Plant With Winter Interest Shade Tolerant Plant For Sale In Rhode Island

Prefers cool, moist, woodland conditions in part shade locations. Young shoots are short, palely pubescent and bright orange to red-brown in colour. The crown is narrow, dense and conical.

Though often known by the common name of king sago palm , or just sago palm , it is not a palm at all, but a cycad . * This plant has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit.

* 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.

The flow is best on warm sunny days following a hard frost. The bark is white, commonly brightly so, flaking in fine horizontal strips, and often with small black marks and scars. It has a golden-yellow fall color; likes cool areas and moist acid soils.

The tree has a good quality timber. * A fibre obtained from the bark is used in the manufacturing of Xuan Paper. 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...

NO ACCESSIONS IN NPGS UNDER THIS NAME. The 5 historical accession(s) associated with this name. Check AABGA/NAPCC contact person for genus for possible non-NPGS germplasm. * The leaves almost resemple Acer ginnala and have a nice red to yellow fall color.

* 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). * Ilex montana ( Mountain Winterberry ; also "Mountain Holly" which is more typically Ilex...

Noxious weed in California * An excellent hedge plant, tolerating hard clipping and maritime exposure and forming a dense stock-proof shelter. * Spiny, shiny, dark green leaves, fragrant white flowers in May; quarter-inch red fruit, very attractive; parent...

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. * Ilex opaca is a medium-sized broadleaved evergreen tree growing to 10-20...

* The red (cranberry-like) berries mature in late summer and persist into winter. * Effective on banks or slopes for erosion control. * The leaves turn attractive shades of purple, red and bronze in autumn.

It is an evergreen shrub or small tree that is usually trimmed to below two metres (six feet) when cultivated for its leaves. * The source of tea; white flowers in fall; tolerates shade or sun well; an attractive small shrub for its ornamental value as...

In both areas, it is often a tree line species. * Stiff 1 1/2 " dark needles; cones to 5"; looks like Pinus aristata with shorter needles and smaller cones; native to California. Austrina in the southern Sierra Nevada .

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. * Ilex opaca is a medium-sized broadleaved evergreen tree growing to 10-20...

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

* It is a cascading type but not as fully drooping as some cultivars * In sun the leaves are a very interesting shade of red.

They measure 10 to 15 centimetres (4 to 6 in) in diameter and their shape is superficially similar to hibiscus flowers. Their nectar is known to attract insect pollinators, as well as hummingbirds.

* The seedlings grown from seed collected from cultivars may not resemble the mother tree. * It has a very delicate texture and light yellow green foliage color. * It is pendulous, mound shaped and reaching 2 meters high by 3 meters wide.

* A great deal of variation can be expected when growing this plant. * It grows as a mound and holds its red color well in the summer.

* 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.

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

Tolerates trimming. * The plant can be grown as an informal windbreak hedge in all but the most exposed situations. * Cotoneaster franchetii ( Franchet's Cotoneaster ) is a species of Cotoneaster native to southwestern China , in the provinces of Guizhou...

* 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.

* 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.

* It is strong growing an reaches 4 meters in height. * Fall color is sensational. * The spring color is bright purple-red, black red or maroon in summer, changing to green red or brown red in late summer and then crimson in the fall.

They measure 10 to 15 centimetres (4 to 6 in) in diameter and their shape is superficially similar to hibiscus flowers. Their nectar is known to attract insect pollinators, as well as hummingbirds.

The flow is best on warm sunny days following a hard frost. The bark is white, commonly brightly so, flaking in fine horizontal strips, and often with small black marks and scars. It has a golden-yellow fall color; likes cool areas and moist acid soils.

Unique individuals will most likely result which can be even more interesting than the parent. * Seeds colected from cultivars such as this may not resemble the mother tree. * The leaves are brick red blended over a deep green color base.