Crop Plant Drought Tolerant Plant For Sale In Pittsburgh

Also useful for stabilizing embankments. Also tolerates some drought. Can be grown as a hedge. * Easily grown in average, medium, well-drained soil in full sun to part shade. * Garden Uses Mass or group in the shrub border or native plant garden.

* The use as food and an ornamental tree caused it to be introduced throughout western Europe, localised populations and cultivation occur on other continents. * This tree responds very well to coppicing, which is still practised in Britain, and produces...

* Loquats are unusual among fruit trees in that the flowers appear in the autumn or early winter, and the fruits are ripe in late winter or early spring. * The fruits are the sweetest when soft and orange.

'Northern Pearls' is a compact cultivar that grows to 6-8' tall and features racemes (3-5" long) of 5-petaled white flowers (to 2" diameter) which bloom in early spring. Flower buds purportedly resemble white pearls, hence the cultivar name.

Ponderosa subsp. Ponderosa, as detailed on that page. * For now, this small-coned form of P. * Many botanists believe that this is merely a southern outlier of the typical North Plateau race of ponderosa pine.

* 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

The leaves are also fermented for later use. Added to salads or used as a potherb. Older writers usually distinguished the turnip and rape by the adjectives round and long (- rooted ) respectively.

Small greenish flowers appear in spring, and are borne singly in the centre of the cladodes. Since Butcher's broom tightens blood vessels and capillaries, it is used to treat varicose veins.

* The active compound is 3,4,5-trimethoxyphenethylamine or mescaline which was reported at a concentration of 1.2% in the dried cactus. They prepared a brew called "achuma" , "huachuma" or "cimora" which was used during ritualistic ceremonies to diagnose...

* It is native and endemic to Madagascar, but grown elsewhere as an ornamental and medicinal plant, a source of the drugs vincristineand vinblastine, used to treat cancer. * It is an evergreen subshrub or herbaceous plant growing 1 m tall.

* It is a warm-season grass growing 30-100 cm (12-40 inches) tall, and grows well on mountainous plateaus, rocky slopes, and sandy plains. * The grass is also drought- and cold-tolerant and is hardy in zones 4-9.

* Ungnadia speciosa , the Mexican Buckeye , is a shrub or small tree native to northeastern Mexico and adjacent western Texas and southern New Mexico in the United States . Leaves up to 12 inches long, with a central axis supporting 2 to 6 paired leaflets...

* A pomegranate ( Punica granatum ) is a fruit -bearing deciduous shrub or small tree. This fruit tree can be grown outdoors in a Mediterranean climate and indoors in a warm, sunny site with some shade in the winter.

* The fruit is eaten raw, cooked or dried for later use. * Opuntia ficus-indica is a species of cactus that has long been a domesticated crop plant important in agricultural economies throughout arid and semiarid parts of the world.

It is native to eastern Asia from the Himalaya east to Japan * Evergreen except in cold climates; delicate compound leaves, reddish when new, later blue-green; attractive white flowers in panicles atop the stems, followed by beautiful bright red berries;...

* Climate is warm-temperate to temperate with 600-1500 mm annual precipitation and a November to May dry season. * Pinus lawsonii occurs in forest and woodland at 1300-2600 m elevation.

* Annual or biennial; parent is dwarfish, dark blue flowers throughout summer; does well in hot, dry sun. * Cynoglossum amabile is a flowering plant native to Asia , which is also called Chinese hound's tongue , or Chinese forget-me-not .

* Trees are very drought tolerant and are planted on slopes in its native range in order to prevent soil erosion. The foliage grows in dense sprays, varying from dull gray-green to bright glaucous blue-green in color.

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

* The fruits were eaten by the Apache, Chiricahua, and Mescalero, fresh and preserved for food. * The leaves are eaten by a number of insects, particularly certain moth caterpillars.

* This is one of our most popular bonsai seeds. * One member of this species, known as Methuselah , is thought to be the oldest living non-clonal organism on Earth . * Pinus longaeva , the Great Basin Bristlecone Pine , is a long-living species of tree...

It is native to eastern North America , from southern Quebec south to the extreme north of Georgia , and west to Minnesota . * The common name is Sweetfern or Sweet-fern, a confusing name as it is not a fern.

* A fibre obtained from the leaves is used for making paper. * Pampas grass is highly adaptable and can grow in a wide range of environments and climates. It also seeds prolifically, with each plant able to produce over one million seeds during its lifetime.

* The acorns usually mature around fall. * The Arizona White Oak is a perennial tree and may grow up to 60 ft with a diameter of 3.3 ft. * It usually occurs as a native shrub or a medium sized tree.

* It is a warm-season grass growing 30-100 cm (12-40 inches) tall, and grows well on mountainous plateaus, rocky slopes, and sandy plains. * The grass is also drought- and cold-tolerant and is hardy in zones 4-9.

The ashes can be used like baking soda. * The burnt green herb yields culinary ashes high in minerals and these are used by the Hopi Indians to enhance the colour of blue corn products.

This tree transplants well. * 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...