Perennial Plant Drought Tolerant Plant For Sale In District Of Columbia

* A very ornamental plant. * The crushed leaves are very aromatic. In Eurasian herbalism, this plant has a long history of use as a febrifuge. * Although research and data is limited, some identified compounds in this plant include thujone, miltirone,...

Its main use in present day herbalism is for relieving the pain and inflammation of pleurisy. It was much used by the North American Indians and acquired a reputation as a heal-all amongst the earlier white settlers.

Requires very good drainage with abundant moisture in the summer and a sunny position. The stems grow slowly and often tightly together, eventually reaching 2-5 m tall with a trunk diameter of 20-25 cm.

* Mostly identical to the species, which see, but with white flowers.

Cut back just above ground-level in mid-spring after the first flush of blooms. A general rule of thumb is to count to 5 for every one gallon of pot size. That is why we do not recommend planting in a hole any deeper than the soil line of the plant in...

Named for Ferdinand Roemer, a German geologist who collected specimens in the New Braunfels, Texas, area from 1845-47. * This attractive perennial maintains a neat mound shape and grows 1-2 ft.

* It has green arching foliage to 3 feet in USDA 8, with highlights of orange, copper, and gold, especially in drier soils. * The only known species is Anemanthele lessoniana, often called gossamer grass or New Zealand wind grass or pheasant's tail grass.

It requires a minimum of 140 days from planting to harvest. * Gossypium hirsutum , known as Upland Cotton or Mexican Cotton , is the most widely planted species of cotton in the United States, constituting some 95% of all cotton production.

English lavender varieties are more often used for culinary purposes than other types of lavender. Plants should be clipped back by half in spring. Narrow, gray-green leaves (to 2 1/2” long) on square stems.

Blooms late summer to early fall. * Unusual perennials with 2" spherical blue flowers in mid to late summer; the plant itself is rather rough and thistly with dark green leaves; good for middle or back of border; wants full sun and good drainage; can...

Mass plantings are spectacular! * Leaves are olive green in partial shade and orange in full sun and in the fall/winter. * Works well in a perennial border or container in either full sun or partial shade.

Strictly speaking it is a bine rather than a vine, using its own shoots to act as supports for new growth. * Humulus lupulus (common hop or hop) is a species of flowering plant in the Cannabaceae family, native to Europe, western Asia and North America.

* Big bluestem is tolerant of a wide range of soils and moisture. A warm-season grass, big bluestem begins growing in mid to late spring, several weeks after cool-season grasses. * Seed germination appears to be dependent on about a 2-week period of moistened...

Salvia East Friesland is an erect, clump-forming perennial salvia that is noted for its compact form, long bloom period, purple stems and violet-purple flowers. Dense terminal spikes of violet-purple flowers rise above the foliage to 18” tall over a...

Besides mescaline, it also contains varying phenethylamines and other substances in minimal proportions * Today it is still used by Curanderos (medicine men) of northern Peru. * Peruvian Torch ( Trichocereus peruvianus ) is found high in the Andean mountain...

(Gansu, Guizhou, Hebei, Hubei, Heilongjiang, Jilin, Liaoning, Nei Mong) all in China. * Native to forest margins, grassy slopes; 400--2700 m.

It has been introduced in New Zealand near sea level and has done well. * It occurs within a rainfalls regime mostly in summer. It grows between 1300-3250 m. * Thin 8" needles; 4" cones; native to Mexico.

It is juicy, sweet, fleshy, slightly aromatic. * American Beautyberry ( Callicarpa americana ) is an open-habit, native shrub of the Southern United States which is often grown as an ornamental in gardens and yards .

* Pinus devoniana is closely related to Pinus montezumae (the Montezuma Pine). * It is one of the most elementally Mexican of pines. * These trees project a sense of vigorous strength, for though not generally very large, they are robust, with thick branches...

* They are occationally grown as ornamentals for their yellow flowers and interesting rattling seed pods. * Crotalarias are grown in the tropics as green manure cover crops due to their nitrogen fixing capabilities and drought tolerance.

* 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 .

The specific epithets sebifera and sebiferum mean "wax-bearing" and refer to the vegetable tallow that coats the seeds. * Triadica sebifera , also referred to as Sapium sebiferum , is commonly known as the Chinese tallow tree , Florida aspen and Gray...

Established plants are drought tolerant, succeeding in hot dry positions. A very ornamental plant. * An attractive, variable plant, often with a vertical central leader, horizontal side branches, and drooping branchlets; a loose, open habit; sharp, needlelike...

It is commonly kept as an ornamental plant. * The lance-leaved coreopsis , Coreopsis lanceolata , is a species of coreopsis (Tickseed). * Lance-leaved coreopsis produces yellow flowers in late summer.

The Purple D'Oro daylily is a wonderfully colored reblooming daylily. You'll be thrilled with the first flush of 3'' purple blooms from June to October. Growing only 20'' tall, you will be able to find several places for it in your garden.

* Datura wrightii has also been used to induce hallucination for recreational purposes. This makes dosage estimation a difficult and adds further risk to the administration of material that already has potentially lethal side effects.

* Of open, wide-spreading habit, with several main branches ramifying into small branchlets; grows quickly, but wood may be brittle and susceptible to ice and snow damage; resistant to Dutch elm disease, and so used by breeders; drought tolerant, used...