Salt Tolerant Plant Herbaceous Plant For Sale In Rochester

The dried roasted roots are ground into apowder and are used for making coffee. * A teaspoon of crushed seeds has long been used as a form of natural birth control; its use for this purpose was first described by Hippocrates over 2,000 years ago.

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

Ptarmica yields an essential oil that is used in herbal medicine. * The plant can tolerate maritime exposure. * The leaves are used as an insect repellent. * So called because the roots were once ground for snuff.

The tree can be long-lived, with some trees over 500 years old. A widely used landscape tree especially in the Midwest and East. The leaves ("needles") are thinner and more flexible in western populations.

Drought tolerant, disease and insect tolerant are also good assets for a bonsai. The Mugo Pine has small dark green evergreen needles helping it to look great all year. * Unlike most species of pine.

Other trees which frequently shade this trillium include grand fir, western red cedar, and western hemlock; bigleaf maple, red alder and Sitka spruce join in near the coast. * It occurs in parts of the western United States and western Canada, usually...

Draco tree alive. At about 10–15 years of age the stem stops growing and produces a first flower spike with white, lily-like perfumed flowers, followed by coral berries. Dragon's blood has a number of traditional medical uses, although dragon's blood...

When prescribed internally it is always used dried and in conjunction with fresh ginger root. * Tian Nan Xing has been used in Chinese herbal medicine for thousands of years and is valued especially for its beneficial affect upon the chest.

It was used as a face paint by the North American Indians. The seeds have a fleshy organ called an elaiosome that attracts ants. * Bloodroot ( Sanguinaria canadensis ) is a perennial , herbaceous flowering plant native to eastern North America from Nova...

* An attractive shrub or small tree with a short trunk; 2" needles; contorted branches reaching nearly to the ground; of broadly conical form; dark green, much planted in Europe; "an excellent garden tree" (Wyman); native to coastal North America from...

* Requires a well-drained sandy soil and a sunny position. * The leaves are used for flavouring rice dumplings. Established plants are drought tolerant.

Pinus parviflora is an outdoor bonsai needed a dormant winter period. Water more in warm weather but do not water if the soil is damp or cool. * It is a coniferous evergreen tree, growing to 15–25 m in height and is usually as broad as it is tall, forming...

* Sow the seed in mid spring or late summer to early autumn in a sunny border outdoors and only just cover the seed. * The California poppy ( Eschscholzia californica ) is native to grassy and open areas from sea level to 2,000m (6,500 feet) altitude...

* It has gained an almost magical reputation for being able to promote health, general body vigour and also to prolong life. * Ginseng has a history of herbal use going back over 5,000 years.

Grows well in heavy clay soils. * The species, from central Europe and Russia, has blue-purple, lavender, or white flowers, but there are dozens of cultivars, in a varied range of splendid blues, purples, pinks, and whites, including some of the most...

They are often, but not always, sweetly scented. The leaves are in pairs or whorls of three, thick and leathery, dark green, narrow lanceolate, 5–21 cm (2.0–8.3 in) long and 1–3.5 cm (0.39–1.4 in) broad, and with an entire margin.

* The flowers are borne in racemes up to 20 cm long, each flower with five yellow, orange or red petals. * The fruit is a pod 6-12 cm long. * It is a shrub growing to 3 m tall, native to the Tropics and Subtropics of the Americas .

* Sarracenia minor , also known as the Hooded pitcher plant , is a carnivorous plant in the genus Sarracenia . Like all the Sarracenia , it is native to the New World .

* It is noted for its large palmate leaves and erect, woody stems covered in stinging spines. * In vitro studies showed that extracts of Devil's Club inhibit tuberculosis microbes.

And it is considered a noxious weed in California! * Very tolerant of maritime exposure and salt-laden winds, it is also very fast growing. Increases in height of between 1 and 2.5 metres per year have been recorded even in exposed positions, it makes...

Originally manufactured by Afexa Life Sciences Inc. Since the 18th century, the roots have been collected by "sang hunters" and sold to Chinese or Hong Kong traders, who often pay very high prices for particularly old wild roots.

Flowers- raw or cooked. They make an attractive garnish to salads, and can also be used as a cookedvegetable or in conserves etc. * The young leaves can be eaten raw or cooked as a potherb, added to soups etc.

The fruit is a hairy, woody capsule about a centimeter wide divided into three valves. Inside are black seeds in a bed of resinous pulp. They are leathery, hairless, and darker and shinier on the upper surfaces.

* A widespread urban myth is that pampas grass is used by swingers to advertise their presence to other swingers in the area. The most commonly repeated version states that in the UK and Ireland a patch of pampas grass is planted somewhere in the front...

A warm-season grass, big bluestem begins growing in mid to late spring, several weeks after cool-season grasses. * Seed germination appears to be dependent on about a 2-week period of moistened seed at a time when soil temperatures have reached 60 degrees...

The tree can be long-lived, with some trees over 500 years old. A widely used landscape tree especially in the Midwest and East. The leaves ("needles") are thinner and more flexible in western populations.

* Thorns showed antibacterial activity against a Gram-positive bacterium Xanthomonas vesicatoria and a Gram-negative bacterium Bacillus subtilis. A lupane acid extracted from the thorns showed in vitro anti-HIV activity.