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Retail listings 2012 by USDA zone, as of April 5 - please check for current availability
Prunus caroliniana 'Compacta' carolina cherry laurel
Broadleaved evergreen shrub to small tree, to 15 ft tall x 6 ft wide and more with age, but easily kept smaller,
trimmed as a hedge or small specimen. Fragrant leaves that can be sniffed but NOT ingested. A Texas native
that is tolerant of great heat and drought but accepts summer water. Sun to part shade. Frost hardy in USDA
zone 7.
5g @ $57 Rosaceae
Prunus lusitanica portuguese laurel
Think gorgeous, small, evergreen tree to 10-20 ft tall and wide with shiny, dark green leaves.. These are
cherries, blooming in late spring in tall racemes of white, fragrant flowers. Purple-red berries ripen to black in
autumn -- bitter so best left to birds. Can be grown as a large, multi-stemmed shrub. Sun to part shade with
normal summer water to establish. Frost hardy in USDA zone 7.
5g @ $42 Rosaceae
Pyrrosia sheareri shearer's felt fern
A lovely and unusual evergreen fern, one that is not often available and hardly looks like a typical fern at all,
the long, narrow leathery fronds -- pea green with silver hairs on the undersides when young -- maturing to
dark green with rusty brown hairs on the undersides. To about 30" tall in clumps to 15-18" wide, growing best
in rich, well-drained soil in morning sun to shade with summer water. Frost hardy in USDA zone 7.
4D @ $18 Polypodiaceae
Quercus ilex holly oak, holm oak
Native to the Mediterranean, frequently grown as far north as the British Isles and occasionally in the western
US. This olive green, silver tinted, medium to large tree, to 25-40 ft ft (more in a few hundred years) is most
exquisitely adapted to dry summer climates and is a wonderful constituent of that Mediterranean look, just
throw in an Italian cypress and some olives. Requires only well-drained soil and temperatures not falling
below 0 to 10F, USDA zone 7, for any length of time. Not absolutely happy with the summer heat and
humidity of the US Southeast unless in well-drained, exposed situations.
2g @ $28, 15g @ $285 Fagaceae
Quercus suber cork oak
The famed cork oak from the savannas of southwestern Europe, indeed used for repeated harvest of the real
thing! Coming from our mirror climate, this makes a most beautiful and useful street or garden tree, reaching
an eventual 50 ft, with thickened, orangey bark and rounded, evergreen leaves, somewhat shedding briefly in
early spring as the new leaves emerge. (By the way, pigs love the acorns ... just saying.) Accepts a fair amount
of garden water but most at home with long summer drought. Frost hardy in USDA zone 7.
6D @ $28 Fagaceae
Cistus Nursery ◆ 22711 NW Gillihan Rd ◆ Portland, OR 97231 ◆ (503) 621-2233 ◆ info@cistus.com
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