Urban Tolerant Plant Herbaceous Plant For Sale In Santa Ana

(Leguminosae) have been used in traditional medicine for the treatment of inflammatory diseases including swelling, suppuration, carbuncle and skin diseases. * The pod is used as a soap substitute.

* Typical native grass associates in the far western North American coastal prairies are Festuca idahoensis and Nassella pulchra. Distribution of this grass species is widespread including the eastern and western extremes of North America, parts of South...

* Tolerant of constant cutting, this plant is often grown in lawns. * It is a perennial plant sometimes found in acidic bogs , for example in the Portlethen Moss , Scotland. * It succeeds on shallow chalky soils.

* Gleditsia caspica ( Caspian Locust or Persian Honeylocust ) is a species of Gleditsia native to western Asia , in the Caucasus region of Azerbaijan and northern Iran , close to the Caspian Sea .

* All parts of the plant contain nicotine, this has been extracted and used as an insecticide. * Nicotiana tabacum, or cultivated tobacco, is an annually-grown herbaceous plant. The dried leaves can also be used, they remain effective for 6 months after...

* The root is harvested when the plant is dormant in the autumn or winter and is dried for later use. When prescribed internally it is always used dried and in conjunction with fresh ginger root.

* A medium-sized tree with a spreading, rounded crown; branches develop 2 opposite corky wings; leaves 2 1/2", dark green; fall color may be yellow; native from Virginia to Illinois, south to Florida and Texas.

* The plant is dormant during the summer and grows during the cooler half of the year. Thrives in the light shade of trees. Dormancy is shorter in cooler climates. * Easily grown in a stony leafy soil in sun or shade.

* Remove dead flowers to extend the flowering period. * Succeeds in a sunny position in most good soils tolerating a pH range from 6 to 8 but disliking acid soils. * Dianthus caryophyllus ( Clove Pink ) is a species of Dianthus .

* Yarrow has also been used as a food, and was very popular as a vegetable in the 17th century. * It is a frequent component in butterfly gardens. * The Navajo considered it to be a "life medicine", chewed it for toothaches, and poured an infusion into...

* A strong fibre is obtained from the stems, it is used for making string, bags, paper etc. * Tolerates maritime exposure. * A very easily grown plant, succeeding in any ordinary garden soil in sun or partial shade.

Its showy, yellow, pea-like flowers occur in upper axillary clusters. Named for Ferdinand Roemer, a German geologist who collected specimens in the New Braunfels, Texas, area from 1845-47.

Plants should be spaced about 60cm apart each way. * A good ground cover plant, succeeding in dense shade but rather slow to spread. * Heart-shaped shiny dark green leaves with prominent veins, 9" x 5"; dark violet flowers in August; a 2' mound, flowers...

* Excellent as a fresh cut flower and for dried arrangements. * Native to the Mediterranean region, statice (also commonly called notchleaf status) is noted for producing clusters of papery, funnel-shaped flowers in summer.

* This 6-8' shrub is "of matchless elegance a its fleecy sprays lovely in their silken lightness" (A. Johnson) & contrasting beautifully with the lush pinnate foliage, in its first reddish growth or its later fresh-green.

The wind-dispersed fruit develops in a flat, oval membranous wing ( samara ) 1 - 1.5 cm long and notched at the outer end . * Of open, wide-spreading habit, with several main branches ramifying into small branchlets; grows quickly, but wood may be brittle...

(50–120cm) tall. * 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...

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

* Ilex aquifolium ( Holly , or European Holly to distinguish it from related species, may also be called Christmass Holly or Mexican Holly) is a species of holly native to western and southern Europe , northwest Africa and southwest Asia .

It is partly below ground. * Seed - surface sow in a light position, April in a warm greenhouse. * Agave utahensis is a species of agave known by the common name Utah agave. It is an uncommon plant of the United States' desert southwest, in the states...

* 11-15 tapering, pointed leaflets make up the feathery leaves of this little known 20-30' tree & are carried on red shoots; its 4-6" clusters of early flowers are followed by creamy-yellow fruit tinted with pink...

The leaves have blades that are lanceolate to broadly ovate or elliptic in shape with out lobes. Stems are glabrous or moderately covered in hirsute hairs with spreading branches. * Rudbeckia fulgida are perennial herbaceous plants growing up to 120 cm...

* Works well in a perennial border or container in either full sun or partial shade. Grown mostly for its warm orange color and dense clump forming habit. * This is a popular "ornamental grass" even though it is technically a sedge.

* The lance-leaved coreopsis , Coreopsis lanceolata , is a species of coreopsis (Tickseed). * Lance-leaved coreopsis produces yellow flowers in late summer. This perennial is a native plant found throughout the eastern part of the United States and in...

* In North America it is known as Hedge Maple and in Australia it is sometimes called Common Maple. * 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...

The wind-dispersed fruit develops in a flat, oval membranous wing ( samara ) 1 - 1.5 cm long and notched at the outer end . * Of open, wide-spreading habit, with several main branches ramifying into small branchlets; grows quickly, but wood may be brittle...

The leaves are often blanched by excluding light, either by removing all the leaves and then earthing up the new growth, or by covering the plant with a bucket or something similar.