It offers lush, green foliage in the spring and summer and copper fall color that persists through the winter. IF you are in the PNW (if you're not the madrone (arbutus menziesii) may not be a happy tree. van Hoey Smith): This book shows the tree and a branch with fruit. Bearberry is the shortestshrub on this list. Slow growing growth habit reaching 5-10 ft. tall and wide. Few trees from Africa can survive in Portland but most of those that can hail from the mountains of Algeria and Morocco, where winter snow and freezing temperatures are not uncommon. Growing evergreen trees in zone 7 can include flowers and don't have to be traditional narrow leaf specimens. Smooth-margined, narrow-elliptic leaves (to 3/4" long) are glossy dark green. Zone: 6-9, Leucothoe axillaris Twisting Red (Twisting Red Leucothoe) is an evergreen, compact shrub with beautifully twisted leaves. Due to its creeping nature, it's a great choice to use in a garden if you want to cover up dirt and keep your garden looking lively year-round. Lonicera pileata makes a good groundcover, where a branch touches the ground it will root-in and slowly spread over time. Zone: 6-8, Buxus sempervirens Graham Blandy (Graham Blandy Boxwood) is a narrow, upright boxwood. They appear in late spring and sporadically through the summer. Zone: 8-11, Choisya ternata (Mexican Orange) has fragrant orange blossom-like blooms make this a handsome plant for warm climates. Growth habit is 5 ft. tall x 5 ft. wide. Hardy, northern high-bush 4-5 plants, with showy white flowers and crimson fall foliage, bear oodles of pink fruit that ripens early to mid-season: up to 20 lbs. Plant two or more for best berry production. Zone: 5-9. These evergreen trees and shrubs have thick, brightly colored leaves that stay on their branches all year, providing a constant source of color and texture even during the harshest winter months. Seeds are glossy red and appear in clusters resembling a cone. In any city east of the Cascades as far as New England, winter can be depressing. Pink to bronze-red tinged new foliage ages to lustrous green. Growth habit is 5 ft. tall x 5 ft. wide. Female flowers give way to globose, shiny, black fruits (drupes to 1/3" wide). 3. Prune the shrub according to your personal preferences. Said garden is a blank slate of manicured lawn, with a few token scraggly rose bushes around the edge. They also can be used for sound-reducing purposes, wildlife shelters and shade. Also suppressing demand for broadleaf evergreens is the fact that many are USDA Zone 8, making them less suitable for colder markets. Zone: 5-9, Buxus sempervirens Handsworthiensis (Handsworthy Boxwood) is a vigorous growing upright shrub, suitable for larger sized box hedging. Introduced diseases have also taken a heavy toll of trees around the city. japonica Winter Gem (Winter Gem Boxwood) is an excellent evergreen shrub for small hedges. Experts say that 'Christmas Cheer' has slightly shorter leaves and blooms a week earlier than 'Rosa Mundi'. Versatile and durable, effective as specimen plant, border or massed planting. Very easy to grow and versatile shrub. Blireiana plum is one of the most beautiful purple-leaf trees. Although eclipsed later when the colored flowers of Asian species arrived, Southern magnolia remains a popular park, garden and street tree the world over. Tolerant of a wide range of soils, this shrub grows well in sun and heavy shade. Zone: 5-9, Mahonia nervosa (Cascade Oregon Grape) is one of our Northwest native plants. Moderate Growth Rate Sun: Partial Sun Feature: Attracts Butterflies, Fall Color, Easy Care . Growth habit is 3-5 ft. tall x 4 ft. wide. Pyramidal grower brightens winter gardens with showy red berries. Deciduous. Growth habit is 6-13 ft. tall x 6 ft. wide. Sun Exposure: Full sun. Small, glossy, lance-shaped leaves mature to dark green. Flavor-packed berries are rich in antioxidants. Loblolly Pine Tree (Pinus taeda) - Also known as North Carolina Pine and Arkansas Pine. Deciduous. Dark green and unlobed, Southern live oak leaves have smooth margins, are leathery, and are lighter-colored underneath. The City of Portland ensures meaningful access to City programs, services, and activities to comply with Civil Rights Title VI and ADA Title II laws and reasonably provides: translation, interpretation, modifications, accommodations, alternative formats, auxiliary aids and services. Once established in the right location, your evergreen tree care should be easy, not requiring much maintenance. Small, somewhat inconspicuous, apetulous, greenish-cream flowers in terminal and axillary clusters bloom in April and May. Dwarf fine textured broadleaf evergreen shrub. When I visited in spring 2008, it looked fat and happy. 