Leaves of Yunnan Itea

Yunnan Itea is evergreen shrub. The origin of this plant is South China. This plant grows 1.8 m (6 feet) height and width and occasionally grows bigger. Yunnan Itea has raceme flowers in spring.

Leaves of Japanese Euonymus

Japanese Euonymus is an evergreen shrub and grows 2.4m (8 feet) height and width in full sun or partial shade area. The shrub is very easy to grow even dry and seaside area. And Japanese Euonymus can be used in many purposes for your landscaping project and you can enjoy dark green glossy foliage or beautiful variegated version.

Leaves of Japanese Cleyera

Japanese Cleyera is evergreen shrub and grow 4.5m (25 feet) height and 3m (10 feet) width in sunny or partial shade area. This shrub is used for many different purpose such as hedge, screen, container plant etc because beauty of its shiny leaves and fragrant flowers.

Leaves of Hardy Pittosporum

Hardy Pittosporum is evergreen shrub and very good as landscape plant and hedge plant. Hardy Pittosporum grows 3.6m (12 feet) height and width and has fragrant flowers in spring.

Eurya Emarginata

This photo is for leaves and buds of Eurya Emarginata. Eurya Emarginata is an evergreen shrub and popular in Japan, Korea and China. This tree grows 1.8m (6 feet) height and width. We call this tree “Hamahisakaki (浜姫榊)” and often plant in a park and sides of a road.

Leaves of Courtesy Leaf

This leaves picture is for Courtesy Leaf. Courtesy Leaf is native plant of Taiwan and not popular in USA. This evergreen shrub has habit to grow roundly and grows about 4.5m (15 feet) height and width in the area of full sun or partial shade and prefers acid soil.

Meserve Holly

Meserve Holly is known as Blue Holly because the leaves color of this holly are bluish green. This holly is a hybrid shrub for adding cold hardiness to a beautiful holly. So this holly can be grown in northern USA area easily. Meserve Holly Grows up to 3.6m (12 feet) height and 2.7m (9 feet) width.

Butcher's Broom

This photo is Butcher’s Broom. Butcher’s Broom is a little bit funny and strange name as a name of plant for me. This plant is also known as Box Holly, Sweet Broom, Knee Holly and these are much more normal for me.

Even though the name of this shrub is funny, Butcher’s Broom is being used in medical area in several ways and also young shoots are often treated as vegetable in many countries.

Fortune's Osmanthus

Fortune’s Osmanthus is evergreen shrub and grows up to 6m (20 feet) height and width and forms dense oval shape in full sun or partial shade area. Even though the flowers of this shrub are tiny white color, they have good fragrance and you can easily find them when they bloom in autumn.

Creeping Juniper

Creeping Juniper is great evergreen ground cover plant. It grows 0.6m (2 feet) height and 3m (10feet) width in full sun and relatively dry area, and it is easy to take care of it. So the important point for planting Creeping Juniper is to keep wide enough area for each of it, never plant it in dense condition.