MASTER GARDNERS FALL SALE - 9/21/2013 Page 1 of 18 BULBS, FERNS, MISC. Donkey Ears Kalanchoe gastonis-bonnieri Airplane Plant, Variegated from www.plant-care.com: Unlike Chlorophytum comosum 'Variegatum' other succulents, Kalanchoe donkey can be all green, Pale green ear grows fast and can tolerate with white or yellow central stripe or almost any condition. It looks best green with wihte margins. Excellent outdoors; just take it back in during for hanging baskets or can be used winter and place it in any bright- as groundcover under trees or in a window indoors. In landscaping, very protected patio.Sends daughter Kalanchoe donkey ear is used as a off by shoot. Here's more than low-rise specimen plant. Kalanchoe you need to know about this plant. donkey ear plants can also be grown Http://goto.glocalnet.net/natal/amp/am pel.htm Fern, Foxtail Protasparagus densiflorus var. Myersii Aloe The cultivar 'Myersii' (foxtail fern) is Aloe vera also great for containers. It has a from www.thegardenhelper.com: All neater, more restrained look than the Aloes are semitropical succulent 'Sprengeri' fern; stiffly upright stems to plants, and may only be grown 2' long, with very dense, cylindrical outdoors in areas where there is no plume-like foliage, giving the plant a chance of freezing. However, they fluffy, cloud-like appearance. The make excellent house plants when stems are like bottle brushes, 2-3" in they are given sufficient light. Potted diameter, and tapering gradually to Aloes benefit from spending the the tips. summer outdoors. Fern, Macho Nephrolepis biserrata , Thornless Pricklypear This is the ideal fern for LARGE Opuntia stricta baskets. It looks fine finished as a 6" May be invasive. from pot up to a 10" basket and even as www.wikipedia.com: Commonly gallons for growing outdoors Do keep known known as Erect Prickly Pear, is in mind that this is the grandaddy of a of cactus from southern all the Nephrolepis baskets. If it is to North America and Central America. be a landscape fern, it can take full It produces lemon yellow in sun for much of the day. the spring and summer, followed by purplish-red fruits. It has been introduced to South and Australia where it has become an invasive weed. Lily of the Nile, Ellamae Agapanthus x 'Ellamae' Delosperma (Ice Plant) from Delosperma cooperi www.magnoliagardensnursery.com: from www.plantszafrica.com: This It is grown for the dark, glossy, strap- predominantly summer rainfall genus shaped leaves that arch gracefully. has long been overlooked as a Flowers are borne on long erect garden plant. Growth forms vary stems 3 feet or taller. Agapanthus vastly and showy flowers are make good background plants or produced over long periods, thus edging along a fence, driveway, or making them ideal rockery subjects, wall. These plants can thrive on while some species form low, dense conditions of neglect and naturalize clumps and are more suitable as readily. This is a very vigorous grower. groundcovers in shady spots. Lily, Australian Canna Canna 'Australia' Desert Rose from www.plantdelights.com: We obesum have grown a lot of purple-foliaged from www.plantoftheweek.org: cannas but never anything like this. Succulent member of the oleander The deep burgundy-black tropical- family. Desert Rose needs to have a looking foliage has a satin-like sheen soil mix of sand or brick chips mixed and the intense color holds superbly into regular soil, or a cactus mix. The during the summer heat. The foliage soil should dry completely between rises to 4-5', topped with a waterings. Water sparingly during magnificent display of large, shocking winter months. All parts of the plant red flowers. are poisonous. MASTER GARDNERS FALL PLANT SALE - 9/21/2013 Page 2 of 18 Lily, Spider Moss Rose Hymenocallis liriosme Portulaca grandiflora from http://www.wildflower.org: An from www.floridata.com: Moss rose elegant and unusual-looking , makes a beautiful ground cover in a the spider lily has a stem 1–3 feet dry or rocky area, although it cannot high, with 2 or 3 blossoms at the top. be walked on. Use moss rose as The flower has 3 white sepals and 3 edging at the front of borders or in the petals which are alike and unite to cracks in a rock wall, or the spaces form a tube 2–4 inches long, narrow between stepping stones. It's perfect but spreading. The flowers are quite for a hot, dry, south facing slope. fragrant.

