Honey Bee Food Drought Tolerant Plant For Sale In Seattle

* 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).

They quite probably also apply to this species. An excellent fibre is obtained from the leaf stalks. The fibres are up to 50cm long, they are harvested commercially and used to make brushes, especially where these have to remain stiff in hot water or...

* It produces up to 30 pink flowers in characteristic allium umbels in the mid to late summer and grows to between 8" and 40" in height. The foliage is thin, and strap like. * German garlic is an ornamental onion which is noted for its unusual swirling...

* A very ornamental plant. * A good bee plant. * Established plants are drought tolerant. * Thistley plants for full sun and poor dry soil; the half-inch flower heads, also like thistles, can be a fine metallic blue or blue purple; flowers in mid to late...

The genus is named in honour of John Templeton, an Irish naturalist and botanist. It is covered in red flowers in the winter and spring. They are native to Australia. * Templetonia is a dryland shrub that grows 3-7 feet tall.

They are like Catnip for Catfish! * It prefers moist soil and full sun. It is highly valued for posts and fencing rails, and is also used for interior finishes, cabinet work etc. It also multiplies readily from cuttings.

* The bark shreds often, peeling in large strips. * Eucalyptus leaves are a traditional Aboriginal herbal remedy. Noxious weed in California. They are about 6 to 15 cm long and covered with a blue-grey, waxy bloom, which is the origin of the common name...

The leaf turns purple in autumn, eventually becoming an intense bright scarlet. This resistance to splitting led to its use for making mauls, pulleys, wheel hubs, agricultural rollers, bowls, and paving blocks.

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

* Compared to the closely related Parkinsonia microphylla (foothill paloverde), it appears more decumbent in overall form, is taller, and matures more quickly. It is a rapidly growing large shrub or small tree, and rarely survives to 100 years.

* Bright yellow flowers.

* Habitat and Range: sandy, gravelly, or rocky slopes, often growing in areas underlain by limestone bedrock. A decoction of the roots has been used in the treatment of kidney complaints and TB.

* It inhabits prairies , plains, roadsides, and disturbed areas from southern Canada through most of the United States to northern Mexico . * A pleasant tasting tea is made from the leaves and flower heads.

* It is native to northwestern China and Japan . * It is widely used as an ornamental plant. * Buddleja davidii , (old spelling Buddleia davidii ); also called summer lilac , butterfly-bush or orange eye ) is a shrub in the Buddlejaceae family .

* Berberis thunbergii ( Japanese barberry or Thunberg's Barberry , also Red Barberry ) is a species of Berberis , native to Japan and eastern Asia . * Our seed produces a very high percentage of Red seedlings.

* Echinacea is considered to be the most effective detoxicant in Western herbal medicine for the circulatory, lymphatic and respiratory systems. Its use has also been adopted by Ayurvedic medicine.

* Oregano is an important flavouring herb in Mediterranean cookery,and is often used dried rather than fresh. The leaves are used as a flavouring for salad dressings, vegetables and legumes,and are frequently included in strongly flavoured dishes with...

* Does well along woods edges as a background plant in perennial gardens. * The large leaves, up to 1 foot long, are interesting. * The root is said to have a beneficial effect on the liver, stomach and spleen and may be taken to relieve indigestion and...

* Cyrilla racemiflora , the sole species in the genus Cyrilla , is a flowering plant in the family Cyrillaceae , native to warm temperate to tropical regions of the Americas , from the southeastern United States (coastal areas from southeastern Texas...

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

* Senna bicapsularis is a species of the legume genus Senna, native to northern South America, from Panama south to Venezuela and Colombia, and also the West Indies. The golden yellow flowers are truly fantastic to look at and they attract butterflies,...

Though its use in herbalism has been attested to for millennia, little research has been conducted in modern times. It is also the state flower of Kerala in India and of immense importance amongst the Malayali population * It is a popular ornamental plant...

* It is largely confined to very infertile , excessively well-drained, sandy habitats where competition from larger-growing species is minimized by the harsh growing conditions, as in the Florida scrub .

* It is a prostrate or twining shrub which can spread to a width of 1.5 metres and has light green leaves that comprise 3 rounded leaflets with undulating edges Scarlet pea flowers are produced singly or in pairs between April and November in its native...

When fully ripe it falls from the tree and so it is advisable to grow the plant in short grass in order to cushion the fall of the fruit. Zone: 7-10The leaves are dark green and glossy, 5-10 cm long and 2-3 cm broad, with a serrated margin.

* Compared to the closely related Parkinsonia microphylla (foothill paloverde), it appears more decumbent in overall form, is taller, and matures more quickly. It is a rapidly growing large shrub or small tree, and rarely survives to 100 years.

The specific epithets sebifera and sebiferum mean "wax-bearing" and refer to the vegetable tallow that coats the seeds. It is used to make candles and soap. Pure tallow fat is known in commerce as Pi-yu.