Butterfly Attracting Plant Drought Tolerant Plant For Sale In El Monte

It is commonly known as the White Stinkwood . It is fast growing and relatively drought resistant making it a good bonsai.The flowers bloom in the spring followed by mini orange fruits.

The tree is found only in the Santa Ana Mountains of Orange County and in San Diego County within Southern California, and in northern Baja California state of Mexico. * A Tecate Cypress planted at Strybing Arboretum in San Francisco is showing vigor...

* The leaves are used as an insect repellent. * So called because the roots were once ground for snuff. * Leaves can be eaten raw or cooked. Ptarmica yields an essential oil that is used in herbal medicine.

Grows 6'' tall. Mixed colors only. Sweet William is a popular favorite because this perennial has large clusters of small blooms that come in striking colors of red, pink, white, and bi-colors.

* Tolerant of constant cutting, this plant is often grown in lawns. * This is one of the food plants for the caterpillars of several butterflies and moths, including the Gatekeeper and the Meadow Brown.

Giant Alaska Shasta Daisies make excellent cut flowers. Enjoy astonishing numbers of snowy, gold-centered blooms every June and July. Choice one-year-old field-grown plants. They grow well in sun or light shade.

* Senna bicapsularis is a species of the legume genus Senna, native to northern South America, from Panama south to Venezuela and Colombia, and also the West Indies. So, don't be surprised if a few butterfly larvae are found munching leaves.

* Lonicera xylosteum , commonly known as Fly honeysuckle , European Fly Honeysuckle , Dwarf Honeysuckle or Fly Woodbine is a deciduous shrub. It is one of two honeysuckles native to Britain, the other being the Common Honeysuckle ( Lonicera periclymenum...

Their nectar is known to attract insect pollinators, as well as hummingbirds. * The silk floss tree is cultivated mostly for ornamental purposes. Outside of private gardens around the world, it is often planted along urban streets in subtropical areas...

Catnip is best grown in full sunlight and grows as a loosely branching, low perennial * With domestic cats, N. * This is the common European catmint and a spreading plant. The names catnip and catmint are derived from the intense attraction most cats...

They are native to Australia. * Templetonia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae. * Templetonia is a dryland shrub that grows 3-7 feet tall. It is covered in red flowers in the winter and spring.

One of the most prolific sources of massed color, blooms from July to frost. Plant 4-8' apart in full sun. A fragrant friend of butterflies and hummingbirds. The long flower trusses provide a never-ending source of cut flowers.

Cercis orbiculata Greene) is a small tree or shrub in the legume family. * Native Californians use the twigs of the western redbud to weave baskets, and even prune the shrub to encourage growth of new twigs.

The plant produces pods containing yellow seeds with papery wings. The plant is desirable fodder when it grows in fields grazed by livestock . It is drought-tolerant and grows well in warm climates.

Prefers well-drained soil. Attracts butterflies, fragrant, deer resistant, good for cutting. Josee can rebloom up to four times in a season with the most spectacular show in late spring.

* Securigera varia , commonly known as Crown Vetch or Purple Crown Vetch , is a low-growing legume vine. It is native to Africa , Asia and Europe and is commonly used throughout the United States and Canada for erosion control , roadside planting and...

It is native to Europe and western Asia . * Echinops ritro is a species of globe thistle . * If all the flowers are removed early in the season, the plant will often produce a second flush of bloom later in the summer.

* Modern research has shown that the plant increases the white blood cell count and is of value when used to prevent bone marrow loss in cancer chemotherapy patients, it also has potential in the treatment of AIDS.

Lacy, fern-like, deep green foliage compliments the beautiful pink and white blooms that start in June and bloom continually until September each year without replanting. Northern grown 1 year old roots.

* The bark is cathartic, febrifuge and tonic. A decoction of the roots has been used in the treatment of kidney complaints and TB. * Habitat and Range: sandy, gravelly, or rocky slopes, often growing in areas underlain by limestone bedrock.

Rose of Sharon is lovely all through the growing season. This is not an evergreen. In mid-summer it bursts into bloom when little else is blooming and continues to flower through fall.

* The mature trees grow to a height of 15-25 m, rarely up to 34 m, with a trunk diameter of up to 1.2 m. * Of symmetrical conical habit; needles stiff, often twisted, dark green, to 7"; cones 2-4 1/2"; native to California, where it is used ornamentally.

The species is commonly known as Virginia snakeroot and is native to eastern North America, from Connecticut to southern Michigan and south to Texas and Florida. * Aristolochia serpentaria is a species of perennial flowering plant in the Aristolochiaceae...

* A low shrub with dark green evergreen leaves, shiny on the undersides; 2-3" flowers, bright yellow, throughout summer; easy to grow--tolerates dry soil; said to grow best in shade; grows quickly; native to southeast Europe, Asia Minor.

Therefore, it was heavily planted in the midwest and eastern US. It has since been determined to be very invasive and so is being eradicated many places. The fruits are not comsumed in the fall by birds so it does provide a nice winter food source.

It is commonly known as the White Stinkwood . It is fast growing and relatively drought resistant making it a good bonsai.The flowers bloom in the spring followed by mini orange fruits.

* Cynoglossum amabile is a flowering plant native to Asia , which is also called Chinese hound's tongue , or Chinese forget-me-not . This plant is often used as an ornamental plant in gardens.