Hedge Plant Shade Tolerant Plant For Sale In Ontario

They are very attractive to bees whilst the fruit is a good winter food source for many species of birds. Hybridizes freely with other members of this genus. * A very ornamental plant, it is hardy to about -15°c.

* A shrub with evergreen 2" x 1" shiny leaves; fragrant white flowers in April; round red fruit to 1/4"; grows well in dry shade; easy to grow; native to central and Western China, where it grows in forests and on cliffs, especially on limestone.

* Astilbe chinensis is a herbaceous plant with alternate, pinnately compound leaves, on thin stems. * The flowers are purple, borne in summer.

* Nandina domestica (pronounced /naen?di?n? This varient will grow to 8 feet tall. It is native to eastern Asia from the Himalaya east to Japan * Evergreen except in cold climates; delicate compound leaves, reddish when new, later blue-green; attractive...

* Ginseng is characterized by the presence of ginsenosides. * The German Commission E Monographs, a therapeutic guide to herbal medicine, approve Panax ginseng for lack of stamina.

Insignificant tiny greenish flowers appear in spring in separate male and female catkins, with the female catkins giving way to somewhat showy cigar shaped seed pods to 3-5” long.

* This species grows up to 50 feet, and has yellow flowers. * Sun- and drought-tolerant. Mediterranean and Asia Minor.

* It is also widely planted in gardens, and has spread as a garden escape in many areas outside its native range. * Ruscus aculeatus is a low evergreen Eurasian shrub, with flat shoots known as cladodes that give the appearance of stiff, spine-tipped...

* American Beautyberry ( Callicarpa americana ) is an open-habit, native shrub of the Southern United States which is often grown as an ornamental in gardens and yards . It is juicy, sweet, fleshy, slightly aromatic.

* A deciduous Tree growing to 15 m, at a fast rate. * In North America it is known as Hedge Maple and in Australia it is sometimes called Common Maple. * A maple native to much of Europe , north to southern England (where it is the only native maple),...

The reddish samarae are relatively small, < 8 mm long, narrowly elliptic with two long incurving stigmas at the tip, and usually disperse by the end of April . It is native from Virginia to southern Indiana and Missouri south to Florida and Texas.

A tea made from the berries has a spicy gin-like flavour. It is dioecious , with male and female cones on separate plants, which are wind pollinated. * The seed cones are berry -like, green ripening in 18 months to purple-black with a blue waxy coating;...

The nuts are eaten by squirrels , rabbits , other rodents , and larger birds. The flowers are small, greenish-yellow, with 5–6 sepals and no petals. * Jojoba grows to 1–2 metres (3.3–6.6 ft) tall, with a broad, dense crown.

This is the parent of a large number of cultivars, it is native from coastal Canada to Minnesota and south to Georgia and Alabama. The crown is broadly conic, while the brownish bark is scaly and deeply fissured, especially with age.

* The blue flowers and on occasion white flowers are bonnet shaped. * It is best to sow as soon as it is ripe in a cold frame. Stored seed can be sown in late winter in a cold frame.

* Astilbe chinensis is a herbaceous plant with alternate, pinnately compound leaves, on thin stems. * The flowers are purple, borne in summer.

The flowers are hermaphrodite (have both male and female organs) * The root is used in the treatment of rheumatism and other bone diseases. It is in flower from Jun to July. It is hardy to zone 8.

In the northern part of its range, which includes southern British Columbia, extreme southwestern Alberta, Washington, Oregon and east to Montana, Wyoming and northern Colorado, it often grows under Douglas-fir.

* Rhododendron catawbiense ( Catawba Rhododendron ) is a species of Rhododendron native to the eastern United States , growing mainly in the Appalachian Mountains from Virginia south to northern Alabama .

* It is grown as an ornamental plant in gardens, where its August flowering attracts butterflies. It is somewhat slow to establish, but if given space to fully develop becomes a magnificent specimen.

* A variable evergreen of upright, rounded habit, with 1/2" white flowers in small clusters; 1" green or red berries; likes moist soil, part shade; emerging leaves bronzy to reddish, later leathery, dark green; leaves to 4" x 1 1/2", turning bronzy-red...

* It is a small to medium-sized evergreen tree, growing 10-15 m tall and with a trunk up to 50 cm diameter, rarely more. Taxol has shown exciting potential as an anti-cancer drug, particularly in the treatment of ovarian cancers.

* Heart-shaped shiny dark green leaves with prominent veins, 9" x 5"; dark violet flowers in August; a 2' mound, flowers to almost 3'; native to China. Plants should be spaced about 60cm apart each way.

The flowers are hermaphrodite (have both male and female organs) * The root is used in the treatment of rheumatism and other bone diseases. It is in flower from Jun to July. It is hardy to zone 8.

It is especially suitable for making levers and is also a good fuel. It has a shallow, wide-spreading root system. American hornbeam is also known as blue-beech, ironwood, and musclewood.

* The fruit is a capsule 1.5 cm (0.59 in) broad, red ripening brown, with two to four wings. The leaves are apparently effective in the treatment of toothache if they are chewed without swallowing the juice.

Synonymous with and formerly known as R. Mountain Azalea (R. The species name, Latin for naked-flowered, refers to the fact that the flowers often appear before its leaves are fully expanded.