Crop Plant Evergreen Plant For Sale In Boston

A very good size, up to 25cm long. The seed is an important local food source, and is considered to be a great delicacy. * The seed is edible raw or cooked. * Flaky bark, 4" blue-green needles, 9" cones; edible seed; native to Himalayas.

Grows up to 60 feet tall. Adapts well to high pH and heavy clay soils. Very dense lustrous green needles. Has a wonderful, pyramidal shape. We send 12-20'' seedlings.

* Coffea arabica is a species of Coffea originally indigenous to the mountains of Yemen in the Arabian Peninsula , hence its name, and also from the southwestern highlands of Ethiopia and southeastern Sudan .

Drought tolerant and deer resistant. This fast growing evergreen develops naturally in the ''rocket'' shape without any pruning or staking and reaches about 15' at maturity. The dusty blue-green coloring remains all year without browning or fading away.

Grows 40-60 feet tall. Extremely adaptable and very cold hardy. Nice pyramidal form and dark green needles make it a favorite. One of the nicest evergreens you can plant. We send 10-20'' seedlings.

It can also be used in topiary. * Very amenable to trimming, this species is often grown as a hedge in N. America and Japan. * Ilex crenata ( Japanese Holly or Box-leaved Holly ; Japanese : inutsuge ) is a species of holly native to eastern China , Japan...

The cones are cylindric-conic, 4-8 cm long and 2 cm broad, maturing pale brown 5-7 months after pollination, and have stiff, smoothly rounded scales. The shoots are orange-brown, glabrous or with scattered pubescence.

* The fruit has a slightly acid, sweet aromatic flavour, they can be eaten out of hand or cooked in pies, sauces, jellies etc. * Loquats are unusual among fruit trees in that the flowers appear in the autumn or early winter, and the fruits are ripe in...

* Banksia ericifolia responds to fire by seeding, the parent plant being killed. * Banksia ericifolia grows as a large shrub up to 6 metres (20 ft) in height, though often smaller, around 1–2 metres (3–6 ft), in exposed places such as coastal or mountain...

Prefers a pH in the range 6 to 7.5. Plants must be kept fairly dry in the winter but they like a reasonable supply of water in the growing season. Very refreshing, they are somewhat like a watermelon in flavour.

* This species produces flowering plants in 2 - 3 years from seed. * In antiquity the most famous place for the black hellebore was the Phokian city of Antikyra in Greece. The large, flat flowers, borne on short stems from midwinter to early spring, are...

Chinensis, especially in the E, typically below 1200 m, ascending to over 3000 m in Sichuan and Yunnan). S Anhui, Fujian, S Gansu, N Guangdong, N Guangxi, Guizhou, W Henan, W Hubei, Hunan, Jiangxi, S Shaanxi, Sichuan, Taiwan, E Yunnan, Zhejiang [N India,...

Only the bark is extracted, and a new layer of cork regrows, making it a renewable resource. * Cork harvesting is done entirely without machinery, being dependent solely on human labor.

* Modern research has shown that yew trees contain the substance 'taxol' in their shoots and bark. Japanese Yew is a great bonsai for beginners. One of the main features of the Yew is its peeling bark, making the tree look old, a good quality for Bonsai.Yews...

* Laurus nobilis is an aromatic evergreen tree or large shrub with green, glossy leaves, native to the Mediterranean region. * Dried laurel berries and pressed leaf oil can both be used as robust spices, and even the wood can be burnt for strong smoke...

* The dried leaves can be ground and used as a sweetener or soaked in water and the liquid used in making preserves. * The leaves contain 'stevioside', a substance that is 300 times sweeter than sucrose.

* With its small but abundant flowers it can colour a whole hillside white, almost giving the appearance of snow cover. * A refreshing tea can be made from the young shoot tips. * The leaves and young shoots are antihalitosis, antiphlogistic, astringent,...

* Shiny dark green, evergreen leaves; upright, rounded, densely branched; unique among hollies in that it often spreads by suckering; doesn't mind shade but prefers sun; Dirr recommends it for foundations, hedges, and accent plants, particularly the cultivars;...

Spreads to form a dense mat 4-5' wide and only 4-6'' high. In the fall it turns a soft lavender-purple. Delightful blue-green feathery foliage. Thrives in full sun or partial shade in any well-drained soil, very drought resistant! Plant 3' apart in staggered...

* The whole plant is used in the treatment of arthritis, recurring fever in pulmonary tuberculosis, tubercular lymph nodes, joint pained and lumbago. * Very shiny dark green leaves, spiny; ultimately forms a dense, rounded crown; attractive gray bark,...

This hardy, fast growing evergreen is a hybrid of two U.S. trees. The soft feathery evergreen leaves can be left unpruned for an informal look or sheared and shaped for a formal look.

* Try them as a fall crop by sowing seed in late summer. * They are very late to bolt and can be grown year round in mild climates. * They are quite frost tolerant and become even more flavorful after some frosty nights.

The flowers are small, greenish-yellow, with 5–6 sepals and no petals. The mature seed is a hard oval, dark brown in color and contains an oil (liquid wax) content of approximately 54%.

The surviving trees from this forest are as old as 2000 years. * Cupressus macrocarpa , commonly known as Monterey Cypress or Macrocarpa , is a species of cypress endemic to the central coast of California .

* With its shiny green leaves and heavily fragrant white summer flowers, it is widely used in gardens in warm temperate and subtropical climates, and as a houseplant in temperate regions.

It is a highly variable tree, and closely related to Cupressus goveniana , enough to sometimes be considered a subspecies of it. * Cupressus pigmaea ( Mendocino Cypress ) is a taxon of disputed status in the genus Cupressus endemic to certain coastal...

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