Plant With Winter Interest Shade Tolerant Plant For Sale In Pasadena

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

* It is native to China, from Jiangsu south to Fujian and Guangdong, and west to southeastern Gansu and Yunnan. * It is a small deciduous tree growing to 10–15 m tall with a trunk up to 40 cm diameter.

* It is an evergreen climbing plant, growing to 20–30 m high where suitable surfaces ( trees , cliffs , walls ) are available, and also growing as ground cover where there are no vertical surfaces.

* It has very striking white flower-like bracts that open in April and May before leaves emerge; shiny red fruit that ripens in late September and October. * The fruits are used as a bitter digestive tonic.

Known for its small leaves and gnarly roots this bonsai is dramatic over rock . * It is a small to medium-sized deciduous tree reaching a height of 5-20 m with a trunk up to 50 cm diameter.

* The only known species is Anemanthele lessoniana, often called gossamer grass or New Zealand wind grass or pheasant's tail grass. * This is a naturally rare grass in the wild but it is widely cultivated for use as an attractive ornamental garden plant.

* It is native to China, from Jiangsu south to Fujian and Guangdong, and west to southeastern Gansu and Yunnan. * It is a small deciduous tree growing to 10–15 m tall with a trunk up to 40 cm diameter.

It was touted as a great plant for wildlife and erosion control. Therefore, it was heavily planted in the midwest and eastern US. The fruits are not comsumed in the fall by birds so it does provide a nice winter food source.

It is a large suckering shrub that can be grown as a small tree. As a popular ornamental used in landscaping its notable features include the red stems in fall (autumn) through late winter, the brightest winter bark of any cornus.

* Dark green compound leaves 10-15" long; in habit, usually broader than tall when mature and grown in the open, with a few massive spreading branches. * This species is occasionally cultivated for timber in S.E. Europe.

* It is native to mountains forests of Japan. * A maple in the snake-bark maple group.

* Fall color is various shades of yellow. * It is densely branched and has bright green bark.

* Betula utilis tends to form forests, growing as a shrub or as a tree reaching up to 20 m (66 ft) tall. It frequently grows with scattered conifers and an undergrowth of shrubs, typically evergreen Rhododendron .

This tree transplants well. * 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 (mostly) 1,000 m to 2,200 m, occasionally...

* Trueness to type can never be guaranteed when seed is grown that has been collected from cultivars. * A very deep colored palmatum - almost classed as a "black-red" * In the Fall crimson tones dominate.

* 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.

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

Too small for commercial exploitation, the wood is used locally for turnery, inlay work, woodenware etc. * This species is occasionally used for hedging in the southern states of America.

Suitable for parks and gardens. The flowers are hermaphrodite (have both male and female organs) and are pollinated by Insects. Tolerates atmospheric pollution, excessive moisture and a range of soil types if they are moderately fertile.

Elliptic-oblong, glossy, dark green leaves (to 3" long). Features small pendulous clusters of bell-shaped, mildly fragrant, pale pink, long-stalked flowers (3/4" long) with showy yellow stamens.

* The Irish botanist Thomas Coulter was the first to categorize Parkinsonia florida. * Parkinsonia florida grows to heights of 10–12 metres (33–39 ft). * The plant's trunk, branches, and leaves are blue-green in color, hence the common name.

Mice, voles, shrews, and chipmunks consumed an estimated 65 percent of a Douglas fir seed crop following dispersal in western Oregon. * The specific epithet, menziesii, is after Archibald Menzies, a Scottish physician and rival naturalist to David Douglas.

* The American elm occurs naturally in an assortment of habitats, most notably rich bottomlands, floodplains, stream banks, and swampy ground, * The American Elm is the state tree of both Massachusetts and North Dakota

* Yellow-green spiny leaves; red fruit almost 1/2" wide, lasting into winter; of pyramidal habit in youth, later more open, with horizontal branches, sometimes contorted; must have male and female to get fruit; parent of many varied cultivars; native...

Opossums, raccoons, skunks, deer, and birds also feed upon the fruit. * Persimmons are consumed fresh and are used to make puddings, cakes, and beverages. * About the size of a plum, the fruit has an exquisitely rich flavour when it is fully ripe.

* Small landscape tree * Somewhat reminiscent of Betua nigra bark, but the sections that break off are smaller and more block like. * Grown mostly for it's beautiful exfoliating bark.

* A large shrub with attractive red-brown bark, white flowers in midsummer, and yellow-orange fall color; native to southeast U.S.