Trees

1. Trees By : Riley Lynne Crompton

2. 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. 

3. 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.

4. Heavenly Bamboo • 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. • The glossy leaves are evergreen (sometimes deciduous in colder areas) •  Nandina can take heat and cold

5. Daffodil • a genus of mainly hardy, mostly spring-flowering, 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 disc-shaped 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

6. 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.

7. 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.

8. 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.