Agiseek home

Urban Tolerant Plant Drought Tolerant Plant For Sale In Des Moines

Become a Partner
European Hackberry Celtis australis
Price : CALL

* An excellent fuel. * The flexible thin shoots are used as walking sticks. The tree was 18 m in height with a d.b.h. of 5 m in 2013. * A yellow dye is obtained from the bark * It is often planted as an ornamental as it is resistant to air pollution and...
  • Botanical Name: Celtis australis
  • Species: australis
  • Genus: Celtis
  • Height: 60-80 feet
Iowa
Des Moines
Common Rue Ruta graveolens
Prices start at : 5.95 USD / 1 packet

The plant contains flavonoids (notably rutin) that reduce capillary fragility, which might explain the plants reputation as an eye strengthener. It also is grown as both a medicinal herb and as a condiment.
  • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 256
  • Botanical Name: Ruta graveolens
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 5
  • Germination: 98%
  • Genus: Ruta
  • Family: Rutaceae
Iowa
Des Moines
Oleander Nerium oleander     - Nerium indicum
Prices start at : 4.95 USD / 1 packet

The fruit is a long narrow capsule 5–23 cm (2.0–9.1 in) long, which splits open at maturity to release numerous downy seeds .In the past, scented plants were sometimes treated as the distinct species N.
  • Seeds Per Pound: 68,500
  • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 35
  • Germination: 50%
  • Height: 6-20 feet
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 8
  • Collection Locale: India
Iowa
Des Moines
Hedge Maple, Common Maple, Field Maple ACER campestre
Prices start at : 4.95 USD / 1 packet

* A deciduous Tree growing to 15 m, at a fast rate. * A maple native to much of Europe , north to southern England (where it is the only native maple), Denmark , Poland and Belarus , and also southwest Asia from Turkey to the Caucasus , and north Africa...
  • Common Name: Hedge Maple, Common Maple, Field Maple
  • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 68
  • Seeds Per Pound: 6,810
  • Quantity: 5.56 lb
  • Lot#: 070320
  • Height: 45 - 75 feet
Iowa
Des Moines
Gray Dogwood, Northern Swamp Dogwood Cornus racemosa
Prices start at : 3.95 USD / 1 packet

* Plants can produce many stems and suckers, with older stems, which can reach 5 metres (16 ft) in height, having distinctive gray bark. * Many species of birds feed on the fruits.
  • Species: racemosa
  • Germination: 91%
  • Crop Year: 2018
  • Seeds Per Pound: 15,436
  • Family: Cornaceae
  • Height: 10 feet
Iowa
Des Moines
Arizona Ash, Velvet Ash, Modesto Ash Fraxinus velutina
Prices start at : 3.95 USD / 1 packet

* 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...
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 8
  • Common Name: Arizona Ash, Velvet Ash, Modesto Ash
  • Germination: 71%
  • Purity: 98%
  • Species: velutina
  • Crop Year: 2014
Iowa
Des Moines
Bishop Pine, Bishop Pine, Obispo Pine, Santa Cruz Pine, Dwarf Marine Pine, Pricklecone Pine Pinus muricata
Prices start at : 8.95 USD / 1 packet

It is drought-tolerant and grows on dry, rocky soil. * The plant can tolerate maritime exposure. Muricata has been used in plantations with resultant growth rates higher than in the wild .
  • Germination Test Type: cut
  • Germination: 98%
  • Genus: Pinus
  • Purity: 99%
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 8
  • Common Name: Bishop Pine, Bishop Pine, Obispo Pine, Santa Cruz Pine, Dwarf Marine Pine, Pricklecone Pine
Iowa
Des Moines
Rose Of Sharon, Rose Of Althea Hibiscus syriacus
Prices start at : 3.95 USD / 1 packet

* Hibiscus syriacus is a species of flowering plant in the family Malvaceae, native to much of Asia (though not, as Linnaeus thought, Syria, in spite of the name he gave it). Syriacus is a hardy deciduous shrub.
  • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 54
  • Botanical Name: Hibiscus syriacus
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 5
  • Seeds Per Pound: 25,424
  • Species: syriacus
  • Germination Test Type: cut
Iowa
Des Moines
Pyramidalis Austrian Pine Pinus nigra  pyramidalis
Prices start at : 6.95 USD / 1 packet

The deeply furrowed bark is scaled in a mosaic of white, gray and dark brown. It usually has a rounded conic form, that becomes irregular with age. It is dense and cone-shaped when young, broadening at the top with age.
  • Species: nigra
  • Crop Year: 2016
  • Botanical Name: Pinus nigra pyramidalis
  • Family: Pinaceae
  • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 22
  • Genus: Pinus
Iowa
Des Moines
Fortune Fontanesia, Chinese False Privet  Fontanesia fortunei     - Fontanesia phillyreoides fortunei
Prices start at : 4.95 USD / 1 packet

