Plant With Winter Interest Evergreen Plant For Sale In Florida

Glauca is hardy to Zone 4). * The specific epithet, menziesii, is after Archibald Menzies, a Scottish physician and rival naturalist to David Douglas. * The Douglas fir's useful wood and its quick growth make it the crop of choice for many timber companies,...

* Bosnian pine is a popular ornamental tree in parks and large gardens, giving reliable steady though not fast growth on a wide range of sites, and with a very neat, conical crown.

* The fruit is eaten raw, cooked or dried for later use. The fruit can also be made into preserves, pies, drinks etc or be dried and used like raisins. Sweet and juicy with a pleasant flavour, it makes good raw eating.

* 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.

* 'Beni otake' means Red Bamboo in Japanese. * The leaves keep their red color from spring to fall, changing only in hue.

* Climbing bittersweet was employed medicinally by a number of native North American Indian tribes, though it is scarcely used in modern herbalism. It is a folk remedy for chronic liver and skin ailments (including skin cancer), rheumatism, leucorrhoea,...

* 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.

* This plant is cultivated in gardens, producing valued flower colour in the dormant season. The wood, after soaking in water, polishes to a brilliant black finish. * The flowers are very fragrant, they are used in pot-pourri and to make perfumes.

It is waterproof, durable, tough and resinous[11, 61]. It is most easily removed in late spring to early summer. Only the outer bark is removed, this does not kill the tree. * Betula pubescens ( Downy Birch ; also known as White Birch , European White...

* Climbing bittersweet was employed medicinally by a number of native North American Indian tribes, though it is scarcely used in modern herbalism. It is a folk remedy for chronic liver and skin ailments (including skin cancer), rheumatism, leucorrhoea,...

* 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.

* This plant is cultivated in gardens, producing valued flower colour in the dormant season. The wood, after soaking in water, polishes to a brilliant black finish. * The flowers are very fragrant, they are used in pot-pourri and to make perfumes.

* This species has a deeply penetrating root system that firmly anchors the tree against winds. * It is a popular ornamental tree found far beyond its native range. * The specific epithet pungens means "sharply pointed", referring to the leaves.

* Bright green leaves, very dense, with a horizontal habit; orange, scarlet, and reddish purple in fall; yellow flowers followed by bright red fruit, very attractive in winter; generally a good, tough plant; good deciduous hedge plant.

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

* Trueness to type can never be guaranteed when seed is grown that has been collected from cultivars. * 'Shojo' is the name of the red-faced orangoutang. * A very deep colored palmatum - almost classed as a "black-red" * In the Fall crimson tones dominate.

* The German Commission E Monographs, a therapeutic guide to herbal medicine, approve Hedera helix for cough, bronchitis. * It is an evergreen climbing plant, growing to 20–30 m high where suitable surfaces ( trees , cliffs , walls ) are available,...

The bark is thin and square-cracked or furrowed, and gray in color. Taylor and Taylor (76) thoroughly describe its form. In this capacity it differs from many alpine conifers in its tolerance of relatively warm, damp environments, and in such settings...

Wood - hard, heavy, strong, close grained. Too small for commercial exploitation, the wood is used locally for turnery, inlay work, woodenware etc. It weighs 46lb per cubic foot. * Ilex vomitoria ( Yaupon Holly , Yaupon , or Cassina ; the latter shared...

Branchlets reddish brown when old, terete, slender, pubescent when young, soon glabrescent, glabrous when old; buds reddish brown, ovoid; scales villous at margin. * Shrubs or small trees, to 5–7 m tall.

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

In June it bears many flowered, compound corymbs of white, 5-6 mm flowers . The leaves are alternate, simple, long, lanceolate , dark green and resemble those of willow trees (thus the common name), and have fine gray hairs on their undersides.

* 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). Synonyms include Ilex monticola .

* Eucalyptus deglupta is a tall tree, commonly known as the Rainbow Eucalyptus , the Mindanao Gum , or the Rainbow Gum . * Eucalyptus deglupta is cultivated as an ornamental tree, for planting in tropical and subtropical climate gardens and parks.

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

In June it bears many flowered, compound corymbs of white, 5-6 mm flowers . The leaves are alternate, simple, long, lanceolate , dark green and resemble those of willow trees (thus the common name), and have fine gray hairs on their undersides.

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