Bauhinia forficata Olea whose early spring foliage emerges

whose early spring foliage emerges dark raspberry before maturing to bronze

the same area where Rhodophiala bifida grows

eventually creating a stack of porcupine-like balls

Yucca rostrata is one of the hardiest species of trunked yucca

Our twelve-year-old plantings are now 2-3' wide

Bauhinia forficata Olea whose early spring foliage emergesBauhinia forficata is one of only two species of the normally tropical orchid tree that survives long term in our cold winters. Although the Brazilian Orchid tree survives for us, it does so as a dieback perennial and not as a 35' small tree that it becomes in more tropical regions. About the best we can expect in our Zone 7b climate is 8' of growth, which is adorned with Jeffersonia like, bifurcate (two lobed) leaves and further complemented,