Acid Loving Plant Evergreen Plant For Sale In Grand Rapids

* The narrow evergreen leaves, pale on the underside, have a tendency to form groups of threes, standing upright when newly put forth, but bent downward with the weight of age. * A very ornamental and variable plant.

The flowers are 3.5-5 cm diameter, violet-purple, often with small greenish-yellow spots or streaks. Baeticum (Boiss. Rhododendron ponticum subsp. The fruit is a dry capsule 15-25 mm long, containing numerous small seeds .There are two subspecies : Rhododendron...

* It is a shrub or small tree that grows to 3–12 metres (9.8–39.4 ft) in height, with leathery leaves that are oblong to oblong-elliptic, 8–14.5 cm (3 1?8–5 3?4 in) by 3–9.2 cm (1 3?16–3 5?8 in) in size.

* Woodland Garden Dappled Shade; Shady Edge; not Deep Shade. The flowers are white, borne in early spring. * Shiny dark green evergreen leaves, emerging bronzy in spring; white slightly fragrant flowers in pendulous masses; neat upright habit; prefers...

* A shrub or tree, resembling S. Pseudocamellia, which see, but with longer leaves, smaller flowers (in June and July), and petals that are reddish at the base; needs acid soil; native to Japan.

Often found sprouting from nurse logs and growing in conjunction with red huckleberry (Vaccinium parvifolium). Not needing much sun, the plant has a wide variety of forest homes; it is often seen sprouting out of old coast redwood stumps or dense brambles...

* The narrow evergreen leaves, pale on the underside, have a tendency to form groups of threes, standing upright when newly put forth, but bent downward with the weight of age. * A very ornamental and variable plant.

The cones are cylindric-conic, 4-8 cm long and 2 cm broad, maturing pale brown 5-7 months after pollination, and have stiff, smoothly rounded scales. The leaves are needle-like, 12-22 mm long, rhombic in cross-section, dark bluish-green with conspicuous...

* Rhododendron catawbiense ( Catawba Rhododendron ) is a species of Rhododendron native to the eastern United States , growing mainly in the Appalachian Mountains from Virginia south to northern Alabama .

This is used by violinists on their bows and also in making sealing wax, varnish etc. Serotina ); the last is treated as a subspecies of Pitch Pine by some botanists . They burn well and have been gathered and placed at the ends of sticks to make torches.

Smooth, medium-green, deciduous foliage turns dull yellow in fall. Pinxter means Pentecost (seventh Sunday after Easter) in Dutch, in reference to the bloom time for this shrub. It is relatively tolerant of dry sites and can be transplanted into wild...

It burns with a clear, bright flame and is valued as a fuel. * The wood is heavy, close-grained, moderately hard, brittle, not strong. * Requires a free-draining, light, sandy, acid soil with additional leafmould added.

It originated in Asia and is most commonly found growing wild in Vietnam, Southern China, Taiwan, Japan, Myanmar and India. * Evidence of Gardenia jasminoides in cultivation in China dates to the Song Dynasty (960-1279 AD), where both wild and double-flowered...

* Mayo or Mayu (Sophora macrocarpa) is a small tree that inhabits the Chilean Matorral.

It usually grows to only 3-5' tall and features 5-petaled, showy, white flowers in drooping clusters which appear before the leaves emerge in early spring. * Running serviceberry is a deciduous, early-flowering, stoloniferous shrub which typically suckers...

* A shrub or tree, resembling S. Pseudocamellia, which see, but with longer leaves, smaller flowers (in June and July), and petals that are reddish at the base; needs acid soil; native to Japan.

* Medium green leaves, of loose upright habit; "spectacular in flower...does extremely well in Southeast" (Dirr); flower buds pearllike; 11/2" flowers, not long-lasting, in pendulous panicles at branch tips; tough and adaptable; full sun or part shade;...

* Rhododendron catawbiense ( Catawba Rhododendron ) is a species of Rhododendron native to the eastern United States , growing mainly in the Appalachian Mountains from Virginia south to northern Alabama .

* The tallest loblolly pine currently known, which is 51.4 m (169 ft) tall, and the largest, which measures 42 cubic meters in volume, are in Congaree National Park. * It is also an important timber and pulp tree.

It is commonly found in flood plains and/or swamps . * Betula nigra ( River Birch ; also occasionally called Water Birch ) is a species of birch native to the eastern United States from New Hampshire west to southern Minnesota , and south to northern...

* It is a genus of one or two species of evergreen coniferous trees in the cypress familyCupressaceae. * An evergreen native to China, where it is a widely used timber tree; the wood resists rot; of pyramidal habit with slightly pendulous branches; bark...

* Landscape use: naturalizing borders with other ericaceous plants facer plants with taller plants shady bank stabilization * Fall Foliage: reddish, bronze winter color * An infusion of the leaves and stems has been used to bathe itchy skin.

The wood can also be stained to imitate ebony. * 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.

The fruit is a red drupe 6–7 mm diameter containing three to five pits The flowers are inconspicuous, whitish to greenish-yellow, produced on slender peduncles 25 mm or more long; it is usually dioecious, with male and female flowers on separate plants.

* Flat or bell-shaped 1 1/2" flowers in clusters of 5-7, rose, in spring before leaves; of upright habit; deciduous, with red fall color; native to North Carolina, where it grows in moist acid soil.

* Vaccinium arboreum ( Sparkleberry or Farkleberry ) is a species of Vaccinium native to the southeastern United States , from southern Virginia west to southeastern Missouri , and south to Florida and eastern Texas .

* Japanese snowbell is a compact, deciduous flowering tree with horizontal branching and a rounded crown. Elliptic-ovate, glossy, medium to deep green leaves (to 3” long). Gray bark fissures on older branches to reveal orange inner bark which can be...