Honey Bee Food Drought Tolerant Plant For Sale In Illinois

This will make them less bitter, but they will also contain less vitamins and minerals. * Dandelion sprouts make a great micro-green. The 5–45 cm long and 1–10 cm wide leaves are oblanceolate, oblong, or obovate in shape with the bases gradually narrowing...

* Fine plant for naturalizing in moist soils and where there is some shade. * A decidious Shrub growing to 5 m. * It is in flower in June, and the seeds ripen in September. * Native to the southern and eastern parts of the United States , found from Illinois...

* Fine plant for naturalizing in moist soils and where there is some shade. * A decidious Shrub growing to 5 m. * It is in flower in June, and the seeds ripen in September. * Native to the southern and eastern parts of the United States , found from Illinois...

* Nyssa sylvatica is cultivated as an ornamental tree in parks and large gardens, where it is often used as a specimen or shade tree. It can be oval, elliptical or obovate, and 5–12 cm (2–5 in) long.

* Easily grown in average, dry to medium, well-drained soils in full sun to part shade. * White flowers in panicles, midsummer; a handsome shrub with dark green 3" leaves, compact and very adaptable regarding sun and moisture, doesn't mind drought * A...

* Lance-leaved coreopsis produces yellow flowers in late summer. 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 .

The new leaves are a very showy bright red as with many savanna trees. * The weeping boer-bean is easily grown, and is remarkably hardy in both poor soil and very dry conditions. It has been planted also in Spain.

* Scarlet flowers; native to Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana * When grouped or massed in light shade provided by pines the effect can be spectacular. * Native to the southern and eastern parts of the United States , found from Illinois to Virginia in...

It is thought probably to have originated in Mexico. Prefers a pH in the range 6 to 7.5. Plants must be kept fairly dry in the winter but they like a reasonable supply of water in the growing season.

Spreading growth to 24in. * Erect, many-branched perennial with ovate or lace-shaped to oblong, notched, wrinkled, mid-greed leaves, to 4 in. All are perennial, with numerous leafy stems growing from the base at the beginning of summer.

* Nyssa sylvatica is cultivated as an ornamental tree in parks and large gardens, where it is often used as a specimen or shade tree. It can be oval, elliptical or obovate, and 5–12 cm (2–5 in) long.

* 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 .

* Native to Southeast Australia. * The scientific name of the species honors the botanist Frederick Manson Bailey. * A shrub or tree in the legume family. * Grows very fast with masses of tiny yellow flowers, blue leaves and delicate textures.

* Big Bluestem is a perennial grass. Depending on soil and moisture conditions, it grows to a height of 1 – 3m (3 – 10 ft) . * Big bluestem is tolerant of a wide range of soils and moisture.

* A variable species found in dry soil and full sun from Europe to China; stems to 3' with purple bracts and very attractive purple, pink, or white flowers in July and August; likes calcaric soils; spreads via suckers; aromatic leaves; widely used in...

Cordata; varies a good deal, and several cultivars are grown; often used in Europe, where it is native, but not common in the U.S. * Lime flowers are a popular domestic remedy for a number of ailments, especially in the treatment of colds and other ailments...

* It belongs to the same family as the baobab and the kapok. They measure 10 to 15 centimetres (4 to 6 in) in diameter and their shape is superficially similar to hibiscus flowers.

* Native to forests; 100-800(-1600) m. Anhui, Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Hainan, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangxi, Taiwan, Zhejiang [Japan (Ryukyu Islands)].

It is commonly kept as an ornamental plant. * The lance-leaved coreopsis , Coreopsis lanceolata , is a species of coreopsis (Tickseed). This perennial is a native plant found throughout the eastern part of the United States and in many parts of the western...

* Easily grown in average, dry to medium, well-drained soils in full sun to part shade. * White flowers in panicles, midsummer; a handsome shrub with dark green 3" leaves, compact and very adaptable regarding sun and moisture, doesn't mind drought * A...

* Burdock is one of the foremost detoxifying herbs in both Chinese and Western herbal medicine. * Native to Europe, naturalized in North America, tends to be very weedy. It also lowers the blood pressure by dilating the blood vessels.

Nilotica makes a good protective hedge because of its thorns. Pods are used as a supplement to poultry rations in India. * The tree has thin, straight, light, grey spines in axillary pairs, usually in 3 to 12 pairs, 5 to 7.5 cm (3 in) long in young trees,...

* A warm infusion of the root has been used as a wash on sores and snake bites. * Rudbeckia hirta (common names: Black-eyed Susan, Blackiehead, Brown Betty, Brown Daisy, Brown-eyed Susan (Rudbeckia triloba), Gloriosa Daisy, Golden Jerusalem, Poorland...

* Juniperus monosperma ( One-seed Juniper ) is a species of juniper native to western North America , in the United States in Arizona , New Mexico , southern Colorado , western Oklahoma ( Panhandle ), and western Texas , and in Mexico in the extreme north...

* The bark is cathartic, febrifuge and tonic. The roundleaf dogwood is also a temperate, northeastern North American species that occurs throughout southern and eastern Ontario; in northern Ontario it occurs farther north than the alternateleaf dogwood,...

Too small for commercial exploitation, the wood is used locally for turnery, inlay work, woodenware etc. It weighs 46lb per cubic foot. * This species is occasionally used for hedging in the southern states of America.

They are very tolerant of trimming and have prickles which make them an effective barrier to larger creatures. * Plants can be grown as a medium-size hedge. * Berberis thunbergii ( Japanese barberry or Thunberg's Barberry , also Red Barberry ) is a species...