* The Chinese make fences around their compounds with interlaced branches of this plant.These branches take root and form a very graceful hedge. * Shrub with upright stems; narrow bamboolike leaves, shiny bright green; small whitish flowers; a roughish...
  • Crop Year: 1997
  • Genus: Fontanesia
  • Germination Test Type: Cut
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 5
  • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 104
  • Family: OLEACEAE
Iowa
Des Moines
English Ivy Hedera helix
Price : CALL

* It climbs by means of aerial rootlets which cling to the substrate. * The German Commission E Monographs, a therapeutic guide to herbal medicine, approve Hedera helix for cough, bronchitis.
  • Common Name: English Ivy
  • Botanical Name: Hedera helix
  • Genus: Hedera
  • Species: helix
Iowa
Des Moines
Aaron\'s Beard, Rose-of-Sharonwort, Creeping St. Johnswort, Goldflower Hypericum calycinum
Price : CALL

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 syriacus .
  • Crop Year: 2016
  • Species: calycinum
  • Purity: 99%
  • Height: 1-2 feet
  • Botanical Name: Hypericum calycinum
  • Germination: 91%
Iowa
Des Moines
Northern Catalpa, Western Catalpa, Northern Cigar Tree, Catawba Tree, Hardy Catalpa Catalpa speciosa
Prices start at : 4.95 USD / 1 packet

It weighs 26lb per cubic foot. It is largely used for fence posts and rails, telegraph poles etc, it is also occasionally used for making furniture, the interior finish of buildings etc.
  • Crop Year: 2017
  • Collection Locale: Missouri
  • Seeds Per Pound: 29,964
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 5
  • Germination Test Type: cut
  • Quantity: 2.4 lb
Iowa
Des Moines
Honeylocust, Honey Locust Gleditsia triacanthos
Price : CALL

The juiceof the pods is antiseptic. * The pods have been made into a tea for the treatment of indigestion, measles, catarrh etc. Seedpods - the pulp is sweet and can be eaten raw or made into sugar.
  • Genus: Gleditsia
  • Family: Fabaceae
  • Common Name: Honeylocust, Honey Locust
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 4
Iowa
Des Moines
American Elm Ulmus americana
Prices start at : 4.95 USD / 1 packet

* The glorious elm that used to line American streets. * Dirr notes that several forms occur, but the one most of us recall fondly divided into several major trunks topped by spreading, arching, pendulous branches.
  • Height: 100 feet
  • Common Name: American Elm
  • Seeds Per Pound: 98,530
  • Genus: Ulmus
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 3
  • Purity: 94%
Iowa
Des Moines
Lawson\'s Pine Pinus lawsonii
Prices start at : 4.95 USD / 1 packet

* Pinus lawsonii occurs in forest and woodland at 1300-2600 m elevation. It is found only in Mexico. * Climate is warm-temperate to temperate with 600-1500 mm annual precipitation and a November to May dry season.
  • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 51
  • Common Name: Lawson's Pine
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 10
  • Collection Locale: Mexico
  • Germination Test Type: cut
  • Genus: Pinus
Iowa
Des Moines
Choctawhatchee Sand Pine, Sand Pine Pinus clausa    Choctawhatchee
Prices start at : 6.95 USD / 1 packet

* It is largely confined to very infertile , excessively well-drained, sandy habitats where competition from larger-growing species is minimized by the harsh growing conditions, as in the Florida scrub .
  • Germination Test Type: cut
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 7
  • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 20
  • Collection Locale: Choctawhatchee, Florida
  • Botanical Name: Pinus clausa Choctawhatchee
  • Germination: 98%
Iowa
Des Moines
Cedar-of-Goa, Mexican White Cedar, Mexican Cypress Cupressus lusitanica     - Cupressus lindleyi
Price : CALL

* Cupressus lusitanica , ( Cedro Blanco ; Teotlate , distinctive names used in Mexico); Cedro Blanco means White Cedar and is also known as Mexican White Cedar , is a species of cypress native to Mexico and Central America ( Guatemala , El Salvador and...
  • Common Name: Cedar-of-Goa, Mexican White Cedar, Mexican Cypress
  • Genus: Cupressus
  • Botanical Name: Cupressus lusitanica
  • Family: Cupressaceae
Iowa
Des Moines
Siberian Statice Limonium gmelinii
Prices start at : 4.95 USD / 1 packet

