MASTER GARDNERS SPRING SALE - 03/22/2014 Page 1 of 18 BULBS, FERNS, MISC. Fern, Macho Nephrolepis biserrata Agave This is the ideal fern for LARGE Agave sp. baskets. It looks fine finished as a 6" shown: Agave havardiana. from pot up to a 10" basket and even as www.wikipedia.com: Each rosette gallons for growing outdoors Do keep grows slowly to flower only once. in mind that this is the grandaddy of During flowering a tall stem or "mast" all the Nephrolepis baskets. If it is to grows from the center of the leaf be a landscape fern, it can take full rosette. After development of fruit the sun for much of the day. It spreads original dies. Agaves are aggressively. closely related to the lily and amaryllis families, and are not related to cacti. Jade Plant Crassula ovata Airplane Plant, Variegated from www.succulent-plant.com: Chlorophytum comosum 'Variegatum' popular because they are incredibly Leaves can be all green, Pale green easy to grow. With proper care and with white or yellow central stripe or time they make fine specimens not green with wihte margins. Excellent unlike bonsai trees. Can be for hanging baskets or can be used propagated from a single healthy as groundcover under trees or in a leaf. The commonest problem is very protected patio.Sends daughter probably overwatering along with off by shoot. Here's more than mealybugs. you need to know about this plant. Http://goto.glocalnet.net/natal/amp/am pel.htm Lily of the Nile, Ellamae Agapanthus x 'Ellamae' Aloe from Aloe vera www.magnoliagardensnursery.com: from www.thegardenhelper.com: All It is grown for the dark, glossy, strap- Aloes are semitropical succulent shaped leaves that arch gracefully. plants, and may only be grown Flowers are borne on long erect outdoors in areas where there is no stems. Agapanthus make good chance of freezing. However, they background plants or edging along a make excellent house plants when fence, driveway, or wall. These plants they are given sufficient light. Potted can thrive on conditions of neglect Aloes benefit from spending the and naturalize readily. summer outdoors. Lily, Spider liriosme Fern, Foxtail from http://www.wildflower.org: An Protasparagus densiflorus var. Myersii elegant and unusual-looking flower, The 'Myersii' (foxtail fern) is the spider lily has a stem 1–3 feet also great for containers. It has a high, with 2 or 3 blossoms at the top. neater, more restrained look than the The flower has 3 white sepals and 3 'Sprengeri' fern; stiffly upright stems to petals which are alike and unite to 2' long, with very dense, cylindrical form a tube 2–4 inches long, narrow plume-like foliage, giving the plant a but spreading. The flowers are quite fluffy, cloud-like appearance. The fragrant. stems are like bottle brushes, 2-3" in diameter, and tapering gradually to the tips. ANNUALS Fern, Holly Blackeyed Susan Cyrtomium falcatum Rudbeckia hirta from www.floridata.com: Japanese from http://aggie- holly fern is a tough plant that is horticulture.tamu.edu: A stiff, upright inexpensive and easy to propagate. annual or shortlived perennial native Several selected varieties are to the eastern United States, but has available including dwarf versions and become endemic throughout North some with different shaped pinnae. America. The Black-Eyed Susan is This fern has been a popular porch probably the most common of all plant in Florida and the Deep South American wildflowers Thrives in most since the 1800's. soils in full sun. MASTER GARDNERS SPRING SALE - 03/22/2014 Page 2 of 18 Mint, Pink Brazilian Button Stachys drummondii Centratherum intermedium from http://www.wildflower.org: The from www.backyardgardener.com: species name of this plant is named Attractive, fluffy, lavender-blue, button- for Thomas Drummond, (ca. 1790- like flowers approx 2cm (¾in) across 1835), naturalist, born in Scotland, are produced all summer on bushy around 1790. In 1830 he made a trip plants with unusual, pineapple to America to collect specimens from fragrant foliage. Very heat and the western and southern United drought tolerant, attracting butterflies States. In March, 1833, he arrived at and adding fragrance to borders or Velasco, . containers. self-sows freely.

Petunia Bulbine Petunia Bulbine frutescens from www.floridata.com: Available in http://gardeningsolutions.ifas.ufl.edu: a galaxy of shapes, patterns and It makes a great ground cover since colors, petunias are fast growing and each plant will grow over time to form are non-stop bloomers. They are also a clump that can reach up to four feet inexpensive and are easy to find. wide. The succulent, grass-like Every year brings new hybrids for you foliage grows to about a foot tall, to enjoy in your gardening creations. while the flower stalks typically reach two feet, dancing above the leaves throughout the summer months.

Petunia, Laua Bush Butterfly Bush, Wooly Petunia X violacea 'Laura Bush' Buddleia marrubiifolia from http://aggie- from www.nativesoftexas.com: Plant horticulture.tamu.edu: A hybrid this West Texas native in full sun and between VIP and old fashioned watch the butterflies congregate. The petunia which was born & bred in round orange and yellow blooms are Texas. This reseeding, old fashioned a great contrast to the silver gray petunia has fragrant violet flowers on foliage. Be sure to plant in a well a vigorous, heat-tolerant plant. Does drained site and give it plenty of room well even in alkaline soils. Cut back to grow to its 4 by 4 feet size. It likes by 20% each month. limestone soils and blooms from March to September.

SMALL PERENNIALS Butterfly Weed Asclepias tuberosa Blue Daze LARVAL HOST for Monarch (Danaus Evolvulus glomeratus 'Blue Daze' plexippus), Queen (Danaus gilippus) from www.floridata.com: The feltlike and Gray Hairstreak (Strymon gray-green foliage and pale blue melinus) butterflies. From flowers make blue daze a standout in www.floridata.com: unique among beds and borders or as a ground milkweeds in that the sap is not milky cover.Blue daze is spectacular in and leaves are not opposite. Deep hanging containers. It is highly taproot makes transplanting difficult. tolerant of salt and makes a fine Self-sows freely, deadhead if you ornamental for the coastal garden. don't want volunteers. Let it cascade over a window box or a porch planter. Calibrachoa Calibrachoa hybrid Blue Flax Introduced from South America to Linum perenne lewisii Europe almost 200 years, from http://www.gardenguides.com: Calibrachoa didn't take off until the Lewisii comes from Lewis of the Lewis 1980's. Now there are hundreds of and Clark expedition in 1806. In large varieties available. They are heavy stands, the multiple-stemmed plants feeders and like a relatively low pH. can create breathtaking displays of flowers.) Blue flax grows best in sunny areas with dry, sandy soil, according to the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center. MASTER GARDNERS SPRING SALE - 03/22/2014 Page 3 of 18 Chile Pequin Coreopsis, Lanceleaf Capsicum annuum Coreopsis lanceolata from texasnature.blogspot.com: from www.wildflower.org: This native Cilipiquins, the wild progenitor of the species has branching stems at base jalapeno pepper, packs a wallop that and often forms sizable colonies surpasses all of the cultivated hot along roadsides and in old fields. peppers. The little yellow to bright Nearly a dozen other perennial yellow- green berries, about an inch long and flowered Coreopsis species occur in conical or egg-shaped, ripen in fall. the East. They can be used fresh or dried and stored.

