Plant With Winter Interest Wildlife Food For Sale In Montana

It grows at higher elevations (to 9500') with a slower growth rate, and has shorter cones (to 3"), blue-green needles and better winter hardiness. Glauca is the Rocky Mountain variety of this tree.

* 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 Apache Arizona source exhibits a nice blue color. These trees will not prove as winter hardy as the Colorado sources, but are highly recommended in zones 6 and 7. * The wood lacks a distinctive odor and so does not impart a flavor to items stored...

It grows in any soil, often very quickly and is short-lived and subject to diseases. * Dirr notes that this is the most widely distributed of any North American tree. It is conical when young, with a narrow conical crown when adult.

* The cooked seed can be used as a rice substitute. In general, it produces short, tough rhizomes and grows in dense clumps. The fertile stems grow upright. * This sedge is very variable in appearance.

* This is our most popular Blue Spruce seed. * The trees are faster growing and have softer needles than the average Blue Spruce. * It is also grown for the cut Christmas tree industry.

* The Colorado sources of Abies concolor are the hardiest that we sell. They exhibit a blue/green color and do their best in zones 4 and 5. * The wood lacks a distinctive odor and so does not impart a flavor to items stored in it.

* The plant's trunk, branches, and leaves are blue-green in color, hence the common name. The plant is drought-deciduous, shedding its foliage for most of the year, leafing out after rainfall.

* Shrubs or small trees, to 5–7 m tall. Branchlets reddish brown when old, terete, slender, pubescent when young, soon glabrescent, glabrous when old; buds reddish brown, ovoid; scales villous at margin.

* The dried flower heads are used for carding wool and as a clothes brush for raising the nap on woollen cloth. It is water soluble. * Not known in a truly wild condition. * It differs from the wild type in having stouter, somewhat recurved spines on...

* It has very striking white flower-like bracts that open in April and May before leaves emerge; shiny red fruit that ripens in late September and October. * The fruits are used as a bitter digestive tonic.

It grows at higher elevations (to 9500') with a slower growth rate, and has shorter cones (to 3"), blue-green needles and better winter hardiness. Glauca is the Rocky Mountain variety of this tree.

* A "beautiful graceful specimenwith drooping branches" * The pitch or resin is said to be one of the best curatives for a sore throat. * It is a large evergreen coniferous tree growing to 30–45 m (exceptionally 72 m) tall.

* Crataegus viridis is a species of hawthorn that is native to the southeastern US . * This cultivar has a rounded, vase-shaped habit, shiny green leaves sometimes turning purple and red in fall; white flowers with yellow anthers; and attractive red fruits,...

This is a treelike shrub reaching up to five meters in height. The stems may be smooth or fuzzy, and are often glandular. * Arctostaphylos viscida is a species of manzanita known by the common names whiteleaf manzanita and sticky manzanita .

* It has very striking white flower-like bracts that open in April and May before leaves emerge; shiny red fruit that ripens in late September and October. * The fruits are used as a bitter digestive tonic.

* A "beautiful graceful specimenwith drooping branches" * The pitch or resin is said to be one of the best curatives for a sore throat. * It is a large evergreen coniferous tree growing to 30–45 m (exceptionally 72 m) tall.

* Crataegus viridis is a species of hawthorn that is native to the southeastern US . * This cultivar has a rounded, vase-shaped habit, shiny green leaves sometimes turning purple and red in fall; white flowers with yellow anthers; and attractive red fruits,...

* The plant's trunk, branches, and leaves are blue-green in color, hence the common name. The plant is drought-deciduous, shedding its foliage for most of the year, leafing out after rainfall.

* The species occurs particularly in wetland habitats, but also on dry sand dunes and grassland. * Dark green leaves in summer; bright red quarter-inch fruit in fall and winter, very vivid and striking, especially against snow; likes wet situations along...

* Berberis thunbergii ( Japanese barberry or Thunberg's Barberry , also Red Barberry ) is a species of Berberis , native to Japan and eastern Asia . * Bright green leaves, very dense, with a horizontal habit; orange, scarlet, and reddish purple in fall;...

Plants can only be grown in oceanic and Mediterranean climates, thriving in Britain. * A very ornamental shrub. * Requires a lime-free soil. Very sweet and much appreciated, tasting somewhat like a hazel nut.

The blooms are nicely fragrant and visited by bees. * Features aromatic, 1" diameter, cruciform, pure white flowers (each with 4 narrow petal-like sepals) in terminal panicles from late August to October in a profuse bloom which typically covers the foliage.

The leaves are a tea substitute. This species is used as stock to graft apple trees in Hubei and Sichuan. * The fruit can be eaten raw or cooked. * A vigorous branching tree, it makes a good windbreak.

* The Chinese parasol tree or wutong , Chinese : ?? , ( Firmiana simplex , syn. A hair wash is made fromthe leaves and fibre. * A fibre is obtained by retting the bark. The wood is used for making furniture and coffins.

* It can grow in heavy clay soil, in semi-shade (light woodland) or no shade, but must be moist soil. * The fruit is a good wildlife food source, especially for birds. * The smallest crab; fragrant half-inch white flowers; dark red fruit "about the size...

A sour taste, but the fruit is palatable. * The fruit can be eaten raw or cooked. Fruit from the typical species is about 1cm in diameter, though there are sub-species and cultivated forms with considerably larger fruits.