Nitrogen Fixing Plant Flowering Shrub For Sale In Pittsburgh

This plant can be found growing in well drained soils of prairies, bluffs, and open woodlands. * Plants have an extensive root system, they tolerate poor dry soils and are also wind resistant, they are used as a windbreak and also to prevent soil erosion.

* 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. Fruticosa grows as a glandular, thornless shrub which can reach 5 or 6 meters in height and spread to twice...

* 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 ).

This plant can be found growing in well drained soils of prairies, bluffs, and open woodlands. The compound leaves of this plant appear leaden due to their dense hairiness. Conservation Plant Characteristics Amorpha canescens Pursh leadplant AMCA6 Summary...

* Tolerant of dry alkaline soils. Some of this nitrogen is utilized by the growing plant but some can also be used by other plants growing nearby. * This species has a symbiotic relationship with certain soil bacteria, these bacteria form nodules on the...

* Leaves bright green on top, silvery beneath, sweetly fragrant silvery-white flowers; red fruit in fall, loved by birds, which may spread the plant excessively; native to Japan. Because airborne nitrogen can be fixed in its roots, it has the capability...

* Native to semiconsolidated sand dunes; 900-2400 m. It is good fodder for animals, improves the soil, allows natural vegetation to become established, and prevents soil erosion by wind and rain.

* 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.

We are pleased to offer you a very unusual find in rhododendrons. Blooms mid-late season. Polar Night blooms mid-late season and is a compact 3' tall by 6' wide. When just beginning to show color the flowerbuds on Polar Night Rhododendron are so dark...

Make your garden come alive with fragrance in spring by planting our Fragrant Persian Lilac Garden. The shrub form grows up to 8' tall, but can easily be pruned to a smaller size. Persian Lilacs are highly valued for their pale lavender flowers and delightful...

* The flowers can be eaten raw. * The tree produces long flat pods that hang vertically. These are heart-shaped with a blunt apex, which occasionally has a shallow notch at the tip.

* A yellow dye is obtained from the flowers. * This is a fast growing evergreen flowering tree. * Acacia dealbata is widely cultivated as an ornamental plant in warm temperate regions of the world, and is naturalised in some areas.

Attracts butterflies and hummingbirds, fragrant, great cut flower. The Bristol Ruby Weigela is a beautiful, well-formed shrub, which grows 4-8' tall. Some repeat blooms until frost.

Each palmate leaf is made up of 5 to 10 leaflets each up to 7 centimeters long. It is a hairy, erect perennial herb often exceeding a meter in height. It is native to the western United States from Washington to California , where it grows mostly in mountain...

* The plant is under investigation as a potential stimulant of the immune system. Australis is the most commonly cultivated species in its genus, and is also cultivated beyond its native continent in other areas such as Great Britain, where it has gained...

* 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 is native to eastern North America , from southern Quebec south to the extreme...

The wood, after soaking in water, polishes to a brilliant black finish. * Chimonanthus praecox, also known as wintersweet or Japanese allspice, is a species of flowering plant in the genus Chimonanthus of the family Calycanthaceae, native to China.

Elliptic-oblong, glossy, dark green leaves (to 3" long). * This Japanese snowbell cultivar is a shrubby, broad-topped, small tree or large shrub with wide spreading horizontal branches which tend to weep at maturity.

* 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 is native to eastern North America , from southern Quebec south to the extreme...

* While the point of origin is Mexico and Central America the species has a pantropical distribution incorporating Northern Australia and Southern Asia. * A deliciously scented essential oil, it has a fragrance of violets.

* Cultivated in China for the rutin contained in its leaves and ovaries. * A yellow dye is obtained from the seedpods and the flowers * S. * A very ornamental and fast growing tree, it grows best in hot summers.

* Tolerant of dry alkaline soils. Some of this nitrogen is utilized by the growing plant but some can also be used by other plants growing nearby. * This species has a symbiotic relationship with certain soil bacteria, these bacteria form nodules on the...

* A large multistemmed shrub with narrowly conical, sometimes pendulous clusters of purple-pink flowers, pink with white inside as flowers begin to fade; said by Dirr to lack fragrance; native to central China.

Attracts butterflies, deer resistant, good for cutting. Create a sensation in your yard with the Sensation Lilac. Sensation is smaller than most lilacs growing to a mature height of 10-15' with a spread of 10-12'.

Flowers are often partially obscured by the large, velvety, oval-rounded, medium green leaves (to 8" long). Bell-shaped, fragrant, white flowers with showy yellow stamens appear in pendulous, terminal racemes (to 8" long) in May-June (somewhat late for...

The bark is often mixed with alder and wild plum root barks when making the dye. It is found in Nebraska, western Oklahoma, southwestern South Dakota, Colorado, Wyoming, Utah, New Mexico, and Texas.

Like other leguminous plants, it fixes the atmospheric nitrogen in the soil. * Ants harvest the seed, attracted by the fleshy, oil rich elaiosome (or seed stalk), which they bury and store in widely dispersed locations.