Plant With Winter Interest Shade Tolerant Plant For Sale In Cedar Rapids

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. * In cultivation, it rarely tops 40' in height and often grows in a shrubby form.

It typically forms a low, dense tussock (to 16" tall) of very thin (1/5" wide), arching, flat to inrolled, dark green grass blades (to 2' long). * Tufted hair grass is clump-forming, cool season grass which is often grown as an ornamental.

* The bark is smooth, olive-green with regular narrow pale vertical stripes on young trees. * Species of maple in the snakebark maple group. * It is native to China, from Jiangsu south to Fujian and Guangdong, and west to southeastern Gansu and Yunnan.

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.

* 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...

* The glorious elm that used to line American streets. * 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.

Height: 5 - 10 m Crown: round to broad oval Bark and branches: bark dark greyish brown, twigs have woolly hair Leaf: broad elliptical to elongated oval, velvety grey, later green, 5 - 10 cm Flower: in umbels, white, O approx.

The flowers and fruit are like those of other Oregon-grapes; like them they are edible but just as sour. Berberine, universally present in rhizomes of Mahonia species, has marked antibacterial effects and is used as a bitter tonic.

* 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.

* 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.

* The peeled twigs are used as toothbrushes, they are good for whitening the teeth. * It has very striking white flower-like bracts that open in April and May before leaves emerge; shiny red fruit that ripens in late September and October.

Sweet and juicy with a pleasant flavour, it makes good raw eating. * 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 .

Drupe fruits are red (or rarely yellow), shiny, and globose (spherical, or nearly so), with a diameter of 4-8mm. Leaves are obovate , simple, alternating, deciduous , and grow to 2.5-7.5 cm long.

* 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.

It is covered in red flowers in the winter and spring. * Templetonia is a dryland shrub that grows 3-7 feet tall. * Templetonia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae.

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

* American holly is the state tree of Delaware. The wood can also be stained to imitate ebony. * Yellow-green spiny leaves; red fruit almost 1/2" wide, lasting into winter; of pyramidal habit in youth, later more open, with horizontal branches, sometimes...

* Mountain Pine or Mugo Pine ( Pinus mugo ) is a high-altitude European pine , found in the Pyrenees , Alps , Erzgebirge , Carpathians , northern Apennines and Balkan Peninsula mountains from (mostly) 1,000 m to 2,200 m, occasionally as low as 200 m in...

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

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 .

* The smooth grey- green bark flakes away creating a beautiful patchwork of white, yellow, purple, brown and green. * A small to medium sized conifer tree or a large shrub, typically branching from near the base.

* The leaves are green during the growing season. * Upright growing to 6-10 feet over time. * It will become wider than tall and its brilliant red fall color is one of its most outstanding attributes.

* A very desirable color * Makes a delightful upright small tree, maturing at 4 meters. * The foliage is purplish-red holding into the summer then some green tones come in changing to red and scarlet in fall.

* About the size of a plum, the fruit has an exquisitely rich flavour when it is fully ripe. * Grown for its yellow or orange fruit, to 1 1/2", in fall. * It is a small tree usually thirty to eighty feet (ten to twenty-four meters) in height, with a short,...

* More upright than many cultivars and then cascades down from a higher starting point. * Holds its color well in the summer and then turns a beautiful scarlet in the fall.

* Holds its color well in the summer and then turns a beautiful scarlet in the fall. * More upright than many cultivars and then cascades down from a higher starting point.

* 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.