Plant With Winter Interest Evergreen Plant For Sale In San Jose

* Best grown in moist, loamy, well-drained soils in full sun to part shade. Good drainage is important. * A compact species with shiny dark green leaves, small rose-colored flowers, and 1/3" to 1/2" dark red fruit; spreads by rooting of branch tips; native...

* Shiny leathery leaves, coarse, evergreen, dark green or blue green. * Fruit - raw or cooked. A pleasant acid flavour, it is nice when added to muesli or porridge. * Very fragrant yellow flowers in early spring.

* In cultivation, it rarely tops 40' in height and often grows in a shrubby form. Young shoots are short, palely pubescent and bright orange to red-brown in colour. The crown is narrow, dense and conical.

* Plants are very shade tolerant but growth is slower in dense shade. Thus it can be used for making tubs for storing food items. It is sometimes known as a Concolor fir. These trees will not prove as winter hardy as the Colorado sources, but are highly...

* The San Juan source is a popular one because it has nice blue color and can be used in extremely cold areas. * This species has a deeply penetrating root system that firmly anchors the tree against winds.

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

* Holds its color well in the summer and then turns a beautiful scarlet in the fall. * More upright than many cultivars and then cascades down from a higher starting point.

* The plant is extremely hardy, to USDA Zone 3. * For the brightest winter bark, young shoots are encouraged by cutting to the ground some older stems at the end of the winter, before leaves are open.

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

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

This tree transplants well. * Unlike most species of pine. * 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...

* A "beautiful graceful specimenwith drooping branches" * The pitch or resin is said to be one of the best curatives for a sore throat. * It is a large evergreen coniferous tree growing to 30–45 m (exceptionally 72 m) tall.

It is also a popular Christmas tree. * Douglas fir seeds are an extremely important food for small mammals. * It is planted as a specimen tree or in mass screenings. It grows at higher elevations (to 9500') with a slower growth rate, and has shorter cones...

* A notable specimen in the Pirin Mountains of Bulgaria, known as Baikushev's pine, is 24 metres (79 ft) tall, 2.2 metres (7 ft 3 in) in diameter, and is estimated to be over 1300 years old.

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

The flow is best on warm days that follow frosty nights. * The sap is sweet. It ranges from southeastern Ontario east to Nova Scotia , and south to Pennsylvania and New Jersey , with disjunct populations in Indiana , Virginia , and North Carolina .

* More upright than many cultivars and then cascades down from a higher starting point. * Holds its color well in the summer and then turns a beautiful scarlet in the fall.

* With slightly drooping branches; dull green or blue-green 3/4" needles; cones to 2 1/2"; native to northern Europe and Asia. The cones are cylindric-conic, 5-10 cm long and 1.5-2 cm broad, green or purple, maturing glossy brown 4–6 months after pollination,...

* Grows well in heavy clay soils, requiring a cool position in a good moist but not water-logged soil. * Very shade tolerant, especially when young, but growth is slower in dense shade.

* Berberis thunbergii ( Japanese barberry or Thunberg's Barberry , also Red Barberry ) is a species of Berberis , native to Japan and eastern Asia . * Plants can be grown as a medium-size hedge.

Modern research has shown that there are many health benefits to drinking tea, including its ability to protect the drinker from certain heart diseases. It has a strong taproot . * The source of tea; white flowers in fall; tolerates shade or sun well;...

* It is a larger tree so should be given some room to grow. * Grown mostly for its striking red and multicolored bark that peels off to reveal other shades and colors. * Very ornamental tree.

* Green to greenish purple stems with white stripes; of open habit with yellow fall color. * Native to northeast Asia.

* Hardier than green-leaved types. * Fall color is sensational. * This variety has glossy deep purple-red leaves that hold their color well into the heat of summer. * As with all seed collected from cultivars the resulting seedlings may not resemble the...

* Foliar loppings of European silver fir in Czechoslovakia have yielded 1,380 tonnes/year of essential oils (Cermak and Penka 1979). * It is a common ingredient in many bath products, giving them their familiar pine scent.

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...

* 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.