Chives, Garlic Crown-of-Thorns Allium tuberosum Euphorbia milii from www.davesgarden.com: from www.floridata.com: Grown for its pajaritomt from Los Alamos, NM long lasting, colorful petal-like (Zone 5a) wrote: I love this plant. I which surround inconspicuous little use the leaves stir fried with meat or flowers. Although often grown in pots seafood. I sprinkle flowers on salads. on the patio, this thorny succulent is It does spread readily over time, but I perfect for rock gardens and sunny find more uses over time. The lacy borders. Crown of thorns is salt flowers are lovely in late summer. tolerant and often used in frostfree coastal areas, even quite near the sea.

Chrysanthemum, Pacific Daisy, Blackfoot Ajania pacifica Melampodium leucanthemum from Plains Blackfoot is a low bushy www.missouribotanicalgarden.org: perennial growing from 8 to 12 inches serves as an excellent ground cover in height. It can be found in rocky, featuring lobed, ovate, silver- gravelly, calcareous or sandy soils of margined leaves (to 2” long). the Edwards Plateau. The leaves Undersides of the leaves are also have rough hairs and are 1 to 2 silvery. Some gardeners grow this inches in length. The leaves and plant primarily for its foliage. Autumn flowers are readily eaten by white- bloom features numerous small, tailed deer. button-like, yellow flowers that appear in corymbs. Flowers are not as showy as florists’ chrysanthemums. Daisy, Copper Canyon Columbine, Texas Gold Tagetes lemmonii Aquilegia chrysantha var. hinckleyana from www.floridata.com: What is that from http://aggie- smell? Ripe passionfruit...mint...a hint horticulture.tamu.edu: A Texas of camphor. Brush by the foliage of native, this new plant is a cultivated mountain marigold and you are hit selection from a rare perennial with a distinctive, pungent fragrance. wildflower. Should give excellent Mountain marigold, or Copper performance in all areas of Texas with Canyon daisy, is a sprawling, shrubby the possible exception of the Rio perennial daisy with delicately Grande Valley and the Panhandle. filigreed highly aromatic foliage.

Daisy, Gerber Coral Creeper Gerbera jamesonii Barleria repens from www.floridata.com: Match from www.plantszafrica.com: Fast- gerbers of a single color with other growing and wonderfully easy-going, bedding plants of similar or Barleria repens will adapt to a number complementary hue. I have a bed of of situations. Plant it in a large bright yellow gerbers planted among container, or on top of a low wall, blue Stoke's aster that explodes into a where its foliage and flowers can glorious blanket of color every April. cascade down and show to Gerber daisies are prolific, sturdy and advantage. available in a spectacular palette of colors. MASTER GARDNERS SPRING SALE - 03/22/2014 Page 4 of 18 Fan Flower Geranium, Scented Scaevola aemula 'New Wonder' Pelargonium sp. from www.floridata.com: Fanflowers from www.britannica.com: The can be grown in containers or aromatic, or scented-leaved, hanging pots outdoors in summer and geraniums are found in several brought indoors during the winter. In species, including P. abrotanifolium, subtropical climates, they are grown P. capitatum, P. citrosum, P. crispum, in perennial beds and borders. They P. graveolens, and P. odoratissimum. are tolerant of sandy soils and salt Minty, fruity, floral, and spicy spray. The sprawling make fragrances are released readily when excellent groundcovers in seaside their leaves are rubbed or bruised. gardens.

Fennel, Bronze Ginger, Non-Variegated Foeniculum vulgare 'Rubrum' Alpinia zerumbet non-variegated LARVAL HOST for Swallowtail from www.wikipedia.com: This plant butterflies: from is a rhizomatous, ever green tropical www.nichegardens.com: Bronze perennial that grows in upright clumps Fennel is easily identified by tall, 8-10 feet tall in tropical climates. In billowy masses of aromatic, bronzy- more typical conditions, it reaches 4-8 green, feathery foliage. Tiny, mustard- feet tall in the green house, and 3-4 yellow flowers sway in the feet tall, as a house plant. summertime breeze atop large flat umbels, eventually yielding multitudes of seeds.

Fern, Acacia Ginger, Variegated Shell Acacia angustissima Alpinia zerumbet 'Variegata' from www.wildflower.org: This from www.wikipedia.com: Grows in shrub’s thornless stems are graceful upright clumps 8-10 feet tall in tropical and wand-like. Round masses of climates. In more typical conditions, it creamy white or salmon-colored reaches 4-8 feet tall in the green flowers resembling shaving brushes, house, and 3-4 feet tall, as a house rising on slender stalks from the axils plant. It is called a shell ginger or shell of compound leaves. This attractive flower most commonly, because its native legume has seeds that are rich individual pink flowers resemble sea in protein; the plant is readily eaten by shells. livestock.

Gaura, Siskiyou Pink Grass, Lemon Gaura lindheimeri var. Siskiyou Pink Cymbopogon citratus from from floridata.com: Gardeners in www.missouribotanicalgarden.org: subtropical areas will enjoy using Best grown in sandy, loamy, medium lemongrass in beds and borders. It moisture, well-drained soil in full sun. also does well in tubs and containers. Good drainage is essential. It is especially nice along walkways Flowering stems may become leggy where plants release fragrance when and flop, particularly when grown in brushed against by passersby. rich soils or too much shade. May self-seed if spent flowers are left in place in autumn.

Gaura, White Greenthread Gaura lindheimeri Thelesperma filifolium from www.floridata.com: White gaura LARVAL HOST for: Dainty Sulphur is well adapted to the hot summers of (Nathalis iole) butterfly. Native to the the southern US, and it has proven to prairies of Central & Western Texas, be a winner elsewhere as well. It may , Colorado, & Mexico, not be the flashiest flower in the striking when planted in mass. From garden, but it is durable and uvalde.tamu.edu: Greenthread dependable! blooms between March and June and often into the fall. MASTER GARDNERS SPRING SALE - 03/22/2014 Page 5 of 18 Guara, Perky Pink Lantana, Red Gaura lindheimeri 'Perky Pink' Landana camara from www.provenwinners.com: Each from Michael Womack in the CCCT flowering stem adds blooms, 03/22/2008: Many of the lantanas we continuously to the end of the spike. use in our landscapes are sports or As time goes on, the flowering stems other cultivars of Pink Lantana. [the can get rather long and tangled. following is applicable to most Although deadheading isn't Lantanas]. This tough plant not only necessary for continued blooming you blossoms most of the year, but it is may find that you prefer to trim back also drought and sun hardy - two some of the flowering stems at some important keys to its success in point in mid-summer. landscaping.

