Plant With Winter Interest Shade Tolerant Plant For Sale In Richmond

* A notable specimen in the Pirin Mountains of Bulgaria, known as Baikushev's pine, is 24 metres (79 ft) tall, 2.2 metres (7 ft 3 in) in diameter, and is estimated to be over 1300 years old.

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

* 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 and central China.

A 10-year-old sapling will stand about 4 meters (13 feet) tall. The tree is typically long-lived. It usually separates 3 to 4½ meters (10–15 feet) from the ground into three or four divisions which spread slightly and form a narrow pyramidal head;...

Distribution of this grass species is widespread including the eastern and western extremes of North America, parts of South America and Eurasia. * Numerous flower stems rise in summer from the foliage mound to a height of 3' bearing wide, airy panicles...

* It is an evergreen climbing plant, growing to 20–30 m high where suitable surfaces ( trees , cliffs , walls ) are available, and also growing as ground cover where there are no vertical surfaces.

The fruits are not comsumed in the fall by birds so it does provide a nice winter food source. Therefore, it was heavily planted in the midwest and eastern US. It has since been determined to be very invasive and so is being eradicated many places.

They often have very bent growth due to the pressure of the deep winter snow in the Himalaya. It frequently grows with scattered conifers and an undergrowth of shrubs, typically evergreen Rhododendron .

* The Kousa Dogwood ( Cornus kousa or Benthamidia kousa ), also known as the Japanese Flowering Dogwood (Yamaboushi ( * A beautiful small tree of horizontal, tiered habit; long-lasting creamy bracts appear a few weeks after those of C.

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

Slender twigs are glabrous and silvery gray, with "numerous spur shoots", pointed lateral buds, and acuminate scales. * Grows as a shrub or small tree; light gray stems, shiny dark green leaves, fall color yellow; orange to scarlet quarter-inch fruits...

* The fall color is a "beautiful gold with overtones of crimson for which it is famous." * Makes an excellent larger bonsai specimen. * The leaf color is a combination of green and red on the same leaf.

Nicholson subsp. 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.

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

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

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

* It is an evergreen shrub with short vertical stems, mostly under 30 cm, while the leaves reach higher, rarely up to 2 m tall. The leaves are compound , with 9-19 leaflets; each leaflet is strongly toothed, reminiscent of holly , and somewhat shiny,...

It is a vigorous deciduous shrub growing to 4 m (13 ft) tall with an erect trunk and leaves 5–29 cm (2–11 in) long and 2–12 cm (1–5 in) broad. The wood, after soaking in water, polishes to a brilliant black finish.

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

It has a shallow, wide-spreading root system. It is especially suitable for making levers and is also a good fuel. It also grows in Canada (southwest Quebec and southeast Ontario), Mexico (central and southern), Guatemala, and western Honduras.

* 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). Synonyms include Ilex monticola .

* Leaves start off red in the spring fade to greenish red in the summer and then turn crimson in the fall.

* It is a strong growing round-headed tree several meters high. * The fall color is rich red. * The foliage starts off with a tinge of orange-red then becoming rich green.

* Baccharis halimifolia ( Eastern Baccharis) , commonly called groundsel bush, consumption weed, cotton-seed tree, groundsel tree or silverling) is a fall flowering evergreen perennial plant of the genus Baccharis which is commonly found in the southeastern...

* Cephalotaxus fortunei, commonly called the Chinese Plum Yew, simply Plum Yew, Chinese Cowtail Pine or in Chinese as San Jian Shan (Chinese: ???; pinyin: s?nji?nsh?n), is a coniferous shrub or small tree in the plum yew family.

* Parkinsonia aculeata is a species of flowering tree in the pea family, Fabaceae . * Large yellow fragrant flowers in loose clusters, in spring; green branches, doubly pinnate leaves with long narrow leaflets to 1' or more; 1" thorns; of open habit;...

He obtained specimens near Hermosillo, in Sonora, Mexico, in 1830. * The Irish botanist Thomas Coulter was the first to categorize Parkinsonia florida. * Parkinsonia florida grows to heights of 10–12 metres (33–39 ft).