Urban Tolerant Plant Plant With Winter Interest For Sale In St Paul

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

* Ilex montana ( Mountain Winterberry ; also "Mountain Holly" which is more typically Ilex mucronata ) is a species of holly native to the United States , ranging along the Appalachian Mountains from southeast Massachusetts to northeast Alabama and northern...

* It is marginal in zone 8, going dormant and deciduous in cold winters, but usually evergreen to semi-evergreen. * It has green arching foliage to 3 feet in USDA 8, with highlights of orange, copper, and gold, especially in drier soils.

* 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.

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

They are very tolerant of trimming and have prickles which make them an effective barrier to larger creatures. * Bright green leaves, very dense, with a horizontal habit; orange, scarlet, and reddish purple in fall; yellow flowers followed by bright red...

It is native to the southwestern United States (western Texas , southern Arizona ), Mexico , the Caribbean , South America south to northern Argentina , and the Galapagos Islands .

* The plant is extremely hardy, to USDA Zone 3. As a popular ornamental used in landscaping its notable features include the red stems in fall (autumn) through late winter, the brightest winter bark of any cornus.

Heterophylla as timber and as pulp, a fact that has little retarded extensive logging of subalpine forests. Uses of its moderately strong, light-colored wood include small-dimension lumber and pulp.

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

(Leguminosae) have been used in traditional medicine for the treatment of inflammatory diseases including swelling, suppuration, carbuncle and skin diseases. * The fruit extract of Gleditsia sinensis also has inhibitory effects on isolated cancer cell...

* 2-5" dark shiny "needles" clustered in whorls at the ends of shoots; form varies, may be narrowly vertical to broadly conical; branches tend to droop with age; grows slowly; 2-4" cones, green, then brown; makes a distinctive dark green impression in...

* 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...

* Fall color is sensational. * Hardier than green-leaved types.

Wood - hard, heavy, strong, close grained. * Ilex vomitoria ( Yaupon Holly , Yaupon , or Cassina ; the latter shared with Ilex cassine ), is a species of holly native to southeastern North America , occurring in United States from Maryland south to Florida...

* The fall color is golden to red. * It has gracefully arching branches and grows somewhat faster than other cultivars.

* 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.

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

* The spring and Summer foliage is a deep, rich green. * Rich, deep orange fall color.

* It is a cascading type but not as fully drooping as some cultivars * In sun the leaves are a very interesting shade of red.

* 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. * It is a small tree usually thirty to eighty feet (ten to twenty-four meters) in height, with a short, slender trunk and spreading,...

* Effective on banks or slopes for erosion control. * Versatile shrub that can be used to cover large areas. * Foundation plant. * The leaves turn attractive shades of purple, red and bronze in autumn.

* Native to southern Italy (including Sardinia ) and Corsica. * Bacteria on the roots fix atmospheric nitrogen - whilst this enables the tree to grow well in quite poor soils it also makes some of this nitrogen available to other plants growing nearby.

* Small landscape tree * Somewhat reminiscent of Betua nigra bark, but the sections that break off are smaller and more block like. * Grown mostly for it's beautiful exfoliating bark.

* Ilex opaca is often cultivated by plant nurseries for use as a broadleaf evergreen ornamental plant, planted as a shrub or slower growing ornamental tree. * Holly is a popular winter Christmas and holiday season decoration.

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

Its value as a street tree is largely due to its resistance to salt spray (from road de-icing salt) and various industrial pollutants (including ozone), and its intermediate drought tolerance.