Horsetail Lion's Tail Equisetum hyemale Leonotis menthifolia from www.floridata.com from http://toptropicals.com: After Scouring rush is often grown in bloom, the new growth just keeps Japanese-style gardens, at the edge growing up through the flower. of ponds and in the margins of Shrubby, semi-woody, perennial or ornamental water gardens. It can be semi-evergreen subshrub to 2m high invasive if conditions are favorable. with a 1m spread. Tolerates poor However, a dense stand of scouring soil. Spiny whorls of soft apricot- rush along the margin of an orange fuzzy flowers are held atop tall ornamental pool can be very erect stems that remind of a crows attractive and will exclude weeds. nest on the mast of a ship. The scouring rushes are ancient plants that were dominant in the latter Mint, Peppermint part of the Paleozoic Era (360-250 Mentha X piperita million years ago). Since then they all from www.davesgarden.com: mystic have gone extinct except for one from Ewing, KY wrote: Peppermint is genus with a couple dozen species, a sterile hybrid derived from a cross living relics from an age millions of between Mentha aquatica and years before the dinosaurs existed! Mentha spicata. This is a vigorous, Scouring rush has been used to scour creeping perennial that like all mints cooking utensils, and is still harvested can be invasive.Peppermint leaves commercially in northern Mexico for are used in herbal teas and salads. polishing fine furniture. Iris, Blue Iris sanguinea from www.wikipedia.com: Up to 300 species – many of them natural Mistflower, Gregg's hybrids – have been placed in the Conoclinium greggii genus Iris. Irises are used in mass in LARVAL HOST for Boardered Patch, flower beds and in borders. Allow Monarch, Queen, and Swallowtail irises to spread in a lightly shaded butterflies; from Michael Womack: It wooded area in the back of the is a butterfly magnet with light bloom garden. fuzzy blossoms from late spring through fall. Its bright-green, frilly leaves provide a nice texture to the garden, but the plants will usually die back in fall and need to be cut to Kalanchoe, Christmas ground level in winter. Kalanchoe blossfeldiana from www.desert-tropicals.com: Use house plant fertilizer for actively Obedient Plant growing plants. Blooms in winter, and Physostegia virginiana needs uninterrupted 14-hour nights from www.floridata.com: for a month and a half before Physostegias are widely used in blooming. wildflower meadows and water garden fringes, as well as in more civilized borders. They are especially easy to arrange because flowers pushed to face a different direction from the stem will stay in their new positions obediently, which is where the plant got its name. MASTER GARDNERS SPRING SALE - 03/22/2014 Page 6 of 18 Oregano, Mexican Ruellia, Chi-Chi Pink Lippia graveolens Ruellia brittoniana 'Chi Chi' from www.davesgarden.com: sbates May be invasive. color variation of from Austin, TX wrote: This plant the "Mexican Petunia"; from provides an amazing flavor to salsa's www.plantdelights.com: 'Chi Chi' is a when used fresh. Use just the leaves, dynamite ruellia from Texas…a wash them and chop them. The seedling selection of R. brittoniana flavors combine very well with cilantro. from plant guru Scott Ogden. The The plant is hardy and roots easily narrow, very dark green foliage with cuttings. The flavor is much more clothes the 2' tall stem, topped with 1" pungent and quite different than the pink petunia-like flowers, from early dried versions. summer through fall.

Party Time Sage, Bicolor Alternanthera ficoidea 'Party Time' Salvia sinaloensis 'Bicolor Sage' grown for the leaves, good "fill-in" from plant, also know as Joseph's Coat or www.magnoliagardensnusery.com: Parrot Leaf perennial from Mexico that can reach 8-12 inches in height. This plant has both hairy stems and a hairy flower calyx. Bicolor Sage has small flowers that are nearly neon blue with white spots on the lower lip, the flowers contrast nicely with the burgundy tinged foliage.

Penstemon, Rock Sage, Hot Lips Penstemon baccharifolius Salvia microphylla 'Hot Lips' from www.wildflowers.org: Clustered from spikes of cherry-red, tubular flowers www.magnoliagardensnursery.com: line the 1-1 1/2 ft. stalks of this almost found near the Chiapas area of shrubby perennial. Baccharis-leaf Mexico and was introduced by beardtongue or rock penstemon’s Richard Turner of the Strybing dark-green leaves are thick and Arboretum in San Francisco, toothed, and sometimes are quite California. This is a unique bi-color hairy. This beardtongue attracts salvia that has red tips and white lips. and is browsed by

Porterweed, Blue Sage, Lyreleaf Stachytarpheta jamaicensis Salvia lyrata LARVAL HOST for: Tropical Buckeye from www.wildflowers.org: Lyreleaf butterfly (Junonia genoveva). from sage is a strictly upright, hairy http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu: Plants grow perennial, 1-2 ft. tall with a rosette of about 4 feet tall before stems droop leaves at the base. Lyreleaf sage and touch the ground. Blue or pink makes a great evergreen flowers are borne terminally on long, groundcover, with somewhat ajuga- stringy spikes at the ends of the like foliage and showy blue flowers in stems. Rich, dark green foliage is spring. It will reseed easily in loose, displayed on square, green stems sandy soils and can form a solid cover with regular watering.

Rosemary, Upright Sage, Tropical Rosmarinus officinalis Salvia coccinea from mountainvalleygrowers.com: A LARVAL HOST for Painted Lady favorite Rosemary variety because of butterfly (Vanessa cardui). From its carefree growth, great flavor and article in Rockport Pilot by Ernie dark blue flower. Leaves can be used Edmundson: Covered with bright red fresh or dried. If used fresh be sure to flowers, is a perennial salvia. It chop them very fine or use whole makes a great ground cover in both stems and remove from food before shade or sun by just trimming back serving. periodically with a line trimmer. MASTER GARDNERS SPRING SALE - 03/22/2014 Page 7 of 18 Salvia, Henry Duelberg Yarrow, Moonshine Salvia farinacea 'Henry Duelberg' Achillea x 'Moonshine' Texas leafcutting ant (Atta texana) from www.monrovia.com: An can strip it overnight. from outstanding Mediterranean aromatic http://texassuperstar.com: Spikes of for everlasting color in beds and showy blue flowers from spring until borders. Works nicely in dryland frost. More floriferous than other xeriscapes where it matches cultivars. Texas native plant; found by demands of arid western natives. Greg Grant in a small central Texas Achillea x 'Moonshine' is a hybrid of cemetery. Taller with bluer and more A. taygetea, a native of Greece and floriferous flowers and larger and A. millefolium, the most common form. greener leaves than modern cultivars.