* 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.
  • Family: PLUMBAGINACEAE
  • Purity: 92%
  • Common Name: Siberian Statice
  • Genus: Limonium
  • Height: 2-3 feet
  • Lot#: 9401
Iowa
Des Moines
Upland Cotton, Mexican Cotton, American Upland Cotton, Wild Cotton Gossypium hirsutum
Prices start at : 4.95 USD / 1 packet

* This is the most important cotton of commerce. Worldwide, the figure is about 90% of all production for this species. It is widely grown in regions of the world where the growing season is long enough to allow the fruit to mature.
  • Germination Test Type: Actual
  • Seeds Per Pound: 4,540
  • Family: Malvaceae
  • Quantity: 14.29 lb
  • Common Name: Upland Cotton, Mexican Cotton, American Upland Cotton, Wild Cotton
  • Collection Locale: Texas
Iowa
Des Moines
Himalayan Honeysuckle, Flowering Nutmeg, Himalayan Nutmeg, Pheasant Berry Leycesteria formosa
Prices start at : 2.95 USD / 1 packet

* The hollow stems can be made into whistles and flutes. * Leycesteria formosa ( Himalayan Honeysuckle , Flowering Nutmeg , Himalaya Nutmeg or Pheasant Berry ) is a deciduous shrub in the family Caprifoliaceae , native to the Himalaya and southwestern...
  • Seeds Per Pound: 4,000,000
  • Lot#: 9101
  • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 88
  • Purity: 99%
  • Common Name: Himalayan Honeysuckle, Flowering Nutmeg, Himalayan Nutmeg, Pheasant Berry
  • Quantity: 0.00756 lb
Iowa
Des Moines
English Ivy Hedera helix
Price : CALL

* It climbs by means of aerial rootlets which cling to the substrate. * The German Commission E Monographs, a therapeutic guide to herbal medicine, approve Hedera helix for cough, bronchitis.
  • Family: Araliaceae
  • Genus: Hedera
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 5
  • Species: helix
Iowa
Des Moines
Hard Fescue, Sheep Fescue Festuca ovina  duriuscula
Prices start at : 2.95 USD / 1 packet

* Tolerant of constant cutting, this plant is often grown in lawns. * It succeeds on shallow chalky soils. * This is one of the food plants for the caterpillars of several butterflies and moths, including the Gatekeeper and the Meadow Brown.
  • Seeds Per Pound: 481,240
  • Quantity: 3.18 lb
  • Crop Year: 2013
  • Genus: Festuca
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 5
  • Germination Test Type: Actual
Iowa
Des Moines
Mugo Pine, Mugo Pine Tree, Mountain Pine Pinus mugo  mughus
Prices start at : 4.95 USD / 1 packet

This Bonsai is a good one for beginners because it is low-maintenance, a slow grower, and has a burly frame. Reduce the pine growth slowly over time it will tolerate styling and repotting in the summer months and early fall.

98%

    • Family: Pinaceae
    • Purity: 98%
    • Germination: 98%
    • Genus: Pinus
    • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 3
    • Botanical Name: Pinus mugo mughus
    Iowa
    Des Moines
    Desert Willow Chilopsis linearis
    Prices start at : 8.95 USD / 1 packet

    * The young pliable twigs are woven into baskets. It is commonly seen in washes and along riverbanks at elevations below 1500 m in its range. * It is pollinated primarily by large bees in the family Apidae, such as carpenter bees, bumblebees, Anthophora,...
    • Common Name: Desert Willow
    • Germination Test Type: estimate
    • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 58
    • Purity: 95%
    • Germination: 77%
    • Lot#: 050796
    Iowa
    Des Moines
    Holly-leaved Mirabelia, Wedge-leaved Mirabelia Mirbelia dilatata
    Prices start at : 9.95 USD / 1 packet

    It is endemic to Australia, occurring in every mainland state except South Australia. * Mirbelia is a plant genus belonging to the Fabaceae family.
    • Common Name: Holly-leaved Mirabelia, Wedge-leaved Mirabelia
    • Germination Test Type: cut
    • Purity: 99%
    • Genus: Mirbelia
    • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 9
    • Family: Leguminosae
    Iowa
    Des Moines
    Lanceleaf Tickseed, Lance Coreopsis Coreopsis lanceolata
    Prices start at : 1.95 USD / 1 packet

    This perennial is a native plant found throughout the eastern part of the United States and in many parts of the western U.S., Canada , and Mexico . It is commonly kept as an ornamental plant.
    • Genus: Coreopsis
    • Germination Test Type: Actual
    • Species: lanceolata
    • Family: Asteraceae
    • Height: 3 feet
    • Purity: 99%
    Iowa
    Des Moines