Butterfly Attracting Plant Drought Tolerant Plant For Sale In Santa Clara

Extremely hardy, they thrive in any garden with little care. Rose of Sharon grows 5-10' tall. You'll enjoy this old-fashioned favorite that bears an abundance of large, hibiscus blossoms in three different colors: red, white and blue.

The Orange Glory Butterfly plant enjoys full sun and will withstand long periods of summer drought. Is especially effective in mass plantings -- ground covers, borders, and bed plantings.

* Leaves can be eaten raw or cooked. * So called because the roots were once ground for snuff. * The plant can tolerate maritime exposure. Ptarmica yields an essential oil that is used in herbal medicine.

* Tolerant of constant cutting, this plant is often grown in lawns. * It succeeds on shallow chalky soils. * A drought resistant plant once established. * This is one of the food plants for the caterpillars of several butterflies and moths, including...

* Common yarrow is an erect herbaceous perennial plant that produces one to several stems (0.2 to 1m tall) and has a rhizomatous growth form. * Yarrow has also been used as a food, and was very popular as a vegetable in the 17th century.

This keeps it manageable and promotes new bloom shoots. Plant 4-8' apart in full sun. In fall, after flowering, prune back to within a few inches of ground. We ship sturdy ready to grow plants.

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. Sweet William blooms in early summer with flowers that have a sassy, spicy fragrance.

* It tends to grow on dry sandy sites, and is associated with pine stands. The leaves of the plant are linear to lanceolate, 3-15 cm long and 0.3-3 cm broad, with a modified dentate, pinnately lobed margin; they give off a sweet odor, especially when...

Plant in full sun. Pretty lavender-blue flowers bloom all the way through summer. Aromatic gray-green foliage. Attract both butterflies and hummingbirds with their delightful scent.

The fruit provides food for wild life. This species can be found in China and Japan. The fruits grow closely together in large clusters. * Callicarpa dichotoma (common names, Purple Beautyberry or Early Amethyst ) is species of beautyberry .

The pulp is bitter; they contain 3-5 seeds and mature in autumn. Drupe fruits are red (or rarely yellow), shiny, and globose (spherical, or nearly so), with a diameter of 4-8mm. Its "distinctive leaf shape...

* Lupinus perennis ( Indian beet , Old maid's bonnets , Blue Lupine, and Sundial lupine ) is a medicinal plant in the Fabaceae family. * Perennial wildflower, palm shaped leaves, blooms 2nd and 3rd year and successive seasons from expanding clumps.

Our Conservation Garden Assortment attracts and helps protect nature's hardest workers. Our seed mats contain the perfect blend of seed to create a beautiful garden and participate in recovering this important natual resource.

* Tall redtop or Purple-top is a 2 1/2-7 ft. The grass is often confused with Johnson grass . The seeds are purple, giving the grass its common name. Tall perennial grass with drooping branches bearing widely spaced reddish-purple spikelets.

* 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.

* Orange flowers in late summer; grows well in dry soil; native to eastern U.S. * Pleurisy root is a bitter, nutty-flavoured tonic herb that increases perspiration, relieves spasms and acts as an expectorant.

* Plants can be grown as an informal (untrimmed) hedge, though they are also amenable to trimming. The cultivar 'Tallhedge (syn 'Columnaris') is very suitable for this purpose. * This variety is upright growing, very columnar.

It is typically found over calcareous substrates such as limestone , growing on limestone slopes and in moist valley soils, at elevations of 120–600 m. * The "blue" refers to a substance secreted by the inner bark when exposed to air, not to the leaves,...

* The California Scrub Oak ( Quercus berberidifolia ) is a small evergreen or semi-evergreen shrubby oak in the white oak section. * The word chaparral is derived from the Spanish word for scrub oak, chaparro.

Muricata has been used in plantations with resultant growth rates higher than in the wild . * 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.

Leaves on plants at higher elevation may turn gold or red as the weather cools. * The showy flowers are bright pink or magenta, and grow in clusters all over the shrub, making the plant very colorful and noticeable in the landscape.

* Flowers and fruit are conspicuous. * Common names in other Namibian language groups Oshiwambo Otjiherero Kavango languages Omuwombamenje Caprivi languages Setswana Afrikaans Lemoendoring Deutsch Khoekhoegowab Bushman languages Gruenhaarbaum ?Khas

* Ligustrum lucidum ( Glossy Privet , Chinese Privet or Broad-leaf Privet ) is a species of privet native to the southern half of China . Extracts of the plant show antitumour activity.

* A species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae ,native to South China (which includes Hong Kong ) and southeastern Asia * Common names include Hong Kong Orchid Tree, and Hawaiian orchid tree.

* Leonotis nepetifolia is known in Trinidad as shandilay and the leaves are brewed as a tea for fever, coughs, womb prolapse and malaria. * Leonotis nepetifolia, also known as klip dagga, Christmas candlestick, or lion's ear, is a species of plant in...

* When the white corollas have fallen, the calyces develop into deep red expanded lobes which persist into November. * Fast grower especially when young. Miconioides produces large shows of small fragrant white blooms attractive to butterflies, the flowers...

* The crushed leaves are very aromatic. * It requires full sun, but is hardy and cold tolerant. Despite its common name, Russian sage is not in the same genus as other Salvias, which are commonly called "sage".