Red Bay Tree Size:10 Gallon Fluffy purple flowers

Fluffy purple flowers

Freeze Hardy

This fern can dry in full shade in both dry and moist soil conditions

and provides red berries for winter color

Turk's Cap is red in the wild

Red Bay Tree Size:10 Gallon Fluffy purple flowersHard to find but easy to love, Red Bay is a native shade tree with major benefits for wildlife. This is the source of Bay Leaves used in cooking. Its evergreen, produces berries enjoyed by birds, and supports the caterpillars of the Spicebush Swallowtail and Palamedes Swallowtail. If you plant it near a building or power lines, make sure its pruned regularly. The branches are not as strong as the branches on other common shade trees so its susceptible