Plant With Winter Interest Fragrant Flowering Plant For Sale In Naperville

* An excellent hedge plant, tolerating hard clipping and maritime exposure and forming a dense stock-proof shelter. Noxious weed in California * Ilex aquifolium ( Holly , or European Holly to distinguish it from related species, may also be called Christmass...

* Wood - durable in the soil, moderately hard, close grained, rather coarse grained, light, soft, brittle. * Tolerant of regular trimming, though not into old wood, it can be grown as a dense hedge.

* This plant is cultivated in gardens, producing valued flower colour in the dormant season. Its strongly scented pendent flowers, produced in winter on bare stems, have 15-21 yellow tepals, the inner ones usually with purplish red pigments.

* ‘Sibirica' is a tatarian dogwood cultivar that is noted for its brilliant red stems in winter that are particularly showy on sunny days with snow on the ground. * Fruit is quite attractive to birds and is generally considered to have as much if not...

Branches ascending, usually several from base; outer bark on current year branchlets not exfoliating; winter buds compressed, ca. Pedicel 5-7 mm; bracteoles persistent, subopposite, subtending calyx, ovate, (1.2-)1.5-2 × (0.6-)0.8-1.2 cm, leaflike, margin...

Common names include Mexican Palo Verde , Parkinsonia , Jerusalem Thorn , and Jellybean Tree . * Large yellow fragrant flowers in loose clusters, in spring; green branches, doubly pinnate leaves with long narrow leaflets to 1' or more; 1" thorns; of open...

Gray bark fissures on older branches to reveal orange inner bark which can be attractive in winter. Elliptic-ovate, glossy, medium to deep green leaves (to 3” long). It typically grows to 20-30' tall and as wide, but infrequently can reach up to 50'...

The flowers are hermaphrodite (have both male and female organs) and are pollinated by Bees, flies. The flowers are white, borne in fall. If given support, it will climb rapidly with the aid of tendrilous leaf petioles to 20-25' in length.

They used it as a pepper substitute to spice up food since real black pepper (Piper nigrum) was a costly and rarely obtainable spice. Like the rest of the Clematis genus, it contains essential oils and compounds which are extremely irritating to the skin...

* Fragrant white flowers on old wood followed by masses of 1 1/2" edible yellow fruit, very dramatic in the landscape; fruits used as a lemon substitute and for marmalade; dark green shiny leaves and branches; thorny, so used as a barrier hedge especially...

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

It is native to northern Iran , where it is endemic in the Alborz mountains. * 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;...

* It can grow in heavy clay soil, in semi-shade (light woodland) or no shade, but must be moist soil. * The fruit is a good wildlife food source, especially for birds. * The smallest crab; fragrant half-inch white flowers; dark red fruit "about the size...

In this capacity it differs from many alpine conifers in its tolerance of relatively warm, damp environments, and in such settings remains healthy while growing slowly; ideal characteristics for an ornamental conifer.

* The unfolding leaves in spring start out orange turn to green for the summer and then become spectacular blends of crimson and gold in the fall. * Small tree with cascading branches.

* The Apache source exhibits strong blue color yet shouldn't be used in extremely cold areas. * This species has a deeply penetrating root system that firmly anchors the tree against winds.

* An excellent hedge plant, tolerating hard clipping and maritime exposure and forming a dense stock-proof shelter. Noxious weed in California * Ilex aquifolium ( Holly , or European Holly to distinguish it from related species, may also be called Christmass...

* Climbing bittersweet was employed medicinally by a number of native North American Indian tribes, though it is scarcely used in modern herbalism. * Another vigorous scrambling vine grown for its yellow-orange fruit capsules and crimson seeds; likes...

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

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

* Leaves similar to that of Japanese Maple. * Unique bark appearance, corky and rough with many cracks in it.

* Yellow fall colors * Hardy in sun or shade.

* 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.

Check AABGA/NAPCC Contact person for genus for possible non-NPGS germplasm. Taxon: Acer pectinatum Wall. Last updated: 22-Oct-2001 No species priority site assigned. NO ACCESSIONS IN NPGS UNDER THIS NAME.

Prefers a good well-drained loam in full sun. These have lighter lenticels and remain on the tree until January. Large, brown fruit shaped like apples follow after flowering. It is in flower in May, and the seeds ripen from Sep to October.

Synonyms include Ilex monticola . * Sometimes a tree, more often a shrub to about 15'; bright red fruits; grows on woody slopes from New York south to Georgia, west to Alabama (range of origin).

The leaves are a tea substitute. Palatable and thirst quenching, it is much used in China and leaves are exported from Shasi for this purpose. * A vigorous branching tree, it makes a good windbreak.