Salt Tolerant Plant Perennial Plant For Sale In Grand Rapids

* Alopecurus arundinaceus ( Creeping meadow foxtail , Creeping foxtail ) is a rhizomatous perennial species in the Grass family ( Poaceae ). * Native to Eurasia and widely introduced elsewhere, this sod forming grass is useful as a forage and for erosion...

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

* It is a low, creeping, woody shrub to about 1 m tall and 1–2 m wide but often smaller. It is indigenous to southeast Europe and southwest Asia . The green, ovate leaves grow in opposite pairs.

Germination can be rather slow, sometimes taking 12 months or more. * Mature shoots are bound into bunches and used as scourers or as besoms. * Ruscus aculeatus is a low evergreen Eurasian shrub, with flat shoots known as cladodes that give the appearance...

* A very tolerant plant, succeeding in the salt laden air and strong winds of the coast as well as in the sulphur polluted air of cities. It is probably native to the Mediterranean region but its exact range is unknown due to extensive cultivation for...

* Germination usually takes place within 1 - 2 weeks. * A good fast-growing hedge for exposed maritime conditions. * Baccharis halimifolia ( Eastern Baccharis) , commonly called groundsel bush, consumption weed, cotton-seed tree, groundsel tree or silverling)...

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

When prescribed internally it is always used dried and in conjunction with fresh ginger root. * The root is harvested when the plant is dormant in the autumn or winter and is dried for later use.

* Germination usually takes place within 1 - 2 weeks. * A good fast-growing hedge for exposed maritime conditions. * Baccharis halimifolia ( Eastern Baccharis) , commonly called groundsel bush, consumption weed, cotton-seed tree, groundsel tree or silverling)...

* A very tolerant plant, succeeding in the salt laden air and strong winds of the coast as well as in the sulphur polluted air of cities. It is probably native to the Mediterranean region but its exact range is unknown due to extensive cultivation for...

* 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 as low as 200 m in...

Privets are fast growers and do well as long as they are planted in well-drained soil. The trees are beautiful in the spring with white blooms and in the fall the dark berries appear.

Wood - coarse-grained, light, soft, brittle, not strong, very durable, resinous. Rosin is the substance left after turpentine is removed. Turpentine has a wide range of uses including as a solvent for waxes etc, for making varnish, medicinal etc.

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

* Alopecurus arundinaceus ( Creeping meadow foxtail , Creeping foxtail ) is a rhizomatous perennial species in the Grass family ( Poaceae ). * Native to Eurasia and widely introduced elsewhere, this sod forming grass is useful as a forage and for erosion...

The flower consists of six petals curving backward from the center. The seeds mature from August to September. The bulb is roundish with a diameter of about 2 cm. * The plant flowers in June and July with one to six upright, dish-shaped flowers.

Its showy, yellow, pea-like flowers occur in upper axillary clusters. * This attractive perennial maintains a neat mound shape and grows 1-2 ft. The leaves are long-stalked and uniquely divided into two leaflets about 1 1/2 inches long.

* A good ground cover plant, succeeding in dense shade but rather slow to spread. Plants should be spaced about 60cm apart each way. * Heart-shaped shiny dark green leaves with prominent veins, 9" x 5"; dark violet flowers in August; a 2' mound, flowers...

* The fruit is one of the most popular tonics used in Chinese herbal medicine. * Chinese boxthorn is a major Chinese tonic herb with a history of almost 2,000 years of medicinal use.

This makes dosage estimation a difficult and adds further risk to the administration of material that already has potentially lethal side effects. * All parts of Datura plants contain dangerous levels of anticholinergic tropane alkaloids and may be fatal...

Corydalis lutea; Yellow Corydalis) is a short-lived perennial plant native to the southern foothills of the south-western and central Alps of Italy and Switzerland, but widely introduced elsewhere.

* An herbaceous perennial with lemon yellow flowers to 2", May to August; much planted in gardens, where it likes rich moist soil in sun or part shade; native to Europe, where it grows in moist meadows, along streams, and in open woods.

* The seed is used in pinole or ground into a meal and used as a thickener in making bread or mixed with flour in making bread. * The leaves are cooked and used as greens. * Shadscale fruits and leaves provide important winter browse for both domestic...

* 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...

Water heavily in the summer , less in the winter but never let it dry out. The tree is a fast grower, and can achieve 36 inches of growth in just one year making it a good bonsai specimen.

* A fibre obtained from the leaves is used for making paper. * A widespread urban myth is that pampas grass is used by swingers to advertise their presence to other swingers in the area.

Officinalis ) is a flowering plant in the family Lamiaceae , native to the western Mediterranean region , primarily in the Pyrenees and other mountains in northern Spain . Lavender flowers and gray-green leaves provide mid-summer color and contrast to...