Plant With Winter Interest Flowering Shrub For Sale In Newport News

* A shrub with evergreen 2" x 1" shiny leaves; fragrant white flowers in April; round red fruit to 1/4"; grows well in dry shade; easy to grow; native to central and Western China, where it grows in forests and on cliffs, especially on limestone.

Like the rest of the Clematis genus, it contains essential oils and compounds which are extremely irritating to the skin and mucous membrames. * White flowers in late summer; native to west coast of U.S.

* The flowers are deep to bright red, rarely yellow, with four ribbon-shaped petals 7-10 mm long and four short stamens, and grow in clusters; flowering begins in mid winter and continues until early spring.

Also commonly called Indian currant. Flowers give way to clusters of round, coral-red berries (drupes) which mature in autumn. Typically grows 2-5' tall with arching stems. The greenish-white flower clusters are not as showy as the clusters of coral-pink...

* The flowering heads are also much prized by flower arrangers because they keep their colour almost indefinitely when dried. However, some people who weave wool still prefer to use teasels for raising the nap, claiming that the result is better; in particular,...

* Easily grown in average, dry to medium, well-drained soil in full sun. Typically grows 3-5' tall. Features toothed, ovate-elliptic leaves (2-5" long) which emit a minty fragrance when crushed.

* A fibre is obtained by retting the bark. The wood is used for making furniture and coffins. * The seed is antiphlogistic, expectorant and refrigerant. A decoction of the roots isused to reduce swellings.

* A fibre is obtained by retting the bark. The wood is used for making furniture and coffins. * The seed is antiphlogistic, expectorant and refrigerant. A decoction of the roots isused to reduce swellings.

X intermedia, source of most cultivars. * Hamamelis mollis is a species of witch-hazel native to central and eastern China , in Anhui , Guangxi , Hubei , Hunan , Jiangxi , Sichuan , and Zhejiang .

The perfect plant for Rock Garden or along with Dwarf Conifers. The leaves are a nice shiny green and the fruits are a very unique white color with rose blush. * This is a beautiful and very interesting small shrub.

Cultivate for the first two years. Shipped 18 to 24 inches tall. Plant six feet apart in rows eight feet apart. For a windbreak plant two to five rows for the most effective protection.

* Many, if not all of the resulting seedlings will have white flowers. Please use these seedlings as grafting rootstock to be certain of the trees flower color. * The fruits are used as a bitter digestive tonic.

Container-grown plants may be spaced 3' apart for mass plantings. Horizontal branches may root where they touch the ground. * Best grown in moist, loamy, well-drained soils in full sun to part shade.

* The fruit can be eaten raw or cooked. Palatable and thirst quenching, it is much used in China and leaves are exported from Shasi for this purpose. Up to 1 cm in diameter, it has a sour taste.

Pedicel 5-7 mm; bracteoles persistent, subopposite, subtending calyx, ovate, (1.2-)1.5-2 × (0.6-)0.8-1.2 cm, leaflike, margin irregularly undulating, apex acuminate. Sepals 5, persistent, similar to bracteoles, ovate, obovate, or orbicular, 1.2-1.8 ×...

They measure 10 to 15 centimetres (4 to 6 in) in diameter and their shape is superficially similar to hibiscus flowers. * Its trunk is bottle-shaped, generally bulging in its lower third, measuring up to 2 metres (7 ft) in girth.

* 2" white four-petaled flowers in late spring, followed by 1/3" hard shiny black seeds, which last through winter; forms a loose, mounding shrub; doubly serrate leaves; native to Japan and China.

The crown eventually grows wider than it is tall on many specimens. Less likely to suffer leaf curl in hot weather than the species. It would be difficult to use too many Kousa Dogwoods.

It is not used commercially due to the small size of the tree. Fremontia californica Torr. It is one of two species in the genus Fremontodendron , and it is divided into four subspecies.

* Climbing bittersweet was employed medicinally by a number of native North American Indian tribes, though it is scarcely used in modern herbalism. It has a sturdy perennial vine that may have twining , woody stems that are 30 feet (9.1 m) or longer and...

Citrus trifoliata ) is a member of the family Rutaceae , closely related to Citrus , and sometimes included in that genus, being sufficiently closely related to allow it to be used as a rootstock for Citrus .

* The leaves are bipinnate, 20-40 cm long, bearing 3-10 pairs of pinnae, each with 6-10 pairs of leaflets 15-25 mm long and 10-15 mm broad. * Common names for this species include Poinciana , Peacock Flower , Red Bird of Paradise , Mexican Bird of Paradise...

* Leaves shiny dark green, coloring to an often incandescent red, orange, and yellow in fall; often shrubby; a witch-hazel relative; tiny flowers with red anthers in early spring; gray bark flakes off on mature trees to reveal greens, whites, and browns;...

It is not used commercially due to the small size of the tree. Fremontia californica Torr. It is one of two species in the genus Fremontodendron , and it is divided into four subspecies.

* It has reddish stems armed with reddish-brown thorns. * Wild roses often have better resistance to diseases and insects than many of the hybrid roses sold in commerce today. * This is an interesting species rose due to it's abundant musky smelling yellow...

* The peeled twigs are used as toothbrushes, they are good for whitening the teeth. * Fruits are an important food source for dozens of species of birds , which then distribute the seeds.

* A beautiful small tree of horizontal, tiered habit; long-lasting creamy bracts appear a few weeks after those of C. Florida, in conspicuous layers above the horizontal foliage; attractive fruits resembling raspberries in late summer.