Plant With Winter Interest Drought Tolerant Plant For Sale In Costa Mesa

* A small to medium sized conifer tree or a large shrub, typically branching from near the base. * The smooth grey- green bark flakes away creating a beautiful patchwork of white, yellow, purple, brown and green.

The leaves are spirally arranged but twisted at the base to lie in two horizontal ranks, 1–2 cm (0.39–0.79 in) long and 1–2 mm (0.039–0.079 in) broad. Trees from the Mexican highlands achieve a notable stoutness.

* The only known species is Anemanthele lessoniana, often called gossamer grass or New Zealand wind grass or pheasant's tail grass. * It is marginal in zone 8, going dormant and deciduous in cold winters, but usually evergreen to semi-evergreen.

It was touted as a great plant for wildlife and erosion control. It has since been determined to be very invasive and so is being eradicated many places. The fruits are not comsumed in the fall by birds so it does provide a nice winter food source.

* It is in flower in May, and the seeds ripen in July. * A species of maple native to northern forests in eastern North America from southern Ontario east to Nova Scotia and south to eastern Illinois and New Jersey Conservation Plant Characteristics Acer...

* It is a popular ornamental tree found far beyond its native range. * The specific epithet pungens means "sharply pointed", referring to the leaves. * Our Majestic seed source is the only one that we sell that has a better blue color than Kaibab.

* Skunk bush was employed medicinally by several native North American Indian tribes, who valued it especially for its astringent qualities and used it to treat a range of complaints.

* More upright than many cultivars and then cascades down from a higher starting point. * Holds its color well in the summer and then turns a beautiful scarlet in the fall.

It will however grow in full sun, even though the foliage appears to "bleach" a little. * Sarcococca confusa is a very adaptable and reliable shrub that is easily grown in many situations, including dense shade with very dry soil.

The leaves are deciduous in cold areas, but semi-evergreen in warmer climates, < 7 cm long and < 3 cm broad, with an oblique base and a coarsely serrated margin, changing from dark green to yellow in autumn.

* Pinus elliottii , commonly known as the Slash Pine , is a pine native to the southeastern United States , from southern South Carolina west to southeastern Louisiana , and south to the Florida Keys .

Muricata has been used in plantations with resultant growth rates higher than in the wild . * The plant can tolerate maritime exposure. * The Bishop Pine ( Pinus muricata ) is a pine with a very restricted range: mostly California , USA , including some...

The crown is narrow, dense and conical. * Grow in moist, well-drained soils in part shade to full shade. Young shoots are short, palely pubescent and bright orange to red-brown in colour.

It is a fast growing evergreen tree, between 18-35 m tall with dark green delicately dented bipinnatifid leaves reminiscent of a fern frond. The nectar falls in showers when the flowers are shaken.

* Tufted hair grass is clump-forming, cool season grass which is often grown as an ornamental. It typically forms a low, dense tussock (to 16" tall) of very thin (1/5" wide), arching, flat to inrolled, dark green grass blades (to 2' long).

* Hardier than green-leaved types. * This variety has glossy deep purple-red leaves that hold their color well into the heat of summer. * Fall color is sensational. * As with all seed collected from cultivars the resulting seedlings may not resemble the...

* In flower from Jul to August, and the seeds ripen from Sep to November. * All parts of the plant have a distinguishing strong odour that is often likened to rotting peanuts or cashews.

* Unique bark appearance, corky and rough with many cracks in it. * Leaves similar to that of Japanese Maple.

The crown is narrow, dense and conical. * Grow in moist, well-drained soils in part shade to full shade. Young shoots are short, palely pubescent and bright orange to red-brown in colour.

* Templetonia is a dryland shrub that grows 3-7 feet tall. It is covered in red flowers in the winter and spring. * Templetonia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae.

The leaflets do not have a single central vein as in that species, but several veins arranged fan-like, branched from the leaflet base, hence the epithet nervosa . Berberine, universally present in rhizomes of Mahonia species, has marked antibacterial...

Leucodermis ; family Pinaceae ) is a species of pine that occurs in the mountains of southeastern Europe. * Bosnian pine is a popular ornamental tree in parks and large gardens, giving reliable steady though not fast growth on a wide range of sites, and...

* Skunk bush was employed medicinally by several native North American Indian tribes, who valued it especially for its astringent qualities and used it to treat a range of complaints.

* Hardier than green-leaved types. * The spring color is bright purple-red, black red or maroon in summer, changing to green red or brown red in late summer and then crimson in the fall.

Synonyms include Ilex monticola . * Ilex montana ( Mountain Winterberry ; also "Mountain Holly" which is more typically Ilex mucronata ) is a species of holly native to the United States , ranging along the Appalachian Mountains from southeast Massachusetts...

* The natural habitat of the silk floss tree is the north-east of Argentina, east of Bolivia, Paraguay, Uruguay and southern Brazil. It grows fast in spurts when water is abundant, and sometimes reaches more than 25 metres (82 ft) in height.

* It is a coniferous evergreen tree native to Taiwan and southeast China, in the provinces of Gansu, Guangxi, Guizhou, Hubei, Hunan, Shaanxi, Sichuan, and Yunnan. Plants require a hot dry site if they are to flourish, with at least 4 months of temperatures...