Plant With Winter Interest Shade Tolerant Plant For Sale In Hartford

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

* It is marginal in zone 8, going dormant and deciduous in cold winters, but usually evergreen to semi-evergreen. * This is a naturally rare grass in the wild but it is widely cultivated for use as an attractive ornamental garden plant.

It also grows in Canada (southwest Quebec and southeast Ontario), Mexico (central and southern), Guatemala, and western Honduras. * It is a shade-loving tree, which prefers moderate soil fertility and moisture.

* Holly is a popular winter Christmas and holiday season decoration. 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.

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

* Tolerant of regular trimming, though not into old wood, it can be grown as a dense hedge. * A yellow dye is obtained from the young branches. It is called ce bai in Chinese. It is native to northwestern China and widely naturalised elsewhere in Asia...

An oil is extracted from the seeds. * A fibre obtained from the bark is used in the manufacturing of Xuan Paper. The tree has a good quality timber. * Resembles Celtis but has winged fruits to 3/4"; dark green foliage; "gray-brown bark exfoliates in patches...

* Chinese Camellia sinensis is native to mainland China South and Southeast Asia , but it is today cultivated across the world in tropical and subtropical regions. It is an evergreen shrub or small tree that is usually trimmed to below two metres (six...

* 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 stock-proof shelter.

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. * Bright green leaves, very dense, with a horizontal habit; orange, scarlet, and reddish purple...

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

It is native to central North America. * Spartina pectinata is a species of cordgrass known by the common name prairie cordgrass . * Of upright, arching form; green leaves; flowers in late summer, flowering section of spike to 15" long; likes full sun...

* 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 .

It will however grow in full sun, even though the foliage appears to "bleach" a little. * Sarcococca confusa is a very adaptable and reliable shrub that is easily grown in many situations, including dense shade with very dry soil.

* The natural habitat of the silk floss tree is the north-east of Argentina, east of Bolivia, Paraguay, Uruguay and southern Brazil. * As a deciduous tree, it is completely bare of leaves and flowers during the winter months, especially when growing outside...

* Betula utilis tends to form forests, growing as a shrub or as a tree reaching up to 20 m (66 ft) tall. * Flaking dark brown bark; 3" leaves; native to Himalayas. It frequently grows with scattered conifers and an undergrowth of shrubs, typically evergreen...

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

* Mostly grown for its intense glowing crimson fall color. * It has very large leaves and is a fast grower. * Perhaps the brightest leaf color of all maples.

The leaves are alternate, simple, long, lanceolate , dark green and resemble those of willow trees (thus the common name), and have fine gray hairs on their undersides. During the colder months, they turn maroonish in color.

* It is native to China, from Jiangsu south to Fujian and Guangdong, and west to southeastern Gansu and Yunnan. * Species of maple in the snakebark maple group. * It is a small deciduous tree growing to 10–15 m tall with a trunk up to 40 cm diameter.

* A deciduous tree native to the southeastern United States from North Carolina south to northwest Florida and west to eastern Texas. * It lives in the understory in moist, rocky soils on river banks, ravines, woods, and cliffs.

* It is in flower in May, and the seeds ripen in July. * A decidious Tree growing to 4.5 m. * A stripebark with vivid white stripes on green or gray-green bark; vivid yellow fall color.

* It is native to China, from Jiangsu south to Fujian and Guangdong, and west to southeastern Gansu and Yunnan. * Species of maple in the snakebark maple group. * It is a small deciduous tree growing to 10–15 m tall with a trunk up to 40 cm diameter.

* Unique bark appearance, corky and rough with many cracks in it. * Leaves similar to that of Japanese Maple.

* Betula utilis tends to form forests, growing as a shrub or as a tree reaching up to 20 m (66 ft) tall. * Flaking dark brown bark; 3" leaves; native to Himalayas. It frequently grows with scattered conifers and an undergrowth of shrubs, typically evergreen...

* 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.

It is a rapid-growing, multi-stemmed, suckering, deciduous shrub that grows to a maximum size of 4-7' tall on erect, usually unbranched stems. * ‘Sibirica' is a tatarian dogwood cultivar that is noted for its brilliant red stems in winter that are particularly...