Mother of Thousands/Millions SMALL PERENNIALS Kalanchoe daigremontiana various sources: Not cold-hardy. Alder, Yellow They like sun and partial shade and Turnera ulmifolia can withstand hot temperatures if May be invasive. From given regular water. All parts of this www.davesgarden.com: The two- plant are poisonous if ingested. After inch wide, bright yellow flowers open a year or two of maturing the mother in the morning and are closed by of thousands will flower usually in late noon. It has tiny seeds that sow winter. It grows plantlets along the prolifically. It will often grow out of a 's edges. crack in the sidewalk after a seed germinates there.

Queen's Tears Billbergia zebrina They are generally epiphytic. They Aster grow on rock from southern to Aster patens var. patens northern Argentina with the greatest from http://www.wikipedia.com: The number found in Brazil. They require name Aster comes from the Ancient strong light to enhance leaf coloration Greek word astron, meaning "star". and beautiful markings. These Many species and a variety of hybrids superior foliage plants will tolerate dry and varieties are popular as garden air. Their few leaves grow upright plants because of their attractive and forming a narrow rosette. colourful flowers. Aster species are used as food plants by the larvae of a number of butterflies. ANNUALS Celery Aster, Fall Apium graveolens Symphyotrichum oblongifolium from www.eol.org: Celery is a from Michael Womack: Few plants biennial which produces in the first are more striking in fall than this year an upright rosette of leaves (40 native plant that is known for to 60 cm in height) with closely blue flowers and yellow centers. appressed succulent leaf stalks. In the Even if your goal is not butterfly second year, it produces a tall attraction, you definitely want to flowering stem with terminal and consider this perennial favorite to axillary umbels of small, greenish- liven up your fall garden. Despite its white flowers that give rise to tiny 1.5 name, this plant blooms again in the mm long tiny fruits. spring if you remove the spent blossoms. Coneflower, Cheyenne Spirit Basil, Sweet Echinacea 'Cheyenne Spirit' Ocimum basilicum from www.parkseeds.com: Bright from wikipedia.com: Basil is most daisies of cream, yellow, gold, commonly recommended to be used orange, scarlet, red, and purple top fresh; in cooked recipes, it is generally these stocky little plants from added at the last moment, as cooking midsummer all the way into fall, quickly destroys the flavor. The fresh replacing themselves without you herb can be kept for a short time in having to cut or deadhead them, plastic bags in the refrigerator, or for a blooms the very first year. longer period in the freezer, after being blanched quickly in boiling water. MASTER GARDNERS FALL PLANT SALE - 9/21/2013 Page 3 of 18 Begonia, Cane Caricature Plant Begonia coccinea Graptophyllum pictum Begonia coccinea is a species from begonia native to Brazil. Many hybrids www.missouribotanicalgarden.org: have been produced using it as a tropical evergreen that will grow parent. Plant has thick, leathery, solid to 6-9’ tall and primarily grown for its bright-green leaves with a soft sheen variegated foliage. Oval to elliptic and bright red flowers. Variants in leaves (to 6” long) are deep green flower color include dark pink and varyingly blotched with cream along deep coral/salmon. the midveins. Common name derives from the leaf markings resembling the profile of a human face.

Blue Daze Carolina Reaper Pepper Plant Evolvulus glomeratus 'Blue Daze' Capsicum chinense x 'Carolina Reape from www.floridata.com: The feltlike rom www.localharvest.org: This is an gray-green foliage and pale blue extremely hot variety developed by a flowers make blue daze a standout in grower named Ed Currie who created beds and borders or as a ground this chile plant variety by crossing a cover.Blue daze is spectacular in Pakistani Naga with a Red hanging containers. It is highly Habanero. It has been Scoville tested tolerant of salt and makes a fine and has a heat level of over ornamental for the coastal garden. 1,400,000. Plants grow slow in the Let it cascade over a window box or a beginning like Nagas but are very porch planter. productive.

