Salt Tolerant Plant Perennial Plant For Sale In Chesapeake

* The mature trees grow to a height of 15-25 m, rarely up to 34 m, with a trunk diameter of up to 1.2 m. It is drought-tolerant and grows on dry, rocky soil. The species is often smaller, stunted and twisted in coastal exposures.

It is dense and cone-shaped when young, broadening at the top with age. The bark is grey to yellow-brown, and is widely split by flaking fissures into scaly plates, becoming increasingly fissured with age.

* Succeeds in poor soils and, once established, tolerates drought. Despite its common name, Russian sage is not in the same genus as other Salvias, which are commonly called "sage".

Its value as a street tree is largely due to its resistance to salt spray (from road de-icing salt) and various industrial pollutants (including ozone), and its intermediate drought tolerance.

* The leaves are used as an insect repellent. * Leaves can be eaten raw or cooked. Ptarmica yields an essential oil that is used in herbal medicine. * So called because the roots were once ground for snuff.

The leaves are in pairs or whorls of three, thick and leathery, dark green, narrow lanceolate, 5–21 cm (2.0–8.3 in) long and 1–3.5 cm (0.39–1.4 in) broad, and with an entire margin.

* The fruit is one of the most popular tonics used in Chinese herbal medicine. * Wolfberry species are deciduous woody perennial plants , growing 1–3 m high. * Chinese boxthorn is a major Chinese tonic herb with a history of almost 2,000 years of medicinal...

* In Israel , the tree has been very successful in Yatir Forest in the northern Negev , where foresters had not expected it to survive. * Thrives in a light well-drained sandy or gravelly loam.

* The leaves are used as an insect repellent. * Leaves can be eaten raw or cooked. Ptarmica yields an essential oil that is used in herbal medicine. * So called because the roots were once ground for snuff.

* An attractive shrub or small tree with a short trunk; 2" needles; contorted branches reaching nearly to the ground; of broadly conical form; dark green, much planted in Europe; "an excellent garden tree" (Wyman); native to coastal North America from...

* The root is harvested when the plant is dormant in the autumn or winter and is dried for later use. * Tian Nan Xing has been used in Chinese herbal medicine for thousands of years and is valued especially for its beneficial affect upon the chest.

* Pinus brutia is a popular ornamental tree, extensively planted in parks and gardens in hot dry areas (such as southern California, Arizona, southern Nevada and west and central Texas in the United States), where its considerable heat and drought tolerance...

The common name is large-flowered tickseed. * 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.

* Mexican Palmetto reaches a height of 12–18 m (39–59 ft), with a spread of 3–4 m (9.8–13 ft). The fan-shaped fronds are 1.5–1.8 m (4.9–5.9 ft) wide and attach to 90–120 cm (35–47 in) spineless petioles .

* Bright green needles to 6", 7" cones; native to California south to Baja; grows quickly when young; "a beautiful specimen" (Wyman); used ornamentally in southern California, especially along the coast, and as a timber tree throughout the world in Mediterranean...

It is also known as the Japanese Five Needle Pine ( Pinus pentaphylla ). * It is a coniferous evergreen tree, growing to 15–25 m in height and is usually as broad as it is tall, forming a wide, dense, conical crown.

* Common names for this species include Poinciana , Peacock Flower , Red Bird of Paradise , Mexican Bird of Paradise , Dwarf Poinciana , Pride of Barbados , and flamboyan-de-jardin .

Draco tree alive. * Dracaena draco is cultivated and widely available as an ornamental tree for parks, gardens, and drought tolerant water conserving sustainable landscape projects.

It bears large elegant flowers of various colours: red, white, striped or blue. * The whole plant contains a very aromatic essential oil, giving out a scent somewhat like lemon peel.

* A strong fibre is obtained from the stems, it is used for making string, bags, paper etc. * A very easily grown plant, succeeding in any ordinary garden soil in sun or partial shade.

Grows 6-12'' tall and 6-9'' wide. This superb perennial produces beautiful cream colored star-shaped flowers and silvery green foliage. It is bound to be a subject of conversation in your garden.

Salvia Blue Hill has rough green foliage with numerous spikes of sky blue blooms rising a moderate 15″ from the compact plant. Blue Hill is easily grown in average, dry to medium, well-drained soils in full sun.

It bears large elegant flowers of various colours: red, white, striped or blue. * The whole plant contains a very aromatic essential oil, giving out a scent somewhat like lemon peel.

* This poppy is a perennial that spreads via rhizomes, typically no taller than 30 cm. * Its typical habitat is moist shaded woodland, growing in accumulated humus. The pinnate leaves usually have five soft green leaflets, although three and seven occur...

Medium green leaves are aromatic when crushed. Salvia Caradonna reaches 18-24 inches tall, bearing flowers on sturdy stems during the summer months. Tolerates drought. It was discovered in Uchte, Germany, by Beate Zillmer of Zillmer Pflanzen and is suitable...

* The ground up seed can also be mixed with water and drunk as a refreshing beverage. * The burnt green herb yields culinary ashes high in minerals and these are used by the Hopi Indians to enhance the colour of blue corn products.

* A rare and botanically interesting,medium-sized to large, suckering shrub, occasionally a small tree. * Wood - very light, soft, close grained. The layers of annual growth are hardly distinguishable.