Urban Tolerant Plant Herbaceous Plant For Sale In Elk Grove

* 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.

* The tops are loaded with vitamin A and the roots with Vitamin C. They also are harvested long before the beets so you get two crops instead of one! * Mineral Rich in: Calcium: 114mg; Phosphorus: 34mg; Iron: 3.1mg * A phytochemical compound, glycine...

* It is a perennial plant sometimes found in acidic bogs , for example in the Portlethen Moss , Scotland. * It succeeds on shallow chalky soils. * This is one of the food plants for the caterpillars of several butterflies and moths, including the Gatekeeper...

* 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...

* Can be overwintered if mulched to zone 4. * Develope to maturity in only 60-65 days. * These scallions are perfect for adding mild flavor to salads of all kinds. * Many Welsh onions can multiply by forming perennial evergreen clumps.

* A hardy perennial with gray or blue-gray rather frilly leaves, extremely fragrant (although many dislike the pungent scent); woody base; causes dermatitis in some people, for dry sunny places; also used medicinally and as a condiment; inconspicuous...

* It is a perennial plant sometimes found in acidic bogs , for example in the Portlethen Moss , Scotland. * It succeeds on shallow chalky soils. * This is one of the food plants for the caterpillars of several butterflies and moths, including the Gatekeeper...

Varieties of the species include the Nevada agave and Kaibab agave. The sap can also be tapped by boring a hole into the middle of the plant at the base of the flowering stem. It is an uncommon plant of the United States' desert southwest, in the states...

* Yarrow has a high reputation and is widely employed in herbal medicine, administered both internally and externally. * It is a frequent component in butterfly gardens. * Common yarrow is an erect herbaceous perennial plant that produces one to several...

* Heart-shaped shiny dark green leaves with prominent veins, 9" x 5"; dark violet flowers in August; a 2' mound, flowers to almost 3'; native to China. * A good ground cover plant, succeeding in dense shade but rather slow to spread.

* 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 the wild ancestor of the garden Carnation .

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.

* The large leaves, up to 1 foot long, are interesting. It is perhaps best known for its use as a hair tonic whilst the root is also taken internally as a treatment for non-malignant swollen glands and especially for mastitis.

* The stem is erect in young plants, but becomes creeping or trailing with age. * An attractive plant with small pink flowers; can be grown as an annual in cold areas; native to the tropics.

Grandiflorum is a perennial that grows from a short rhizome and produces a single, showy white flower atop a whorl of three leaves. * The plant is most common in rich, mixed upland forests.

* Aquilegia caerulea is a species of Aquilegia flower native to the Rocky Mountains from Montana south to New Mexico and west to Idaho and Arizona . * Aquilegia caerulea is the state flower of Colorado.

It also seeds prolifically, with each plant able to produce over one million seeds during its lifetime. * A fibre obtained from the leaves is used for making paper. The most commonly repeated version states that in the UK and Ireland a patch of pampas...

* It is marginal in zone 8, going dormant and deciduous in cold winters, but usually evergreen to semi-evergreen. * This is a naturally rare grass in the wild but it is widely cultivated for use as an attractive ornamental garden plant.

The leaves are in pairs or whorls of three, thick and leathery, dark green, narrow lanceolate, 5–21 cm (2.0–8.3 in) long and 1–3.5 cm (0.39–1.4 in) broad, and with an entire margin.

* Tian Nan Xing has been used in Chinese herbal medicine for thousands of years and is valued especially for its beneficial affect upon the chest. When prescribed internally it is always used dried and in conjunction with fresh ginger root.

Common names include Rose of Sharon (especially in North America), rose mallow (United Kingdom) and St Joseph's rod (Italy). Syriacus is a hardy deciduous shrub. Shoots make interesting indoor vase cuttings, as they stay green for a long time.

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. Several of the varieties have distinct English names.

* The flowers are purple, borne in summer. * Astilbe chinensis is a herbaceous plant with alternate, pinnately compound leaves, on thin stems.

Autumn sown plants may require protection from frosts in cold winters. * Sow the seed in mid spring or late summer to early autumn in a sunny border outdoors and only just cover the seed.

* The name distichum refers to the two types of leaves the plant carries. It grows from 2–4ft. * The flowers are yellow–orange or orange–vermillion with the petals spotted in purple, somewhat ‘flatfaced' in appearance with irregular distribution...

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

This varient will grow to 8 feet tall. D??m?st?k?/ ) commonly known as heavenly bamboo or sacred bamboo , is a suckering shrub in the Barberry family, Berberidaceae . It is native to eastern Asia from the Himalaya east to Japan * Evergreen except in cold...