Plant With Winter Interest Drought Tolerant Plant For Sale In Birmingham

* A fibre obtained from the bark is used in the manufacturing of Xuan Paper. The tree has a good quality timber. * Resembles Celtis but has winged fruits to 3/4"; dark green foliage; "gray-brown bark exfoliates in patches and is quite handsome...for the...

* A fibre obtained from the bark is used in the manufacturing of Xuan Paper. The tree has a good quality timber. * Resembles Celtis but has winged fruits to 3/4"; dark green foliage; "gray-brown bark exfoliates in patches and is quite handsome...for the...

* This is the most important cotton of commerce. It is widely grown in regions of the world where the growing season is long enough to allow the fruit to mature. It requires a minimum of 140 days from planting to harvest.

Slender twigs are glabrous and silvery gray, with "numerous spur shoots", pointed lateral buds, and acuminate scales. The pulp is bitter; they contain 3-5 seeds and mature in autumn.

* The pod is used as a soap substitute. * Thorns showed antibacterial activity against a Gram-positive bacterium Xanthomonas vesicatoria and a Gram-negative bacterium Bacillus subtilis.

In these regions, the waxy coating of the seeds is used for candle and soap making, and the leaves are used as herbal medicine to treat boils. The plant sap and leaves are reputed to be toxic, and decaying leaves from the plant are toxic to other species...

* This is the most important cotton of commerce. It is widely grown in regions of the world where the growing season is long enough to allow the fruit to mature. It requires a minimum of 140 days from planting to harvest.

* It is also grown for the cut Christmas tree industry. * It is a popular ornamental tree found far beyond its native range. The blue color is quite intense and a high percentage of the seedlings will exhibit the lovely blue needles.

* 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...

* It is a larger tree so should be given some room to grow. * Grown mostly for its striking red and multicolored bark that peels off to reveal other shades and colors. * Very ornamental tree.

* It lives in the understory in moist, rocky soils on river banks, ravines, woods, and cliffs. * A deciduous tree native to the southeastern United States from North Carolina south to northwest Florida and west to eastern Texas.

It can be found from deserts to mountain peaks up to about 7,000 feet in elevation. It is native to the western half of Canada and the United States and extends south into northern Mexico.

* Leaves that start off pink in the spring turning to green over summer and then a lovely orange color in the fall. * Sought after for their attractive leaf shapes and colors.

Too small for commercial exploitation, the wood is used locally for turnery, inlay work, woodenware etc. * This species is occasionally used for hedging in the southern states of America.

* The spring and Summer foliage is a deep, rich green. * Rich, deep orange fall color.

* The dark purple-red color holds up better than most cultivars. * 50 to 100 year old trees being 4 meters tall. * It is hardy and strongly cascading.

* Leaves similar to that of Japanese Maple. * Unique bark appearance, corky and rough with many cracks in it.

* It is native to mountains forests of Japan. * A maple in the snake-bark maple group.

The young shoots or suckers from the bottom of the plant are also used. Plants grow in poor dry soils in the wild. * Very young leaf buds are cooked as a vegetable. Requires very good drainage with abundant moisture in the summer and a sunny position.

* Low informal hedge. * The leaves turn attractive shades of purple, red and bronze in autumn. * Versatile shrub that can be used to cover large areas. * The red (cranberry-like) berries mature in late summer and persist into winter.

The roundleaf dogwood is also a temperate, northeastern North American species that occurs throughout southern and eastern Ontario; in northern Ontario it occurs farther north than the alternateleaf dogwood, but does not extend past 50°N (Soper and Heimburger...

* Small landscape tree * Somewhat reminiscent of Betua nigra bark, but the sections that break off are smaller and more block like. * Grown mostly for it's beautiful exfoliating bark.

* The leaves have very narrow lobes that are purple red in the summer turning to orange red in the fall. * Fall color is sensational. * Hardier than green-leaved types.

* A hardy perennial with gray or blue-gray rather frilly leaves, extremely fragrant (although many dislike the pungent scent); woody base; causes dermatitis in some people, for dry sunny places; also used medicinally and as a condiment; inconspicuous...

It frequently grows with scattered conifers and an undergrowth of shrubs, typically evergreen Rhododendron . * The tree depends on moisture from snowmelt, rather than from the monsoon rains.

* The most familiar of the dogwoods; a small tree with low branches that tend to form horizontal tiers. * The fruits are used as a bitter digestive tonic. * Fruits are an important food source for dozens of species of birds , which then distribute the...

* The fall color is golden to red. * It has gracefully arching branches and grows somewhat faster than other cultivars.