Edible Fruit Or Nut Plant Drought Tolerant Plant For Sale In Newport News

May be grown as a large, multi-stemmed shrub or trained as single trunk tree. Features drooping clusters (usually 2-5 flowers each) of bell-shaped, white flowers (1/2") which appear in April shortly before or simultaneous to the point when the leaves...

Thus, it is often found as krummholz , trees dwarfed by exposure and growing close to the ground. Dislikes poorly drained moorland soils. A long-lived but slow-growing tree in the wild.

* Roman soldiers were given chestnut porridge before entering battle. The roasted seed can be used as a coffee substitute. * Sweet chestnut has been listed as one of the 38 substances used to prepare Bach flower remedies, a kind of alternative medicine...

* Produces an abundance of long yellow sweet peppers from mid summer until frost.

The tree typically grows to 12-15 m, but can reach 35 m in height. The male cones grow at the base of shoots on the lower branches. It is colourless, with the odour of oranges, and is obtained by distilling the resinous juices.

* 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.

* A quick-growing, not to say rampant vine; can be pruned as a shrub; usually grown on a trellis for commercial production of the hops used in beer making; hops are produced on female plants; native to Eurasia, has escaped in the U.S.

Scrub jays prefer burned sites for acorn caching. It is classified in the red oak section ( Quercus sect. * Though seed predation may be high, it also provides a means of seed dispersal.

* This variety is perfect for growing in containers or restricted spaces. * It will yield normal sized cucumbers but not take up as much room in the garden.

* 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.

* Dwarf Essex Rape is an excellent forage crop for livestock and wildlife. The name derives from the Latin for turnip , r?pum or r?pa , and is first recorded in English at the end of the 14th century.

* Seed - if sown in situ during March or April, the plant will usually flower in the summer and complete its life cycle in one growing season. The placebo group. The seed can also be sown from May to August when the plant will normally wait until the...

* Native to Tropical Africa. * The Mokala National Park in the Northern Cape is named after this tree.

* Produces an abundance of long yellow sweet peppers from mid summer until frost.

It is in flower from Feb to June, and the seeds ripen in October. It is frequently used as an informal low hedge. * A constituent of its extract has been found to be an effective and selective dopamine reuptake inhibitor.

* An extract of the root is used as a cosmetic and is particularly useful in treating rose-coloured rashes and capillary weaknesses. * The bush is native to the Mediterranean region, growing wild on walls or in rocky coastal areas throughout.

* Leycesteria formosa ( Himalayan Honeysuckle , Flowering Nutmeg , Himalaya Nutmeg or Pheasant Berry ) is a deciduous shrub in the family Caprifoliaceae , native to the Himalaya and southwestern China .

* Shepherdia argentea ( Silver Buffaloberry or Bull berry , thorny buffaloberry ) is a species of Shepherdia , native to central North America from southern Canada ( Alberta , Saskatchewan , Manitoba ) south in the United States to northern California...

Requires a sunny position and a well-drained soil. * Tolerates dry sites. * Although only 4 - 8mm long, it's fruit has been suggested as a substitute for the true olive, Olea europaea.

When kept in a cool place, and not shelled, the seed should store for at least 12 months. * Corylus cornuta ( Beaked Hazel ) is a deciduous shrubby hazel found in most of North America , from southern Canada south to Georgia and California .

Its cold-hardiness is variable throughout its range with the Oklahoma native population believed by many to be the cold-hardiest population. Tall, occasionally reaching tree size in Texas.

* About 450,000 kilos of the seeds are sold in American markets each year. * The pinon pine (Pinus edulis) is the state tree of New Mexico. * The seed can be ground into a meal and used in stews, making bread, cakes etc and in making nut butter.

A purgative known as 'American Mastic' is obtained from the tree. Male and female flowers occur on separate plants. The fruit are 5-7 mm diameter round drupes with woody seeds that turn from green to red, pink or purplish, carried in dense clusters of...

* Carobs are also known as St. John's bread because, according to tradition of some Christians, St. John the Baptist subsisted on them in the wilderness. * It grows well in warm temperate and subtropical areas, and tolerates hot and humid coastal areas.

The yields of pods average 250 - 500g per m². * It grows abundantly in hot, humid equatorial countries, from the Philippines and Indonesia to India , Burma , Thailand and Sri Lanka .

The fruit can also be made into preserves, pies, drinks etc or be dried and used like raisins. In English it is known as salal , shallon , or in Britain simply Gaultheria . * The fruit is eaten raw, cooked or dried for later use.

* Plum Island, Massachusetts and Plum Island, New York are named after the Beach Plum; as are Plum Cove Beach in Lanesville, Gloucester, Massachusetts; and Beach Plum Island (State Park) in Sussex County, Delaware.