'Freckles' is a compact evergreen shrub growing only 3 to 6 inches tall. But if you have the right conditions, particularly in a yard, it can be a valued wildlife tree thats pretty to look at year round. A cultivar that is winter hardy to USDA Zone 5 and is particularly noted for its excellent year-round foliage: (a) bright scarlet new growth in spring emerges from deep green foliage clumps, (b) excellent glossy deep green mature summer foliage, (c) burgundy red fall color which extends through winter as bronze to purplish red. Camellia Shrubs (Camellia spp.) Zone: 5-9, Sarcococca hookeriana var. tall x 2.5 ft. wide. tall x 30 in. In the spring when a flush of tender bright green foliage emerges, flowers will too. They are the true aristocrats of our gardens. A wonderful foundation plant or in containers. However, many of them require special attention if they are to develop into attractive, long-lived plants.Wide fluctuations in temperature, prolonged dry periods, drying winds and bright sunshine of the Midwest are not ideal conditions for most broad-leaved evergreens. There areQuercus virginianatrees that survived the Civil War still standing today, as this is a long-lived tree often lasting centuries. It will always provide you with a warm spot of green in the winter garden. Trees Evergreens Deciduous Bushes Perennial About Contact BROAD LEAF EVERGREEN PLANTS. These make delicious jam or jelly. Plant Zone: 2 - 6. However, as trees mature leaf spininess becomes less pronounced. The silvery undersides of the leaf give this tree its common name. Flowering is heavy in early spring, so the name is on the mark. Growth habit is 4 ft. tall x 6 ft. wide. White flowers with a tinge of yellow appear in mid spring. Japanese Plum Yew. Growth habit is 4-5 ft. tall x 3 ft. wide. . P. Potawatomi13 Imperial Masterpiece. When winters are mild, the leaves persist. Native to western Himalayas and China. It features (a) ovate, sharp-pointed, somewhat leathery, glossy deep green, evergreen leaves (to 2 1/2" long), (b) fragrant, unisexual, apetalous, creamy white flowers in tassel-like axillary racemes (females with 3 stigmas located below males with 4-6 stamens) with early spring bloom (March-April), and (c) globular dark red berries (to 1/4" across) which ripen to black. We would do well to welcome more broadleaved evergreen trees. Neat, low evergreen mounds are terrific for borders, massing and containers. Zone: 6-8, Pieris japonica var. New foliage has fresh green coloration, with red highlights as it ages. Its lustrous leaves are narrower than the species, with only a hint of brown indumentum underneath. Zone: 4-7 (Photo | Briggs Nursery), Pieris japonica Little Heath (Little Heath Pieris) is a neat, compact shrub with a yellowish-green variegation on the margins of the gray-green leaves; new leaves are pink. For lower screens: a dense hedge of broadleaf fastest growing evergreen trees just 6-8 feet high might be all you need. This trusted landscape standard provides year-round color, texture, and beauty. This box-leaf honeysuckle is salt tolerant and does well in seashore plantings. But inkberry is a rock-solid broadleaf evergreen for St. Louis gardeners. The mountain laurel is a broadleaf evergreen shrub and 'Freckles' has white flowers with maroon specks on the petals that truly look like freckles. Bagworms are primarily a pest of conifers but have expanded their host range to include a number of broadleaf plants, including: rose, honeylocust, and flowering plum. Compact form is ideal for massing in beds or as a clipped hedge. Growth habit is 5 ft. tall x 4 ft. wide. The first flower on a Southern magnolia might look a little different than the first flower on an Oregon grape. Nellie Stevens Holly. Extra hardiness. Tree inventories done by Urban Forestry show that in built up parts of the city, 90% to 98% or more of the street trees become leafless each fall. Bushy shrub reaching 3 ft. high x 4 ft. wide. The brilliant bright indigo blue flowers are an absolute show stopper in the spring and look great against the shiny and dark evergreen foliage. Leyland Cypress Tree. Zone 8 is temperate with hot summers, warm weather in the fall and spring, and mild winters. Plants can grow in full sun to shade, but their leaves and branches aren't as dense in the shade, and plants are less vigorous. Flowers are sparse and insignificant, but quite fragrant. It forms a densely branched, round headed tree with smooth, gray bark. Deep rose-pink buds open to a solid pink. Zone: 4-8, Vaccinium Pink Popcorn (Pink Popcorn Blueberry) produces a prodigal bounty of medium-sized, pink-cream- to pink berries with darker pink blush, bursting with true blueberry flavor and aroma. Many of our most common urban trees elms, ashes, maples and crabapples to name a few - come from mid-latitude forests with much colder weather than we get. Self-fertile plants will produce larger crops of larger berries when planted