Herbaceous Plant Drought Tolerant Plant For Sale In Odessa

* Unusual perennials with 2" spherical blue flowers in mid to late summer; the plant itself is rather rough and thistly with dark green leaves; good for middle or back of border; wants full sun and good drainage; can be dried for winter arrangements.

* 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 native to the southeastern United States and as far north as the Great Lakes . Plants are often found in very acid soils in the wild. * Native to SE United States * Requires a light porous sandy soil in full sun.

Panicles darken to bronze/chestnut brown in fall as they mature, later fading to gray. Stiff, vertical flowering stems, topped with narrow, feathery, light brown flower panicles (to 12" long) highlighted with yellow stamens, rise well above the foliage...

Prefers a moist soil but succeeds in dry soils and, once established, is drought tolerant. Thrives in a bog garden. Succeeds in dense shade. * Iris foetidissima ( Stinking Iris , Gladdon , Gladwin Iris , Roast-beef Plant , Stinking Gladwin ), is a species...

* Very young leaf buds are cooked as a vegetable. The whole leaf can be used in weaving. The young shoots or suckers from the bottom of the plant are also used. * A strong fibre obtained from the leaves is used for cordage and brushes.

The leaves are long-stalked and uniquely divided into two leaflets about 1 1/2 inches long. Named for Ferdinand Roemer, a German geologist who collected specimens in the New Braunfels, Texas, area from 1845-47.

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.

* A blue dye is obtained from the inner bark. The bark is ground into a powder and then steeped in water in order to obtain the dye. It is typically found over calcareous substrates such as limestone , growing on limestone slopes and in moist valley soils,...

* Leaves are olive green in partial shade and orange in full sun and in the fall/winter. Mass plantings are spectacular! * It is native to New Zealand where it grows on sand dunes proving its drought and salt tolerance.

It is native to Africa , Asia and Europe and is commonly used throughout the United States and Canada for erosion control , roadside planting and soil rehabilitation. * Securigera varia , commonly known as Crown Vetch or Purple Crown Vetch , is a low-growing...

* Aquilegia caerulea is a species of Aquilegia flower native to the Rocky Mountains from Montana south to New Mexico and west to Idaho and Arizona . * Aquilegia caerulea is the state flower of Colorado.

* Sow the seed in mid spring or late summer to early autumn in a sunny border outdoors and only just cover the seed. The seed usually germinates in 2 - 3 weeks. Autumn sown plants may require protection from frosts in cold winters.

When used in salads, they are rather bitter, though less so in the winter. This will make them less bitter, but they will also contain less vitamins and minerals. The foliage is upright growing or horizontally orientated, with leaves having narrowly winged...

* An attractive plant with small pink flowers; can be grown as an annual in cold areas; native to the tropics. * Aqueous extracts of the roots of the plant have shown significant neutralizing effects in the lethality of the venom of the monocled cobra...

Panicles darken to bronze/chestnut brown in fall as they mature, later fading to gray. Stiff, vertical flowering stems, topped with narrow, feathery, light brown flower panicles (to 12" long) highlighted with yellow stamens, rise well above the foliage...

* Aquilegia caerulea is a species of Aquilegia flower native to the Rocky Mountains from Montana south to New Mexico and west to Idaho and Arizona . * Aquilegia caerulea is the state flower of Colorado.

* Tian Nan Xing has been used in Chinese herbal medicine for thousands of years and is valued especially for its beneficial affect upon the chest. When prescribed internally it is always used dried and in conjunction with fresh ginger root.

Blooms on new growth. * Easily grown in average, medium, well-drained soil in full sun to part shade. * Garden Uses Mass or group in the shrub border or native plant garden. Prune in early spring.

For the densest cover plants should be cut to ground level each April. Very vigorous, it can swamp out small plants. The solitary flowers are 3–5 cm in diameter, a rich yellow, with five petals and numerous yellow stamens .

* A widespread urban myth is that pampas grass is used by swingers to advertise their presence to other swingers in the area. The most commonly repeated version states that in the UK and Ireland a patch of pampas grass is planted somewhere in the front...

* 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. Some of this nitrogen is utilized by the growing plant but some can also be used by other plants growing...

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...

When used in salads, they are rather bitter, though less so in the winter. This will make them less bitter, but they will also contain less vitamins and minerals. The foliage is upright growing or horizontally orientated, with leaves having narrowly winged...

For the densest cover plants should be cut to ground level each April. Very vigorous, it can swamp out small plants. The solitary flowers are 3–5 cm in diameter, a rich yellow, with five petals and numerous yellow stamens .

* This is an outstanding ornamental that can be used as an effective screen or accent plant. * Parent has an abundance of pinkish plumes. * Noxious weed in California.

* Mountain Pine or Mugo Pine ( Pinus mugo ) is a high-altitude European pine , found in the Pyrenees , Alps , Erzgebirge , Carpathians , northern Apennines and Balkan Peninsula mountains from (mostly) 1,000 m to 2,200 m, occasionally as low as 200 m in...