Salvia, Indigo Spires GRASSES Salvia x 'Indigo Spires' From an article by Ernie Edmondson Cordgrass, Prairie in the Rockport Pilot 09/16/2009: Spartina pectinata Indigo Spires Salvia is an evergreen from www.wikipedia.com: This plant perennial hybid of two native salvias can grow in a variety of habitat types, with long purple flower spikes. It is a but it is a facultative wetland species, spreading plant to three feet tall by six most often found in wet habitats. feet wide requiring low to medium These include fens, wet prairies, water and full to partial sun. rivers, floodplains, ponds, moraines, and marshes. The grass is tolerant of water, but it does not tolerate prolonged flooding. Skeleton-Leaf Goldeneye Viguiera stenoloba from http://aggie- Grass, Black Fountain horticulture.tamu.edu: With its skeletal Pennisetum alopecuroides 'Moudry' dark green leaves, golden daisies and from www.monrovia.org: It's the black rounded growth habit, it is an flower heads that make this very extremely ornamental shrub or sub- special. With a height more like shrub. It adapts to most well-drained groundcover, this Fountain Grass sites in full sun, and will benefit from looks beautiful grown in masses. Ideal being cut back to maintain a dense candidate for rock gardens, dry shrubby appearance. streambeds and next to landscape boulders.

Skullcap, Texas Pink Scutellaria suffrutescens from Grass, Mexican Feather www.magnoliagardensnursery.com: Nassella tenuissima Use Pink Texas Skullcap for rock Does well in the wind. from gardens, on dry hillsides, xeriscaping, www.taunton.org: No other grass or even for container gardening. exhibits quite the refinement of Drought tolerant, heat loving, sun texture as this species. Its bright loving plant that is great for the Texas green foliage resembles delicate Garden. filaments that arise in elegant, vase- like clumps and spill outward like a soft fountain. All summer it bears a profusion of feathery panicles. Ti Plant, Hawaiian Cordyline fruticosa from www.mgonline.com: Ti plants or Inland Seaoats cordylines, are extremely popular Chasmanthium latifolium worldwide for their intense leaf colors LARVAL HOST for skipper and leaf shapes producing interest butterflies; from www.wildflower.org: and contrasts even in deep shade. perennial grass bearing large, Natives use plants for fiber, cloth and drooping, oat-like flower spikelets livestock food. The roots are said to from slender, arching branches. The be edible. Ti is pronounced like 'tea' in blue-green, bamboo-like leaves often some areas, but in Florida the name turn a bright yellow-gold, especially in rhymes with 'hi.' sunnier sites, in fall. Very popular as a low-maintenance shade grass. MASTER GARDNERS SPRING SALE - 03/22/2014 Page 8 of 18 Muhly, Big Blue Sky Vine Muhlenbergia lindheimeri Thunbergia grandiflora from www.wildflower.org: Native only from http://toptropicals.com: The to the Edwards Plateau of central most striking blue flowered vine in the Texas, Big muhly or Lindheimers world, with a robust and twining habit muhly has become increasingly producing long hanging clusters of 3" popular since the 1980s as an sky blue funnel shaped flowers from elegant, large-scale specimen grass, fall through spring, displayed large enough for screening. It can be throughout it's dense deep green a soft-textured substitute for foliage. Can be trellised or arbored to introduced Pampas grass, which it create a spectacular sight! Hardy to approaches in stature. freezing.

Muhly, Gulf Coast Bougainvillea Muhlenbergia capillaris 'Filipes' Bougainvillea glabra from Leaf rollers are a common pest. www.magnoliagardensnursery.com: From www.floridata.com: Absolutely one of the most beautiful Bougainvillea is famous for its ornamental grasses around. A North brilliantly colored floral displays and American native and more importantly quick growth rate. Bougainvilleas are a Texas Native Plant! Puts on a real thorny plants that are sometimes show with flowers that look like a used as security plants. Because of purple cloud from far away, giving a the sharp thorns do not grow too spectacular fall color show. closely to swimming pools and

Muhly, Weeping Calylophus, Compact Muhlenbergia palmeri Calylophus berlandieri var. berlandieri from www.nativesoftexas.com: This from www.landscapemafia.com: The graceful muhley grass is native to 2-inch wide yellow flowers appear on Arizona but does well in the Texas Hill the outside of a loose collection of Country. It has a graceful weeping stems with numerous narrow leaves. appearance and enjoys full sun. It is Fowers shut at night and open again very drought tolerant when at sunrise. Recommended for rock established. Like the other grasses in gardens or rock walls, or as a water this genera it blooms in the fall with saving replacement for areas higher slender seed heads. It grows to 1½ water use ground covers or seasonal or 2 feet tall. color.

VINES & GROUNDCOVERS Crossvine Bignonia capreolata Baby Sun Rose (Ice Plant) from www.wildflower.org: Some deer Aptenia cordifolia resistance. A climbing, woody vine from www.desert-tropicals.com: They reaching 50 ft. long with showy, are very tough, look clean most of the orange-red, trumpet-shaped flowers 2 time, and bloom from spring to fall. inches long and 1 1/2 inches across They grow in light shade, but bloom a which hang in clusters of two to five. lot less. They grow well on retaining They are sometimes seen high in a walls and hanging baskets. Aptenia tree, as the vine climbs by means of 'Red Apple' is an hybrid commonly claws at the end of its tendrils. encountered in nurseries.

Cuban Blue Pea Vine Clitoria ternatea Basket Plant from Micheal Womack: This fast Callisia fragrans growing annual produces lots of from www.smgrowers.com: Callisia bright blue flowers and a thin vine. It fragrans (Basket Plant) - A low will freeze, but the plant produces growing perennial native of Mexico seeds in pea pods that can be dried with 6 to 10 inch long waxy green and kept to replant in future years. leaves arranged alternately with the Look for it as a one-gallon plant. The bases overlapping so tightly that they plants tend to get leggy very quickly, appear to be in rosettes. The leaves so pinching helps to keep it bushy. have a slight purplish color underneath and on the upper margins when in bright light MASTER GARDNERS SPRING SALE - 03/22/2014 Page 9 of 18 Cup of Gold Lantana, White Trailing Solandra maxima Lantana montevidensis 'White' from www.floridata.com: It is often prune severly in late winter - also grown on large pergolas or trellises, white variety. from Michael Womack or trained to grow up the side of a in the CCCT 03/22/2008: This tough house where the spectacular flowers plant not only blossoms most of the can spill down the walls over windows year, but it is also drought and sun and doorways. Tolerant of salt spray hardy. The most effective use of and salty soils, all the chalice vines these plants is often mass plantings in are large rampant growers and are sunny areas with well-drained soils. excellent for seaside gardens.

Frogfruit Liriope Phyla nodiflora Liriope muscari from www.baynatives.com: Tiny also variegated and giant varieties. ground hugging plant, thought of as The evergreen foliage is thick and weedy but very useful between luxurious and fallen leaves and debris stepping stones in harsh conditions. tend to disappear within. Liriope is All sorts of insects are drawn to the tough, easy to grow and readily flowers of this verbena relative. available from nurseries and garden centers. Because it is inexpensive and fast growing, this is an ideal shape defining plant in the landscape.

Honeysuckle, Cape Mexican Flame Vine Tecoma capensis Pseudogynoxys chenopodioides from www.floridata.com: Cape from www.floridata.com: Use honeysuckle can be used as a Mexican flame vine to drape over climbing vine (it needs tying) or barrier porch rails and mailboxes. It's expert hedge/screen, trained as a specimen at improving the visual charm of chain shrub, or used as a ground cover on link fences. Use in mixed hedges to steep slopes or rocky banks. It is create splashes of summertime color. sometimes trained as an espalier. It is It also looks great clambering up palm especially attractive cascading over or pine tree trunks. Tends to be rather walls or planters. It can be trained to a compact. garden arch.