Brazilian Button Chaya Centratherum intermedium Cnidoscolus chayamansa from www.backyardgardener.com: from www.toptropicals.com: Chaya is Attractive, fluffy, lavender-blue, button- a little known leafy green vegetable of like flowers approx 2cm (¾in) across dry regions of the tropics. The name are produced all summer on bushy comes from the Mayan chay. plants with unusual, pineapple However, raw chaya leaves are highly fragrant foliage. Very heat and poisonous. They contain a high drought tolerant, attracting butterflies content of hydrocyanic acid. In this and adding fragrance to borders or respect chaya is similar to cassava. containers. self-sows freely.

Bulbine Chile Pequin Bulbine frutescens Capsicum annuum from plantzafrica.com: Bulbine from texasnature.blogspot.com: frutescens is often used in Cilipiquins, the wild progenitor of the landscaping where a drought- jalapeno pepper, packs a wallop that resistant, tough groundcover is surpasses all of the cultivated hot required. It also has its value in the peppers. The little yellow to bright home garden. This plant is ideal to green berries, about an inch long and grow and is a useful first-aid remedy conical or egg-shaped, ripen in fall. for childrens' daily knocks and They can be used fresh or dried and scrapes. stored.

Butterfly Bush, Wooly Chives, Garlic Buddleia marrubiifolia Allium tuberosum from www.nativesoftexas.com: Plant from www.davesgarden.com: this West Texas native in full sun and pajaritomt from Los Alamos, NM watch the butterflies congregate. The (Zone 5a) wrote: I love this plant. I round orange and yellow blooms are use the leaves stir fried with meat or a great contrast to the silver gray seafood. I sprinkle flowers on salads. foliage. Be sure to plant in a well It does spread readily over time, but I drained site and give it plenty of room find more uses over time. The lacy to grow to its 4 by 4 feet size. It likes flowers are lovely in late summer. limestone soils and blooms from March to September. MASTER GARDNERS FALL PLANT SALE - 9/21/2013 Page 4 of 18 Coral Creeper Devil's Trumpet Barleria repens Datura metel from www.plantszafrica.com: Fast- All parts are poisonous. from growing and wonderfully easy-going, www.floridata.com: The flowers are Barleria repens will adapt to a number short-lived, opening in the evening of situations. Plant it in a large and lasting a single day, and have a container, or on top of a low wall, pleasant fragrance only for a short where its foliage and flowers can while. The upside is that the plants cascade down and show to bloom over a long period in warm advantage. weather, right up to the first frost.

Cordyline, Red Sensation Fennel, Bronze Cordyline australis ‘Red Sensation’ Foeniculum vulgare 'Rubrum' from LARVAL HOST for Swallowtail www.magnoliagardensnursery.com: butterflies: from With it’s long, tropical looking leaves, www.nichegardens.com: Bronze Cordyline ‘Red Sensation’ is an Fennel is easily identified by tall, exceptional plant to use for height billowy masses of aromatic, bronzy- and texture in container plantings. green, feathery foliage. Tiny, mustard- Red Sensation Cordyline has a yellow flowers sway in the bronzy red foliage and grows to about summertime breeze atop large flat 36 inches tall and it’s leaves are umbels, eventually yielding multitudes longer and more narrow than that of of seeds. the Dracaenas. Crown-of-Thorns Fern, Acacia Euphorbia milii Acacia angustissima from www.floridata.com: Grown for its from www.wildflower.org: This long lasting, colorful petal-like bracts shrub’s thornless stems are graceful which surround inconspicuous little and wand-like. Round masses of flowers. Although often grown in pots creamy white or salmon-colored on the patio, this thorny succulent is flowers resembling shaving brushes, perfect for rock gardens and sunny rising on slender stalks from the axils borders. Crown of thorns is salt of compound leaves. This attractive tolerant and often used in frostfree native legume has seeds that are rich coastal areas, even quite near the in protein; the plant is readily eaten by sea. livestock.