close to another early season variety. Watering it in summer once its established can actually kill it. Plants will grow well in a variety of part shade situations, including open sun-dappled conditions or light shade with several hours of morning sun or early afternoon sun. Sheared it is best when the ultimate desired size is 4 to 5 ft. high and the same width or left to grow unsheared 5 to 6 feet high and wide. A very hardy plant. Growth habit is 7-10 ft. tall x 4-5 ft. wide. Another southerner that has made itself at home in the north isMagnolia grandiflora. It makes a rather large shade tree 60 to 90 feet tall. A deep tap root means this tree will endure the driest summers unruffled while maples and other eastern trees wilt and defoliate early. Zone: 5-9, Buxus x Green Mound (Green Mound Boxwood) is a compact, rounded, broadleaf evergreen boxwood that typically grows to 2-3 ft. tall and as wide over the first 10 years. It has long, grey-green, glaucous leaves, which have a strong menthol aroma when crushed, and attractive, peeling white to cinnamon-coloured bark. Compact form excellent as a foundation planting or in groups. Its new foliage is a soft red maturing to a deep green. Mounding form is excellent for massing in shrub borders. 1. The thin, evergreen foliage is filamentous and drooping with little branching horizontally. You can count the percentage they represent on one hand. Well-suited for topiary and containers. Growth habit is 2-3 ft. tall 3-5 ft. wide. Growth habit is 5 ft. tall x 5 ft. wide. Lonicera nitida (Baggesen's Gold Honeysuckle) is a broadleaf evergreen shrub 4-5 ft. tall x 4-6 ft. wide. Foliage typically bronzes in cold winter weather. - Camellias are charming shrubs with glossy evergreen broadleaf foliage. Growth habit is 15-18 in. Clusters of black fruit are held on short spurs in late summer, persisting into midwinter and providing food for wild birds. New foliage is a rich bronze maturing to a glossy dark green. A beautiful landscape accent or foundation shrub for dappled shade. They are evergreen trees; their distinguishing feature is broad, lance-shaped, multi-veined leaves, a character that is unique in conifers. Nothing is quite as pretty as a magnolia tree in bloom. Of the evergreen kinds all do well in part shade. There's also the expense of growing them. In summer, the leaves have dark green centers and white margins. Given Portlands mild climate, our urban forest could look a lot greener even in winter than those dreary northern cityscapes. It is a donation of the Friends of the State Botanical Garden in Athens, Georgia. Zone: 6-10, Leucothoe axillaris Curly Red (Curly Red Doghobble) is an excellent selection with brilliantly colored, twisted leaves that emerge orange-red, mature to dark green and change to intense shades of scarlet, then purple-red in fall and winter. Short strings of pearly white flowers open just before the flush of red leaves and herald the beginning of spring. Some cultivars grow in thickets. Like most magnolias, the orange-pink seeds are attractive to birds, which will pick them from the 3 to 5 long cucumber-like aggregate containing them. The pioneers who founded Portland quite naturally planted their new parks and streets with deciduous trees familiar to them from their home states. These sit deeply in their cup, taking up to two years to ripen. These stately broadleaf evergreen flowering shrubs produce such perfect . Growth habit is 6-8 ft. tall x 6-10 ft. wide. Bark is dark brown to almost black, with many cracks and fissures forming a maze of small plates and ridges. Buxus x. Broadleaf evergreens are a type of shrub or small tree with large green leaves that hold their foliage year-round, unlike deciduous trees or plants which shed their foliage in the winter. Zone: 6-8, Prunus laurocerasus (Otto Luyken Laurel) is a compact cultivar that grows only 3-4 ft. tall and spreads to 6-8 ft. Zone: 6-8, Pieris japonica White Pearl (White Pearl Pieris) This showy evergreen shrub delights with prolific, upright clusters of bell-shaped flower panicles in late winter to spring. Growth habit is 3-4 ft. tall x 3 ft. wide. Planted in a row, their dense foliage will fill in to create a screen in just a year or two. The cream-colored, cup-shaped flowers are lemon-scented. Spotted Laurel ( Aucuba japonica) is a broad leaf evergreen bush that makes a great hedge or back-of-the-border shrub in the shade. It can be unruly, but especially if kept on the dry side can be very beautiful in sun or shade. some other trees/large shrubs that can be trained as trees to possibly consider: English laurel/prunus lauracerasus Portugal laurel/p. Often shaped into hedges and topiaries, it is also attractive in its natural form as a billowy oval mound. Growth habit is 18 in. The semi-elliptic leaves are silvery white underneath, and