Honeysuckle, Coral Potato Vine, Sweet Lonicera sempervirens Ipomoea batatas from www.wildflowers.org: This vine from www.davesgarden.com has showy, trumpet-shaped flowers, Larabee from Houston, TX wrote: In red outside, yellow inside, in several hot Texas, this plant grows extremely whorled clusters at the ends of the quickly--up to a couple feet in one stems. Papery, exfoliating bark is week. It will also grow here in full sun, orange-brown in color. This beautiful, part sun, part shade, or full shade--it's slender, climbing vine is frequently pretty happy to grow anywhere you visited by hummingbirds. Not too can plant it. The leaves look like large aggressive. Good climber or ground morning glory leaves. It looks fantastic cover. in containers with other plants, and can cascade over the sides of the container (if you unwind it from the Lantana, Purple Trailing Lantana montevidensis 'Purple' other plants first, because it will try to from Dr. Michael Womack: This climb them) or will climb a trellis or tough plant not only blossoms most of other support behind the container. the year, but it is also drought and I've got it growing with red coleus and sun hardy. The most effective use of purple Persian Shield, and the these plants is often mass plantings in contrast for the colors is wonderful. sunny areas with well-drained soils. [The smaller the leaf, the smaller the plant will be]. The shortest varieties of lantana commonly are called trailing lantana. MASTER GARDNERS SPRING SALE - 03/22/2014 Page 10 of 18 Primrose, Missouri Woolly Stemodia Oenothera macrocarpa Stemodia lanata from http://aggie- from magnoliagardensnursery.com horticulture.tamu.edu: A hardy Woolly Stemodia is a Texas Native perennial native from Texas to plant found in the South Texas Plains, Missouri and extending throughout Gulf Prairies & Marshes and the much of central North America. A Trans Pecos regions of Texas, prolific bloomer with magnificent growing mostly in deep coastal sands lemon-yellow flowers which last for in nature. Stemodia tomentosa is a several days. An excellent border mat forming groundcover that has plant remaining green throughout the soft, silver grey foliage, similar to year. Prefers well-drained soil in full Lambs Ears, and small purple flowers sun. early spring to frost. It is a tough, fast growing goundcover that is tolerant to Rangoon Creeper Quisqualis indica high temperatures and high humidity, The genus translates into Latin for and will tolerate poor soils if given What Is That? From good drainage. magnoliagardensnursery.com: SHRUBS Quisqualis indica is a evergreen (in American Beautyberry warmer climates) creeping shrub that Callicarpa americana can reach as much as 70 feet in from article in Rockport Pilot by Ernie tropical climates. Rangoon Creeper Edmundson: Early spring is the time flowers throughout the summer with to cut them down before they put on fragrant blossoms that open white, their new spring growth. They can be darken to pink and eventually red. trimmed back almost to the ground, however unpruned plants will develop Snake Herb a weeping effect . . . with purple, or in Dyschoriste linearis some cases, white berries in the fall. from http://www.wildflower.org: Several erect stems, 6–12 inches tall, grow from the root of this plant, the branches and stems are covered with Angel's Trumpet stiff, coarse hairs. They grow in the Brugmansia candida leaf axils on very short stems and are from www.floridata.com: It can be somewhat tucked in between the pruned to a small tree with a single leaves, scattered here and there on trunk, or allowed to grow in a clump the main stem. with several erect and spreading stems. Use it where you want to make a bold statement. Its large, Winecups coarse leaves and huge drooping Callirhoe involucrata flowers will be the center of attention. Perennial herb, evergreen groundcover, widely distributed throughout Texas west to Arizona & north through Arkansas to Minnesota Artemisia, Powis Castle & North Dakota, New Mexico north to Artemisia x 'Powis Castle' Wyoming from www.floridata.com: Artemisia X - May go dormant in full sun, easily 'Powis Castle' is believed to be the grown in dry to moist, well-drained result of a cross between Artemisia soils, long tap root gives plant good arborescens and A. absinthium. This drought tolerance but makes is a beautiful silver-gray plant that transplanting difficult grows in a dense, billowing mound. - no serious pests or diseases Essentially evergreen in warm winter - nectar & larval plant for common climates. Cut back in early spring to checkered skipper butterfly encourage new growth to come up from the bottom. MASTER GARDNERS SPRING SALE - 03/22/2014 Page 11 of 18 Babybonnet Cenizo, Compact Desperado/Reneg Coursetia axillaris Leucophyllum frutescens 'Desperado' from http://aggie- Variants of the Compact Texas Sage. horticulture.tamu.edu: Pretty but Very drought tolerant. Useful as a elusive, babybonnet is rare in Texas, hedge, in a mass or in the perennial although it is common in Tamaulipas border. in Mexico. Baby bonnets has a graceful natural form, eventually spreading in a vase shape to be as wide as it is tall, and pruning should be restricted to removing dead branches only.

Barbados Cherry, Dwarf Cereus, Night-Blooming Malpighia glabra Peniocereus greggii fruit is edible and sometimes used for One of the strangest plants of the preserves. from article in Rockport desert, the Night-bloomiing Cereus is Pilot by Ernie Edmundson: The fruit a member of the Cactus Family that are edible in preserves. Dwarf resembles nothing more than a dead Barbados cherry makes a colorful bush most of the year. It is rarely seen compact small shrub for part sun to in the wild because of its full sun locations in the landscape. inconspicuousness. But for one Tucked up under some of the taller midsummer's night each year, its shrubs, you may find several exqusitely scented flower opens as perennial plants. night falls, then closes forever with the first rays of the morning sun. Bottlebrush, Little John Cigar Plant Callistemon viminalis 'Little John' Cuphea ignea 'David Verity' from www.californiagardens.com: In from http://www.floridata.com: A fast many places Bottle Brush trees are grower and requires little attention. just too big. Callistemon Little John But it will command your attention as provides all of the interest in a small party place for all manner of package. The leaves and stature are butterflies and hummingbirds. Plant a reduced. The flowers, aside from mass of cigar plants near a window or being a deeper red are the same. the patio where you can enjoy They attract hummingbirds like almost watching hordes of happy no other plant. And they require hummingbirds come to feast on the almost no care beautiful banquet.

