Urban Tolerant Plant Plant With Winter Interest For Sale In Raleigh

Large, brown fruit shaped like apples follow after flowering. 5 - 10 cm big and have a finely serrated edge. Because of its small volume Pyrus serrulata can be easily planted in small gardens.

* Spiny, shiny, dark green leaves, fragrant white flowers in May; quarter-inch red fruit, very attractive; parent of many cultivars. Noxious weed in California * Ilex aquifolium ( Holly , or European Holly to distinguish it from related species, may also...

* It is still relatively obscure in the horticultural industry but is slowly gaining popularity due to its fast growth rate, ease of transplanting, good fall colors and ability to grow in wet soils.

* The specific epithet pungens means "sharply pointed", referring to the leaves. * This species has a deeply penetrating root system that firmly anchors the tree against winds. * It is a popular ornamental tree found far beyond its native range.

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 ,...

* Plants have an extensive root system and can be grown on sand or thin coastal soils in order to bind the soil. * Germination usually takes place within 1 - 2 weeks. * Baccharis halimifolia ( Eastern Baccharis) , commonly called groundsel bush, consumption...

* This plant has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit. * The leaves are used in the treatment of cancer and hepatoma. * Cycas revoluta ( sago cycad ), is an attractive plant native to southern Japan .

* About the size of a plum, the fruit has an exquisitely rich flavour when it is fully ripe. * It is a small tree usually thirty to eighty feet (ten to twenty-four meters) in height, with a short, slender trunk and spreading, often pendulous branches,...

* It is native to mountains forests of Japan. * A maple in the snake-bark maple group.

* 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.

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 . This is a treelike shrub reaching up to five meters in height.

They attract pollinators such as bees, beetles, and flies. The plant is drought-deciduous, shedding its foliage for most of the year, leafing out after rainfall. * The blue palo verde is the state tree of Arizona.

* Templetonia is a dryland shrub that grows 3-7 feet tall. It is covered in red flowers in the winter and spring. * Templetonia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae.

* It is also grown for the cut Christmas tree industry. * This species has a deeply penetrating root system that firmly anchors the tree against winds. * It is a popular ornamental tree found far beyond its native range.

During the colder months, they turn maroonish in color. * The scientific name 'salicifolius', described by the botanist Franchet , means 'with leaves like willows' (see: Genus Salix ).

* It is native to China , from Jiangsu south to Fujian and Guangdong , and west to southeastern Gansu and Yunnan. * A species of maple in the snakebark maple group.

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

* It is a strong growing round-headed tree several meters high. * The foliage starts off with a tinge of orange-red then becoming rich green. * The fall color is rich red.

* Sometimes a tree, more often a shrub to about 15'; bright red fruits; grows on woody slopes from New York south to Georgia, west to Alabama (range of origin). * Ilex montana ( Mountain Winterberry ; also "Mountain Holly" which is more typically Ilex...

* The spring color is bright purple-red, black red or maroon in summer, changing to green red or brown red in late summer and then crimson in the fall. * It is strong growing an reaches 4 meters in height.

The leaves are harvested for use as required and can be used fresh or dried. It is called ce bai in Chinese. Their use is said to improve the growth of hair. Used for construction, cabinet making, cooperage.

* Leaves that start off pink in the spring turning to green over summer and then a lovely orange color in the fall. * Sought after for their attractive leaf shapes and colors.

* The leaves have very narrow lobes that are purple red in the summer turning to orange red in the fall. * Hardier than green-leaved types. * Fall color is sensational.

* The Chinese make fences around their compounds with interlaced branches of this plant.These branches take root and form a very graceful hedge. * Shrub with upright stems; narrow bamboolike leaves, shiny bright green; small whitish flowers; a roughish...

* Many wholesale growers prefer this seed. * Hardier than green-leaved types. * Fall color is sensational.

* Reaching 4-5 meters high. * 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.

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