Urban Tolerant Plant Seeds For Sale In Corpus Christi

It is dense and cone-shaped when young, broadening at the top with age. Its value as a street tree is largely due to its resistance to salt spray (from road de-icing salt) and various industrial pollutants (including ozone), and its intermediate drought...

The tree is short-lived in temperate climates, rarely reaching more than 60 years of age, but in its native environment may live to between 100 and 150 year. * Of open, wide-spreading habit, with several main branches ramifying into small branchlets;...

It is dense and cone-shaped when young, broadening at the top with age. Its value as a street tree is largely due to its resistance to salt spray (from road de-icing salt) and various industrial pollutants (including ozone), and its intermediate drought...

* Mountain Pine or Mugo Pine ( Pinus mugo ) is a high-altitude European pine , found in the Pyrenees , Alps , Erzgebirge , Carpathians , northern Apennines and Balkan Peninsula mountains from (mostly) 1,000 m to 2,200 m, occasionally as low as 200 m in...

* The leaves are smaller than those of the other European species, hence the specific epithet minor, however they can vary greatly according to the maturity of the tree. Its natural range is predominantly south European, extending to Asia Minor.

* Gray-green leaves, white flowers, red 3/4" fruit in October, native to U.S. East Coast west to central U.S. It is native to most of the eastern U.S. and eastern Canada. * It is a species of hawthorn known by the common names dotted hawthorn or white...

The tree was 18 m in height with a d.b.h. of 5 m in 2013. * The fruit is a small, dark-purple berry-like drupe, 1 cm wide, hanging in short clusters, and are extremely popular with birds and other wildlife.

Red stem color is more easily seen after the fruits are gone, and red color often persists into early winter. * Many species of birds feed on the fruits. * Terminal stems holding the flowers are distinctively red and provide interesting contrast to the...

* Fraxinus velutina ( Velvet Ash or Arizona Ash or Modesto Ash ) is a species of Fraxinus native to southwestern North America , in the United States from southern California east to Texas , and in Mexico from northern Baja California east to Coahuila...

* A fairly wind resistant tree, it can be grown as part of a shelterbelt planting. * Green Ash is one of the most widely planted ornamental trees throughout the United States and much of Canada but mostly Alberta, including in western areas where it is...

* Mountain Pine or Mugo Pine ( Pinus mugo ) is a high-altitude European pine , found in the Pyrenees , Alps , Erzgebirge , Carpathians , northern Apennines and Balkan Peninsula mountains from (mostly) 1,000 m to 2,200 m, occasionally as low as 200 m in...

Taxol has shown exciting potential as an anti-cancer drug, particularly in the treatment of ovarian cancers. * Taxus cuspidata ( Japanese Yew or Spreading Yew ) is a member of the genus Taxus , native to Japan , Korea , northeast China and the extreme...

* It is one of the classic bonsai subjects. * Because of its resistance to pollution and salt, it is a popular horticultural tree. This hardy pine species is relatively disease free and tolerates poor soil conditions, making it a good choice for all levels.

The quality is better from the upper stems. * Fraxinus ornus ( Manna Ash or South European Flowering Ash ) is a species of Fraxinus native to southern Europe and southwestern Asia , from Spain and Italy north to Austria and the Czech Republic , and east...

* All parts of the plant have a distinguishing strong odour that is often likened to rotting peanuts or cashews. * Due to the tree of heaven's weedy habit, landowners and other organisations often resort to various methods of control in order to keep...

* All parts of the plant have a distinguishing strong odour that is often likened to rotting peanuts or cashews. * Due to the tree of heaven's weedy habit, landowners and other organisations often resort to various methods of control in order to keep...

After leaf drop and throughout winter, the exfoliating reddish-brown bark, for which this plant is named, is best observed. * Physocarpus opulifolius is a shrub with alternate, simple leaves , on arching stems.

* It is an evergreen climbing plant, growing to 20–30 m high where suitable surfaces ( trees , cliffs , walls ) are available, and also growing as ground cover where there are no vertical surfaces.

* Ilex aquifolium ( Holly , or European Holly to distinguish it from related species, may also be called Christmass Holly or Mexican Holly) is a species of holly native to western and southern Europe , northwest Africa and southwest Asia .

An excellent and very colorful rock garden plant. * A very tolerant plant, succeeding in the salt laden air and strong winds of the coast as well as in the sulphur polluted air of cities.

* Numerous flower stems rise in summer from the foliage mound to a height of 3' bearing wide, airy panicles (to 20" long) of tiny, variably-colored flowers (tones of gold, silver, purple and green) which form a cloud over the foliage that is particularly...

* White flowers, tasty black berries; substantial arching canes; can spread rapidly in good soil; may stay as low as 2' in dry soil; native from Nova Scotia to North Carolina, Missouri.

* Seedling trees take from 5 - 8 years before they start bearing fruit, though grafted trees will often flower heavily in their third year. Useful for making tool handles, mallets and other small items.

An infusion of the root has been used to cleanse the afterbirth and aid in convalescence. It is native across much of North America. * Symphoricarpos occidentalis is a woody species of flowering plant in the honeysuckle family , commonly called Western...

* The glorious elm that used to line American streets. * 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.

River-flat hawthorn or may haw is a small tree or shrub, to 30 ft., with spiny branches and oval to oblong, dark-green leaves. Large, green to reddish fruit ripens from May to June.

* 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...