Honey Bee Food Drought Tolerant Plant For Sale In District Of Columbia

* Forestfarm states on their website: "Polished green leaves and red & yellow fruits" (Hillier) distinguish this small (10-20') tree/shrub; "good street or park trees, often with picturesque crowns & attractive fall foliage" (Krussmann).

* The fruit is small with very little flesh, but it is easily harvested and when soaked for 10 - 30 minutes in hot or cold water makes a very refreshing lemonade-like drink (without any fizz of course).

* Native to the southern and eastern parts of the United States , found from Illinois to Virginia in the north and from Texas to Florida in the south. * It is in flower in June, and the seeds ripen in September.

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

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.

Its flowers are an important source of honey and its fruits are important to many bird species. It is lustrous, with entire, often wavy margins. * The fruit is edible raw or cooked.

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 also occurs south into northern Baja California in Mexico .

* The fruit is eaten raw, cooked or dried for later use. * In Mexican Spanish, the plant is called nopal, while the fruit is called tuna, which are names also used in American English, especially as culinary terms.

It is native to northwestern Mexico and the southwestern United States from far eastern California to southwest Colorado , Rio Grande New Mexico , to west Texas , where it grows in woodland, chaparral , forest, and other habitat.

The stems can be glabrous or are sparsely covered with short hairs. The leaves are often blanched (by excluding light from the growing plant) before use. The foliage is upright growing or horizontally orientated, with leaves having narrowly winged petioles...

Lavender flowers and gray-green leaves provide mid-summer color and contrast to the perennial border front, rock garden, herb garden or scented garden. * The essential oil that is obtained from the flowers is exquisitely scented and has a very wide range...

The tree is fairly free from fungal diseases and has few insect enemies. * Wood - coarse and straight-grained, soft, not strong, moderately high in shock resistance, very durable in the soil.

* 3" grayish leaves; in early summer, bell-shaped 1/4" pink flowers, with protruding stamens and style; white fruit; native from British Columbia to New Mexico, east to Illinois and Michigan .

* Eucalyptus robusta belongs to a group of eight species of spongy red-barked gum trees known as red mahoganies in the section Annulares, and is closely related to the bangalay (E.

* 3" grayish leaves; in early summer, bell-shaped 1/4" pink flowers, with protruding stamens and style; white fruit; native from British Columbia to New Mexico, east to Illinois and Michigan .

* The fruit is eaten raw, cooked or dried for later use. * In Mexican Spanish, the plant is called nopal, while the fruit is called tuna, which are names also used in American English, especially as culinary terms.

* Attractive compound leaves, gray-green when young, olive green when mature; white flowers in 5" erect clusters in June and July, "smell like new mown grass" (Dirr); attractive bark, "peeling with maturity, rich shining amber to brown, developing a curly...

* The fruit is small with very little flesh, but it is easily harvested and when soaked for 10 - 30 minutes in hot or cold water makes a very refreshing lemonade-like drink (without any fizz of course).

* Hardier form than the species. * Can be treated as a distinct cultivar, to be named 'Ernest Wilson' * This cultivar is distinguished from all others in the species by both habit and hardiness.

The leaves are oval-oblong, 5-19 cm long and 2-7 cm broad. It is a shrub growing to 3-6 m tall, with erect branches. * Lilac flowers in nodding terminal clusters to 6"; leaves to 6"; native to China.

* Pinus virginiana ( Virginia Pine , Scrub Pine , Jersey Pine ) is a medium-sized tree , often found on poorer soils from Long Island in southern New York south through the Appalachian Mountains to western Tennessee and Alabama .

It also contains fat branches and a spreading crown along with thick leaves. * It usually occurs as a native shrub or a medium sized tree. * One of the largest southwestern oaks, this handsome tree reaches its greatest size in canyons and other moist...

* Plants can be grown as a medium-size hedge. They are very tolerant of trimming and have prickles which make them an effective barrier to larger creatures. * Our seed produces a very high percentage of Red seedlings.

It was formerly very popular either on its own or added to China tea, having a peculiar delicacy and aroma. * Perennial; small yellow flowers; source of a golden-yellow dye. It can be drunk hot or cold.

* Parkinsonia florida grows to heights of 10–12 metres (33–39 ft). Photosynthesis is performed by the blue-green branches and twigs, regardless of absent leaves. * Its name means "green pole or stick" in Spanish, referring to the green trunk and branches,...

You can wash your hands by merely picking a couple of leaves or a bunch of blossom, wetting your hands and then rubbing the plant material vigorously as if it was a bar of soap. It was first collected by Meriwether Lewis in 1806.

Palustris: finely adapted to low-intensity fire with fire frequencies of <5 years. * Ecologically very similar to P. Mayriana), but it is now universally regarded as a distinct species.