Shade Tree Drought Tolerant Plant For Sale In Virginia

* Common names include Orchid tree and Mountain-ebony. * Purple or lavender terminal flowers. * A decidious Tree growing to 12m. * Native to India and China.

The tips of the stems take on a rosy glow in winter, while in early spring bud burst produces bright green delicate foliage, which preserves its colour throughout the growing season.

* Foliage dark green in summer, orange or orange red in fall. * Horticulturally, it is a popular choice for street trees in urban settings because it is very drought tolerant and can survive harsh environments.

* Fraxinus velutina ( Velvet Ash or Arizona Ash or Modesto Ash ) is a species of Fraxinus native to southwestern North America , in the United States from southern California east to Texas , and in Mexico from northern Baja California east to Coahuila...

Ponderosa is distinguishable in the field and certainly occurs at the type locality (Mount Rose, Nevada). * Many botanists believe that this is merely a southern outlier of the typical North Plateau race of ponderosa pine.

* A small tree with a sturdy upright trunk which divides into stout branches that usually spread to form a broad flat head. * In the wild, eastern redbud is a frequent native understory tree in mixed forests and hedgerows.

It can grow up to 6 meters in height and grows in plains and dry forests. * 3" leaves, blue green or gray green; reddish-yellow fruit; native to western Asia, southeast Europe. Established plants are very drought resistant.

Some of this nitrogen is utilized by the growing plant but some can also be used by other plants growing nearby. * This tree is remarkable for the number and length of the spines growing on its trunk, which makes it the most formidably armed of temperate...

This resistance to splitting led to its use for making mauls, pulleys, wheel hubs, agricultural rollers, bowls, and paving blocks. It is lustrous, with entire, often wavy margins. A thin sharply acid pulp that is pleasant to roll in the mouth as a masticatory,...

* A small tree with a sturdy upright trunk which divides into stout branches that usually spread to form a broad flat head. * In the wild, eastern redbud is a frequent native understory tree in mixed forests and hedgerows.

Some of this nitrogen is utilized by the growing plant but some can also be used by other plants growing nearby. * This tree is remarkable for the number and length of the spines growing on its trunk, which makes it the most formidably armed of temperate...

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

The tree is short-lived in temperate climates, rarely reaching more than 60 years of age, but in its native environment may live to between 100 and 150 year. * The Siberian Elm is usually a small to medium-sized, often bushy, tree growing to 10 - 20 m...

* This is one of our most popular bonsai seeds. * Pinus longaeva , the Great Basin Bristlecone Pine , is a long-living species of tree found in the higher mountains of the southwest United States .

Seedpods - the pulp is sweet and can be eaten raw or made into sugar. * Current research is examining the leaves as a potential source of anticancer compounds. The render young seedpods can be cooked and eaten.

It is indigenous to southeast Europe and southwest Asia . It is a popular, semi- evergreen garden shrub with many named cultivars and hybrids derived from it.In North America the name Rose of Sharon is applied to a species in a different order, Hibiscus...

It is much more drought tolerant than most spruce species. It is found only in China . * Picea crassifolia is a species of conifer in the Pinaceae family. * This species of spruce should be grown in areas where drought may be a concern.

It is native to the southeastern United States , occurring on the coastal plain from Delaware south to central Florida , and west to southeast Louisiana . * The American Turkey Oak ( Quercus laevis ) is a member of the red oak group of oaks .

* Its previous scientific name was Quercus nuttallii , but it is now known as Quercus texana ; this has created much confusion with Texas Red Oak which was known as Quercus texana but is now known as Quercus buckleyi .

* The tree is regarded as attractive because of its wide spreading shelving branches and flat-topped head, and is often used in ornamental plantings. * This species is unusual in having alternate leaves whilst almost all other members of this genus have...

* A species of maple native to the hardwood forests of northeastern North America, from Nova Scotia west to southern Ontario, and south to Georgia and Texas. * A decidious Tree growing to 30 m.

It was originally discovered near the village of Zaovine on the Tara Mountain in 1875, and named by the Serbian botanist Josif Pancic ; the epithet omorika is simply the Serbian word for "spruce"; hence, the scientific name means "Spruce-spruce".

* This beautiful tropical flowering tree from the Carribean will do well in protected locations in zone 9 and anywhere in zones 10 and 11.

It is native to eastern Asia from the Himalaya east to Japan * Evergreen except in cold climates; delicate compound leaves, reddish when new, later blue-green; attractive white flowers in panicles atop the stems, followed by beautiful bright red berries;...

* Source of the commercial pecan; a tall, straight-trunked tree, fastest growing of the hickories; likes deep, rich soil; native to central midwest south to Mexico * Trees are probably much hardier when grown in areas with hot summers.

In the far south of those states, it is replaced by Pinus arizonica (q.v.). The 'South Rockies' group includes populations formerly assigned to Pinus brachyptera Engelmann (1848) from Arizona and New Mexico.

In literature, it is closely associated with the Mullai (forest) region of Sangam landscape * It is the national tree of Thailand, and its flower is Thailand's national flower. It is also the state flower of Kerala in India and of immense importance amongst...