Silk tassel - Garrya elliptica
Height: 5-20’
Plant type: evergreen, arboreal shrub
Features: leathery green leaves with woolly undersides. Gorgeous silvery catkins in December provides visual interest until spring! Males catkins are a little longer, female catkin form into clusters of fruits. Good for privacy screen; deer resistant.
PPL: no
Light - full to part sun
Soil - dry to moist to seasonally wet
Ecological benefit: fruits are a bird favorite
(Flower image: The Marmot, CC2.0)
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Height: 5-20’
Plant type: evergreen, arboreal shrub
Features: leathery green leaves with woolly undersides. Gorgeous silvery catkins in December provides visual interest until spring! Males catkins are a little longer, female catkin form into clusters of fruits. Good for privacy screen; deer resistant.
PPL: no
Light - full to part sun
Soil - dry to moist to seasonally wet
Ecological benefit: fruits are a bird favorite
(Flower image: The Marmot, CC2.0)
Height: 5-20’
Plant type: evergreen, arboreal shrub
Features: leathery green leaves with woolly undersides. Gorgeous silvery catkins in December provides visual interest until spring! Males catkins are a little longer, female catkin form into clusters of fruits. Good for privacy screen; deer resistant.
PPL: no
Light - full to part sun
Soil - dry to moist to seasonally wet
Ecological benefit: fruits are a bird favorite
(Flower image: The Marmot, CC2.0)