Urban Tolerant Plant Evergreen Plant For Sale In Lafayette

* Thick, slightly twisted bright green 3-4 1/2" needles. Easily grown from seed in the early spring, the seeds are soaked in water to start germination. Needles tend to be quite long but can be reduced with the pruning techniques.

The genus name is Greek - rhapis, meaning "needle"; and the species name is Latin for "tall", an ironic name choice as R. They were first collected by the Japanese for Tokugawa shogunate palaces, then popularity spread to Europe, and later to America...

* This is our most popular Blue Spruce seed. * It is also grown for the cut Christmas tree industry. * The specific epithet pungens means "sharply pointed", referring to the leaves.

* Smooth-bark Mexican Pine ( Pinus pseudostrobus ), ( Chamite and Pacingo ) distinctive names in Spanish, tree endemic to Mexico , 8 to 25 m tall, dense and round top, the bark is brown and fissured and smooth when young.

It is native to eastern Asia from the Himalaya east to Japan * Evergreen except in cold climates; delicate compound leaves, reddish when new, later blue-green; attractive white flowers in panicles atop the stems, followed by beautiful bright red berries;...

* This 6-8' shrub is "of matchless elegance a its fleecy sprays lovely in their silken lightness" (A. Johnson) & contrasting beautifully with the lush pinnate foliage, in its first reddish growth or its later fresh-green.

* The German Commission E Monographs, a therapeutic guide to herbal medicine, approve Hedera helix for cough, bronchitis. * It is an evergreen climbing plant, growing to 20–30 m high where suitable surfaces ( trees , cliffs , walls ) are available,...

* This is one of our most popular bonsai seeds. * One member of this species, known as Methuselah , is thought to be the oldest living non-clonal organism on Earth . * Pinus longaeva , the Great Basin Bristlecone Pine , is a long-living species of tree...

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

Newly grown leaves and samaras take on a reddish hue. Well worth growing in zone 8 gardens. The lanceolate leaves are glossy and evergreen. * This is an amazing endangered maple from South China and Vietnam.

The flowers grow in clusters at the end of each branch; they are white, pink, red or yellow, 2.5–5 cm (0.98–2.0 in) diameter, with a deeply 5-lobed corolla with a fringe round the central corolla tube.

* A delicious tea is made by steeping the green or dried twigs inboiling water until they turn an amber or pink colour. * The stems of most members of this genus contain the alkaloid ephedrine and are valuable in the treatment of asthma and many other...

* Pinus clausa ( Sand Pine , Sandhill Pine ) is a small, often shrubby tree from 5–10 m (16–33 ft), exceptionally to 21 m (69 ft) tall, found in two separate locations, one across central peninsular Florida , and the other in the western Florida panhandle...

Hybridizes freely with other members of this genus. They are very attractive to bees whilst the fruit is a good winter food source for many species of birds. Branchlets dark purplish brown to grayish brown, cylindric, initially densely yellow tomentose,...

The species is often smaller, stunted and twisted in coastal exposures. * Of symmetrical conical habit; needles stiff, often twisted, dark green, to 7"; cones 2-4 1/2"; native to California, where it is used ornamentally.

* Cupressus funebris is cultivated as an ornamental tree, due to its graciously weeping form and texture, and planted in gardens and public parks in other warm temperate regions, such as California.

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 very symmetrical plant supports a crown of shiny, dark green leaves on a thick shaggy trunk that is typically about 20 cm (7.9...

* Insubstantial purplish or yellow flowers in early to mid summer; more impressive are the large pods that split open to reveal clusters of scarlet or orange-red seeds that remain until midwinter; likes lime; native to western and Mediterranean Europe.

The deeply furrowed bark is scaled in a mosaic of white, gray and dark brown. The shiny dark green needles are 3 to 6 1/2". It is dense and cone-shaped when young, broadening at the top with age.

They are usually multi-stemmed with an open and loosely rounded crown. * 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...

The tree is short-lived in temperate climates, rarely reaching more than 60 years of age, but in its native environment may live to between 100 and 150 year. The wind-dispersed fruit develops in a flat, oval membranous wing ( samara ) 1 - 1.5 cm long...

* A hardy perennial with gray or blue-gray rather frilly leaves, extremely fragrant (although many dislike the pungent scent); woody base; causes dermatitis in some people, for dry sunny places; also used medicinally and as a condiment; inconspicuous...

Elliptic, serrate, pale green leaves (to 3" long) turn yellow in fall. * This species of pearlbush is an early-blooming, upright deciduous shrub that is native to Manchuria and Korea.

* Succeeds in poor soils and, once established, tolerates drought. * In its native habitat, the flowers are eaten fresh, and the leaves are smoked like tobacco for its euphoriant properties.

* A maple native to much of Europe , north to southern England (where it is the only native maple), Denmark , Poland and Belarus , and also southwest Asia from Turkey to the Caucasus , and north Africa in the Atlas Mountains.

Rhododendron ponticum subsp. Spain, Portugal. & Reut.) Hand.-Mazz. Description It is a dense, suckering shrub or small tree growing to 5 m tall, rarely 8 m. The leaves are evergreen , 6-18 cm long and 2-5 cm broad.

* The wood is heavy, hard and brittle. The species is considered to be long lived. The bark is often mixed with alder and wild plum root barks when making the dye. * Cercocarpus montanus is common in the chaparral, on mesas and on the lower foothills...