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 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

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

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.