Salt Tolerant Plant Evergreen Plant For Sale In Colorado Springs

Vitex are great for summer color and their large spikes of colorful flowers attract butterflies and bees. In the coldest portions of their range, zone 5-6, Vitex are grown as die back perennials that regrow each spring to flower in summer.

Easily grown from seed in the early spring, the seeds are soaked in water to start germination. Pines make an amazing bonsai because the rough bark on their trunks makes them look old early on.

* 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 (mostly) 1,000 m to 2,200 m,...

Several of the varieties have distinct English names. The tree can be long-lived, with some trees over 500 years old. It is planted with great success as far north as Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.

The trees are beautiful in the spring with white blooms and in the fall the dark berries appear. * Ligustrum vulgare ( Wild Privet , also sometimes known as Common Privet or European Privet ), is a species of Ligustrum native to central and southern Europe...

It is planted with great success as far north as Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. The leaves ("needles") are thinner and more flexible in western populations. * In the US and Canada, the European black pine is planted as a street tree, and as an ornamental...

* A variable evergreen of upright, rounded habit, with 1/2" white flowers in small clusters; 1" green or red berries; likes moist soil, part shade; emerging leaves bronzy to reddish, later leathery, dark green; leaves to 4" x 1 1/2", turning bronzy-red...

* Iris foetidissima ( Stinking Iris , Gladdon , Gladwin Iris , Roast-beef Plant , Stinking Gladwin ), is a species of Iris found in open woodland, hedgebanks and sea-cliffs. * An easily grown and very tolerant plant, it succeeds in most positions in any...

* The female flowers are followed by a red berry, and the seeds are bird-distributed, but the plant also spreads vegetatively by means of rhizomes. Small greenish flowers appear in spring, and are borne singly in the centre of the cladodes.

* It is a popular ornamental tree , extensively planted in parks and gardens in hot dry areas such as southern California. * Good for seashore planting; native to Mediterranean region.

* Requires a well-drained sandy soil and a sunny position. * The leaves are used for flavouring rice dumplings. Established plants are drought tolerant.

* A very ornamental plant, it is hardy to about -15°c. They are very attractive to bees whilst the fruit is a good winter food source for many species of birds. Hybridizes freely with other members of this genus.

* The essential oil that is obtained from the flowers is exquisitely scented and has a very wide range of applications, both in the home and commercially.It is commonly used in soap making, in making high quality perfumes (it is also used in 'Eau de Cologne'),...

* A variable evergreen of upright, rounded habit, with 1/2" white flowers in small clusters; 1" green or red berries; likes moist soil, part shade; emerging leaves bronzy to reddish, later leathery, dark green; leaves to 4" x 1 1/2", turning bronzy-red...

* A conifer of narrow conical form with green, gray-green, or blue-green foliage; shiny reddish brown bark exfoliates in scales; likes heat, drought, and full sun; best in dry western regions.

* 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.

Jojoba foliage provides year-round food opportunity for many animals, including deer , javelina , bighorn sheep , and livestock. * Jojoba grows to 1–2 metres (3.3–6.6 ft) tall, with a broad, dense crown.

* Conical when young, branches broadening with age to become a picturesque wide pyramid with age; slow growing; green or blue-green needles, 1 1/2"; "a choice, extremely graceful small conifer...a perfect tree for the small place...artistic growth habit"...

* Cupressus nevadensis is a medium-sized evergreen tree with a conic crown, growing to heights of 10-25 m (exceptionally to 39 m), and a trunk diameter of up to 0.5 m (exceptionally to 1 m).

They are very drought -tolerant and fast-growing and favor climates that are rainy throughout the year or at least with high summer rainfall. * It occurs from 300 to 2,500 m (980 to 8,200 ft), in Mexico mainly in highlands at 1,600 m (5,200 ft) and 2,300...

* Many botanists believe that this is merely a southern outlier of the typical North Plateau race of ponderosa pine. Ponderosa is distinguishable in the field and certainly occurs at the type locality (Mount Rose, Nevada).

The wood can also be stained to imitate ebony. 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.

* Small, delicate plant forms a rounded mound, often loose and open; evergreen; 3" flowers in May, parents of this strain have flowers in variations of pink and purple; acid soil, good drainage; in the U.S. needs light shade in the North, more shade in...

Vitex are great for summer color and their large spikes of colorful flowers attract butterflies and bees. In the coldest portions of their range, zone 5-6, Vitex are grown as die back perennials that regrow each spring to flower in summer.

* Dracaena draco is a monocot with a tree-like growth habit currently placed in the asparagus family (Asparagaceae, subfamily Nolinoidae).When young it has a single stem. Descending along the trunk, they cling tightly to the trunk, integrate with it and...

* Peruvian Torch ( Trichocereus peruvianus ) is found high in the Andean mountain deserts of Peru and Ecuador and is similar to the San Pedro cactus ( Trichocereus pachanoi ) which is found in the same region.

Prefers a well-drained loamy soil. The plant is notable for its photosynthetic stems and its seed distribution method. The common names all refer to the plant's seed pods which first appear in mid-summer.