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* This plant occurs in northeastern Spain and in central Mediterranean countries up to northern Europe and to Asia Minor and Tunisia. * These shrubs are usually found in wooded and bushy areas, on sunny, warm and dry slopes and around forest edges.

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...

* Pinus nigra is a large coniferous evergreen tree, growing to 20–55 metres (66–180 ft) high at maturity and spreading to 20 to 40 feet wide. An important forestry tree in Europe it is native to central and south central Europe and Turkey.

For the densest cover plants should be cut to ground level each April. Very vigorous, it can swamp out small plants. It is indigenous to southeast Europe and southwest Asia . * A good ground cover plant, succeeding in the heavy shade of trees and in dry...

* This makes a beautiful flowering tree all on its own even though it is primarily grown as an extremely cold hardy rootstock for grafting edible pear varieties. Pyrifolia culta in Korea, it is very frost resistant.

The leaves are deciduous in cold areas, but semi-evergreen in warmer climates, < 7 cm long and < 3 cm broad, with an oblique base and a coarsely serrated margin, changing from dark green to yellow in autumn.

Extremely adaptable and common in the sandy or clay-sand ridges of Georgia. * Pinus palustris , commonly known as the Longleaf Pine , is a pine native to the southeastern United States , found along the coastal plain from eastern Texas to southeast Virginia...

* An upright bush with evergreen leaves; five-petaled very fragrant flowers at the tips of branches, throughout the year in hot areas; parents of this strain have pink flowers; doesn't mind wind, salt, poor soil; all parts of the plant are highly toxic;...

* 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...

* This plant occurs in northeastern Spain and in central Mediterranean countries up to northern Europe and to Asia Minor and Tunisia. * These shrubs are usually found in wooded and bushy areas, on sunny, warm and dry slopes and around forest edges.

It is bound to be a subject of conversation in your garden. Super hardy Edelweiss will survive the coldest winter temperatures and the worst summer droughts. This superb perennial produces beautiful cream colored star-shaped flowers and silvery green...

* It is also grown for the cut Christmas tree industry. * The specific epithet pungens means "sharply pointed", referring to the leaves. * It is a popular ornamental tree found far beyond its native range.

* The human use of the cactus dates back thousands of years to the northern coast of Peru and the monks of a pre-Inca culture known as Chavin . Besides mescaline, it also contains varying phenethylamines and other substances in minimal proportions * Today...

It generally occurs in foothills , being most abundant in the lower altitudes of the Sierra Nevada , but also widespread in the Pacific Coast Ranges and the San Gabriel Mountains .

* A tea is made by boiling the leaves and stems. The male cones are yellow, 2–3 mm long, and fall soon after shedding their pollen in March–April. Common Juniper has needle-like leaves in whorls of three; the leaves are green, with a single white...

Depending on soil and moisture conditions, it grows to a height of 1 – 3m (3 – 10 ft) . * Big Bluestem is a perennial grass. * Big bluestem is tolerant of a wide range of soils and moisture.

The species is one of three closely related trees known as bristlecone pines and is sometimes known as the Intermountain or Western bristlecone pine . It is a very hard to secure item.

* Many species of birds feed on the fruits. * Terminal stems holding the flowers are distinctively red and provide interesting contrast to the clusters of small white berries which form after the flowers have dropped.

From 26° to 15° north latitude, from Sinaloa , Mexico to Honduras . * It occurs within a rainfalls regime mostly in summer. * Thin 8" needles; 4" cones; native to Mexico. * Smooth-bark Mexican Pine ( Pinus pseudostrobus ), ( Chamite and Pacingo ) distinctive...

From 26° to 15° north latitude, from Sinaloa , Mexico to Honduras . * It occurs within a rainfalls regime mostly in summer. * Thin 8" needles; 4" cones; native to Mexico. * Smooth-bark Mexican Pine ( Pinus pseudostrobus ), ( Chamite and Pacingo ) distinctive...

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...

These saponins can be toxic, but when applied externally they have a gentle cleansing and healing effect upon the skin, killing body parasites and helping in the healing of wounds.

* Rough gray bark, bright green leaves; native to Monterey County, California * Cupressus goveniana is a species of cypress endemic to coastal California in the United States , where it is found in small, scattered populations, not in large forests.

* Many people grow this tree in the Southern USA just so they can gather the Catalpa worms to use as fishing bait. The tree is fairly free from fungal diseases and has few insect enemies.

Plant the roots out very shallowly. A very ornamental plant. * The species, from central Europe and Russia, has blue-purple, lavender, or white flowers, but there are dozens of cultivars, in a varied range of splendid blues, purples, pinks, and whites,...

Actually it is the availability of Aluminum in the soil which is required for Hydrangea macrophylla to produce the color pigment delphinidin. In soilless mixes, like the peat moss or bark based potting soils that they are typically found growing in at...

* Leonotis nepetifolia is known in Trinidad as shandilay and the leaves are brewed as a tea for fever, coughs, womb prolapse and malaria. * It grows to a height of 3 metres and has whorls of striking lipped flowers, that are most commonly orange, but...