Butterfly Bush Copperleaf Buddleja davidii Acalypha amentacea ssp. wilkesiana from www.floridata.com from www.floridata.com: Copperleaf Butterfly bush is the perfect is a popular outdoor plant that foundation plant for a butterfly provides color throughout the year. It garden. The larger cultivars should be is used in mixed hedges and shrub placed behind other shrubs and borders and as a specimen shrub. blooming annuals and perennials. Elsewhere copperleaf is grown as an Dark flowered varieties show up quite annual where it's spectacular foliage well against a light background. Plant replaces flowers from late summer alongside pentas (Pentas lanceolata), until frost. lantana (Lantana camara) and zinnias Zinnia elegans) for non-stop butterfly activity, and find a place nearby for Coral Bean parsley (Petroselinum crispum), Erythrina herbacea passion vine (Passiflora incarnata) from article in Rockport Pilot by Ernie and other butterfly larval food plants. Edmundson: Sprouts large clusters of bright red tubular flowers in March or April. It loses its leaves in the winter and can be cut to the ground in very early spring. It develops seed pods when ripe split open to reveal bright coral seeds that are toxic. MASTER GARDNERS SPRING SALE - 03/22/2014 Page 12 of 18 Coralberry Firecracker Symphoricarpos orbiculatus Russelia equisetiformis from www.wildflower.org: This is a LARVAL HOST for: Common small, mound-shaped, deciduous Buckeye butterfly (Junonia coenia). shrub. The greenish-white flower Has a white varient. From clusters are not as showy as the www.magnoliagardensnusery.com: clusters of coral-pink to purple Produces thin wiry-like foliage and berries. Forms extensive colonies scarlet to coral tubular flowers. Great and spreads by rooting at the nodes for containers or for spilling over walls, where it touches the ground. A good much like a fountain. choice for a woodland garden.

Cuphea, Bat Face Firespike Cuphea llavea Odontonema tubiforme from from www.floridata.com: The www.magnoliagardensnursery.com: strikingly beautiful crimson flowers produces masses of 1" purple tubular and glossy/shiny leaves of firespike flowers. The tubes are lipped with two brighten the fall landscape. Plant upward facing pedals. These firespike in mixed shrub borders. It will resemble ears and the purple tips spread by underground sprouting, resemble the face of a bat, hence the enlarging to form a thicket, but it is common name. easy to control and keep contained.

Esperanza Flame Acanthus Tecoma stans Anisacanthus quadrifidus 'Wrightii' LARVAL HOST for: Plebeian sphinx LARVAL HOST for Janais Patch, moth (Paratrea plebeja). from Texan Crescent (Anthanassa texana) www.floridata.com: Var. stans is a comes back readily after a freeze. Central American tree that grows to From wildflower.org: This spreading, 25 ft. Arizona yellow bells (var. drought- and cold-tolerant shrub will angustata) is a 10 ft deciduous adapt to a variety of soils and does shrub. Gold Star Esperanza grows to well in patio pots. Cutting the plant 3-4 ft. Perfect for the South Texas back severely in winter will provide Gulf Coast. more blooms and encourage a bushier form.

Esperanza, Orange Star Gardenia veitchii Tecoma stans 'Orange Star' Gardenia jasminiodes 'Veitchii' from from www.monrovia.com: Highly www.magnoliagardensnursery.com: prized for the profusion of sweetly This plant is a orange flowering fragrant blooms, excellent for cut Tecoma that is very similar in looks to flowers. Beautiful specimen, its Tecoma stans Yellow Bells. Tecoma upright branches are covered with 'Orange Star' is an evergreen and can glossy foliage. Terrific container plant. reach 12' tall with a 6' spread at Evergreen. maturity.

Firebush Guava, Pineapple Hamelia patens Feijoa sellowiana From Michael Womack: . . . from www.floridata.com: Rarely have butterflies also use the large leaves any disease or pest problems. This is as roosting sites at night. from a good low maintenance shrub for hot www.floridata.com: It can be kept dry problem areas. If you are small by pruning. Firebush is a interested in fruit production purchase valuable addition to butterfly and cultivars selected for fruit quality, gardens. Also does climate, time of ripening and ability to well in containers. self-pollinate. MASTER GARDNERS SPRING SALE - 03/22/2014 Page 13 of 18 Hibiscus, Texas Star Lantana, Confetti Hibiscus coccineaus Lantana camara 'Confetti' from from www.magnoliagardennursery.com: www.magnoliagardensnursery.com: Tall, slender perennial Hibiscus that The blooms are tri-colored consisting produces large bright red, 5 petal of yellow, pink, and purple to wine flowers that has embassingly been colors that will fade with age and are mistaken as Cannabis sativa. Blooms great for attracting butterflies. Confettii on new growth and can be cut back Lantana will bloom late spring to fall after flowering to maintain size and and has an upright growth habit. The encourage new bloom. foliage is very aromatic and can irritate the skin of some people.

Honeysuckle, Mexican Lantana, Dallas Red spicigera Lantana camera 'Dallas Red' from mswn.com: Easily identified by from its bright orange, narrowly tubular www.magnoliagardensnursery.com: flowers. One of the few compact growth habit and is great for desertadapted plants that works well attracting butterflies into the garden. in shady locations. It can be planted Lantana is drought tolerant, salt on north exposures, under desert tolerant, deer tolerant, is very trees, or other shady spots. Its lush adaptable and had outstanding heat foliage makes it an ideal addition. tolerance. Texas Grown, Tested in Texas to perform outstanding for Texas Gardens.

Jasmine, Sambac Lantana, Texas Jasminum sambac Lantana urticoides Susceptable to rust diseases. From from Michael Womack in the CCCT www.floridata.com: bushy vine or 03/22/2008: The most effective use scrambling shrub with shiny dark of these plants is often mass plantings green leaves and fragrant little white in sunny areas with well-drained flowers. Expect an Arabian jasmine soils. Often found along fenceposts to grow no more than 6-10 ft high and where it is protected from mowing. just as wide in frostfree areas. The native form is considered the best variety for hummingbirds and butterflies because of its high nectar content.

Jatropha Loquat, Coppertone Jatropha integerrima Eriobotrya deflexa var. Coppertone Jatropha is a very diverse genus from www.ocnursery.com: This which includes cactus like succulents, selection of Loquat makes a desirable herbaceous perennials, and woody hedge, screen or espalier. It has leaf trees. As with most members of characteristics similar to species, but Euphorbiaceae, the milky sap can be the flowers are pink instead of white. a strong irritant to skin. Most parts of Coppertone Loquat matures to a the plant can be toxic if ingested. more compact from which makes it a suitable courtyard specimen.

Kidneywood, Texas Mistflower, Fragrant Eysenhardtia texana Chromolaena odorata from http://www.wildflower.org: Much- from http://www.wildflower.org: branched shrub, with an open, airy Branched stems curve upward and structure. Flowers white, small, with a are 2-6 ft. in height. Triangular- delicate fragrance, arranged in spikes shaped leaves are virtually evergreen up to 4 inches long at the ends of in extreme S TX. Lilac flowers cluster branchlets. This tree and its relative together into showy, ageratum-like Kidneywood (E. polystacha) were flower heads. once used in remedies for kidney and bladder ailments. MASTER GARDNERS SPRING SALE - 03/22/2014 Page 14 of 18 Olive, Fragrant Tea Pride of Barbados Osmanthus fragrans Caesalpinia pulcherrima Brilliant scarlet and yellow flowers, feathery foliage, and quick growth make Dwarf Poinciana a popular evergreen shrub. It is hard to find a more attractive flower. This open- branched, fine-textured shrub will tolerate hot, dry areas, and forms an effective thorny barrier. It flowers year-round with peak displays in spring and fall.

