Plant With Winter Interest Shade Tolerant Plant For Sale In Connecticut

* 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.

* Unlike most species of pine. This tree transplants well. * 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...

An oil is extracted from the seeds. * Resembles Celtis but has winged fruits to 3/4"; dark green foliage; "gray-brown bark exfoliates in patches and is quite handsome...for the plant collector this is a treasure to be unearthed" (Dirr); native to northern...

* It is marginal in zone 8, going dormant and deciduous in cold winters, but usually evergreen to semi-evergreen. * The only known species is Anemanthele lessoniana, often called gossamer grass or New Zealand wind grass or pheasant's tail grass.

* 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 American elm occurs naturally in an assortment of habitats, most notably rich bottomlands,...

* 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...

The leaves are harvested for use as required and can be used fresh or dried. * Platycladus is a distinct genus of evergreen coniferous tree in the cypress family Cupressaceae , containing only one species, Platycladus orientalis , also known as Chinese...

* Hamamelis vernalis is a species of Witch-hazel native to the Ozark Plateau in central North America , in Missouri , Oklahoma , and Arkansas . * Ozark witch hazel is a deciduous, winter-blooming, Missouri native shrub with a rounded habit which typically...

They used it as a pepper substitute to spice up food since real black pepper (Piper nigrum) was a costly and rarely obtainable spice. * It was called "pepper vine" by early travelers and pioneers of the American Old West.

* 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.

* Succeeds in fresh or salt water marshes and in ordinary garden soil. It is native to central North America. * Of upright, arching form; green leaves; flowers in late summer, flowering section of spike to 15" long; likes full sun or part shade, rich...

* 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.

* A large shrub with attractive red-brown bark, white flowers in midsummer, and yellow-orange fall color; native to southeast U.S.

The wood is used for making furniture and coffins. A hair wash is made fromthe leaves and fibre. * The seed is antiphlogistic, expectorant and refrigerant. * The Chinese parasol tree or wutong , Chinese : ??

* A large shrub with attractive red-brown bark, white flowers in midsummer, and yellow-orange fall color; native to southeast U.S.

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

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

* Ilex opaca is a medium-sized broadleaved evergreen tree growing to 10-20 m tall, exceptionally up to 30 m tall, with a trunk diameter typically up to 50 cm, exceptionally 120 cm.

Synonyms include Ilex monticola . * Sometimes a tree, more often a shrub to about 15'; bright red fruits; grows on woody slopes from New York south to Georgia, west to Alabama (range of origin).

* Too small to be exploited commercially, this high quality wood is often used locally for flooring, cogs, tool handles, golf clubs etc. It also grows in Canada (southwest Quebec and southeast Ontario), Mexico (central and southern), Guatemala, and western...

* 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 , Iceland , northern Asia and also Greenland .

* Ilex verticillata ( American Winterberry ) is a species of holly native to eastern North America in the United States and southeast Canada , from Newfoundland west to Ontario and Minnesota , and south to Alabama .

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

This is a treelike shrub reaching up to five meters in height. The stems may be smooth or fuzzy, and are often glandular. * Arctostaphylos viscida is a species of manzanita known by the common names whiteleaf manzanita and sticky manzanita .

* It is a small to medium-sized deciduous tree reaching a height of 5-20 m with a trunk up to 50 cm diameter. The trunk thickens fast and develops some rust colored peeling appearance.

They are multi-colored shades of red and yellow, anywhere from gum ball to golf ball in size. * This is one of the most beautiful small landscape trees that there is. * The fruit are also interesting.

* This Mexican native is drought tolerant and grows very quickly in tropical areas as a timber tree.