Nitrogen Fixing Plant Drought Tolerant Plant For Sale In Abilene

* The wood of the shrub extremely hard and reddish, from which the common name comes. * This shrub has a typical size of three to five meters - 9-15 feet in height. * Native American Californians used the hard wood for arrows, digging, spearing fish,...

* Bunches of the tied stems have been used as rough brooms. The bark is often mixed with alder and wild plum root barks when making the dye. * Cercocarpus montanus is common in the chaparral, on mesas and on the lower foothills of the south eastern Rocky...

* Native to southern Italy (including Sardinia ) and Corsica. * Bacteria on the roots fix atmospheric nitrogen - whilst this enables the tree to grow well in quite poor soils it also makes some of this nitrogen available to other plants growing nearby.

It can withstand cold, heat, and drought. It may be hard to kill! * Caragana microphylla is a polymorphic species and in some cases with transitional forms. This species is planted for dune stabilization and for soil and water conservation.

Leaves & stems are covered with silver hair. Used as a reclamation species on very poor soils. An extract of the plant is of disputed utility in chronic kidney disease. Pharmaceutical preparations are manufactured from them.

It provides quick, woody, vegetative cover on droughty, critical areas needing stabilizing cover. Bristly locust is primarily used for surface mine spoil reclamation, industrial waste piles, roadbanks, cuts and fills, etc.

* A yellow dye is obtained from the wood. Common names include Texas Mountain Laurel , Texas Mescalbean , Frijolito , and Frijolillo . * An evergreen shrub with compound leaves, 1" violet-blue fragrant flowers in 2-3" pendulous clusters; pods 1-7"; seeds...

* This is a fast growing evergreen flowering tree. * Has various edible uses, such as cooking the flowers and obtaining a gum from the trunk * Native to southeastern Australia in New South Wales , Victoria , Tasmania , and the Australian Capital Territory...

* This is a fast growing evergreen flowering tree. * Has various edible uses, such as cooking the flowers and obtaining a gum from the trunk * Native to southeastern Australia in New South Wales , Victoria , Tasmania , and the Australian Capital Territory...

Leucocephala is used for a variety of purposes, such as firewood , fiber and livestock fodder . * The legume provides an excellent source of high protein cattle fodder. It has a very fast growth rate, young trees reach a height of more than 20 ft in 2–3...

* Extremely hardy--a plant lifted from a pot in December spent the winter in zone 5 with its bare rootball frozen to the turf--still bloomed well in the spring; bright yellow flowers in spring; small bright green compound leaves.

* Colutea arborescens is a species of leguminous shrub known by the common name bladder senna . The leaves are made up of many pairs of slightly hairy oval-shaped leaflets, each up to about 3 centimeters long.

Fruticosa grows as a glandular, thornless shrub which can reach 5 or 6 meters in height and spread to twice that in width. * Dark purple or purplish blue flowers in spikes; fast, coarse growth, good for dry, poor soil.

It has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit. * Dracaena draco, the Canary Islands dragon tree or drago, is a subtropical tree-like plant in the genus Dracaena, native to the Canary Islands, Cape Verde, Madeira, and locally in...

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...

* Easily grown in average, medium, well-drained soil in full sun to part shade. Blooms on new growth. Also useful for stabilizing embankments. Prune in early spring. Also tolerates some drought.

* Cultivated in China for the rutin contained in its leaves and ovaries. * Grown for its white flowers, borne in late summer after most other flowering trees have long finished flowering.

* The pulp in the seedpods of carob is very nutritious and, due to its high sugar content, sweet-tasting and mildly laxative. * As a xerophytic (drought-resistant) species, carob is well adapted to the ecological conditions of the Mediterranean region.

* Extremely hardy--a plant lifted from a pot in December spent the winter in zone 5 with its bare rootball frozen to the turf--still bloomed well in the spring; bright yellow flowers in spring; small bright green compound leaves.

* Annual or biennial; parent is dwarfish, dark blue flowers throughout summer; does well in hot, dry sun. This plant is often used as an ornamental plant in gardens. * Cynoglossum amabile is a flowering plant native to Asia , which is also called Chinese...

* Yellow fall color. * An infusion of the bark has been used in the treatment of many complaints such as headaches, rheumatic pains, internal injuries and diarrhoea. * Largest species of alder in North America and one of the largest in the world * The...

The solitary flowers are 3–5 cm in diameter, a rich yellow, with five petals and numerous yellow stamens . * A low shrub with dark green evergreen leaves, shiny on the undersides; 2-3" flowers, bright yellow, throughout summer; easy to grow--tolerates...

Elliptic, serrate, pale green leaves (to 3" long) turn yellow in fall. 'Northern Pearls' is a compact cultivar that grows to 6-8' tall and features racemes (3-5" long) of 5-petaled white flowers (to 2" diameter) which bloom in early spring.

It is good fodder for animals, improves the soil, allows natural vegetation to become established, and prevents soil erosion by wind and rain. Gansu, Nei Mongol, Ningxia, Qinghai, W Shanxi, Xinjiang [Mongolia].

* Oleander grows to 2–6 m (6.6–20 ft) tall, with spreading to erect branches. They are often, but not always, sweetly scented. * The plant is commonly used for informal hedging in the Mediterranean.

In cultivation, leaves up to 23 cm long may be produced. * It has started being cultivated recently and is a very attractive ornamental tree. * Seedlings have up to 24 cotyledons on germination (the most of any plant)!

* It is considered to be a desirable plant in the garden due to its deep blue to violet spring flowers, the attractive light green compound leaves, and also for the somewhat unusual oblong fruits that emerge in the late summer.