Plant With Winter Interest Shade Tolerant Plant For Sale In Alaska

* 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.

* It is an evergreen climbing plant, growing to 20–30 m high where suitable surfaces ( trees , cliffs , walls ) are available, and also growing as ground cover where there are no vertical surfaces.

* Ilex aquifolium ( Holly , or European Holly to distinguish it from related species, may also be called Christmass Holly or Mexican Holly) is a species of holly native to western and southern Europe , northwest Africa and southwest Asia .

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This species is excellent when used in groupings, in groves, or even as a single specimen. It is gentle, and very harmless in operation within the body, and exceedingly sharpens the Appetite, being drunk ante pastum.".

* 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.

Older bark has an alligator hide appearance that is attractive in the winter landscape. We collect our seed from pink flowering trees that are isolated from white flowerig trees. * Many, if not all of the resulting seedlings will have white flowers.

* Beautiful snakebark maple. * Known for its intense fall colors of red and yellow.

* Carpinus caroliniana (American hornbeam) is a small hardwood tree in the genus Carpinus. * Too small to be exploited commercially, this high quality wood is often used locally for flooring, cogs, tool handles, golf clubs etc.

* Native to eastern Asia; northern China, Manchuria, Korea, Ussuri, Amur, and Japan. * The bark is a cork substitute. * Dark green compound leaves 10-15" long; in habit, usually broader than tall when mature and grown in the open, with a few massive spreading...

* Arctostaphylos viscida is a species of manzanita known by the common names whiteleaf manzanita and sticky manzanita . This is a treelike shrub reaching up to five meters in height.

Branches stout, pithy, and blunt; roots fibrous. * Varies from 18 to 21 meters (60–70 feet) high with a spread of 12–15 meters (40–50 feet) and a trunk up to one meter (3 feet) in diameter.

* The source of tea; white flowers in fall; tolerates shade or sun well; an attractive small shrub for its ornamental value as well. * Chinese Camellia sinensis is native to mainland China South and Southeast Asia , but it is today cultivated across the...

* The flowers are deep to bright red, rarely yellow, with four ribbon-shaped petals 7-10 mm long and four short stamens, and grow in clusters; flowering begins in mid winter and continues until early spring.

It is abundant further south on the southern coast and in the Gulf states, reaching its greatest size on the bottomlands of southern Arkansas and eastern Texas. * The Ilex opaca species typically grows as an understory tree in forests.

* The peeled twigs are used as toothbrushes, they are good for whitening the teeth. * Flowering dogwood is a small deciduous tree growing to 10 m (33 ft) high, often wider than it is tall when mature.

It is native to central North America. * Spartina pectinata is a species of cordgrass known by the common name prairie cordgrass . * Succeeds in fresh or salt water marshes and in ordinary garden soil.

* Parkinsonia florida grows to heights of 10–12 metres (33–39 ft). He obtained specimens near Hermosillo, in Sonora, Mexico, in 1830. * The Irish botanist Thomas Coulter was the first to categorize Parkinsonia florida.

They measure 10 to 15 centimetres (4 to 6 in) in diameter and their shape is superficially similar to hibiscus flowers. From the seeds it is possible to obtain vegetable oil (both edible and industrially useful).

* It is more of a bronze-red when compared with other cultivars such as 'Inaba shidare,' 'Ever Red,' or 'Crimson Queen.' I * Stands out well in the landscape.

* The fruit is eaten raw, cooked or dried for later use. * Gaultheria shallon is a leathery-leaved shrub in the heather family ( Ericaceae ), native to western North America . * A low, suckering shrub, member of the heath family; flowers white, resemble...

* Ilex aquifolium ( Holly , or European Holly to distinguish it from related species, may also be called Christmass Holly or Mexican Holly) is a species of holly native to western and southern Europe , northwest Africa and southwest Asia .

The shoots are orange-brown, with dense pubescence about 1 mm long. * Mountain hemlock (Tsuga mertensiana) is usually found on cold, snowy subalpine sites where it grows slowly, sometimes attaining more than 800 years in age.

Flowers grow in umbels and appear in April/May. 5 - 10 cm big and have a finely serrated edge. The flowers are hermaphrodite (have both male and female organs) and are pollinated by Insects.

* 2-5" dark shiny "needles" clustered in whorls at the ends of shoots; form varies, may be narrowly vertical to broadly conical; branches tend to droop with age; grows slowly; 2-4" cones, green, then brown; makes a distinctive dark green impression in...

* Hardier than green-leaved types. * Fall color is sensational. * The mother trees are mound forming red cut leaved types.

* Effective on banks or slopes for erosion control. * Versatile shrub that can be used to cover large areas. * The leaves turn attractive shades of purple, red and bronze in autumn.