Azara microphylla

Botanical Name: Azara microphylla

Common Name: Box-leaf Azara

Family: Flacourtiaceae

Type: Broad leaved evergreen tree and shrub

Origin/Habitat: Chile

Leaf Character: Alternate simple, 1/2 to 3/4" obovate

Flower Type: short closters, 5 stamens, buds tiny in leaf axil

Color: Yellow

Period:February and March 

Fruit: Berry

Bark: Remotely toothed

Exposure: partial shade

Water: ample

Remarks: its form, used as specimen, espalier and in containers

Azara dentata

Botanical Name: Azara dentata

Common Name: Azara

Family: Flacourtiaseae

Type: Broad leaved evergreen tree and shrub

Origin/Habitat: Chile

Leaf Character: Alternate simple, elliptic to ovate 1.5"

Flower Type: corymbs 2-3"

Color: Yellow

Period: Spring

Fruit: Small drupe

Bark: Lenticels

Exposure: Full sun

Water: Ample

Remarks: flowers, fragrance, used as hedge, specimen, visual screen, espalier

Vaccinium ovatum

Botanical Name: Vaccinium ovatum

Common Name:Evergreen Huckberry

Family: Ericaceae

Type: Broad leaved evergreen shrub

Origin/Habitat: California

Leaf Character: Alternate simple, 1.25" ovate to lanceolate

Flower Type: short axillary racemes 1.5" 

Color: white to pink

Period: spring

Fruit: berry with persistant calyx

Bark: redish

Exposure: partial shade

Water: 

Remarks: foliage, fruit, used as hedge, visal screen, specimen and containers

Rhododendron spp

Botanical Name: Rhododendron spp

Common Name: Azalea, Rhododendron

Family: Ericaceae

Type: Broad leaved evergreen and deciduous

Origin/Habitat: Himalayas

Leaf Character: Alternate, simple

Flower Type: clusters or solitary, campanulate

Color: white to purple

Period: spring

Fruit: dry dehiscent capsule

Bark: peeling 

Exposure: partial shade

Water: 

Remarks: flowers, foliage, form, used as hedge, specimen, visual screen, ground cover and containers

Pieris japonica

Botanical Name: Pieris japonica

Common Name: Japanese Pieris

Family: Ericaceae

Type: Broad leaved, evergreen shrub

Origin/Habitat: Japan

Leaf Character: Alternate, simple, 3", oblanceolate to elliptic

Flower Type: terminal pendulous panicles 6" urceolate, individual flowers are 1/4" 

Color: white to pink

Period: February to May

Fruit: Capsule 5 valved 1/4" brown

Bark: Peeling, redish and brown

Exposure: patial shade to total shade

Water: ample

Remarks: flowers, foliage, form, used as hedge, specimen, container

Pieris formosa forrestii

Botanical Name: Pieris formosa forrestii

Common Name:Chinese Pieris

Family: Ericaceae

Type: Broad leaved evergreen shrub

Origin/Habitat: Himalayas

Leaf Character: Alternate, simple, up to 6"  elliptic to lanceolate

Flower Type: terminal panicles 8" urceolate, individual flowers are 1/4" 

Color: white

Period:

Fruit: capsule

Bark: peeling red and brown

Exposure: partial shade 

Water: keep moist

Remarks: flowers, foliage, form, used as  hedge, visual screen, espalier, specimen, container, shade garden 

Gaultheria shallon

Botanical Name: Gaultheria shallon

Common Name: Salal

Family: Ericaceae

Type: Broad leaved, evergreen shrub

Origin/Habitat: California coast

Leaf Character: Alternate simple, ovate to oblong, coriaceous 

Flower Type: panicle, 2-6" urceolate

Color: white and pink

Period: spring and summer

Fruit: edible capsule, 1/4" dark purple

Bark: 

Exposure: sun to shade

Water:

Remarks: flowers, fruit and foliage, used as hedge, ground cover, specimen and containers