Plant With Winter Interest Shade Tolerant Plant For Sale In Anchorage

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

It usually separates 3 to 4½ meters (10–15 feet) from the ground into three or four divisions which spread slightly and form a narrow pyramidal head; or when crowded by other trees, sending up one tall central branchless shaft to the height of 15–21...

* It is grown as ornamental plant in East Asian classical gardens where it symbolizes longevity. * A very ornamental tree with beautiful bark. * The smooth grey- green bark flakes away creating a beautiful patchwork of white, yellow, purple, brown and...

* 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.

* The bark is used to make drinking vessels, canoe skins, roofing tiles etc. * Betula pubescens ( Downy Birch ; also known as White Birch , European White Birch or Hairy Birch ) is a species of birch , native and abundant throughout northern Europe ,...

Noxious weed in California * Spiny, shiny, dark green leaves, fragrant white flowers in May; quarter-inch red fruit, very attractive; parent of many cultivars. * An excellent hedge plant, tolerating hard clipping and maritime exposure and forming a dense...

* Its previous scientific name was Quercus nuttallii , but it is now known as Quercus texana ; this has created much confusion with Texas Red Oak which was known as Quercus texana but is now known as Quercus buckleyi .

* Bosnian pine is a popular ornamental tree in parks and large gardens, giving reliable steady though not fast growth on a wide range of sites, and with a very neat, conical crown.

* Large yellow fragrant flowers in loose clusters, in spring; green branches, doubly pinnate leaves with long narrow leaflets to 1' or more; 1" thorns; of open habit; Wyman notes that it can be clipped into a hedge; native to tropical America.

* It is a common ingredient in many bath products, giving them their familiar pine scent. * Silver Fir is the species first used as a Christmas tree. * Foliar loppings of European silver fir in Czechoslovakia have yielded 1,380 tonnes/year of essential...

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

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 ,...

* Germination usually takes place within 1 - 2 weeks. * 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.

* Both the leaves and the seeds contain an essential oil consisting of borneol, bornyl acetate, thujone, camphor and sesquiterpenes. It is native to northwestern China and widely naturalised elsewhere in Asia east to Korea and Japan , south to 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.

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

* Fruit is quite attractive to birds and is generally considered to have as much if not more ornamental interest than the flowers. It is a rapid-growing, multi-stemmed, suckering, deciduous shrub that grows to a maximum size of 4-7' tall on erect, usually...

* Dirr notes that several forms occur, but the one most of us recall fondly divided into several major trunks topped by spreading, arching, pendulous branches. * The glorious elm that used to line American streets.

* Hardier than green-leaved types. * Fall color is sensational.

* It grows as a mound and holds its red color well in the summer. * A great deal of variation can be expected when growing this plant.

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

* Large yellow fragrant flowers in loose clusters, in spring; green branches, doubly pinnate leaves with long narrow leaflets to 1' or more; 1" thorns; of open habit; Wyman notes that it can be clipped into a hedge; native to tropical America.

* Our seed produces a very high percentage of Red seedlings. They are very tolerant of trimming and have prickles which make them an effective barrier to larger creatures. * Plants can be grown as a medium-size hedge.

* It has deep purple leaves in spring and early summer, turning dark green in late season then to red-crimson in the fall. * Deeply divided leaves. * It would be interesting to see what characteristics are inherited through the seeds that we offer for...

* Pseduotsuga menziesii var. * Douglas fir seeds are an extremely important food for small mammals. * The specific epithet, menziesii, is after Archibald Menzies, a Scottish physician and rival naturalist to David Douglas.

* It has green arching foliage to 3 feet in USDA 8, with highlights of orange, copper, and gold, especially in drier soils. * It is marginal in zone 8, going dormant and deciduous in cold winters, but usually evergreen to semi-evergreen.

Synonyms include Ilex monticola . * 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...