Urban Tolerant Plant Seeds For Sale In West Covina

* 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...

It is native to most of the eastern U.S. and eastern Canada. * It is a species of hawthorn known by the common names dotted hawthorn or white haw. Once established, it succeeds in excessively moist soils and also tolerates drought.

The native Americans used it to treat a variety of complaints but especially as an external wash on the skin. Pocket gophers dig burrows underneath it during the winter. * This shrub is an important food source for a number of animals, including bighorn...

* This is one of the food plants for the caterpillars of several butterflies and moths, including the Gatekeeper and the Meadow Brown. * A drought resistant plant once established.

It weighs 26lb per cubic foot. * Catalpa speciosa , commonly known as the Northern Catalpa , is a species of Catalpa that is native to the midwestern United States in Arkansas , Illinois , Indiana , Missouri , Kentucky , Pennsylvania , and Tennessee .

* Shrub with upright stems; narrow bamboolike leaves, shiny bright green; small whitish flowers; a roughish plant, but extremely tough and vigorous; useful for highways and urban sites; native to China.

Hardy to Zone 8 (cold hardiness limit between -12.1°C and -6.7°C) (Bannister and Neuner 2001). * "Excellent and beautiful pine for large areas, very graceful" (Dirr); broader at maturity than most pines, with a rounded top; drooping gray-green needles...

* The fruit is a small, dark-purple berry-like drupe, 1 cm wide, hanging in short clusters, and are extremely popular with birds and other wildlife. * The European nettle tree also known as European Hackberry or Lote tree ( Celtis australis ), is a deciduous...

* ariable; crown is rounded; gray branches; white flowers with yellow anthers; red fruit to 1" wide; may have 2" thorns; susceptible to rust; native to eastern and central U.S. * The plant is tolerant of being trimmed and will even resprout if cut back...

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.

The tree blooms at a young age, with the slightly fragrant 7–10 cm (3–4 in) flowers covering the bare plant in late winter or early spring before the leaves appear. * This tree grows 4.6 to 6 m (15 to 20 ft) in height, and spreads to 4.6m in width...

* Modern research has shown that yew trees contain the substance 'taxol' in their shoots and bark. * 'Capitata' is a tree form often used for screening and hedging in the East and Midwest.

* Resistant to maritime exposure, this tree can be used as a part of a shelterbelt planting. If regularly trimmed it can be used as a dense deciduous hedge. * Sorbus intermedia ( Swedish Whitebeam ) is a species of whitebeam in southern Sweden , with...

* A deciduous Tree growing to 15 m, at a fast rate. * 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),...

* Chinese Elms are frequently used in bonsai; they are considered a good choice for beginners owing to their high tolerance of pruning. * A tough, attractive tree that will grow anywhere; tolerant of high pH and poor soil; good for city streets; bark...

The genus name is Greek - rhapis, meaning "needle"; and the species name is Latin for "tall", an ironic name choice as R. * Rhapis excelsa also known as Broadleaf Lady Palm is a species of fan palm (Arecaceae subfamily Coryphoideae, tribe Corypheae) in...

* The Bur-gambel oak is a Bur oak hybrid which is vigorous, fast growing, and produces heavy crops of acorns at a young age. * Wildlife benefit: Squirrels, chipmunks, deer, birds, and turkeys eat the acorns.

* 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). * This species is planted as a hedge in S.

Prick out the seedlings into individual pots of well-drained soil when they are large enough to handle and grow them on in a sunny position in the greenhouse until they are at least 20cm tall.

It is planted with great success as far north as Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. The deeply furrowed bark is scaled in a mosaic of white, gray and dark brown. A widely used landscape tree especially in the Midwest and East.

* Numerous flower stems rise in summer from the foliage mound to a height of 3' bearing wide, airy panicles (to 20" long) of tiny, variably-colored flowers (tones of gold, silver, purple and green) which form a cloud over the foliage that is particularly...

* 3" yellow-orange flowers in midsummer; native to southern U.S. * Coreopsis grandiflora is a perennial plant species of the tickseed genus, Coreopsis, in Asteraceae. The common name is large-flowered tickseed.

* Very young leaf buds are cooked as a vegetable. Plants grow in poor dry soils in the wild. The whole leaf can be used in weaving. It also has numerous sharp needle-like spines produced on the leaf stems; these protect the stem growing point from browsing...

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

* Ligustrum vulgare ( Wild Privet , also sometimes known as Common Privet or European Privet ), is a species of Ligustrum native to central and southern Europe , north Africa and southwestern Asia , from southern England and southwestern Sweden south...

* The name White Ash derives from the glaucous undersides of the leaves. America, saplings grow slowly at first, but the growth rate speeds up over the next 50 years. It is similar in appearance to the Green Ash, making identification difficult.

* Chinese Elms are frequently used in bonsai; they are considered a good choice for beginners owing to their high tolerance of pruning. * A tough, attractive tree that will grow anywhere; tolerant of high pH and poor soil; good for city streets; bark...