Shade Tolerant Plant Drought Tolerant Plant For Sale In Cambridge

Also tolerates some drought. Blooms on new growth. Tolerates wide range of soils, including dry rocky or sandy soils. Also useful for stabilizing embankments. Can be grown as a hedge.

* An easily grown and very tolerant plant, it succeeds in most positions in any good soil in sun or partial shade. Thrives in a bog garden. * Iris foetidissima ( Stinking Iris , Gladdon , Gladwin Iris , Roast-beef Plant , Stinking Gladwin ), is a species...

* Current research is examining the leaves as a potential source of anticancer compounds. * This is the thornless version of the species. It is a popular street tree in the East and Midwest and offers a graceful habit and fine textured leaves that can...

* The wood is hard, heavy, rather strong, tough, elastic, brittle, coarse-grained. It weighs 44lbper cubic foot. * Green Ash is one of the most widely planted ornamental trees throughout the United States and much of Canada but mostly Alberta, including...

A small very light green, stalked axillary bud is associated with each leaf. Howard and Styrax officinalis subsp. It is the "official" source of styrax , an herbal medicine known from ancient times.

* A tea is made by boiling the leaves and stems. It is dioecious , with male and female cones on separate plants, which are wind pollinated. Common Juniper has needle-like leaves in whorls of three; the leaves are green, with a single white stomatal band...

* The wood is hard, heavy, rather strong, tough, elastic, brittle, coarse-grained. It weighs 44lbper cubic foot. * Green Ash is one of the most widely planted ornamental trees throughout the United States and much of Canada but mostly Alberta, including...

The flowers grow in clusters at the end of each branch; they are white, pink, red or yellow, 2.5–5 cm (0.98–2.0 in) diameter, with a deeply 5-lobed corolla with a fringe round the central corolla tube.

* Can be grown as a small ornamental tree. The red seed pods are brilliant, opening to revel shiny black seeds. * Common in thickets and in thin secondary forests in lowlands and low mountains of central and southern Japan.

It weighs 26lb per cubic foot. * Catalpa speciosa , commonly known as the Northern Catalpa , is a species of Catalpa that is native to the midwestern United States in Arkansas , Illinois , Indiana , Missouri , Kentucky , Pennsylvania , and Tennessee .

* It climbs by means of aerial rootlets which cling to the substrate. * The leaves are alternate, 50–100 mm long, with a 15–20 mm petiole ; they are of two types, with palmately five-lobed juvenile leaves on creeping and climbing stems, and unlobed...

* Easily grown in a rich strong loam enriched with leafmold and sand. * Very young leaf buds are cooked as a vegetable. Requires very good drainage with abundant moisture in the summer and a sunny position.

* Quercus turbinella is a species of oak known by the common names Sonoran scrub oak and shrub live oak . It is native to northwestern Mexico and the southwestern United States from far eastern California to southwest Colorado , Rio Grande New Mexico...

Red petals with orange-yellow stripes and other blends make this hybrid daylily stand out in any garden. Grows 22'' tall. A stunning blend of orange, yellow, red and tan. Mid-late season bloomer.

The leaves are gathered when the plant is in full bloom and are dried in the shade. * New Jersey tea is a compact, dense, rounded shrub which typically grows 2-3' tall (less frequently to 4').

Extremely adaptable and common in the sandy or clay-sand ridges of Georgia. * A vanillin flavouring is obtained as a by-product of other resins that are released from the pulpwood.

'Northern Pearls' is a compact cultivar that grows to 6-8' tall and features racemes (3-5" long) of 5-petaled white flowers (to 2" diameter) which bloom in early spring. Flower buds purportedly resemble white pearls, hence the cultivar name.

* This is an excellent plant to use for cut flowers and dried flowers. They keep their blue color well after drying. * It is very cold hardy, coming from Siberia, and will also tolerate drought and saline conditions.

Newly grown leaves and samaras take on a reddish hue. * This is an amazing endangered maple from South China and Vietnam. The tree features slender leaves, unlike the multilobed leaves found on most maple species.

* The leaves are cooked and used as greens. The water in which the leaves are cooked is used in making corn pudding . * Shadscale fruits and leaves provide important winter browse for both domestic livestock and native herbivores.

* Eucalyptus cloeziana, Gympie Messmate, is a small to tall tree with rough bark on most or the whole of the trunk and larger branches. * The bark is soft, flaky, tessellated, light brown or yellow-brown, where smooth, greyish white or yellowish above.

* Creamy white flowers as much as a foot wide, wonderfully fragrant, in May, June or July. * This is perhaps the most strongly scented flower in the world! * Exceptionally large trees recorded include a 35 m (114 ft) high specimen from the Chickasawhay...

* The wood dries without difficulty and is often used in its green or wet state for turnery and bowl carving. * Water extract of Jacaranda mimosifolia shows higher antimicrobial action against Bacillus cereus and Escherichia coli than gentamicin sulfate...

* Fraxinus angustifolia ( Narrow-leafed Ash ) is a species of Fraxinus native to central and southern Europe , northwest Africa , and southwest Asia . * It is a medium-sized deciduous tree growing to 20–30 m tall with a trunk up to 1.5 m diameter.

* Although it can grow to the height of 25 meters, many specimens are seen as shrubs 3–5 m tall with many small trunks. The seed ripens in late autumn and, when stored in its shell in a cool place, will keep for at least 6 months.

Glauca is the Rocky Mountain variety of this tree. Glauca is the commonly cultivated variety of this tree for areas outside of the Pacific Northwest, and is clearly a better selection for midwestern climates than the species because of its better cold...

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