Perennial Plant Drought Tolerant Plant For Sale In Durham

Its showy, yellow, pea-like flowers occur in upper axillary clusters. * This attractive perennial maintains a neat mound shape and grows 1-2 ft. Named for Ferdinand Roemer, a German geologist who collected specimens in the New Braunfels, Texas, area from...

Our ideal fertilizer schedule for you to use is as follows. Butterfly weed is heavily laden with nectar and pollen, making it particularly attractive to butterflies, hummingbirds and beneficial insects.

* Grown mostly as a curiosity, for the compound leaflets fold up promptly along the midrib when touched. * The stem is erect in young plants, but becomes creeping or trailing with age.

The seed usually germinates in 1 - 3 months at 20°c. * The plant was used for food and fiber by local Native American peoples such as the Havasupai. Can be dried for future use or soaked in water to produce a flavourful beverage.

* Japanese Black Pine can reach the height of 40 m, but rarely achieves this size outside its natural range. * Thick, slightly twisted bright green 3-4 1/2" needles. Needles tend to be quite long but can be reduced with the pruning techniques.

Pennisetum ciliare (L.) Link) is a species of grass native to most of Africa, southern Asia (east to India), southern Iran, and the extreme south of Europe(Sicily). The introduction was largely unsuccessful but the grass began to appear as a weed beside...

* This is a popular "ornamental grass" even though it is technically a sedge. * It is native to New Zealand where it grows on sand dunes proving its drought and salt tolerance. Mass plantings are spectacular!

* Many botanists believe that this is merely a southern outlier of the typical North Plateau race of ponderosa pine. * Pinus washoensis may be synonymous with P. Ponderosa, as detailed on that page.

* It is one of the alleged "50 fundamental herbs" used in traditional Chinese medicine. (Leguminosae) have been used in traditional medicine for the treatment of inflammatory diseases including swelling, suppuration, carbuncle and skin diseases.

Members of this genus are rarely if ever troubled by browsing deer or rabbits. * The species, from central Europe and Russia, has blue-purple, lavender, or white flowers, but there are dozens of cultivars, in a varied range of splendid blues, purples,...

, often commonly called wood sage, is a hybrid perennial salvia that primarily results from crosses between have uncertain parentage, however, and may actually be cultivars of one of the parents rather than being hybrids.

* Big bluestem is tolerant of a wide range of soils and moisture. * Big Bluestem is a perennial grass. * Seed germination appears to be dependent on about a 2-week period of moistened seed at a time when soil temperatures have reached 60 degrees Fahrenheit.

* A form with reddish-purple flowers, otherwise similar to the species, which see.

* Excellent as a fresh cut flower and for dried arrangements. * It is occasionally seen on the California coast where it is an introduced species and landscaping escapee. * Native to the Mediterranean region, statice (also commonly called notchleaf status)...

* It has started being cultivated recently and is a very attractive ornamental tree. * Because of its isolation in a remote area, it escaped discovery until 1964. * The Mexican government has declared this species endangered.

* (Panicum virgatum L.) is a native, deep-rooted, warm-season grass with stout rhizomes and heavy biomass growth during late spring and early summer. Dry matter biomass yields and other information were compiled from 1982 to 1992 at six sites in North...

* It is used primarily for soil conservation , forage production, game cover, as an ornamental grass , and more recently as a biomass crop for ethanol , fibre, electricity, and heat production and for biosequestration of atmospheric carbon dioxide .

Salvia Blue Hill has rough green foliage with numerous spikes of sky blue blooms rising a moderate 15″ from the compact plant. Salvia Blue Hills is a sun perennial with sky blue spikes of flowers rise above a mound of aromatic gray-green foliage and...

* A variable species found in dry soil and full sun from Europe to China; stems to 3' with purple bracts and very attractive purple, pink, or white flowers in July and August; likes calcaric soils; spreads via suckers; aromatic leaves; widely used in...

Flickers excavate larger holes higher on the stem. * Flowers appear in April through June. * The image of the saguaro is indelibly linked with that of the American Southwest, especially in western films.

This tree transplants well. * Mountain Pine or Mugo Pine ( Pinus mugo ) is a high-altitude European pine , found in the Pyrenees , Alps , Erzgebirge , Carpathians , northern Apennines and Balkan Peninsula mountains from (mostly) 1,000 m to 2,200 m, occasionally...

* It has started being cultivated recently and is a very attractive ornamental tree. * Because of its isolation in a remote area, it escaped discovery until 1964. * The Mexican government has declared this species endangered.

* The Interior Live Oak ( Quercus wislizeni ) is an evergeen oak , highly variable and often shrubby, found in areas of California in the United States . * It is a large shrub or tree growing to 22 m tall.

* This perennial blooms late in the season and makes a great transition along shady edges.

The fruit is up to 18mm long, it has a thin pulp and contains 1 - 3 rounded seeds. * Grown for its masses of glorious, delicate, white, slightly fragrant flowers in May; of open, spreading habit; native to the southeastern United States but hardy nearly...

It is a monotypic genus, with this species as its only member. D??m?st?k?/ ) commonly known as heavenly bamboo or sacred bamboo , is a suckering shrub in the Barberry family, Berberidaceae .

Foliage is considered to be evergreen (leaves persist on the tree until new growth commences in spring). * Myrtle oak features shiny, leathery leaves (to 2” long) which are dark green above and yellow-green to orange-brown beneath.