Plant With Winter Interest Timber Tree For Sale In Boston

* Grows well in heavy clay soils, requiring a cool position in a good moist but not water-logged soil. * Prefers growing on a north-facing slope. * Very shade tolerant, especially when young, but growth is slower in dense shade.

* The specific epithet, menziesii, is after Archibald Menzies, a Scottish physician and rival naturalist to David Douglas. * Pseduotsuga menziesii var. * It is planted as a specimen tree or in mass screenings.

* It is densely branched and has bright green bark. * Fall color is various shades of yellow.

* Dirr notes that this is the most widely distributed of any North American tree. The tree is an important source of pulpwood and a breeze moving through a stand of aspen, ruffling every leaf as it passes, is a magical sight; the fall color is yellow.

* New spring growth that is covered in very fine silvery hairs making it look almost grey. * Reaching 4-5 meters high. * The deep red color of this dissected leaf variety also holds well into the summer.

* The New Mexico sources of Abies concolor will be intermediate between the Arizona and the Colorado. Thus it can be used for making tubs for storing food items. Highly recommended for zones 5 and 6.

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

* It is a small to medium-sized deciduous tree reaching a height of 5-20 m with a trunk up to 50 cm diameter. The trunk thickens fast and develops some rust colored peeling appearance.

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

* Small tree with cascading branches. * The unfolding leaves in spring start out orange turn to green for the summer and then become spectacular blends of crimson and gold in the fall.

* More upright than many cultivars and then cascades down from a higher starting point. * Holds its color well in the summer and then turns a beautiful scarlet in the fall.

* Bright reddish purple color in spring deepening as summer advances, turning to carmine and scarlet in the fall. * It is upright growing, hardy and sturdy.

* Fresh/Green seed does not require a period of warm stratification to soften the seed coat. * Fall color bright red and orange. For this reason it should be sown immediately in the fall or put in cold stratification.

* It has very dark red, almost black-red leaves, is upright growing and holds its color well into the summer. * The fall color is crimson red.

* This species can be grown as a hedge or as part of a shelterbelt. * A decoction of the leaves has been used in the treatment of colds. * The inner bark has been used for making baskets.

* Parrotia persica ( Persian Ironwood ) is a deciduous tree in the family Hamamelidaceae , the sole species in the genus Parrotia but closely related to the genus Hamamelis (Witch-hazels).

It is most easily removed in late spring to early summer. Only the outer bark is removed, this does not kill the tree. * The bark is used to make drinking vessels, canoe skins, roofing tiles etc.

The oil, when decolourized, is similar to 'Oil of Wintergreen' (obtained from Gaultheria procumbens) and is considered to be of superior quality. * Betula lenta ( Sweet Birch , also known as Black Birch , Cherry Birch , Mahogany Birch , or Spice Birch...

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

* 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 (mostly) 1,000 m to 2,200 m, occasionally as low as 200 m in...

* It is a large evergreen coniferous tree growing to 20–40 m tall, exceptionally 59 m, and with a trunk diameter of up to 2 m. The crown is a neat slender conic shape in young trees with a tilted or drooping lead shoot, becoming cylindric in older trees.

* The tree depends on moisture from snowmelt, rather than from the monsoon rains. It frequently grows with scattered conifers and an undergrowth of shrubs, typically evergreen Rhododendron .

They are produced in summer, generally in June until the end of August; each flower is short-lived, but many are produced that open over many weeks. * The flowers are up to 8 cm wide, with five white petals with orange anthers ; they are shaped like Camellia...

* 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.

* A very deep colored palmatum - almost classed as a "black-red" * In the Fall crimson tones dominate. * Trueness to type can never be guaranteed when seed is grown that has been collected from cultivars.

The crown is narrow, dense and conical. Prefers cool, moist, woodland conditions in part shade locations. * In cultivation, it rarely tops 40' in height and often grows in a shrubby form.