Plant With Winter Interest Flowering Shrub For Sale In Chicago

It will however grow in full sun, even though the foliage appears to "bleach" a little. * Sarcococca confusa is a very adaptable and reliable shrub that is easily grown in many situations, including dense shade with very dry soil.

Gray bark fissures on older trees revealing an attractive orange inner layer and resulting winter interest. Elliptic-oblong, glossy, dark green leaves (to 3" long). Typically grows 10-25' tall.

The leaves are a nice shiny green and the fruits are a very unique white color with rose blush. * This is a beautiful and very interesting small shrub. The perfect plant for Rock Garden or along with Dwarf Conifers.

Pedicel 5-7 mm; bracteoles persistent, subopposite, subtending calyx, ovate, (1.2-)1.5-2 × (0.6-)0.8-1.2 cm, leaflike, margin irregularly undulating, apex acuminate. Sepals 5, persistent, similar to bracteoles, ovate, obovate, or orbicular, 1.2-1.8 ×...

Rich in vitamin C, the fruit has a very acid flavour and is mainly used in preserves, though children and some adults seem to like it raw when it is fully ripe. * The fruit are edible raw or cooked.

* A large shrub with attractive red-brown bark, white flowers in midsummer, and yellow-orange fall color; native to southeast U.S.

* Germination usually takes place within 1 - 2 weeks. * A good fast-growing hedge for exposed maritime conditions. * Plants have an extensive root system and can be grown on sand or thin coastal soils in order to bind the soil.

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

Grows 3-5' tall with a similar spread. In the summer it has handsome jade green foliage that turns fiery orange red in the fall. Mt. Airy grows best in partially shaded to shaded areas, in well drained organic soil.

Tolerates trimming. * The plant can be grown as an informal windbreak hedge in all but the most exposed situations. The leaves are oval-acute, 2–3.5 centimetres (0.79–1.4 in) long and 1–1.5 centimetres (0.39–0.59 in) broad, shiny green above,...

It is native to North America where it is widespread across the western United States in streamside thickets, wooded hillsides, and coniferous forests up to 4,000 feet. Vitalba, and Virgin's bower may also refer to C.

The root is diaphoretic, diuretic and emetic. It is a folk remedy for chronic liver and skin ailments (including skin cancer), rheumatism, leucorrhoea, dysentery and suppressed menses.

* The seed is antiphlogistic, expectorant and refrigerant. A decoction of the roots isused to reduce swellings. * A fibre is obtained by retting the bark. A lotion of the leaves is used in the treatment of carbuncles, haemorrhoids and sores.

It is covered in red flowers in the winter and spring. * It will also tolerate more moist conditions if it is given well drained soil. They are native to Australia. * Templetonia is a dryland shrub that grows 3-7 feet tall.

Mollis is widely grown as an ornamental plant, valued for the strongly-scented flowers appearing in winter when little else is growing. * The flowers are yellow, often with a red base, with four ribbon-shaped petals 15 mm long and four short stamens,...

Fruticosa grows as a glandular, thornless shrub which can reach 5 or 6 meters in height and spread to twice that in width. * Dark purple or purplish blue flowers in spikes; fast, coarse growth, good for dry, poor soil.

* It is an evergreen shrub with short vertical stems, mostly under 30 cm, while the leaves reach higher, rarely up to 2 m tall. Since it is not appreciably absorbed by the body, it is used orally in the treatment of various enteric infections, especially...

* The tea plant is commonly used in Chinese herbalism, where it is considered to be one of the 50 fundamental herbs. Modern research has shown that there are many health benefits to drinking tea, including its ability to protect the drinker from certain...

* One of the few roses grown for its foliage as well as its flowers; their color is difficult to describe--Dirr says coppery or purplish, but dusty purple gray and reddish blue also come to mind; flower color varies from seed--generally light to deep...

It is often dried for winter use and also makes an excellent jelly. A sour taste, but the fruit is palatable. Fruit from the typical species is about 1cm in diameter, though there are sub-species and cultivated forms with considerably larger fruits.

It is native to China , possibly also Japan . * Rhodotypos scandens , the sole species of the genus Rhodotypos , is a deciduous shrub in the family Rosaceae , closely related to Kerria and included in that genus by some botanists.

Corolla pale purple to purple-red, 1.2-1.8 cm; tube funnel-form, 1-1.4 cm; lobes oblong-ovate to ovate, upright or spreading. * Fragrant lilac flowers in clusters as long as 1'; leaves to 6"; native to Manchuria and Korea.

* Philadelphus coronarius L. Succeeds in semi-shade but prefers a position in full sun where it will flower more freely. Tolerates poor soils. ( Sweet Mock-orange , English Dogwood ) is a species of deciduous shrubs in the genus Philadelphus , native...

It is one of the hardiest native white azaleas, and one of the last azaleas to bloom in the spring. Drought sensitive, it requires moist, partially shaded sites. * Sweet Azalea is tall and fast-growing for a native azalea.

Drooping flower clusters are easily visible because of the upward posture of the foliage. It typically grows to 20-30' tall and as wide, but infrequently can reach up to 50' tall. Gray bark fissures on older branches to reveal orange inner bark which...

The stems branch infrequently except at the tops. Itea virginica also known as Virginia Sweetspire is a deciduous to semievergreen shrub, growing 3' to 6' tall. * Useful for early summer bloom time- good for naturalistic planting- displays best in large...

* Ozark witch hazel is a deciduous, winter-blooming, Missouri native shrub with a rounded habit which typically grows 6-10' tall (less frequently to 15') with a somewhat larger spread.