and dry soil conditions.

Needles tend to be quite long but can be reduced with the pruning techniques. Pines make an amazing bonsai because the rough bark on their trunks makes them look old early on. * It is one of the classic bonsai subjects.

* A very ornamental plant, it should be planted into its permanent position as soon as possible because it dislikes root disturbance. When the plant is bruised, this smell becomes more like fine balsam.

* This is the common European catmint and a spreading plant. * A mint-like flavour, they make an aromatic flavouring in salads. They can be used fresh or dried to make an aromatic herb tea.

It is native to the southeastern United States ( Mississippi , Alabama , Florida , Georgia , South Carolina ). * Small oak accent for dry sunny landscape areas. It is part of the red oak group.

* It is a large shrub or tree growing to 22 m tall. It generally occurs in foothills , being most abundant in the lower altitudes of the Sierra Nevada , but also widespread in the Pacific Coast Ranges and the San Gabriel Mountains .

The foliage grows in dense, usually moderately decumbent and pendulous sprays of bright green, very slender, slightly flattened shoots. * Cupressus funebris is a medium-sized coniferous tree growing to 20-35 m tall, with a trunk up to 2 m diameter.

Flowers are heart-shaped and 1–2 inches (3–5 cm) long, with pink outer petals and white inner petals , hanging in a horizontal raceme . Seeds with whitish elaiosomes are borne in long pods .The plant often goes dormant in summer after blooming.

It is easily recognised by its attractive three-petaled white flowers, opening from late spring to early summer, that rise above a whorl of three, leaf-like bracts. Grandiflorum was designated the provincial emblem of Ontario in 1937 (Flora Emblem Act).

* Saguaros have a relatively long lifespan, often exceeding 150 years. They are white and open well after sunset and close in mid-afternoon. * A saguaro is able to absorb and store considerable amounts of rainwater, visibly expanding in the process, while...

In Oregon , where the plant is native, it has been cultivated for several uses, including reforestation and revegetation of roadsides and other disturbed habitat. The fruit is a silky-hairy legume pod up to 5 centimeters long containing several seeds.

Legume species. Plants are hardy to about -25°c. Blooms early to mid season. It is widespread in the eastern part of the USA (from Florida to Canada), Canada (south of Ontario), and on the coasts of the Arctic Ocean, where it grows on sand hills.