Plant With Winter Interest Heat Tolerant For Sale In Pennsylvania

* It is a small deciduous tree growing to 10–15 m tall with a trunk up to 40 cm diameter. * The bark is smooth, olive-green with regular narrow pale vertical stripes on young trees.

Drought tolerant, disease and insect tolerant are also good assets for a bonsai. Plant seeds in the fall and deep soil evenly moist in deep well-drained soil. * Unlike most species of pine.

* The most familiar of the dogwoods; a small tree with low branches that tend to form horizontal tiers. * The peeled twigs are used as toothbrushes, they are good for whitening the teeth.

* Spiny, shiny, dark green leaves, fragrant white flowers in May; quarter-inch red fruit, very attractive; parent of many cultivars. * Ilex aquifolium ( Holly , or European Holly to distinguish it from related species, may also be called Christmass Holly...

* Its name means "green pole or stick" in Spanish, referring to the green trunk and branches, that perform photosynthesis. * Parkinsonia florida, the blue palo verde (syn. * The Irish botanist Thomas Coulter was the first to categorize Parkinsonia florida.

They are very tolerant of trimming and have prickles which make them an effective barrier to larger creatures. * Berberis thunbergii ( Japanese barberry or Thunberg's Barberry , also Red Barberry ) is a species of Berberis , native to Japan and eastern...

* It is also grown for the cut Christmas tree industry. * It is a popular ornamental tree found far beyond its native range. * The Kaibab source is our second best for blue color. * This species has a deeply penetrating root system that firmly anchors...

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

* It belongs to the same family as the baobab and the kapok. It grows fast in spurts when water is abundant, and sometimes reaches more than 25 metres (82 ft) in height. * The silk floss tree (Ceiba speciosa, formerly Chorisia speciosa), is a species...

It is also known as Old-man's Beard and Yerba de Chiva, and Virgin's bower, (though Old-man's Beard may also refer to C. It is native to North America where it is widespread across the western United States in streamside thickets, wooded hillsides, and...

* The leaves are used in the treatment of cancer and hepatoma. * This plant has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit. * Substances extracted from theseeds are used to inhibit the growth of malignant tumours.

It is rare in the north of its range in southern Connecticut, southeastern New York, and isolated areas of Cape Cod, and always small there. * Yellow-green spiny leaves; red fruit almost 1/2" wide, lasting into winter; of pyramidal habit in youth, later...

* The leaves almost resemple Acer ginnala and have a nice red to yellow fall color. Nicholson subsp. * Unique snake-bark maple * Upright vase shape and leaves that are 3 pointed and elongated.

* The specific epithet pungens means "sharply pointed", referring to the leaves. * It is a popular ornamental tree found far beyond its native range. * It is also grown for the cut Christmas tree industry.

* A stripebark with vivid white stripes on green or gray-green bark; vivid yellow fall color. * A species of maple native to northern forests in eastern North America from southern Ontario east to Nova Scotia and south to eastern Illinois and New Jersey...

* Foxtail Pines occur in the subalpine forest in these mountains: at an elevation of 1950-2750 m in the Klamath range, and 2300-3500 m in the Sierra Nevada. Balfouriana in the Klamath Mountains , and subsp.

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

* Bacteria on the roots fix atmospheric nitrogen - whilst this enables the tree to grow well in quite poor soils it also makes some of this nitrogen available to other plants growing nearby.

* The pods have been made into a tea for the treatment of indigestion, measles, catarrh etc. The pods have been seen as a good antidote for children's complaints. Seedpods - the pulp is sweet and can be eaten raw or made into sugar.

Harvested in early spring, before the leaves unfurl, by tapping the trunk. * The sap is edible raw or cooked. In individuals younger than five years, the bark appears brown with white lenticels, making the tree much harder to distinguish from other trees.

* Our "Thornless" seed comes very true. There will be a few seedlings that develop thorns, but not many. The light shade the bright green summer foliage casts allows grass to grow next to the trunk.

* Persimmons are consumed fresh and are used to make puddings, cakes, and beverages. Opossums, raccoons, skunks, deer, and birds also feed upon the fruit. * Grown for its yellow or orange fruit, to 1 1/2", in fall.

Particularly common in Post Oak (Quercus stellata) woods, Coralberry forms extensive colonies and spreads by rooting at the nodes where it touches the ground. * Symphoricarpos is a small genus of about 15 species of deciduous shrubs in the honeysuckle...

* The fruit is an excellent safe and gentle laxative. The leaflets do not have a single central vein as in that species, but several veins arranged fan-like, branched from the leaflet base, hence the epithet nervosa .

* These shrubs are usually found in wooded and bushy areas, on sunny, warm and dry slopes and around forest edges. * This plant occurs in northeastern Spain and in central Mediterranean countries up to northern Europe and to Asia Minor and Tunisia.

It is rare in the north of its range in southern Connecticut, southeastern New York, and isolated areas of Cape Cod, and always small there. * Yellow-green spiny leaves; red fruit almost 1/2" wide, lasting into winter; of pyramidal habit in youth, later...

* Of upright, arching form; green leaves; flowers in late summer, flowering section of spike to 15" long; likes full sun or part shade, rich soil; tolerates salt, wet conditions; native to cool temperate areas of North America.