Plant For Screen Or Windbreak Drought Tolerant Plant For Sale In Santa Clara

The limbs can be bent and twisted when young and forced into odd shapes for an appealing bonsai. * Often a rather dense cone, especially when young; red or gray bark; dark green foliage; doesn't mind harsh conditions; insists on full sun, shaded branches...

Hybrids between this species and C. My guess is that you shouldn't plant it unless you want to have it for a long time. * This is one tough plant. * Small, gray-green compound leaves, light yellow flowers in May and June; native to Siberia and northern...

Used for flooring, axe handles, firewood, poles etc. * Casuarina cunninghamiana - River Oak , River She-oak , Creek Oak or Fire Oak is a species of Casuarina , native to New South Wales and Queensland , Australia .

* Plants can be grown as a tall hedge. * The wood is light yet has great strength and rot resistance, and is particularly highly valued in east Asia, with large amounts being exported to Japan where it is in high demand for making coffins, and for shrines...

* Before the invention of barbed wire in the 1880's, the Osage Orange was planted in hedges to contain farm animals. In the axil of every growing leaf is found a growing spine which when mature is about 1 inch (2.5 cm) long, and rather formidable.

* The bark can be used as a waterproof covering material for buildings and canoes. * A powder made from the dried and crushed leaves was used as a baby powder by the N. * A fir native to the Pacific Northwest of North America.

It also provides cover for nesting sites. * This plum is eaten fresh and made into jellies and preserves. * Cultivated by the Chickasaw Indians and other indigenous peoples before the arrival of Europeans.

It produces off white four-petaled open flowers that are followed by small, round fruit that ripen from August to October. It can grow to a height of 15 to 25 feet (4.6 - 7.6 m) with a spread of 10 to 15 feet (3.1 - 4.6 m).

* A variable evergreen of upright, rounded habit, with 1/2" white flowers in small clusters; 1" green or red berries; likes moist soil, part shade; emerging leaves bronzy to reddish, later leathery, dark green; leaves to 4" x 1 1/2", turning bronzy-red...

* Greek Fir is native to the mountains of Greece, primarily in the Peloponnesos and the island of Kefallonia, * It is grown as an ornamental tree in parks and large gardens. * Greek Fir was important in the past for wood for general construction.

* Before the invention of barbed wire in the 1880's, the Osage Orange was planted in hedges to contain farm animals. In the axil of every growing leaf is found a growing spine which when mature is about 1 inch (2.5 cm) long, and rather formidable.

* Spreading cotoneaster is an upright, rounded, densely branched, deciduous shrub that matures to 5-6' tall and spreads to 6-8' wide. * Of spreading, mound-like habit; shiny dark green leaves; fall color can be long-lasting and impressive in purples,...

* It is grown for its very high quality timber in Japan, where it is used as a material for building palaces, temples, shrines, traditional noh theatres, baths, table tennis blades and masu.

* Populus alba , commonly called abele , silver poplar , silverleaf poplar , or white poplar , is a species of poplar , most closely related to the aspens ( Populus sect. It is native from Spain and Morocco through central Europe (north to Germany and...

Conservation Plant Characteristics Alnus glutinosa (L.) Gaertn. * The trees are very quick to establish and will grow at a rate of 1 metre or more per year when young. * Tolerant of clipping and maritime exposure, the alder can be grown in a windbreak...

* It is very shade-tolerant when young. * Native to Japan on the islands of Honshu and Shikoku. * Wood - strong, elastic. Used for construction, boxes, utensils, spindles etc. * It lives in moist soils in cool wet mountain forests at elevations of 1500–2800...

* Populus alba , commonly called abele , silver poplar , silverleaf poplar , or white poplar , is a species of poplar , most closely related to the aspens ( Populus sect. It is native from Spain and Morocco through central Europe (north to Germany and...

The bark is red-brown, furrowed and peels in narrow, longitudinal strips. The leaves and stems have been used as an incense. This essential oil also has insect repellent properties.

* Fraser Fir has been used more times as the Blue Room Christmas tree (the official Christmas tree of the President of the United States's White House) than any other type of tree.

In English poetry and English stories the holly is inseparably connected with the merry-making and greetings which gather around the Christmas time. * Ilex opaca is a medium-sized broadleaved evergreen tree growing to 10-20 m tall, exceptionally up to...

* Jefferson is also the best in shell variety yet found with resistance. An excellent nut for raw eating. * Our seed is collected from the variety Jefferson which is open pollinated by the varieties Theta and Yamhill.

* Scots pine is the only pine native to northern Europe. The wood is used for pulp and sawn timber products. * It was one of the first trees introduced to North America, in about 1600.

It is possibly native to Madagascar . * Casuarina equisetifolia is a species of she-oak of the genus Casuarina , native to Australasia , southeast Asia such as in Philippines locally know to them as Agoho, and islands of the western Pacific Ocean , from...

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

* The Jack Pine ( Pinus banksiana ) is a North American pine with its native range in Canada east of the Rocky Mountains from Northwest Territories to Nova Scotia , and the northeast of the United States from Minnesota to Maine , with the southernmost...

The vitamin C content is about 12mg per 100g. The fruit must be fully ripe before it can be enjoyed raw, if even slightly under-ripe it will be quite astringent. Juicy and pleasantly acid, they are tasty raw and can also be made into jams, preserves etc.

* Trees to 80 m tall and 220 cm dbh. * Native to the Cascade Range and Coast Range mountains of extreme northwest California and western Oregon and Washington in the United States .