Pigeonberry Rose, Martha Gonzales Rivina humilis Rosa 'Martha Gonzales' not drought tolerant. from article in from www.davesgarden.com Rockport Pilot by Ernie Edmundson: Suze_ from Bastrop County, TX Often hidden under prickly leaved (Zone 8b) wrote: This is just a Agarita, you will often find fantastic plant/shrub for Texas. Cute Pigeonberry. Protected from the deer as a button, new growth tends to be and the sun by the Agarita, darkish foliage, has a sort of Pigeonberry blooms with pink or white Victorian/'eclectic' look to me. Fairly clusters of flowers and tiny red fruit, drought tolerant and disease both at the same time. resistant. Super easy to maintain, just give it a light trim in late winter/early spring if desired. Can also be shaped into a low hedge. Plumbago, White Plumbago auriculata 'alba' Rose, Rock from www.floridata.com: Use Pavonia lasiopetala plumbago in borders, foundation from www.wildflower.org: Pavonia plantings, and for color massed in makes an excellent choice for beds. Many gardeners use plumbago landscaping. Able to survive the as a background or filler plant under summer heat, its profusion of brilliant and in front of shrubs that have flowers adds a colorful touch to a dry stronger frameworks. Plumbago can landscape. Attractive, Blooms be pruned as a formal hedge, or used ornamental, Easily grown, Perennial in mixed informal hedges. garden.

Plumeria Plumeria rubra Sage, Compact Texas from www.floridata.com: Plumeria is Leucophyllum frutescens 'Compacta' perfect as a patio tree or as lawn www.westongardens.com: Dense, specimen. Use shrubbier forms in compact form of species. Silvery mixed hedges where they contribute leaves and bell-shaped lavender color and texture. Plant plumerias flowers off and on all summer. Very near porches and bedroom windows drought tolerant. Useful as a hedge, so that its delightful frangrance can be in a mass or in the perennial border. enjoyed on summer evenings.

Poinciana, Mexican Caesalpinia mexicana Sage, Green Cloud Texas from http://aggie- Leucophyllum frutescens 'Green Cloud horticulture.tamu.edu: Mexican from poinciana is found in Texas only in www.magnoliagardensnursery.com: the extreme lower Rio Grande Valley. Texas Sage is a native to Texas and It is grown mainly for its highly Mexico and will tolerate limestone, fragrant, golden flowers borne in sand, and clay soils as long as they attractive racemes 3 to 6 inches long. are well drained. This plant is also It is highly ornamental with its heat, drought, and salt tolerant, but spectacular flowers and ferny foliage, definitely not humidity tolerant.The and thrives in heat, tolerating foliage is more green than other reflected heat. cultivars which are usually silvery gray. MASTER GARDNERS SPRING SALE - 03/22/2014 Page 15 of 18 Sage, Mexican Bush Sotol, Texas Salvia leucantha Dasylirion texanum from www.floridata.com: Mexican from aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu: bush sage, with its graceful arching Light green leaves, a short trunk, and stems and soft downy foliage, is one spectacular flower stalks from 9 to 15 of our favorite salvias. The fuzzy feet tall. The leaves have purple calyces are the main show, dangerously sharp spines or teeth and these persist even after the along their margins, so they must be actual flowers have fallen off, making planted away from pedestrian areas Mexican bush sage one of the few unless they are used for security salvias suitable for use as a cut flower. barriers.

Senna, Flowering Thryallis Senna corymbosa Galphimia gracilis from www.backyardgardener.com: from www.floridata.com: This shrub is Upright to spreading, evergreen one of the best for shearing into low shrub. Leaves are pinnate and hedges. Use in foundation plantings yellowish green with lance-shaped beneath windows where it's dense leaflets. Many corymbs of yellow thicket of stems will discourage flowers bloom in summer. prowlers. Thryallis makes a great background plant for perennial beds. Mass this shrub for large scale groundcovers.

Shrimp Plant Vitex, Purple Justicia brandegeeana Vitex trifolia 'Purpurea' withstands wind and sand, will freeze from www.monrovia.com: to ground but regrow, from Exceptional accent shrub or small tree www.floridata.com: Use shrimp plant for warm, dry climates. Distinctively in mixed perennial beds and borders, colored leaves have showy purple wherever you want a mass of undersides. Clusters of small purple continuous color - they bloom almost blooms attract butterflies and an all year long! Keep the bushes tip excellent nectar source for pruned to promote bushiness and honeybees. Small black berries follow increase flowering. the flowers. Semi-evergreen to evergreen.

Skyflower, Variegated Vitex, Variegated Duranta erecta var. variegata Vitex trifolia 'Variegata' from www.smgrowers.com: This May be invasive. from variegated form has creamy-yellow http://hort.ufl.edu: This fast growing margins around the one inch long shrub is popular for its variegated serrated leaves. In mild climates this foliage and pretty blue flowers . Vitex plant can be in flower nearly year will reach a height of 10 to 12 feet round with flowers and fruit appearing and quickly becomes tree-like if at the same time. It does best in full neglected or trained to encourage sun with frequent deep watering and multi-trunk development. However, is hardy to about 20-25 ° F. this plant creates a nice, dense shrub if it is properly pruned.

Skyflower, White Yucca, Red Duranta erecta 'Alba' Hesperaloe parviflora from www.davesgarden.com: artcons from wildflower.org: Not a yucca, this from Fort Lauderdale, FL (Zone 10) member of the Century-Plant family wrote: I have had my "White Sky" produces soft, yucca-like, evergreen Alba about 8 years. I started it from a leaves, 2-3 ft. in length. The flower cutting. It's a large bush with stalk rises 5 ft. and bears showy, coral- spreading branches that can easily be colored, tubular flowers occur on controlled via trimming. It's a fast arching, wand-like, pink stems. grower but requires a lot of space to Leaves are plum-colored in winter; mature and bloom. blue-green other times. MASTER GARDNERS SPRING SALE - 03/22/2014 Page 16 of 18 PALMS, PALM-LIKE & TREES Crepe Myrtle, Basham's Party Pink Lagerstroemia indica x fauriei Anacacho Orchid Tree from Bauhinia lunarioides http://bashamlandscapewoodlands.co Anacacho Orchid is a great small m: This gentle lavender-pink flowering tree for Central Texas crapemyrtle is a fast growing, larger landscapes. It reaches only 10 feet in form. It can grow over 20 feet and is height and provides a light to medium slightly resistant to mildew and shade. The foliage is interesting, as aphids. To encourage a second flush the split leaves resemble a cloven of flowers, remove old flowers with hoof. Does best in full sun. hand pruners.