unlike southern magnolia are thin, delicate looking and not leathery. Sap excretion from the tree is not harmful, but it is unsightly and may attract stinging insects. Growth habit is 6-12 ft. tall x 12-18 ft. wide. These dwarf Mahonia shrubs produce clusters of yellow flowers in the shape of spikes that contrast with shiny green foliage. Thick, leathery leaves keep their color during the winter, showing off small red berries. Makes a wonderful addition to formal gardens, providing year-round interest. It is spotty in the west and stretches through parts of the southwest, Texas, and into the southeast up to North Carolina. It resembles Curly Red variety but has smaller leaves and deeper color. It is kept in a greenhouse there. A slow grower (to 1.5" per year) which is typically grown as a 2-2.5' tall shrub with a larger spread, but which can reach 5' tall after 25 years if not pruned lower. Showy, drooping clusters of white flowers. Growth habit is 7 ft. tall x 5 ft. wide. Small, somewhat inconspicuous, apetulous, greenish-cream flowers in terminal and axillary clusters bloom in April and May. Growth habit is 15-18 in. This broadleaf evergreen, cascading shrub has large, glossy leaves that are deep green color all year long. Spiny foliage emerges with bronze-red coloring, turning green and eventually a purplish-red in the winter. Evergreen. It can be sheared to produce hedges or other geometric shapes, or it can be left to grow into large, loose mounds, providing a background to other shrubs and perennials. There are 26 zones. It would be excellent on steep slopes. It forms a very dense shrub with foliage all the way down to the ground line. Plant in mass to create a natural hedge or screen. Plus, it is a durable alternative to the slower growing boxwood. Good in containers and foundation plantings. wide. Smooth-margined, narrow-elliptic leaves (to 3/4" long) are glossy dark green. The new growth is bronze colored and it ages to a deep, glossy green that persists on the plant year-round. Zones 2-8. It typically matures to 2-4 ft. tall and to 3-5 ft. wide over time unless pruned smaller. Narrow, shamrock colored leaves stay attractive year-round. The leaf spicing up your next pasta probably came from the true bay laurelLaurus nobilis. As with most Japanese hollies this attractive cultivar provides great form and function in the garden for foundation plantings, hedges, and en mass. Then replant them the following spring. This fast-growing evergreen tree hails from Australasia. The slow growth of these flowering bushes means that they take a few years to reach 3 ft. (1 m)their maximum growing height. Cavatine (Cavatine Pieris) is one of the best dwarf forms of this useful shrub, consistently receiving the highest rating in GPP evaluations. where would you post threads about Olive trees? Reaching over 10 feet tall and 8 feet wide at maturity this is one of the few large boxwoods. Zone: 7-9Rhododendron Yaku Princess (Yaku Princess Rhododendron) Dense, compactly branched low grower. Certain shade and flowering trees tend to bleed or excrete large amounts of sap from pruning wounds. Bay laurel is capable of reaching 30 feet or more with a spread of 20 feet. Known in California as California bay, the latter tree is a relative of the true bay laurel from the Mediterranean. Tolerant of a wide range of soils, cultivar 'Golden Triumph' grows well in sun or shade. Some of the more popular ones take much longer to grow to specimen size. useful for foundations, borders, with other broadleaf evergreens; North American native; . Zone: 7-9, Ilex aquifolium Argentea-marginata (English Silver Variegated Holly) has shiny, dark-green leaves edged with creamy-white margins. Growth habit is 3-6 ft. tall x 2-3 ft. wide. Zone: 4-8. It is labeled Broadleaf Conifer Nageia nagi. The name did not mean anything to me, so I asked an expert. Expect this to make dense growth to just 3 ft. tall x 3 ft. wide looking dapper with red new leaves maturing to green, small white flower bells turning to near black pancake-worthy huckleberries in the fall. Growth habit is 9 ft. tall x 4 ft. wide. For example, as early as the 1870s the downtown park blocks were planted with stately elms native to the eastern U.S. In many locations in New Hampshire, the evergreen foliage tends to turn brownish-yellow when plants are grown in areas with full sun and winter winds. Zone: 7-9, Chamaerops excelsa (Windmill Palm Fan) is the hardiest palm tree in the world. Zone: 7-9, Vaccinium Pink Lemonade (Pink Lemonade Blueberry) Pinkish-white flowers produce pale greenish fruit that ripens to an astonishing deep pink color. Some are extremely hardy and Thuja Emerald Green is renowned for growing right up into zone 2 in Canada, so no matter how cold your area is, this is an evergreen that will thrive for you. Ilex crenata 'Convexa' is