Daisy, Blackfoot Four O'Clock Melampodium leucanthemum Mirabilis jalapa Plains Blackfoot is a low bushy from www.floridata.com: Four perennial growing from 8 to 12 inches o'clocks are rugged little perennials, in height. It can be found in rocky, long popular in southern gardens, gravelly, calcareous or sandy soils of and often persisting even after the the Edwards Plateau. The leaves garden has been abandoned. The have rough hairs and are 1 to 2 stems are rather fragile and brittle and inches in length. The flower head often get broken. A sweetly scented consists of 7 to 13 white ray flowers four o'clock growing near the front and 25 to 50 yellow disk flowers and door is a pleasant southern tradition. blooms from April to October. The leaves and flowers are readily eaten by white-tailed deer. Gaura, White Daisy, Copper Canyon Gaura lindheimeri Tagetes lemmonii from www.floridata.com: White gaura from www.floridata.com: What is that is well adapted to the hot summers of smell? Ripe passionfruit...mint...a hint the southern US, and it has proven to of camphor. Brush by the foliage of be a winner elsewhere as well. It may mountain marigold and you are hit not be the flashiest flower in the with a distinctive, pungent fragrance. garden, but it is durable and Mountain marigold, or Copper dependable! Canyon daisy, is a sprawling, shrubby perennial daisy with delicately filigreed highly aromatic foliage. MASTER GARDNERS FALL PLANT SALE - 9/21/2013 Page 5 of 18 Geranium, Scented Indigo Spires Pelargonium sp. Salvia x. 'Indigo Spires' from www.britannica.com: The This striking Salvia was discovered aromatic, or scented-leaved, growing at Huntington Botanical geraniums are found in several Gardens in California in the 1970s. species, including P. abrotanifolium, Indigo Spires tends to keep growing P. capitatum, P. citrosum, P. crispum, and growing and then falls over under P. graveolens, and P. odoratissimum. its own weight. Constant pruning and Minty, fruity, floral, and spicy pinching will keep it in bounds, and fragrances are released readily when removing the flower spikes after most their leaves are rubbed or bruised. of the flowers have dropped off will encourage more blooming.

Ginger, Non-Variegated Iris, Blue Alpinia zerumbet non-variegated Iris sanguinea from www.wikipedia.com: This plant from www.wikipedia.com: Up to 300 is a rhizomatous, ever green tropical species – many of them natural perennial that grows in upright clumps hybrids – have been placed in the 8-10 feet tall in tropical climates. In genus Iris. Irises are used in mass in more typical conditions, it reaches 4-8 flower beds and in borders. Allow feet tall in the green house, and 3-4 irises to spread in a lightly shaded feet tall, as a house plant. wooded area in the back of the garden.

Grass, Lemon Kalanchoe, Christmas Cymbopogon citratus Kalanchoe blossfeldiana from floridata.com: Gardeners in from www.desert-tropicals.com: Use subtropical areas will enjoy using house plant fertilizer for actively lemongrass in beds and borders. It growing plants. Blooms in winter, and also does well in tubs and containers. needs uninterrupted 14-hour nights It is especially nice along walkways for a month and a half before where plants release fragrance when blooming. brushed against by passersby.

Guara, Perky Pink Lamb's Ear Gaura lindheimeri 'Perky Pink' Stachys byzantina from www.provenwinners.com: Each from www.landscaping.about.com: flowering stem adds blooms, Stachys byzantina plants are widely continuously to the end of the spike. used in borders. They spread readily, As time goes on, the flowering stems making them effective groundcovers, can get rather long and tangled. if you don’t mind them taking over. Although deadheading isn't Their drought-tolerance makes them necessary for continued blooming you candidates for rock gardens. Their may find that you prefer to trim back silvery color is fun to play with when some of the flowering stems at some experimenting with color theory in point in mid-summer. your landscape design.

