Trees
By : Riley Lynne Crompton
Flowering Crab Apple
• Are popular trees closely related to apples, but with
smaller edible fruit. They may also differ in leaf color,
growth habit, flowering time or flower color.
• Are fairly drought tolerant. Also hey can be low
maintenance and are versatile landscape plants, often
with more than one season of interest.
• Are generally well adapted to Colorado soils and
climate, but varieties or cultivars should be carefully
selected for disease resistance and for higher elevations.
• Crabapple blossoms in April to May, depending on
variety and elevation. Also some crabapple varieties
bloom relatively early, others bloom mid-season and
some bloom towards the end of crabapple season.
Bayberry
• Bayberry, also known as wax myrtle, waxberry, or
candelberry, is both a shrub and a tree. All members of
the bayberry family are classified botanically
as Myricaceae, and many varieties are found all over the
world map.
• Myrica pensylvanica is a mainly deciduous shrub. It may
hang on to some of its leaves during the winter, but in
that case they will probably look ratty.
• While bayberry shrubs are delightful during the summer
and autumn, they may be most valued for the novelty
their gray berries afford to the winter.
Heavenly Bamboo
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It is an erect shrub growing to 2 m’s tall.
Nandina is considered invasive in North Carolina,
Tennessee, Georgia, and Florida
highly regarded in Texas as a native-adapted plant that
does not require a lot of water.
he flowers are white, borne in early summer in conical
clusters held well above the foliage. The fruit is a bright
red berry, ripening in late autumn and often persisting
through the winter.
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glossy leaves are evergreen (sometimes deciduous in
colder areas)
Nandina can take heat and cold
Daffodil
• a genus of mainly hardy, mostly springflowering, herbaceous perennials in the
Amaryllis family, subfamily Amaryllidoideae.
• Their native range includes Europe, North Africa
and West Asia. Their center of distribution is in
the Western Mediterranean.
• have a central bell-, bowl-, or discshaped corona surrounded by a ring of six floral
leaves
• yellow to golden-yellow color all over
• Since the flower blooms in early spring, it has
also become a symbol of Chinese New Year
Sour(Black)Gum
• Likes Dry Sites, Salt, Wet Sites, Wind
• Native to: United States
• The culture of the sour black gum is full
sun; moist, well drained soils; tolerates dry
and wet sites; slightly acid soil.
• It has glossy green leaves that turn
scarlet; regular horizontal branching is
attractive in winter.
Japanese Spurge
• slow growing groundcover with alternate,
simple leaves, and creeping stems. It is
evergreen but the leaves may yellow in winter. It
is very cold hardy.
• flowers are white, borne above the foliage. In
temperate Northern Hemisphere sites they
appear late in the month of March and
throughout the month of April.
• The plant prefers a moist and well-drained soil,
that is both acidic and rich.
Peony
• They are native to Asia,
Southern Europe and Western North
America.
• Most are herbaceous perennial plants
• deeply lobed leaves, and large, often
fragrant flowers, ranging from red to white
or yellow, in late spring and early summer.