Plant With Winter Interest Drought Tolerant Plant For Sale In Portland

* The Apache source exhibits strong blue color yet shouldn't be used in extremely cold areas. * It is also grown for the cut Christmas tree industry. * The specific epithet pungens means "sharply pointed", referring to the leaves.

* The glorious elm that used to line American streets. * The American elm occurs naturally in an assortment of habitats, most notably rich bottomlands, floodplains, stream banks, and swampy ground, * The American Elm is the state tree of both Massachusetts...

Striped maple ACPE Summary Duration Perennial Growth Habit Tree, Shrub Native Status L48 (N), CAN (N) Federal T/E Status National Wetland Indicator FACU-, FACU Morphology/Physiology Active Growth Period Spring and Summer After Harvest Regrowth Rate Bloat...

* Arctostaphylos viscida is a species of manzanita known by the common names whiteleaf manzanita and sticky manzanita . The stems may be smooth or fuzzy, and are often glandular. This is a treelike shrub reaching up to five meters in height.

* 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 .

* Berberis thunbergii ( Japanese barberry or Thunberg's Barberry , also Red Barberry ) is a species of Berberis , native to Japan and eastern Asia . They are very tolerant of trimming and have prickles which make them an effective barrier to larger creatures.

* Baccharis halimifolia ( Eastern Baccharis) , commonly called groundsel bush, consumption weed, cotton-seed tree, groundsel tree or silverling) is a fall flowering evergreen perennial plant of the genus Baccharis which is commonly found in the southeastern...

Tolerates paving. 2.5 cm, April/May Fruits: practically round, brown with lighter lenticels, O approx. Large, brown fruit shaped like apples follow after flowering. Grows well in heavy clay soils.

The fruits are not comsumed in the fall by birds so it does provide a nice winter food source. It was touted as a great plant for wildlife and erosion control. Therefore, it was heavily planted in the midwest and eastern US.

* The fruit can also be dried and used in bread, cakes etc. * It is a small tree usually thirty to eighty feet (ten to twenty-four meters) in height, with a short, slender trunk and spreading, often pendulous branches, which form sometimes a broad and...

* Parkinsonia aculeata is a species of flowering tree in the pea family, Fabaceae . It is native to the southwestern United States (western Texas , southern Arizona ), Mexico , the Caribbean , South America south to northern Argentina , and the Galapagos...

Known for its small leaves and gnarly roots this bonsai is dramatic over rock . This deciduous bonsai tree grows swiftly into its mature form and is readily receptive to training with most styles.

* The tree reaches 40-50 m in height, developing an irregular oblate crown with large branches. * It is a coniferous evergreen tree native to Taiwan and southeast China, in the provinces of Gansu, Guangxi, Guizhou, Hubei, Hunan, Shaanxi, Sichuan, and...

* The parent is a vigorous cultivar said to be more resistant to birch borers and tolerant to heat. * The glossy green foliage turns yellow in the fall. * This deciduous tree has bark that is white and does not exfoliate (peel off).

Therefore a little bluer in color than the Colorado and a little more cold hardy than the Arizona. * Plants are very shade tolerant but growth is slower in dense shade. Highly recommended for zones 5 and 6.

This superb perennial produces beautiful cream colored star-shaped flowers and silvery green foliage. Super hardy Edelweiss will survive the coldest winter temperatures and the worst summer droughts.

* Eucalyptus perriniana , commonly known as Spinning Gum , is a tree or mallee which is native to New South Wales , Victoria and Tasmania in Australia . * The leaves yield up to 1% essential oil.

Photosynthesis is performed by the blue-green branches and twigs, regardless of absent leaves. The plant is drought-deciduous, shedding its foliage for most of the year, leafing out after rainfall.

* It is a cascading type but not as fully drooping as some cultivars * In sun the leaves are a very interesting shade of red.

* Hardy and beautiful. * This is a striking American cultivar of the "ribbon-leaf" group of Japanese Maples. * It will fit into smaller landscape plantings.

It has a strong taproot . Modern research has shown that there are many health benefits to drinking tea, including its ability to protect the drinker from certain heart diseases. * Chinese Camellia sinensis is native to mainland China South and Southeast...

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

* Hardier than green-leaved types. * The mother trees are mound forming red cut leaved types. * Fall color is sensational.

* 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.

Uses of its moderately strong, light-colored wood include small-dimension lumber and pulp. Taylor and Taylor (76) thoroughly describe its form. Arborescent individuals that have narrowly conical crowns until old age (300 to 400 years) and shrubby krummholz...

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

Noxious weed in California. Increases in height of between 1 and 2.5 metres per year have been recorded even in exposed positions, it makes an excellent shelterbelt tree. * Pinus radiata (family Pinaceae) is known in English as Monterey Pine or the Insignis...