Herbaceous Plant Drought Tolerant Plant For Sale In Topeka

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

It bears large elegant flowers of various colours: red, white, striped or blue. When the plant is bruised, this smell becomes more like fine balsam. Its leaves resemble those of an Ash tree.

* This attractive perennial maintains a neat mound shape and grows 1-2 ft. Named for Ferdinand Roemer, a German geologist who collected specimens in the New Braunfels, Texas, area from 1845-47.

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 thorns of Gleditsia sinensis are used as a medicinal herb in China and Korea and may have antitumor properties. Gleditsia sinensis has been used in China for at least 2000 years as a detergent.

* If all the flowers are removed early in the season, the plant will often produce a second flush of bloom later in the summer. * Unusual perennials with 2" spherical blue flowers in mid to late summer; the plant itself is rather rough and thistly with...

Succeeds in dense shade. Prefers a moist soil but succeeds in dry soils and, once established, is drought tolerant. * Insubstantial purplish or yellow flowers in early to mid summer; more impressive are the large pods that split open to reveal clusters...

It is a plant of thin soils and can be found growing on sandy-soiled heaths, rocky outcrops, hills, banks, roadsides and riverside sand banks. * Creeping and mounding variants of T.

Fortunei, but is shorter, broader, and more densely branched; small whitish flowers; native to Asia Minor. It is native to southern Europe ( Sicily ), southwestern Asia ( Lebanon , Syria , Turkey ) and eastern Asia ( China ), with two well-separated populations.

* It has green arching foliage to 3 feet in USDA 8, with highlights of orange, copper, and gold, especially in drier soils. * This is a naturally rare grass in the wild but it is widely cultivated for use as an attractive ornamental garden plant.

* This species grows up to 50 feet, and has yellow flowers. Mediterranean and Asia Minor. * Sun- and drought-tolerant.

Fortunei, but is shorter, broader, and more densely branched; small whitish flowers; native to Asia Minor. It is native to southern Europe ( Sicily ), southwestern Asia ( Lebanon , Syria , Turkey ) and eastern Asia ( China ), with two well-separated populations.

Ponderosa, as detailed on that page. * For now, this small-coned form of P. However, its cones are fairly distinctive and I am not fully persuaded that the described P. Washoensis populations do not warrant distinction as a variety or even a subspecies...

* The name of this species is based on the cultivated form, the true wild form is A. * Plants seem to be immune to the predations of rabbits. Flabellata pumila. * Succeeds in ordinary garden soil, preferring a moist but not wet soil and a sunny position.

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

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

In the northern part of its range, which includes southern British Columbia, extreme southwestern Alberta, Washington, Oregon and east to Montana, Wyoming and northern Colorado, it often grows under Douglas-fir.

A lemon-flavoured tea can be made from the fresh or dried leaves. * A perennial mint with lemon-scented foliage and clusters of small white flowers in whorls in the leaf axils; the leaves are used in cooking--teas, soups--toilet water, soaps, and medicine;...

Australis is the most commonly cultivated species in its genus, and is also cultivated beyond its native continent in other areas such as Great Britain, where it has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit.

* Native to Ethiopia but now found all over the tropics. * It is a sprawling vine 8-10 feet long. * This wild cucumber has edible fruit which are very tasty when green and extremely bitter when yellow and fully ripe.

Redidivus (Torrey) H. * A highly perfumed balsamic gum is obtained from the branches and stems. The inflorescence is short and few-flowered. The California varieties Styrax officinalis subsp.

The foliage grows in dense sprays, varying from dull gray-green to bright glaucous blue-green in color. * Trees are very drought tolerant and are planted on slopes in its native range in order to prevent soil erosion.

* Yellow corydalis grows to 30–38 cm (12–15 in) tall. * Perennial with small yellow flowers throughout the summer; makes a nice bluish mound of delicate foliage; will grow in deep shade; can seed itself about rather freely; native to southern Europe.

When prescribed internally it is always used dried and in conjunction with fresh ginger root. * The root is harvested when the plant is dormant in the autumn or winter and is dried for later use.

Useful in coastal landscapes, it adds texture and unique architecture to large scale plantings. Dark green needles, to 18" (9" in older trees), in tufts at ends of branchlets; hangs on to its cones (to 20") for as long as 20 years; native from Virginia...

Grow them year round in your kitchen! * The leaves are eaten raw or cooked. * Dandelion sprouts make a great micro-green. * Taraxacum officinale grows from generally unbranched taproots and produces one to more than ten stems that are typically 5 to 40...

* It is a low, creeping, woody shrub to about 1 m tall and 1–2 m wide but often smaller. It is a popular, semi- evergreen garden shrub with many named cultivars and hybrids derived from it.In North America the name Rose of Sharon is applied to a species...