Hedge Plant Shade Tolerant Plant For Sale In Texas

* Habitat and Range: sandy, gravelly, or rocky slopes, often growing in areas underlain by limestone bedrock. A decoction of the roots has been used in the treatment of kidney complaints and TB.

* A good ground cover plant, succeeding in the heavy shade of trees and in dry shade. The green, ovate leaves grow in opposite pairs. A yellow-orange dye is obtained from the flowers.

Also useful for stabilizing embankments. * Easily grown in average, medium, well-drained soil in full sun to part shade. Can be grown as a hedge. Prune in early spring. * Garden Uses Mass or group in the shrub border or native plant garden.

* Carpinus japonica (Japanese Hornbeam) is a hornbeam native to Japan. * Appealing dark green foliage; "the widespreading branches radiate like the ribs on a fan" (Dirr); flat-topped when mature; fall color red.

* 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...

* A small ash native to China with 1 1/2" leaflets on compound leaves and 1" seeds. The bark also contains fraxetin.This has an inhibitory effect on the central nervous system, is a stronger and safer anodyne than aspirin and has some antibacterial activity.

The wind-pollinated perfect apetalous flowers are borne on long pedicels in March and April before the leaves appear. * Grow in average, medium moisture, well-drained soils in full sun.

* Stored seed should be sown as early in the year as possible and given cold stratification - it might not germinate until spring of the following year.

* This species of pearlbush is an early-blooming, upright deciduous shrub that is native to Manchuria and Korea. Elliptic, serrate, pale green leaves (to 3" long) turn yellow in fall.

This is not to be confused with the typical pinkness observed as the petals age. * Trillium ovatum, the Western Wake Robin, Pacific Trillium, or Western White Trillium, is a member of the Trilliaceae family, or sometimes included within the Liliaceae...

When prescribed internally it is always used dried and in conjunction with fresh ginger root. * The root is harvested when the plant is dormant in the autumn or winter and is dried for later use.

It is a deciduous shrub up to 2 m high, in late summer bearing conspicuous brilliant red inedible fruits superficially resembling cherries. Schmidt, which is native to Sakhalin , Kurile Islands , Hokkaido and Honshu , is sometimes considered as a geographically...

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

* It is noted for its large palmate leaves and erect, woody stems covered in stinging spines. * Devil's club was widely employed medicinally by several native North American Indian tribes who used it especially for its pain-relieving properties.

* Trillium grandiflorum, commonly known as great white trillium or wood lily, is a simple, graceful perennial that is one of the most familiar and beloved of the spring woodland wildflowers in eastern North America.

The red seed pods are brilliant, opening to revel shiny black seeds. * Common in thickets and in thin secondary forests in lowlands and low mountains of central and southern Japan.

* Features a dwarf mound of slightly wavy, heart-shaped, medium green leaves with racemes of funnel-shaped, violet flowers on 10" scapes. Dense foliage crowds out most garden weeds.

* Seed - sow the seed thinly in early spring in a cold frame in light shade. It has been used to relieve constipation and water retention and improve circulation. Since Butcher's broom tightens blood vessels and capillaries, it is used to treat varicose...

* The name distichum refers to the two types of leaves the plant carries. It grows from 2–4ft. (50–120cm) tall. * The flowers are yellow–orange or orange–vermillion with the petals spotted in purple, somewhat ‘flatfaced' in appearance with irregular...

Petiole 4–8 mm, initially densely yellow tomentose, subglabrous when old; stipules linear-lanceolate, 4–5 mm, sparsely tomentose or glabrescent at fruiting; leaf blade obovate to elliptic, 2–4.5 × 1.2–2.8 cm, thickly leathery, midvein prominently...

* The white inner bark is used in making string shoes. * Profuse scarlet fruit in early fall; leaves pale yellow in fall; sun or part shade; native to northeastern Asia.

It can be trimmed so long as it is not cut back into old wood. These two small populations represent what was once a very large forest on the west coast. * Cupressus macrocarpa , commonly known as Monterey Cypress or Macrocarpa , is a species of cypress...

* The plant is dormant during the summer and grows during the cooler half of the year. Thrives in the light shade of trees. * Prefers a cool habitat and a well-drained humus rich soil.

Too small for commercial exploitation, the wood is used locally for turnery, inlay work, woodenware etc. It weighs 46lb per cubic foot. * This species is occasionally used for hedging in the southern states of America.

* A decoction of the flowering shoots is used in the treatment of coughs and women's complaints. It is named after William Kerr , who introduced the cultivar 'Pleniflora'. The scientific genus name is also used as a common name Kerria .

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

It is especially suitable for making levers and is also a good fuel. * Carpinus caroliniana (American hornbeam) is a small hardwood tree in the genus Carpinus. * Too small to be exploited commercially, this high quality wood is often used locally for...