Plant With Winter Interest Fragrant Flowering Plant For Sale In Fort Collins

Its strongly scented pendent flowers, produced in winter on bare stems, have 15-21 yellow tepals, the inner ones usually with purplish red pigments. * This plant is cultivated in gardens, producing valued flower colour in the dormant season.

* Another vigorous scrambling vine grown for its yellow-orange fruit capsules and crimson seeds; likes full sun; poor soil will slow the rampant growth. * Climbing bittersweet was employed medicinally by a number of native North American Indian tribes,...

* This plant is commonly used in Chinese herbalism, where it is considered to be one of the 50 fundamental herbs. The leaves are harvested for use as required and can be used fresh or dried.

Vernalis is valued in cultivation for its strongly scented flowers appearing in late winter, when little else is growing. * The flowers are deep to bright red, rarely yellow, with four ribbon-shaped petals 7-10 mm long and four short stamens, and grow...

* 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,...

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

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

Harvested in early spring, before the leaves unfurl, by tapping the trunk. * The sap is sweet. An old English recipe for the beer is as follows:- "To every Gallon of Birch-water put a quart of Honey, well stirr'd together; then boil it almost an hour...

* Parkinsonia aculeata is a species of flowering tree in the pea family, Fabaceae . Common names include Mexican Palo Verde , Parkinsonia , Jerusalem Thorn , and Jellybean Tree . * Large yellow fragrant flowers in loose clusters, in spring; green branches,...

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

* A stripebark with vivid white stripes on green or gray-green bark; vivid yellow fall color. * It is in flower in May, and the seeds ripen in July. * A decidious Tree growing to 4.5 m.

* The bark is used to make drinking vessels, canoe skins, roofing tiles etc. It is waterproof, durable, tough and resinous[11, 61]. * Betula pubescens ( Downy Birch ; also known as White Birch , European White Birch or Hairy Birch ) is a species of birch...

Diversifolia is an evergreen tree that attains heights of 25 m (80 feet). Young shoots are short, palely pubescent and bright orange to red-brown in colour. * Grow in moist, well-drained soils in part shade to full shade.

American Indians made persimmon bread and stored the dried fruit like prunes. Opossums, raccoons, skunks, deer, and birds also feed upon the fruit. * Molasses can be made from the fruit pulp.

* Ilex montana ( Mountain Winterberry ; also "Mountain Holly" which is more typically Ilex mucronata ) is a species of holly native to the United States , ranging along the Appalachian Mountains from southeast Massachusetts to northeast Alabama and northern...

* Grown mostly for it's beautiful exfoliating bark. * Small landscape tree * Somewhat reminiscent of Betua nigra bark, but the sections that break off are smaller and more block like.

Clusters of small, creamy-white flowers are followed by clusters of blue berries. Amomum, but with purple or yellowish-red stems, and like that species prefers wet soils. * Cornus amomum subsp obliqua is synonymous with and formerly known as Cornus obliqua.

* Unique bark appearance, corky and rough with many cracks in it. * Leaves similar to that of Japanese Maple.

* Hardier than green-leaved types. * Fall color is sensational. * It is strong growing an reaches 4 meters in height. * The spring color is bright purple-red, black red or maroon in summer, changing to green red or brown red in late summer and then crimson...

* The bark of the willow-leaved cotoneaster is gray-brown, its stems are thin, and its root system is sparse. The leaves are alternate, simple, long, lanceolate , dark green and resemble those of willow trees (thus the common name), and have fine gray...

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

* Sought after for their attractive leaf shapes and colors. * Leaves that start off pink in the spring turning to green over summer and then a lovely orange color in the fall.

* Hardier than green-leaved types. * Fall color is sensational. * Many wholesale growers prefer this seed.

* Parrotia persica ( Persian Ironwood ) is a deciduous tree in the family Hamamelidaceae , the sole species in the genus Parrotia but closely related to the genus Hamamelis (Witch-hazels).

* This very symmetrical plant supports a crown of shiny, dark green leaves on a thick shaggy trunk that is typically about 20 cm (7.9 in) in diameter, sometimes wider. * This plant has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit.

* It has a very delicate texture and light yellow green foliage color. * It is pendulous, mound shaped and reaching 2 meters high by 3 meters wide. * The seedlings grown from seed collected from cultivars may not resemble the mother tree.

* Philadelphus coronarius L. ( Sweet Mock-orange , English Dogwood ) is a species of deciduous shrubs in the genus Philadelphus , native to Southern Europe . * A very easily grown plant, succeeding in any moderately fertile soil, and also in thin soils...