Plant With Winter Interest Drought Tolerant Plant For Sale In Spokane

* It is marginal in zone 8, going dormant and deciduous in cold winters, but usually evergreen to semi-evergreen. * This is a naturally rare grass in the wild but it is widely cultivated for use as an attractive ornamental garden plant.

It is in flower in May, and the seeds ripen from Sep to October. Serotina, differing mainly in having smaller fruit. 2.5 cm, April/May Fruits: practically round, brown with lighter lenticels, O approx.

* The specific epithet pungens means "sharply pointed", referring to the leaves. * It is also grown for the cut Christmas tree industry. * This species has a deeply penetrating root system that firmly anchors the tree against winds.

* Very shiny dark green leaves, spiny; ultimately forms a dense, rounded crown; attractive gray bark, berries in various shades of red, lasting long into winter; parent of many cultivars.

Synonyms include Ilex monticola . * Sometimes a tree, more often a shrub to about 15'; bright red fruits; grows on woody slopes from New York south to Georgia, west to Alabama (range of origin).

* Known for its intense fall colors of red and yellow. * Beautiful snakebark maple.

* The bark is smooth, olive-green with regular narrow pale vertical stripes on young trees. * Species of maple in the snakebark maple group. * The flowers are small, yellow, with five sepals and petals.

* 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.

* It is grown as ornamental plant in East Asian classical gardens where it symbolizes longevity. * The smooth grey- green bark flakes away creating a beautiful patchwork of white, yellow, purple, brown and green.

This Bonsai is a good one for beginners because it is low-maintenance, a slow grower, and has a burly frame. The Mugo Pine has small dark green evergreen needles helping it to look great all year.

* Distinguishing features of this species are crenate leaf margins and fruiting pedicels that are 2–8 mm long. Its "distinctive leaf shape... Is less variable than other species of holly".

It can be found from deserts to mountain peaks up to about 7,000 feet in elevation. It is little, if at all, used in modern herbalism. * Rhus trilobata is a shrub in the sumac genus ( Rhus ) with the common names sourberry , skunkbush , and three-leaf...

* Shiny dark-green evergreen leaves, "flowers generally stinky" (Dirr); grown mainly for its bright red fruit, to 1/4 inch wide, which may last through winter; native to western China.

The plant sap and leaves are reputed to be toxic, and decaying leaves from the plant are toxic to other species of plant . * Triadica sebifera , also referred to as Sapium sebiferum , is commonly known as the Chinese tallow tree , Florida aspen and Gray...

* The bark is used to make drinking vessels, canoe skins, roofing tiles etc. Only the outer bark is removed, this does not kill the tree. It is most easily removed in late spring to early summer.

The Purple D'Oro daylily prefers full sun. The Purple D'Oro daylily is a wonderfully colored reblooming daylily. Growing only 20'' tall, you will be able to find several places for it in your garden.

* The New Mexico sources of Abies concolor will be intermediate between the Arizona and the Colorado. Therefore a little bluer in color than the Colorado and a little more cold hardy than the Arizona.

* All parts of the plant have a distinguishing strong odour that is often likened to rotting peanuts or cashews. * A decidious Tree growing to 25m. * Due to the tree of heaven's weedy habit, landowners and other organisations often resort to various methods...

The trunk thickens fast and develops some rust colored peeling appearance. This deciduous bonsai tree grows swiftly into its mature form and is readily receptive to training with most styles.

A pleasant acid flavour, it is nice when added to muesli or porridge. * Fruit - raw or cooked. * Very fragrant yellow flowers in early spring. * Shiny leathery leaves, coarse, evergreen, dark green or blue green.

* Another vigorous scrambling vine grown for its yellow-orange fruit capsules and crimson seeds; likes full sun; poor soil will slow the rampant growth. The root is diaphoretic, diuretic and emetic.

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

The leaves are spirally arranged but twisted at the base to lie in two horizontal ranks, 1–2 cm (0.39–0.79 in) long and 1–2 mm (0.039–0.079 in) broad. Unlike Bald Cypress and Pond Cypress , Montezuma Cypress rarely produces cypress knees from...

* Very shiny dark green leaves, spiny; ultimately forms a dense, rounded crown; attractive gray bark, berries in various shades of red, lasting long into winter; parent of many cultivars.

* Slash Pine is named after the "slashes" – swampy ground overgrown with trees and bushes – that constitute its habitat. It is fast-growing, but not very long-lived by pine standards (to 200 years), and prefers humid climates and moist soil.

* One of the better dark-toned palmatums. * It has almost star shaped leaves with very rich purple-red or black-red color.

* Shiny dark-green evergreen leaves, "flowers generally stinky" (Dirr); grown mainly for its bright red fruit, to 1/4 inch wide, which may last through winter; native to western China.