Urban Tolerant Plant Plant With Winter Interest For Sale In Durham

* 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 Bonsai is a good one for beginners because it is low-maintenance, a slow grower, and has a burly frame. The Mugo Pine has small dark green evergreen needles helping it to look great all year.

* As a deciduous tree, it is completely bare of leaves and flowers during the winter months, especially when growing outside of its native South America habitat. * The flowers are creamy-whitish in the center and pink towards the tips of their five petals.

* 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...

Fortunei, but is shorter, broader, and more densely branched; small whitish flowers; native to Asia Minor. * Fontanesia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Oleaceae , usually treated as comprising a single species Fontanesia philliraeoides ,...

This Bonsai is a good one for beginners because it is low-maintenance, a slow grower, and has a burly frame. The Mugo Pine has small dark green evergreen needles helping it to look great all year.

* Templetonia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae. They are native to Australia. * Templetonia is a dryland shrub that grows 3-7 feet tall. The genus is named in honour of John Templeton, an Irish naturalist and botanist.

They often have very bent growth due to the pressure of the deep winter snow in the Himalaya. * The tree depends on moisture from snowmelt, rather than from the monsoon rains. * Betula utilis tends to form forests, growing as a shrub or as a tree reaching...

Prefers a deep rich moist soil in sun or light shade. * Succeeds in fresh or salt water marshes and in ordinary garden soil. It is native to central North America. * Of upright, arching form; green leaves; flowers in late summer, flowering section of...

* The flowers are small, yellow, with five sepals and petals. * The bark is smooth, olive-green with regular narrow pale vertical stripes on young trees. * It is native to China, from Jiangsu south to Fujian and Guangdong, and west to southeastern Gansu...

* Arctostaphylos viscida is a species of manzanita known by the common names whiteleaf manzanita and sticky manzanita . This is a treelike shrub reaching up to five meters in height.

* Its previous scientific name was Quercus nuttallii , but it is now known as Quercus texana ; this has created much confusion with Texas Red Oak which was known as Quercus texana but is now known as Quercus buckleyi .

* Molasses can be made from the fruit pulp. * The fruit can also be dried and used in bread, cakes etc. * Grown for its yellow or orange fruit, to 1 1/2", in fall. Opossums, raccoons, skunks, deer, and birds also feed upon the fruit.

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

* It lives in the understory in moist, rocky soils on river banks, ravines, woods, and cliffs. * A deciduous tree native to the southeastern United States from North Carolina south to northwest Florida and west to eastern Texas.

* Leaves similar to that of Japanese Maple. * Unique bark appearance, corky and rough with many cracks in it.

* The foliage is purplish-red holding into the summer then some green tones come in changing to red and scarlet in fall. * A very desirable color * Makes a delightful upright small tree, maturing at 4 meters.

The tree has a good quality timber. * 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...

Arborescent individuals that have narrowly conical crowns until old age (300 to 400 years) and shrubby krummholz on cold, windy sites near timberline add beauty to mountain landscapes.

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

The wood can also be stained to imitate ebony. * The Ilex opaca species typically grows as an understory tree in forests. * Ilex opaca is often cultivated by plant nurseries for use as a broadleaf evergreen ornamental plant, planted as a shrub or slower...

* The glorious elm that used to line American streets. * Dirr notes that several forms occur, but the one most of us recall fondly divided into several major trunks topped by spreading, arching, pendulous branches.

* Sarcococca confusa is a very adaptable and reliable shrub that is easily grown in many situations, including dense shade with very dry soil. It will however grow in full sun, even though the foliage appears to "bleach" a little.

* Cycas revoluta ( sago cycad ), is an attractive plant native to southern Japan . 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 .

It is native to eastern North America, from Minnesota and southern Ontario east to Maine, and south to eastern Texas and northern Florida. It also grows in Canada (southwest Quebec and southeast Ontario), Mexico (central and southern), Guatemala, and...

* The Apache source exhibits strong blue color yet shouldn't be used in extremely cold areas. * This species has a deeply penetrating root system that firmly anchors the tree against winds.

* Chinese Camellia sinensis is native to mainland China South and Southeast Asia , but it is today cultivated across the world in tropical and subtropical regions. It is an evergreen shrub or small tree that is usually trimmed to below two metres (six...