Nitrogen Fixing Plant Flowering Shrub For Sale In Lexington Fayette

* 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.

* The leaves and flowers are boiled and eaten. * A shrub; red flowers in racemes.

Noxious weed in California. It is fairly fast-growing and very tolerant of pruning, but is rather open in habit and does not form a dense screen. * An essential oil obtained from the flowers is used in perfumery.

This plant can be found growing in well drained soils of prairies, bluffs, and open woodlands. * Resinous pustules on the plant contain 'amorpha', a contact and stomachic insecticide that also acts as an insect repellent.

Rill erosion that exposes the roots stimulates root suckering there by creating a denser growth. It provides quick, woody, vegetative cover on droughty, critical areas needing stabilizing cover.

Leaves & stems are covered with silver hair. An open or shrubby growth form with round shaped flower heads attached to stems near the ends. Seeds are eaten by many birds. Experimentally, it has demonstrated antitumor activity against Walker-256 carcinosarcoma...

* It is found throughout eastern Canada, northern Mexico, and most of the continental United States. * Plants have an extensive root system and are also fairly wind tolerant, they can be planted as a windbreak and also to prevent soil erosion.

* The leaves and flowers are boiled and eaten. * A shrub; red flowers in racemes.

* It is a perennial plant that develops in a cultivated or wild in the mountains of Peru . It is very good. * The leaves are used as a tea substitute. It is native to Mauritius , the United States and the west coast of South America in Chile and Peru...

* It is used for reclaiming eroded hillsides and wastelands and for stabilizing drift sands as well as for fuel. * Makes a good screen or hedge in warm temperate areas. * It is also extremely vigorous when young, often growing over a metre per year.

* Calia secundiflora is a species of flowering shrub or small tree in the pea family, Fabaceae , that is native to the southwestern United States ( Texas , New Mexico ) and Mexico ( Chihuahua and Coahuila south to Hidalgo , Puebla and Queretaro ).

Devilwood or wild olive is an irregularly rounded and open shrub or small tree to 30 ft. With an equal spread. * Devilwood was so named because the fine-textured wood is difficult to split and work.

Common names include Bog Myrtle and Sweet Gale . The fruit is about 3mm in diameter with a single large seed. They are sometimes put in beer and ale to improve the flavour and increase foaming.

* t is a deciduous shrub, growing to 1.5 m tall. * A broad, flat-topped shrub native to northeast U.S.; has fragrant foliage, long, narrow, frondlike leaves; a nitrogen-fixer, so good for poor soils; takes sun or part shade.

It has also been described as a "conflict tree" in that it is both promoted for forage production and spreads like a weed in some places. Leucocephala is used for a variety of purposes, such as firewood , fiber and livestock fodder .

It grows up to 4 meters tall but generally remains under three, and forms colonies of individuals which tangle together to form nearly impenetrable thickets. This means that when used on the skin it will not remove the natural body oils, but nor will...

* Flowers and fruit are conspicuous. * Common names in other Namibian language groups Oshiwambo Otjiherero Kavango languages Omuwombamenje Caprivi languages Setswana Afrikaans Lemoendoring Deutsch Khoekhoegowab Bushman languages Gruenhaarbaum ?Khas

* A refreshing tea can be made from the young shoot tips. It is widespread particularly in coastal scrub and colonizing land recovering after a fire or reverting to a natural state after being used for agriculture.

* The fresh, pungent leaves are a fragrant and refreshing tea substitute. It is found throughout New Zealand but is particularly common on the drier east coasts of the North Island and the South Island , and in Australia in Tasmania , Victoria and New...

Branchlets arched, red-brown and yellow tomentose initially, black-brown and glabrous when old; buds ovoid, 2–5 mm, with several scales, pubescent, apex acute or obtuse. Spiraea chinensis Maximowicz, Trudy Imp.

Although the natural growth is a very irregular shape, it can be readily pruned into a conventional tree shape. It is commonly seen in washes and along riverbanks at elevations below 1500 m in its range.

* The narrow evergreen leaves, pale on the underside, have a tendency to form groups of threes, standing upright when newly put forth, but bent downward with the weight of age. * Requires an acid humus-rich soil, succeeding in part shade or in full sun...

Seeds should produce mostly blue flowers, but may show some breaks to colors of reds, yellows and bicolors. Grows well in a poor sandy soil. Plants are hardy to about -25°c. * An easily grown plant, succeeding in any moderately good soil in a sunny position.

For a windbreak plant two to five rows for the most effective protection. Plant six feet apart in rows eight feet apart. Cultivate for the first two years. Shipped 18 to 24 inches tall.

Big Blue is deer, air pollution, drought, erosion, and rabbit tolerant. Use a slow release granular fertilizer in spring. It can be planted in the landscape as a mass groundcover or as an edging plant.

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

* Stored seed should be sown as early in the year as possible and given cold stratification - it might not germinate until spring of the following year.