Nitrogen Fixing Plant Drought Tolerant Plant For Sale In Kent

* They are occationally grown as ornamentals for their yellow flowers and interesting rattling seed pods. * Crotalarias are grown in the tropics as green manure cover crops due to their nitrogen fixing capabilities and drought tolerance.

Order: Fabales Bromhead family: Fabaceae Lindl. * This is a beautiful flowering shrub with an extremely limited range in North Carolina. Agardh subclass: Magnoliidae Novak ex Takht.

* Used to make the strong, springy curved "enju wood" handle used on the traditional Japanese woodworking adze, called the chouna. * This species is commonly used in Chinese medicine and is considered to be one of the 50 fundamental herbs.

* The legume provides an excellent source of high protein cattle fodder. Leucocephala is used for a variety of purposes, such as firewood , fiber and livestock fodder . It has also been described as a "conflict tree" in that it is both promoted for forage...

The fruit is an inflated bladdery pod which dries to a papery texture. * Colutea arborescens is a species of leguminous shrub known by the common name bladder senna . The leaves are made up of many pairs of slightly hairy oval-shaped leaflets, each up...

* Wood - dark, durable, closely grained, nicely marked, not as heavy as that of other members of this genus. Used for flooring, axe handles, firewood, poles etc. It is much planted in Egypt for protecting roads from the sand.

* Widely employed medicinally by native North American Indians who mainly used the bark to treat a wide range of complaints. * Yellow fall color. * Largest species of alder in North America and one of the largest in the world * The name derives from the...

* Pinus longaeva , the Great Basin Bristlecone Pine , is a long-living species of tree found in the higher mountains of the southwest United States . It is a very hard to secure item.

* The legume provides an excellent source of high protein cattle fodder. Leucocephala is used for a variety of purposes, such as firewood , fiber and livestock fodder . It has also been described as a "conflict tree" in that it is both promoted for forage...

* Very young leaf buds are cooked as a vegetable. The young shoots or suckers from the bottom of the plant are also used. Plants have been used to form hedges in Mediterranean areas.

* The plant has a deep and wide root system, with the lateral roots sending up new shoots. Very intolerant of winter wet, especially when grown on its own roots. In this manner the plant forms extensive thickets.

The cones remain closed for many years, only opening after the parent tree is killed in a wildfire , thereby allowing the seeds to colonize the bare ground exposed by the fire. * It is a medium-sized evergreen tree with a conic to ovoid-conic crown.

Needles tend to be quite long but can be reduced with the pruning techniques. Pinus thunbergii prefers cooler climates and loves full sun. * Native to Japan. * Japanese Black Pine can reach the height of 40 m, but rarely achieves this size outside its...

Glauca is the commonly cultivated variety of this tree for areas outside of the Pacific Northwest, and is clearly a better selection for midwestern climates than the species because of its better cold tolerance (species is hardy to USDA Zone 6, but var.

Ponderosa, as detailed on that page. Washoensis populations do not warrant distinction as a variety or even a subspecies of P. However, its cones are fairly distinctive and I am not fully persuaded that the described P.

Requires an acid to neutral soil. Grows well in a poor sandy soil. This species is very susceptible to slug damage. Plants are hardy to about -25°c. * Perennial wildflower, palm shaped leaves, blooms 2nd and 3rd year and successive seasons from expanding...

* Lawson's Pine (Pinus lawsonii) is a species of conifer in the Pinaceae family. * It grows with various species of Quercus and a variety of other pines . * Climate is warm-temperate to temperate with 600-1500 mm annual precipitation and a November to...

Also known as The Common or European Privel, this tree is often used as a hedge. A black dye can also be obtained from the fruit as well as an ink. Good tree for beginners because the stems are flexible and responsive to shaping.

* The fruit is high in saponins and is used as a soap for washing fabrics and thebody. * Chinese relative of G. Wood - hard, durable, finishes to a fine lustre. It is used for cabinet making.

* Open forests, slopes, meadows, stream sides. * A versatile mid sized, prolific flowering shrub that is quite cold hardy. Branchlets glabrous; buds ovoid, slightly pubescent. S Gansu (Min Xian, Xigu), E Qinghai (Haiyan Xian, Xining Shi), E Xizang (Sog...

Pallida is similar to E. Plants normally grow with one unbranched stem in the wild, but often produce multi-stemmed clumps in gardens. * Succeeds in ordinary garden soil but prefers a deep rich loam with plenty of leafmold and a sunny position.

* Laburnum alpinum (Scottish Laburnum) is a leguminous flowering tree. Group as a shrub to maximize effect of the spring bloom. Good background plant. It flowers in late spring, bearing panicles of yellow pea-like flowers.

* Rough gray bark, bright green leaves; native to Monterey County, California * Cupressus goveniana is a species of cypress endemic to coastal California in the United States , where it is found in small, scattered populations, not in large forests.

* It is very cold hardy, coming from Siberia, and will also tolerate drought and saline conditions. They keep their blue color well after drying. * This is an excellent plant to use for cut flowers and dried flowers.

* Mostly identical to the species, which see, but with white flowers.

* Sweet chestnut has been listed as one of the 38 substances used to prepare Bach flower remedies, a kind of alternative medicine promoted for its effect on health. A somewhat astringent taste raw, it improves considerably when cooked and is delicious...

Super hardy Edelweiss will survive the coldest winter temperatures and the worst summer droughts. Grows 6-12'' tall and 6-9'' wide. This superb perennial produces beautiful cream colored star-shaped flowers and silvery green foliage.