Perennial Plant Drought Tolerant Plant For Sale In Peoria

It is sometimes grown as an ornamental plant in gardens , especially because of its bluish leaves, and also sometimes for its tolerance of hot and dry soil conditions. It also is grown as both a medicinal herb and as a condiment.

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

This a mounded, shrubby cultivar that typically grows to 30-36” tall. Flowers and foliage are heavily scented. Prune back to 8” in spring every 3 years to control plant size and to promote robust, new growth.

* This is a naturally rare grass in the wild but it is widely cultivated for use as an attractive ornamental garden plant. * The only known species is Anemanthele lessoniana, often called gossamer grass or New Zealand wind grass or pheasant's tail grass.

Its leaves resemble those of an Ash tree. * A very ornamental plant, it should be planted into its permanent position as soon as possible because it dislikes root disturbance. * It is a popular garden plant both for its flowers and for its fragrance.

This perennial is a native plant found throughout the eastern part of the United States and in many parts of the western U.S., Canada , and Mexico . * The lance-leaved coreopsis , Coreopsis lanceolata , is a species of coreopsis (Tickseed).

* Succeeds in ordinary garden soil but prefers a deep rich loam with plenty of leafmold and a sunny position. * The flower heads are from ¾ to 3 inches (2 to 7.6 cm) wide with pale rose-purple or nearly white colored petals.

* The plant was used for food and fiber by local Native American peoples such as the Havasupai. Among the Navajo, the plant is used to make blankets. The raceme inflorescence is very tall, reaching a maximum of 4 m (12 ft).

* 3" yellow-orange flowers in midsummer; native to southern U.S. * Coreopsis grandiflora is a perennial plant species of the tickseed genus, Coreopsis, in Asteraceae. The common name is large-flowered tickseed.

* 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 western Morocco, and introduced to the Azores.

* An attractive plant with small pink flowers; can be grown as an annual in cold areas; native to the tropics. * Grown mostly as a curiosity, for the compound leaflets fold up promptly along the midrib when touched.

Purple flowers appear in terminal spikes in late spring to early summer. Excellent for fresh cutting, this is an excellent Lavender selection for drying. Leaves are evergreen in warm winter climates.

The roundleaf dogwood is also a temperate, northeastern North American species that occurs throughout southern and eastern Ontario; in northern Ontario it occurs farther north than the alternateleaf dogwood, but does not extend past 50°N (Soper and Heimburger...

Mediterranean and Asia Minor. * This species grows up to 50 feet, and has yellow flowers. * Sun- and drought-tolerant.

* Often has drooping branchlets; foliage green; half-inch cones; native to Mexico and Central America. * Cupressus lusitanica , ( Cedro Blanco ; Teotlate , distinctive names used in Mexico); Cedro Blanco means White Cedar and is also known as Mexican...

The leaves are long-stalked and uniquely divided into two leaflets about 1 1/2 inches long. Named for Ferdinand Roemer, a German geologist who collected specimens in the New Braunfels, Texas, area from 1845-47.

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

This native is heat and drought tolerant but does not like to be transplanted.After the flowers, butterfly weed produces a showy seed heads which are great in dried arrangements. Attracts pollinators and hummingbirds.

* The fruit is edible raw. It is juicy, sweet, fleshy, slightly aromatic. * American beautyberries produce large clusters of purple berries, which birds and deer eat, thus distributing the seeds.

Excellent for attracting pollinators to your garden. The one question that comes up often, “when is the best time to plant? Echinacea purpurea magnus has extra large pink flowers with a copper-brown cone (center).

In clear weather, flowers open at nearly full dark and wither a few hours after sunrise the following morning; in cloudy weather, they may open earlier and last longer. * All parts of Datura plants contain dangerous levels of anticholinergic tropane alkaloids...

Established plants are drought tolerant. * The leaves are used for flavouring rice dumplings. * Requires a well-drained sandy soil and a sunny position.

* Cupressus funebris is a medium-sized coniferous tree growing to 20-35 m tall, with a trunk up to 2 m diameter. The foliage grows in dense, usually moderately decumbent and pendulous sprays of bright green, very slender, slightly flattened shoots.

It is native to southern Europe ( Sicily ), southwestern Asia ( Lebanon , Syria , Turkey ) and eastern Asia ( China ), with two well-separated populations. * Fontanesia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Oleaceae , usually treated as comprising...

The saguaro creates callus tissue on the wound. It is native to the Sonoran Desert in Arizona, the Mexican State of Sonora, and the Whipple Mountains and Imperial County areas of California.

* An attractive, variable plant, often with a vertical central leader, horizontal side branches, and drooping branchlets; a loose, open habit; sharp, needlelike bright green foliage; native to Japan, Korea, North China * Succeeds in most soils if they...

* Rudbeckia fulgida are perennial herbaceous plants growing up to 120 cm tall, growing from rosettes that develop at the end of stolons. The upper surfaces of the leaves are glabrous or have hirsute to strigose hairs.