Plant With Winter Interest Flowering Shrub For Sale In Springfield

* Another vigorous scrambling vine grown for its yellow-orange fruit capsules and crimson seeds; likes full sun; poor soil will slow the rampant growth. * Celastrus scandens , commonly called American Bittersweet or Bittersweet , is a species of staff...

This tree is in the same family as and closely related to Halesia (silverbell). It typically grows to 20-30' tall and as wide, but infrequently can reach up to 50' tall. * Japanese snowbell is a compact, deciduous flowering tree with horizontal branching...

* Skunk bush was employed medicinally by several native North American Indian tribes, who valued it especially for its astringent qualities and used it to treat a range of complaints.

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.

Flowers axillary. Sepals 5, persistent, similar to bracteoles, ovate, obovate, or orbicular, 1.2-1.8 × 0.7-1 cm, basally connate, margin irregularly undulating, apex acute to rounded.

Berberine, universally present in rhizomes of Mahonia species, has marked antibacterial effects and is used as a bitter tonic. * The fruit is an excellent safe and gentle laxative.

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

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

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

Vernalis is valued in cultivation for its strongly scented flowers appearing in late winter, when little else is growing. * Hamamelis vernalis is a species of Witch-hazel native to the Ozark Plateau in central North America , in Missouri , Oklahoma ,...

It is native to the southwestern United States (western Texas , southern Arizona ), Mexico , the Caribbean , South America south to northern Argentina , and the Galapagos Islands .

* Hamamelis mollis is a species of witch-hazel native to central and eastern China , in Anhui , Guangxi , Hubei , Hunan , Jiangxi , Sichuan , and Zhejiang . * Large shrub or small tree; fall color yellow or yellow orange; yellow flowers in February and...

Cold hardy 20°-25° below zero. Grows 6-8' tall. Blooms last for 3-4 weeks and have a spicy strawberry, banana-pineapple fragrance that peaks in late afternoon and early evening when flowers are fully open.

Tolerates poor soils. Grows well in heavy clay soils. ( Sweet Mock-orange , English Dogwood ) is a species of deciduous shrubs in the genus Philadelphus , native to Southern Europe .

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.

Polar Night blooms mid-late season and is a compact 3' tall by 6' wide. When just beginning to show color the flowerbuds on Polar Night Rhododendron are so dark they appear black and then maintain a rich deep dark purple bloom.

* Another vigorous scrambling vine grown for its yellow-orange fruit capsules and crimson seeds; likes full sun; poor soil will slow the rampant growth. * Celastrus scandens , commonly called American Bittersweet or Bittersweet , is a species of staff...

* The Chinese parasol tree or wutong , Chinese : ?? * A fibre is obtained by retting the bark. A lotion of the leaves is used in the treatment of carbuncles, haemorrhoids and sores.

* 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.

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

Berry-laden winter stems may be cut for indoor floral arrangements. Also commonly called Indian currant. All but one are natives of North America and Central America ; the one remaining is from western China .

* Ligustrum obtusifolium is a species of privet , native to Japan , Korea and China . * semi-evergreen to deciduous, large foliage shrub maturing at up to 12' tall by 15' wide, but often smaller upright oval to radiating rounded growth habit in youth,...

* The smallest crab; fragrant half-inch white flowers; dark red fruit "about the size of a small pea" (Wyman), borne annually; forms a dense, rounded shrub; native to Japan. * It can grow in heavy clay soil, in semi-shade (light woodland) or no shade,...

It is water soluble. * Fuller's teasel (the cultivar group Dipsacus fullonum Sativus Group; syn. * Fuller's teasel is occasionally cultivated for its seed head, which is used for carding cloth.

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 also a popular Christmas tree. * 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...

* 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.