Crepe Myrtle, Natchez Lagerstroemia x faurei 'Natchez' Anaqua from http://www.tree-land.com: Ehretia anacua Developed by the US National from http://aggie- Arboretum in 1978, The Natchez horticulture.tamu.edu: It is subtropical Crape Myrtle was one of the first and if planted as far north as Dallas it hybrids released and is certainly the will freeze back in cold winters, and most popular. The Natchez Crape rarely develop flowers. It is sometimes Myrtle produces long lasting clusters called sandpaper tree because of the of white flowers. It has very good rough texture of the leaves. It blooms resistance to powdery mildew. from spring through summer with white, fragrant flowers that cover the tree in dense clusters. Cypress, Bald Taxodium distichum Bay, Red from www.wildflower.org: This lofty, Persea borbonia deciduous conifer grows 50-75 ft. or from article in Rockport Pilot by Ernie taller. Called the wood eternal Edmundson. Not to be confused with because of the heartwoods resistance the cooking bay, Lauris nobilis. This to decay, Bald Cypress is used for evergreen shrub, a member of the heavy construction, including docks, laurel family, has shiny dark green warehouses, boats, bridges, as well aromatic leaves cooks use as a as general millwork and interior trim. substitute for the cooking bay. In the fall it produces dark blue berries.

Cypress, Mediterranean Cupressus sempervirens Bottlebrush from www.wikipedia.com: Callistemon rigidus Mediterranean Cypress has been from widely cultivated as an ornamental www.magnoliagardensnursery.com: tree for millennia away from its native This Bottlebrush has a bushy growth range, mainly in other areas with habit with stiff stems and stiff linear similar hot, dry summers and mild, shaped leaves and will do best on a rainy winters, including California, well-drained soil. In the summer this southwest South Africa and southern Callistemon will bloom sporting bright Australia. Not native to Italy. red flowers.

Elm, Cedar Ulmus crassifolia Buckeye, Mexican The Latin species name means thick Ungnadia speciosa leaf. Dominant species in the woods from http://aggie- of much of Central Texas. Larval host horticulture.tamu.edu: Pink flowers for the Mourning Cloak & Question bloom simultaneously as it leafs out Mark butterflies. Although it is with light bronze colored leaflets - fall susceptible to Dutch Elm Disease, it color is golden yellow. Used as a appears to be less of a problem with it large multi-trunk shrub or trained into than it is with American Elm, U. a small tree. Not related to Ohio americana, or Winged Elm, U. alata. Buckeye. MASTER GARDNERS SPRING SALE - 03/22/2014 Page 17 of 18 Holly, Yaupon Palm, Queen Ilex vomitoria Arecastrum romanzoffianum LARVAL HOST for Henry's Elfin from www.monrovia.com: With its butterfly. From Ernie Edmundson: crinkled fronds, Queen is among the Grows naturally at the base of live most graceful of the palms. This oaks and can be easily saved. It stately landscape palm grows more grows in either full sun or deep shade, frost tolerant as it ages, but won't although it does best in the filtered stand up to a hard or prolonged sunshine under live oaks. This is a freeze. A good candidate for desirable evergreen shrub or small oceanfront landscapes and larger tree, being drought, flood, and freeze homesites inland, provided there are tolerant. few gusts of hot wind to tatter its fronds. Laurel, Texas Mountain Palm, Texas Sabal Sophora secundiflora Sabal mexicana LARVAL HOST for Bordered Patch from www.floridata.com: The Texas butterfly; from www.wildflower.org: palm fruit is edible and called very popular as a native evergreen micharo. The Texas palm is one of ornamental tree, valued for its only two palms that are native to handsome, dark green foliage and Texas, the other being the much lush early spring blooms. It is drought- smaller dwarf palmetto (Sabal minor). tolerant. Tolerates salty soil, constant southeast wind, storm winds, salt spray and occasional sand blasting. May take 10 years to form a trunk. No thorns on petiole. Oak, Bur Pecan Quercus macrocarpa Carya illinoensis from www.wikipedia.com: The acorns from http://uvalde.tamu.edu: The are the largest of any North American leaves are between 9 and 20 inches oak. Typically grows in the open, long. The Pecan grows best in river away from forest canopy.. It is also a bottom soils. Pecans are planted as fire-resistant tree, and possesses ornamentals and for their edible nuts. significant drought resistance by The nut is eaten by various wildlife, virtue of a long taproot. It commonly such as birds, squirrels, opossums, lives to be 200 to 300 years old. raccoons and peccaries. The wood Outstanding ornamental tree. can be used for furniture, flooring and fuel.

Olive, Wild Persimmon, Texas Cordia boissieri Diospyros texana Hardy as far north as San Antonio. Beautifully textured peeling bark Fruit may make livestock disoriented if combined with fine textured dark eaten to excess. Needs water to get green foliage that stays evergreen in established but drought-tolerant the southern range, intricate afterwards. branching, and wide range of suitable environments for growth, make it worthy use in modern landscapes, especially those with limited space.

Orchid Tree Redbud, Mexican Bauhinia variegata Cercis canadensis 'Mexicana' from www.floridata.com: Orchid tree from http://aggie- is used as a street tree or a shade horticulture.tamu.edu: Mexican tree. It bears beautiful fragrant redbud is smaller in stature, has flowers abundantly in late winter and smaller, glossier, and more wavy- early spring and intermittently through edged leaves, and is more drought summer. Orchid trees have brittle tolerant than Texas redbud. It grows branches. as a multi-trunked tree on hard limestone soils in west Texas. It cannot tolerate poorly drained soils. MASTER GARDNERS SPRING SALE - 03/22/2014 Page 18 of 18 Redbud, Texas Cercis canadensis var. texensis from www.floridata.com: Often used as a street tree planted 25-35 ft apart. They also make good framing trees for small homes. Redbud is great for providing shade for patios and for a spring accent tree. The flowers are one of the first signs of spring, opening about the time of the dogwoods and azaleas. Member of the pea family.

Retama Parkinsonia aculeata from http://aggie- horticulture.tamu.edu: Graceful tree with bright green bark. It can be single stemmed or multi-trunked, and because it has long thin leaves it casts only dappled shade. The yellow flowers with red-orange throats are borne in spring or early summer. Needle-like thorns can be maintenance and pedestrian hazards.

Schefflera Schefflera actinophylla from www.floridata.com: Use for screens, windbreaks, hedges, specimens, street plantings, and patios. A popular container plant for use indoors and out. Used extensively in south Florida along freeways and turnpikes. Trim to one trunk for a more tree-like specimen with additional height.

Wax Myrtle Morella cerifera from article in Rockport Pilot by Ernie Edmundson: Is found growing wild in coastal areas most often in low-lying moister areas, but will adapt to dryer conditions and, like the other understory trees, in the shadow of live oaks.

Willow, Desert 'Bubba' Chilopsis linearis 'Bubba' from http://tree-land.com: The Desert Willow 'Bubba' has become one of the most popular Chilopsis linearis cultivars because of it's beautiful and fragrant trumpet shaped pink- burgundy flowers. No seed pods.