Plant With Winter Interest Edible Fruit Or Nut Plant For Sale In Amarillo

* The fruit is a good wildlife food source, especially for birds. * It can grow in heavy clay soil, in semi-shade (light woodland) or no shade, but must be moist soil. * The smallest crab; fragrant half-inch white flowers; dark red fruit "about the size...

* The fruit is 1–1.2 cm diameter, red to reddish-purple at first, turning dark purple to nearly black when ripe. While the crown is perennial, the canes are biennial, growing vegetatively one year, flowering and fruiting the second, and then dying.

Cercidium floridum), is a species of palo verde native to the Sonoran Deserts in the Southwestern United States and Northwestern Mexico. In 1966, it was also named the "city tree" of South Miami, Florida.

'Fire Hill' is a popular cultivar with red flowers. It grows to 1.5 m (5 ft) and is a popular ornamental plant in cold temperate regions, valued for its profuse spring blossom and exceptional winter hardiness.

Tolerates trimming. * The plant can be grown as an informal windbreak hedge in all but the most exposed situations. * It is an evergreen or semi-evergreen shrub growing to 3 metres (9.8 ft) tall.

* The scientific name 'salicifolius', described by the botanist Franchet , means 'with leaves like willows' (see: Genus Salix ). * The bark of the willow-leaved cotoneaster is gray-brown, its stems are thin, and its root system is sparse.

* An imposing, sturdy looking native with smooth gray bark and dark green leaves, a glorious dark golden-brown in fall; edible nut; likes moist acid, woodland soil; Dirr notes that the native species outgrows and outperforms the more common European Beech;...

* Big Max is a large variety of squash that can exceed 100 pounds and 20 in (510 mm) in diameter under ideal growing conditions. * The variety was hybridized for its size during the early 1960s.

* The dried fruit, known as prunes, is a safe and effective laxative. * This is the most commonly grown plum at least in Europe, and most prunes (dried plums) are made from fruits of this species.

It is gentle, and very harmless in operation within the body, and exceedingly sharpens the Appetite, being drunk ante pastum.". The sap is drunk as a sweet beverage or it can be fermented to make birch beer or vinegar.

* The white mulberry ( Morus alba ) is a fast-growing, small to medium sized tree. * Dense, round-domed tree with variable shiny dark green leaves. * This is a cold hardy variety of the species.

* This is one of the most beautiful small landscape trees that there is. * Older trees develop an exfoliating bark character that adds another facet of interest. * This tree is very similar to Cornus kousa.

* Cornus officinalis is a species of dogwood known also as Japanese cornel or Japanese cornelian cherry or Cornelian cherries. * A very ornamental plant, it is very closely related to C.

* The seed is a good source of vitamin E, it can be ground and mixed with flour or added to other foods as a supplement. * The fruit of many members of this genus is a very rich source of vitamins and minerals, especially in vitamins A, C and E, flavanoids...

* A notable specimen in the Pirin Mountains of Bulgaria, known as Baikushev's pine, is 24 metres (79 ft) tall, 2.2 metres (7 ft 3 in) in diameter, and is estimated to be over 1300 years old.

* The nuts also provide a significant food source for wildlife. * Chinese chestnuts have evolved over a long period of time in coexistence with the bark fungal disease chestnut blight and have evolved a very successful resistance to the blight, probably...

The woody fruit is up to 30mm in diameter. A pleasant sub-acid taste, somewhat resembling dried apples. * Small greenish-yellow flowers from April to July, in profusion; conspicuous brown-yellow winged fruit from August to October; 1 1/2" leaves; spiny...

* Flora of China states: Shrubs or trees, to 10 m tall, deciduous. Petiole (2-)4-6(-9) mm, adaxially shallowly grooved; leaf blade ovate to elliptic, (2-)6-10.5 × (1.2-)2.5-4.5 cm, papery, abaxially sparsely appressed villous especially along midvein...

* Roman soldiers were given chestnut porridge before entering battle. * This tree responds very well to coppicing, which is still practised in Britain, and produces a good crop of tannin-rich wood every 12 to 30 years, depending on intended use and local...

* 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 sometimes a narrow round-topped head.

It is best to keep them in pots in a cold frame for their first winter and then plant them out into their permanent positions in late spring. This species is able to succeed in poor soils and to become established on exposed broken ground, it is thus...

The fertile stems grow upright. * Scirpus cyperinus, commonly called woolgrass, is a grass-like, rhizomatous, emergent aquatic perennial of the sedge family that grows in dense slowly-spreading tussocks of arching basal green leaves with upright flowering...

An edible oil is obtained from the seed. The seed can also be sown in the spring in a warm greenhouse. Plant them out into their permanent positions in late spring or early summer, after the last expected frosts.

* Under favorable circumstances its seeds may remain viable for many years, with the oldest recorded lotus germination being from that of seeds 1,300 years old recovered from a dry lakebed in northeastern China.

They often have very bent growth due to the pressure of the deep winter snow in the Himalaya. * The tree depends on moisture from snowmelt, rather than from the monsoon rains. * Betula utilis tends to form forests, growing as a shrub or as a tree reaching...

Root - raw or cooked like potatoes. The roasted seed is a coffee substitute. Leaves and young shoots - cooked. Start seeds indoors and transplant outside when danger of frost is past.

* Originally imported as food for silkworms. Pinkish, or purple violet; much loved by birds in June and July. * The white mulberry ( Morus alba ) is a fast-growing, small to medium sized tree.