Strelitzia Nicholai - love those leaves
UFEI - SelecTree: A Tree Selection Guide
SelecTree - A tree selection guide for California
STRELITZIA nicolai
Strelitzia nicolai - Giant Bird of Paradise
Majestic Beauty® Indian Hawthorn
This easy-to-grow and versatile large shrub with handsome, glossy, deep green foliage produces huge clusters of fragrant, pearl-pink flowers in spring. Perfect for planting along driveways and parking medians where reflected heat is an issue. Useful as a background shrub, privacy screen, or small tree with single or multiple trunks. Evergreen.
LOPHOSTEMON/TRISTANIA conferta
Lophostemon confertus (Tristania conferta) - Brisbane Box
UFEI - SelecTree: A Tree Selection Guide
SelecTree - A tree selection guide for California
Aristocrat® Flowering Pear
Vigorous and upright with a dominant central trunk excellent for lining streets or drives or as a specimen for smaller spaces. Adapts to a wide range of soils, including heavy clay. Small white flowers are followed by disease-resistant dark green leaves with a unique wavy edge; becomes reddish-purple in fall. Deciduous.
UFEI - SelecTree: A Tree Selection Guide
SelecTree - A tree selection guide for California
Pyrus calleryana 'Aristocrat'
For the first of my plant profiles I chose 'Pyrus calleryana 'Aristocrat'. An ornamental pear tree that has so much to offer from spring b...
Street Tree: Tristania conferta
PlantFiles Pictures: Indian Hawthorn 'Majestic Beauty' (Rhaphiolepis indica), 1 by doss
Invasives in the Trade
Plant exploration has been an alluring and exciting facet of the horticultural world for millennia. Centuries ago, exotic plants moved along the Silk Road between Europe and Asia. During the age of sailing, individuals paid a king’s ransom for rare specimens for their glass houses and royal estates. During the Victorian era, the up-and-coming ...
UFEI - SelecTree: A Tree Selection Guide
SelecTree - A tree selection guide for California