Plant With Winter Interest Shade Tolerant Plant For Sale In Fremont

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).

* The plant can be grown as an informal windbreak hedge in all but the most exposed situations. * It is an evergreen or semi-evergreen shrub growing to 3 metres (9.8 ft) tall. The leaves are oval-acute, 2–3.5 centimetres (0.79–1.4 in) long and 1–1.5...

* Parkinsonia aculeata is a species of flowering tree in the pea family, Fabaceae . It is native to the southwestern United States (western Texas , southern Arizona ), Mexico , the Caribbean , South America south to northern Argentina , and the Galapagos...

* Quercus texana , commonly known as Nuttall's Oak , is a fast growing large deciduous Oak tree native to North America from the lower Mississippi river valley from SE Missouri to Southern Louisiana and SE Texas and East through Mississippi to Central...

* Quercus texana , commonly known as Nuttall's Oak , is a fast growing large deciduous Oak tree native to North America from the lower Mississippi river valley from SE Missouri to Southern Louisiana and SE Texas and East through Mississippi to Central...

Too small for commercial exploitation, but it is valued for use in cabinet making and the interior finishes of houses, it is also used for making small items such as tool handles. * Yellow-green spiny leaves; red fruit almost 1/2" wide, lasting into winter;...

The bark is white, commonly brightly so, flaking in fine horizontal strips, and often with small black marks and scars. It is vigorous but not always long-lived in less-than-ideal circumstances.

* 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.

* The most familiar of the dogwoods; a small tree with low branches that tend to form horizontal tiers. It has very striking pink flower-like bracts that open in April and May before leaves emerge; shiny red fruit that ripens in late September and October.

* 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...

Vernalis is valued in cultivation for its strongly scented flowers appearing in late winter, when little else is growing. * Ozark witch hazel is a deciduous, winter-blooming, Missouri native shrub with a rounded habit which typically grows 6-10' tall...

* 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 flowers are bright yellow, and pea-like, which cover the tree in late spring. * The Irish botanist Thomas Coulter was the first to categorize Parkinsonia florida. * The plant's trunk, branches, and leaves are blue-green in color, hence the common...

, ( Firmiana simplex , syn. Hibiscus collinus Roxb. * A fibre is obtained by retting the bark. A decoction of the roots isused to reduce swellings. * The Chinese parasol tree or wutong , Chinese : ??

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 .

The pulp is bitter; they contain 3-5 seeds and mature in autumn. * Distinguishing features of this species are crenate leaf margins and fruiting pedicels that are 2–8 mm long. Slender twigs are glabrous and silvery gray, with "numerous spur shoots",...

* 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.

* This species is occasionally used for hedging in the southern states of America. It weighs 46lb per cubic foot. Too small for commercial exploitation, the wood is used locally for turnery, inlay work, woodenware etc.

* It is a common ingredient in many bath products, giving them their familiar pine scent. * Foliar loppings of European silver fir in Czechoslovakia have yielded 1,380 tonnes/year of essential oils (Cermak and Penka 1979).

Features small pendulous clusters of bell-shaped, mildly fragrant, pale pink, long-stalked flowers (3/4" long) with showy yellow stamens. Gray bark fissures on older trees revealing an attractive orange inner layer and resulting winter interest.

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

* It is native to China , from Jiangsu south to Fujian and Guangdong , and west to southeastern Gansu and Yunnan. * A species of maple in the snakebark maple group.

* This species has a deeply penetrating root system that firmly anchors the tree against winds. * It is also grown for the cut Christmas tree industry. * The specific epithet pungens means "sharply pointed", referring to the leaves.

Less likely to suffer leaf curl in hot weather than the species. It grows 15 to 20 feet tall and has beautiful exfoliating bark, many long-lasting flowers, good fall color, and attractive fruit.

* 50 to 100 year old trees being 4 meters tall. * The dark purple-red color holds up better than most cultivars. * It is hardy and strongly cascading.

* A low, suckering shrub, member of the heath family; flowers white, resemble blueberry flowers; purple or black edible fruit; habit depends on growing conditions, scrambling up to some height in shade and rich soil, forming a low mat in full sun and...

Check AABGA/NAPCC Contact person for genus for possible non-NPGS germplasm. Check PlantSearch database of Botanic Gardens Conservation International for possible non-NPGS germplasm.