Hoya Lantana, Florida Red Mound Hoya sp. Lantana camara 'Florida Red Mound' from www.wikipedia.com: Hoya is a from www.floridafriendlyplants.com: genus of 200-300 species of tropical Compact hybrid that is not seedy and climbing plants in the family invasive. (Dogbane), native to southern Asia (India east to southern China and southward), Australia, and Polynesia. Common names for this genus are waxplant, waxvine, waxflower or simply hoya. MASTER GARDNERS FALL PLANT SALE - 9/21/2013 Page 6 of 18 Lily, Variegated Flax Obedient Plant Dianella tasmanica 'Variegata' Physostegia virginiana Scale insects can be a problem. from from www.floridata.com: www.monrovia.com: With its narrow, Physostegias are widely used in reed-like foliage and a bonus of wildflower meadows and water variegation, this plant is dramatic in garden fringes, as well as in more natural gardens, with Asian themes or civilized borders. They are especially as a stark vertical texture in the spare, easy to arrange because flowers modern landscape. Contrasts well pushed to face a different direction against very large-leafed, shade- from the stem will stay in their new loving and bronzy-colored positions obediently, which is where plants. the plant got its name.

Lion's Tail Oregano, Mexican Leonotis menthifolia Lippia graveolens from http://toptropicals.com: After from www.davesgarden.com: sbates bloom, the new growth just keeps from Austin, TX wrote: This plant growing up through the flower. provides an amazing flavor to salsa's Shrubby, semi-woody, perennial or when used fresh. Use just the leaves, semi-evergreen subshrub to 2m high wash them and chop them. The with a 1m spread. Tolerates poor flavors combine very well with cilantro. soil. Spiny whorls of soft apricot- The plant is hardy and roots easily orange fuzzy flowers are held atop tall with cuttings. The flavor is much more erect stems that remind of a crows pungent and quite different than the nest on the mast of a ship. dried versions.

Marigold, Mexican Mint Party Time Tagetes lucida Alternanthera ficoidea 'Party Time' also Mexican Tarragon; from grown for the leaves, good "fill-in" www.floridata.com: Mexican tarragon plant is an attractive landscape ornamental. Use it in perennial borders where its shiny green leaves and little golden flowers make a polite, subtle statement. Use the flowers of Mexican tarragon fresh in salads and the leaves as a substitute for French tarragon.

Mint, Peppermint Pepper, Black Pearl Mentha X piperita Capsicum annuum 'Black Pearl' from www.davesgarden.com: mystic Aransas planting 03/01 & 08/10; from Ewing, KY wrote: Peppermint is http://www.usna.usda.gov: a sterile hybrid derived from a cross Developed at the National Arboretum between Mentha aquatica and in 2006, the plant grows taller and Mentha spicata. This is a vigorous, wider developing into a black pyramid creeping perennial that like all mints shape without pinching, pruning, or can be invasive.Peppermint leaves grooming. 'Black Pearl' is are used in herbal teas and salads. exceptionally heat tolerant and requires minimal water and fertilizer.

Mistflower, Gregg's Pincushion Flower Conoclinium greggii Scabiosa columbaria var. Butterfly Blu LARVAL HOST for Boardered Patch, from www.floridata.com: 'Butterfly Monarch, Queen, and Swallowtail Blue' is an ideal plant for a wild or butterflies; from Michael Womack: It butterfly garden or for the rock is a butterfly magnet with light bloom garden. Use scabious in a sunny fuzzy blossoms from late spring border or in front of beds of taller through fall. Its bright-green, frilly perennials. The sweet smelling leaves provide a nice texture to the flowers attract bees and butterflies garden, but the plants will usually die and last well as cut flowers. The dried back in fall and need to be cut to seedheads are attractive in ground level in winter. arrangements. MASTER GARDNERS FALL PLANT SALE - 9/21/2013 Page 7 of 18 Porterweed, Blue Sage, Tropical Stachytarpheta jamaicensis Salvia coccinea LARVAL HOST for: Tropical Buckeye LARVAL HOST for Painted Lady butterfly (Junonia genoveva). from butterfly (Vanessa cardui). From http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu: Plants grow article in Rockport Pilot by Ernie about 4 feet tall before stems droop Edmundson: Covered with bright red and touch the ground. Blue or pink flowers, is a perennial salvia. It flowers are borne terminally on long, makes a great ground cover in both stringy spikes at the ends of the shade or sun by just trimming back stems. Rich, dark green foliage is periodically with a line trimmer. displayed on square, green stems

