Plant With Winter Interest Wildlife Food For Sale In Louisiana

* Mountain hemlock (Tsuga mertensiana) is usually found on cold, snowy subalpine sites where it grows slowly, sometimes attaining more than 800 years in age. Heterophylla as timber and as pulp, a fact that has little retarded extensive logging of subalpine...

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. It is a large suckering shrub that can be grown as a small tree.

* Berberis vulgaris ( European barberry )/ ( Jaundice berry)/( Ambarbaris) is a shrub in the family Berberidaceae , native to central and southern Europe , northwest Africa and western Asia ; it is also naturalised in northern Europe, including the British...

* It is popular as an ornamental landscaping tree and as a Christmas Tree. * The wood lacks a distinctive odor and so does not impart a flavor to items stored in it. * The crushed leaves have a strong lemony scent.

The cultivar 'Winter King' is a well-known selection. * Crataegus viridis is a species of hawthorn that is native to the southeastern US . * This cultivar has a rounded, vase-shaped habit, shiny green leaves sometimes turning purple and red in fall; white...

* The Douglas fir's useful wood and its quick growth make it the crop of choice for many timber companies, which typically replant a clear-cut area with Douglas fir. It grows at higher elevations (to 9500') with a slower growth rate, and has shorter cones...

The stems may be smooth or fuzzy, and are often glandular. * 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.

In general, it produces short, tough rhizomes and grows in dense clumps. * This sedge is very variable in appearance. * The cooked seed can be used as a rice substitute. The fertile stems grow upright.

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. It is a large suckering shrub that can be grown as a small tree.

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

* 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 of a small pea" (Wyman), borne annually; forms a dense, rounded shrub; native to Japan.

It is native to the western half of Canada and the United States and extends south into northern Mexico. * Rhus trilobata is a shrub in the sumac genus ( Rhus ) with the common names sourberry , skunkbush , and three-leaf sumac .

Balfouriana in the Klamath Mountains , and subsp. * The Foxtail Pine ( Pinus balfouriana ) is a rare pine that is endemic to California , United States , where it is found in two areas with a separate subspecies in each, the typical subsp.

This species is used as stock to graft apple trees in Hubei and Sichuan. * A vigorous branching tree, it makes a good windbreak. The leaves are a tea substitute. * The fruit can be eaten raw or cooked.

The cultivar 'Winter King' is a well-known selection. * Crataegus viridis is a species of hawthorn that is native to the southeastern US . * This cultivar has a rounded, vase-shaped habit, shiny green leaves sometimes turning purple and red in fall; white...

* The Kousa Dogwood ( Cornus kousa or Benthamidia kousa ), also known as the Japanese Flowering Dogwood (Yamaboushi ( Florida, in conspicuous layers above the horizontal foliage; attractive fruits resembling raspberries in late summer.

Balfouriana in the Klamath Mountains , and subsp. * The Foxtail Pine ( Pinus balfouriana ) is a rare pine that is endemic to California , United States , where it is found in two areas with a separate subspecies in each, the typical subsp.

* Dirr notes that this is the most widely distributed of any North American tree. Young trees (including root sprouts) have much larger—10–20 centimetres (3.9–7.9 in) long—nearly triangular leaves.

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

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

, Firmiana platanifolia , or Sterculia platanifolia L.f. ) is an ornamental plant or tree of the cacao, or chocolate, of the family Sterculiaceae of the order Malvales , native to Asia * It is grown as an ornamental in warm regions of North America .

* The flowers are bright yellow, and pea-like, which cover the tree in late spring. * The Irish botanist Thomas Coulter was the first to categorize Parkinsonia florida. * Its name means "green pole or stick" in Spanish, referring to the green trunk and...

* It is a good landscape tree for large open spaces. * Native to eastern Asia; northern China, Manchuria, Korea, Ussuri, Amur, and Japan. * This species is occasionally cultivated for timber in S.E. Europe.

* 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.

* This late-blooming dogwood is a wide, open, spreading shrub that grows 8-10 ft. Twigs are grayish-green, becoming purplish-red. In the words of the Royal Horticultural Society, this subspecies primarily differs from species plants by having "a looser...

* It will also tolerate more moist conditions if it is given well drained soil. It is covered in red flowers in the winter and spring. * Templetonia is a dryland shrub that grows 3-7 feet tall.

Too small for commercial exploitation, the wood is used locally for turnery, inlay work, woodenware etc. It weighs 46lb per cubic foot. Wood - hard, heavy, strong, close grained. * This species is occasionally used for hedging in the southern states of...