durable, plastic and easy to manage, a real workhorse in the garden. Moderate Growth Rate Sun: Partial Sun Feature: Attracts Butterflies, Fall Color, Easy Care, Gift Plant. This lifeless landscape makes winter more challenging emotionally and environmentally than it has to be. LITTLE EMPEROR JAPANESE BLUEBERRY TREE Building, transportation, maintenance, and sewer projects. Evergreen. If you are interested in adding some color to your yard year-round but don't want to go with a needled shrub, these shrubs may be just what you are looking for! Bark is smooth and gray. In addition to more madrone, youll see trees like canyon live oak(Quercus chrysolepis), and Oregon myrtle (Umbellularia californica). Foliage often retains good green color in winter. ; For low, hedge-like screens, we recommend Walter viburnum, Boxwood, Podocarpus or any of the evergreen hollies such as Perfect Plant's Oak . 13 of those zones are subdivided into "a" and "b" categories. Soil Needs: Moist, very much depleted soil; thrives in slightly . Messages 5,673 Reaction score 3,964 Location Eugene, OR . This suckering shrub forms a loose groundcover with lustrous emerald leaves and panicles of canary flowers in May and waxy blue berries in autumn. Nageia nagi is described as a tree that grows to 70 feet (21m) or more and occurs in Japan, China, and Taiwan, which verifies Dr. Krss mann's outline in his world map. Growth habit is 15-20 ft. tall x 8-12 ft. wide. The leathery leaves are gray-green above and make the tree incredibly drought tolerant once established. A good low hedge or container plant. Plants prefer soils with a pH of slightly acidic to slightly alkaline. Hardiness Zone: 3-8; Victoria was one of the best rated Ceanothus in the GPP trials. Zone: 5-7, Ilex crenata Sky Pencil (Sky Pencil Holly) is an exceedingly narrow, fastigiate form which grows somewhat slowly in a vertical, pencil-like column to 10 ft. tall but only 2-3 ft. wide. Leucothoe fontanesiana Zeblid Scarletta (Zeblid Scarletta Fetterbush) is a denser, slower growing, more compact, and more symmetrical shrub than the species. The average minimal temperature in zone 8a is 10 to 15 degrees Fahrenheit. Band-tailed pigeons gobble up the acorns whole, as will any resident squirrels. Buds have dark pink stripes and open to light rose-pink flowers with a showy yellow blotch with brownish orange spotting on the upper petals. I acquired a leafy conifer at the plant auction of the SE Region meeting at Clemson University, South Carolina, in fall 2008. Growth habit is 2 ft. tall x 1 ft. wide. It grows best in moist but well drained . Female plants may produce blue "berries" in the fall as well. A quick search for a few broadleaf evergreen species and a look at all the different places a given type is posted in, seems to show that many other folks don't really know where to put them either. The scientific name of blue oak honors the same David Douglas recognized in the name of Oregons state tree, the Douglas-fir. It produces clusters of maroon flowers in the spring that turn into bright red berries if you have both a male and female version planted together. High-bush variety. Dwarf Balsam Fir (Abies balsamea) - Small Evergreen Trees for Landscaping The Camphor Tree is a large evergreen native to China and Japan and has become common in southern areas of the United States as a shade or specimen tree. Good cut flowers. Learn about a selection of trees that keep their leaves all year, and do well in Portland. A handsome multi-trunk tree with glossy dark-green foliage and cinnamon-colored bark. Its dense, slow growing habit requires little to no pruning and is best used in mixed borders, as a hedge or in a formal garden setting. Excellent pollenizer for nearby female hollies. Growth habit is 6 ft. tall x 6 ft. wide. Growth Rate slow. Explore your local nursery or contact your extension office to find other options for your area. Supporting the landscaping industry for 40 years strong, supplying only the highest quality proven plants and materials. They are evergreen trees; their distinguishing feature is broad, lance-shaped, multi-veined leaves, a character that is unique in conifers. It can reach 60 to 80 feet in height with a spread up to 60 feet or more. Some evergreen shrubs can survive the frost and snow that is common in Zone 5. Its leaves are small, oval and, when young, bronze. Its very dark foliage and fine texture create a punctuation mark in the perennial border and provide winter interest when other plants are dormant. Enjoy access to exclusive content, Conifer Database, garden visits, Conifer Q&A Forums, nursery tours with member discounts on unusual cultivars, scholarships for hort students and more. For example, as will any resident squirrels nitida ( Baggesen & # x27 s. 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