Plant With Winter Interest Shade Tolerant Plant For Sale In Knoxville

American hornbeam is also known as blue-beech, ironwood, and musclewood. * Too small to be exploited commercially, this high quality wood is often used locally for flooring, cogs, tool handles, golf clubs etc.

* It is also grown for the cut Christmas tree industry. * The specific epithet pungens means "sharply pointed", referring to the leaves. * It is a popular ornamental tree found far beyond its native range.

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. * The Ilex opaca species typically grows as an understory tree in forests.

* The glorious elm that used to line American streets. * The American elm occurs naturally in an assortment of habitats, most notably rich bottomlands, floodplains, stream banks, and swampy ground, * The American Elm is the state tree of both Massachusetts...

* It is also grown for the cut Christmas tree industry. * The specific epithet pungens means "sharply pointed", referring to the leaves. * It is a popular ornamental tree found far beyond its native range.

* Plants can be grown as a medium-size hedge. They are very tolerant of trimming and have prickles which make them an effective barrier to larger creatures. * Berberis thunbergii ( Japanese barberry or Thunberg's Barberry , also Red Barberry ) is a species...

It is covered in red flowers in the winter and spring. They are native to Australia. * It will also tolerate more moist conditions if it is given well drained soil. * Templetonia is a dryland shrub that grows 3-7 feet tall.

It weighs 46lb per cubic foot. * A lovely, useful plant with white or gray bark, shiny dark green leaves, translucent quarter-inch scarlet fruit in large quantities; takes well to pruning, adaptable regarding soil; "very picturesquefruit is truly...

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

* It is an evergreen tree is up to 25–35 m height, and 2 m trunk diameter. Leucodermis ; family Pinaceae ) is a species of pine that occurs in the mountains of southeastern Europe.

* 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.

Harvested in early spring, before the leaves unfurl, by tapping the trunk. The sap usually runs freely, but the sugar content is lower than in the sugar maples. A sweet flavour. It is gentle, and very harmless in operation within the body, and exceedingly...

* Green to greenish purple stems with white stripes; of open habit with yellow fall color. * Native to northeast Asia.

* Plants can be grown as a medium-size hedge. They are very tolerant of trimming and have prickles which make them an effective barrier to larger creatures. * Berberis thunbergii ( Japanese barberry or Thunberg's Barberry , also Red Barberry ) is a species...

It is a rapidly growing large shrub or small tree, and rarely survives to 100 years. * Its name means "green pole or stick" in Spanish, referring to the green trunk and branches, that perform photosynthesis.

The flowers and fruit are like those of other Oregon-grapes; like them they are edible but just as sour. Since it is not appreciably absorbed by the body, it is used orally in the treatment of various enteric infections, especially bacterial dysentery.

Therefore, it was heavily planted in the midwest and eastern US. It was touted as a great plant for wildlife and erosion control. * Rem Red Amur Honeysuckle was developed by the USDA Soil Conservation Service in the 1960's.

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

* The wood of Tsuga mertensiana is somewhat inferior to that of T. At all ages, it is distinguished by the slightly pendulous branchlet tips. The bark is thin and square-cracked or furrowed, and gray in color.

* A beautiful small tree of horizontal, tiered habit; long-lasting creamy bracts appear a few weeks after those of C. The skin is rather tough and unpleasant, but the pulp is delicious with a custard-like texture, it is one of our favourite late summer...

Elliptic-ovate, glossy, medium to deep green leaves (to 3” long). * A beautiful underused small tree with a rounded, horizontally layered crown; 3/4" fragrant white flowers with yellow stamens, on pendulous stalks in small clusters; gray-brown branches...

* The peeled twigs are used as toothbrushes, they are good for whitening the teeth. * Older bark has an alligator hide appearance that is attractive in the winter landscape. * Flowering dogwood is a small deciduous tree growing to 10 m (33 ft) high, often...

It frequently grows with scattered conifers and an undergrowth of shrubs, typically evergreen Rhododendron . * Betula utilis tends to form forests, growing as a shrub or as a tree reaching up to 20 m (66 ft) tall.

Glauca is the Rocky Mountain variety of this tree. * It is planted as a specimen tree or in mass screenings. Mice, voles, shrews, and chipmunks consumed an estimated 65 percent of a Douglas fir seed crop following dispersal in western Oregon.

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

Acer buergerianum is a popular bonsai for its splendid multitude of green leaves and fall color of red, orange and yellow. * Rich green leaf turns gorgeous in fall--yellow, orange, red; much used as street tree in Japan, Korea, and the Pacific Northwestern...

* Hardier than green-leaved types. * The leaves have very narrow lobes that are purple red in the summer turning to orange red in the fall. * Fall color is sensational.