Porterweed, Coral Salvia, Augusta Duelberg Stachytarpheta mutabilis Salvia farinacea 'Augusta Duelberg' from www.onlineplantguide.com: from www.plantdelights.com: This This is a perennial herb that it grown splendid selection of the Texas native for its coral colored flowers that are Salvia farinacea makes a compact produced on tall spikes above the 30" tall x 4' wide specimen, topped coarse textured foliage. The flowers from May until frost with hundreds of open from the bottom of the spike up spikes of silvery-white to the top over an extended period. A flowers…attractive to hummingbirds. top plant for butterflies. Obviously heat- and drought-tolerant, this native wildflower has been a real standout in our trials. Found in a graveyard. Redbird Flower Salvia, Henry Duelberg Pedilanthus tithymaloides Salvia farinacea 'Henry Duelberg' Also Devil's Backbone; from Texas leafcutting ant (Atta texana) www.toptropicals.com: Pedilanthus is can strip it overnight. from very easy to grow as a . It http://texassuperstar.com: Spikes of needs some protection from hot showy blue flowers from spring until summer sun, but it will be happiest in frost. More floriferous than other full sun during the fall and winter. cultivars. Texas native plant; found by Take care not to over-water, which Greg Grant in a small central Texas can cause rotting. The sap is cemetery. Taller with bluer and more moderately caustic. floriferous flowers and larger and greener leaves than modern cultivars.

Rosemary, False Salvia, Indigo Spires Conradina canescens Salvia var. Indigo Spires from www.wikipedia.com: This From an article by Ernie Edmondson species is found along the gulf coast in the Rockport Pilot 09/16/2009: of Mississippi, Alabama and Florida, Indigo Spires Salvia is an evergreen as well as in the sand hills of central perennial hybid of two native salvias Florida. It is the most common and with long purple flower spikes. It is a widespread species in the genus. spreading plant to three feet tall by six Suggested as a landscaping plant for feet wide requiring low to medium xeriscaping. Has flowers and scent water and full to partial sun. similar to those of Rosmarinus officinalis.

Rosemary, Upright Skeleton-Leaf Goldeneye Rosmarinus officinalis Viguiera stenoloba from mountainvalleygrowers.com: A from http://aggie- favorite Rosemary variety because of .tamu.edu: With its skeletal its carefree growth, great flavor and dark green leaves, golden daisies and dark blue flower. Leaves can be used rounded growth habit, it is an fresh or dried. If used fresh be sure to extremely ornamental shrub or sub- chop them very fine or use whole shrub. It adapts to most well-drained stems and remove from food before sites in full sun, and will benefit from serving. being cut back to maintain a dense shrubby appearance. MASTER GARDNERS FALL PLANT SALE - 9/21/2013 Page 8 of 18 Snakeroot, Wright's Zexmenia, Hairy wrightii Wedelia texana from http://aggie- larval plant for the Bordered Patch horticulture.tamu.edu: Low-growing, butterfly; from from spreading shrub with intricate leafy http://uvalde.tamu.edu: Can be found branches that bear clusters of fragrant in dry gravelly, calcareous, and rocky white flowers at their tips in soils of the South Texas Plains and September and October. Its small the Edwards Plateau. The yellowish- stature makes it most appropriate for orange flower head consists of gardens. Heavy shearing in the several disk flowers and seven to winter will promote a denser shape fifteen ray flowers. and more flowers.

