Plant With Winter Interest Edible Fruit Or Nut Plant For Sale In Lexington Fayette

In general, it produces short, tough rhizomes and grows in dense clumps. * Scirpus cyperinus, commonly called woolgrass, is a grass-like, rhizomatous, emergent aquatic perennial of the sedge family that grows in dense slowly-spreading tussocks of arching...

This species is used as stock to graft apple trees in Hubei and Sichuan. * Pink buds, white flowers; with stiff, spreading branches; in Asia a tea is made from the leaves; fruits ripen from greenish yellow blushed with red, to yellow and orange, to red;...

Balfouriana in the Klamath Mountains , and subsp. * Stiff 1 1/2 " dark needles; cones to 5"; looks like Pinus aristata with shorter needles and smaller cones; native to California.

It is often dried for winter use and also makes an excellent jelly. Fruit from the typical species is about 1cm in diameter, though there are sub-species and cultivated forms with considerably larger fruits.

* 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.

* The plant's trunk, branches, and leaves are blue-green in color, hence the common name. * Parkinsonia florida, the blue palo verde (syn. The plant is drought-deciduous, shedding its foliage for most of the year, leafing out after rainfall.

* The fruit has an acid flavour, it has been used as a substitute for lemon juice. * Rhus glabra ( Smooth Sumac ) is a species of sumac in the family Anacardiaceae , native to North America , from southern Quebec west to southern British Columbia in Canada...

* For therapeutic purposes drink 1 cup of tea/day. The roots can be eaten raw or boiled and buttered or par-boiled and roasted. The spiny bracts on the flower head were eaten in the past like globe artichoke, and the stems (after peeling) can be soaked...

* Cornus amomum subsp obliqua is synonymous with and formerly known as Cornus obliqua. * This late-blooming dogwood is a wide, open, spreading shrub that grows 8-10 ft. Amomum, but with purple or yellowish-red stems, and like that species prefers wet...

* 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 .

* A decidious Shrub growing to 3 m (9ft) by 5 m (16ft). * The flowering quince, with flowers of red, scarlet, pink, white, and variations thereof, in spring; fruits used in cooking; native to China.

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

* The plant from which cultivated red raspberries were derived. * The fruit is delicious when eaten out of hand, the fruit is also used in pies, preserves etc. * Raspberry fruit may protect the liver.

It is used mainly for treating disorders of the heart and circulation system, especially angina. * Hawthorn is an extremely valuable medicinal herb. * In the past, midland hawthorn was widely but incorrectly known by the name C.

* Some Native American groups lit carefully planned controlled burns in wild huckleberry patches to promote fruit production by eliminating competing plants and by stimulating the huckleberry to sprout and spread.

* Bright green leaves, very dense, with a horizontal habit; orange, scarlet, and reddish purple in fall; yellow flowers followed by bright red fruit, very attractive in winter; generally a good, tough plant; good deciduous hedge plant.

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

* 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.

* Actinidia kolomikta is cultivated in cold temperate regions as an ornamental plant, largely for the striking random variegation in pink and white of some its leaves but also because of the relatively small (2-5 g or 0.07- 0.18 ounces) kiwifruit-like...

The seed, or the oil from the seed are normally used. In a prehistoric cave in the Republic of Georgia dyed flax fibers have been found that date to 34,000 BC . * Flax was extensively cultivated in ancient Ethiopia and ancient Egypt .

* Cotoneaster adpressus, sometimes commonly called creeping cotoneaster, is a prostrate, slow-growing, deciduous shrub that grows to only 1' tall but spreads to 6' wide. * A compact species with shiny dark green leaves, small rose-colored flowers, and...

The fruit is usually called soursop due to its slightly acidic taste when ripe. * Annona muricata is a small, upright, evergreen that can grow to about 4 metres (13 ft) tall and cannot stand frost.

Prefers moist, acid, well-drained soils, in sun or partial shade. The skin is rather tough and unpleasant, but the pulp is delicious with a custard-like texture, it is one of our favourite late summer fruits.

* Beautiful snakebark maple. * Known for its intense fall colors of red and yellow.

* Wild Prairie Rose is the state flower of the U.S. states of Iowa and North Dakota. * The fruit is being investigated as a food that is capable of reducing the incidence of cancer and also as a means of halting or reversing the growth of cancers.

* The smallest crab; fragrant half-inch white flowers; dark red fruit "about the size of a small pea" (Wyman), borne annually; forms a dense, rounded shrub; native to Japan. * It can grow in heavy clay soil, in semi-shade (light woodland) or no shade,...

* Fennel has a long history of herbal use and is a commonly used household remedy, being useful in the treatment of a variety of complaints, especially those of the digestive system.