Plant With Fast Growth Drought Tolerant Plant For Sale In Allentown

It is native to southern Europe ( Sicily ), southwestern Asia ( Lebanon , Syria , Turkey ) and eastern Asia ( China ), with two well-separated populations. * Fontanesia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Oleaceae , usually treated as comprising...

It is fast-growing, but not very long-lived by pine standards (to 200 years), and prefers humid climates and moist soil. * Slash Pine is named after the "slashes" – swampy ground overgrown with trees and bushes – that constitute its habitat.

* Grevillea robusta , commonly known as the southern silky oak or Silky-oak , or Australian Silver-oak , is the largest species in the genus Grevillea . It is a fast growing evergreen tree, between 18-35 m tall with dark green delicately dented bipinnatifid...

In Oregon , where the plant is native, it has been cultivated for several uses, including reforestation and revegetation of roadsides and other disturbed habitat. The inflorescence is up to 44 centimeters long, bearing whorls of flowers each 1 to 1.6...

This Hackberry produces a pale trunk and branches with green leaves . * This is a common and widespread forest tree from South Africa to Ethiopia . It can be indoors with much care but grows best outside.

* The Chinese make fences around their compounds with interlaced branches of this plant.These branches take root and form a very graceful hedge. * Shrub with upright stems; narrow bamboolike leaves, shiny bright green; small whitish flowers; a roughish...

* Tolerates maritime exposure. * A very easily grown plant, succeeding in any ordinary garden soil in sun or partial shade. * A strong fibre is obtained from the stems, it is used for making string, bags, paper etc.

The common name is large-flowered tickseed. * 3" yellow-orange flowers in midsummer; native to southern U.S. * Coreopsis grandiflora is a perennial plant species of the tickseed genus, Coreopsis, in Asteraceae.

It lies between 500-1850 m It is a medium low tree, no more than 3-12 m in height and 6 dm in diameter, although rarely as grown trees was found ( by fire and logging ), short trunk , long branches decumbent ; taproot , with vertical growth first, then...

The wood weighs 38lb per cubic foot. * A valuable timber in its native range because it is less resinous than most pines and is easily worked. It is used for general construction, veneer, low-grade furniture, lumber and pulp.

* Dirr notes that several forms occur, but the one most of us recall fondly divided into several major trunks topped by spreading, arching, pendulous branches. * The glorious elm that used to line American streets.

* Current research is examining the leaves as a potential source of anticancer compounds. The juiceof the pods is antiseptic. The pods have been seen as a good antidote for children's complaints.

* It is fast growing and usually has nice red fall colors, much more reliably so than the more popular Pin Oak. * It is still relatively obscure in the horticultural industry but is slowly gaining popularity due to its fast growth rate, ease of transplanting,...

* Often planted as a shelterbelt along exposed coasts and also to stabilize sandy soils. * In addition to industrial uses, maritime pine is also a popular ornamental tree, often planted in parks and gardens in areas with warm temperate climates.

* In the garden, the shrub needs plenty of room to develop its long, arching sprays, reducing the temptation to club it back, which results in an unnatural "witches' broom". * Nice big shrub of arching vase like habit; grows quickly; pink flowers with...

Pear-shaped buds are borne in clusters of three, formed in the corner of leaf and stem junctions, whilst fruit (capsules) are urn-shaped. In the St. Louis area, it is usually grown from seed as a container plant, a houseplant or a garden annual.

* 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.

* Pinus pinaster is widely planted for timber in its native area, being one of the most important trees in forestry in France, Spain and Portugal. * The Maritime Pine ( Pinus pinaster ) is a pine native to the western Mediterranean region.

It is a moderately long-lived hardwood with a light-colored wood, yellowish gray to light brown with yellow streaks. It grows quickly and is pyramidal in youth becoming an elm-like habit as it matures.

Its fruit is deep red-black in color encasing a large seed that bears some resemblance to a 'Chinese lucky nut.' * Cascabela thevetia is cultivated as an ornamental plant, and planted as large flowering shrub or small ornamental tree standards in gardens...

In Oregon , where the plant is native, it has been cultivated for several uses, including reforestation and revegetation of roadsides and other disturbed habitat. The inflorescence is up to 44 centimeters long, bearing whorls of flowers each 1 to 1.6...

The fruits are not comsumed in the fall by birds so it does provide a nice winter food source. It has since been determined to be very invasive and so is being eradicated many places.

The specific epithets sebifera and sebiferum mean "wax-bearing" and refer to the vegetable tallow that coats the seeds. The plant sap and leaves are reputed to be toxic, and decaying leaves from the plant are toxic to other species of plant .

* Current research is examining the leaves as a potential source of anticancer compounds. The juiceof the pods is antiseptic. The pods have been seen as a good antidote for children's complaints.

The leaves are 2.5–9 cm long, pinnate, with six to eight leaflets; the leaflets are 1.6–4.5 cm long and 1.1–2.3 cm broad. Seeds can be collected and used for propagation. So, don't be surprised if a few butterfly larvae are found munching leaves.

* I just watched a You Tube video of a woman eating 1/4 of a flower. She describes it as "like popping candy" and "little needles poking the top of your mouth". * The leaves and flower heads contain an analgesic agent spilanthol used to numb toothache.

* Another Australian native with green twigs and green scalelike leaves; does well in shoreline situations and poor soil; odd cones used in Christmas wreaths. * These plants are an invasive species in Florida , known as Australian pines.