Violet, Philippine GRASSES Barleria cristata from http://toptropicals.com Cordgrass, Prairie Grows into a shapely shrub with Spartina pectinata minimal pruning. The trumpet-shaped from www.wikipedia.com: This plant 2" flowers open in in terminal clusters can grow in a variety of habitat types, in November and continue into mid- but it is a facultative wetland species, December. This is an easy-to-grow most often found in wet habitats. shrub, about 3ft height, which can be These include fens, wet prairies, used for a garden hedge or tightly rivers, floodplains, ponds, moraines, clipped into geometrical shapes. and marshes. The grass is tolerant of Barleria is easily propagated from water, but it does not tolerate cuttings planted in fall directly in the prolonged flooding. ground. It requires some sun to flower profusely and occasional pruning to promote bushy growth. Grass, Mexican Feather Yarrow Nassella tenuissima Achillea millefolium Does well in the wind. from from wikipedia.com: Considered an www.taunton.org: No other grass especially useful companion plant, not exhibits quite the refinement of only repelling some bad insects while texture as this species. Its bright attracting good, predatory ones, but green foliage resembles delicate also improving soil quality. It attracts filaments that arise in elegant, vase- predatory wasps, which drink the like clumps and spill outward like a nectar and then use insect pests as soft fountain. All summer it bears a food for their larvae. Similarly, it profusion of feathery panicles. attracts ladybugs and hoverflies.

Inland Seaoats Yarrow, Moonshine Chasmanthium latifolium Achillea x 'Moonshine' One of the more shade tolerant of the from www.monrovia.com: An ornamental grasses. self-seeds and outstanding Mediterranean aromatic may become invasive. Leaving foliage for everlasting color in beds and in place over winter adds interest to borders. Works nicely in dryland the landscape and helps protect xeriscapes where it matches crowns from the cold. Cut back to the demands of arid western natives. ground in early spring. Seed heads Achillea x 'Moonshine' is a hybrid of flutter in the breeze, makes excellent A. taygetea, a native of Greece and dried arrangements. A. millefolium, the most common form.

Muhly, Bamboo Muhlenbergia dumosa from www.magnoliagardensnursery.com: This grass has fern-like leaves and a lacy texture giving it a Bamboo look. The growth habit is upward to slightly arching, this one is non-invasive because it is a clumper and does not seed well. Bamboo Muhly will tolerate some drought but it will look its best on a moist well-drained soil. MASTER GARDNERS FALL PLANT SALE - 9/21/2013 Page 9 of 18 Muhly, Big Basket Plant Muhlenbergia lindheimeri Callisia fragrans from www.wildflower.org: Native only from www.smgrowers.com: Callisia to the Edwards Plateau of central fragrans (Basket Plant) - A low Texas, Big muhly or Lindheimers growing perennial native of Mexico muhly has become increasingly with 6 to 10 inch long waxy green popular since the 1980s as an leaves arranged alternately with the elegant, large-scale specimen grass, bases overlapping so tightly that they large enough for screening. It can be appear to be in rosettes. The leaves a soft-textured substitute for have a slight purplish color introduced Pampas grass, which it underneath and on the upper margins approaches in stature. when in bright light

Muhly, Gulf Coast Bleeding Heart Muhlenbergia capillaris 'Filipes' Clerodendrum thompsoniae from from www.floridata.com: This is the http://www.magnoliagardensnursery.c common garden flower known as om: Absolutely one of the most Bleeding Heart. It likes high humidity beautiful ornamental grasses around. and moist soil.Outside the tropics, A North American native and more bleeding heart is usually grown in importantly a Texas Native Plant! Puts containers so it can be protected on a real show with flowers that look when temperatures fall below 45 F. It like a purple cloud from far away, can be kept pruned into a shrub, or giving a spectacular fall color show. given support and allowed to scramble like a vine.

Muhly, Weeping Blue Sky Vine Muhlenbergia palmeri Thunbergia grandiflora from www.nativesoftexas.com: This from http://toptropicals.com: The graceful muhley grass is native to most striking blue flowered vine in the but does well in the Texas Hill world, with a robust and twining habit Country. It has a graceful weeping producing long hanging clusters of 3" appearance and enjoys full sun. It is sky blue funnel shaped flowers from very drought tolerant when fall through spring, displayed established. Like the other grasses in throughout it's dense deep green this genera it blooms in the fall with foliage. Can be trellised or arbored to slender seed heads. It grows to 1½ create a spectacular sight! Hardy to or 2 feet tall. freezing.

VINES & GROUNDCOVERS Coral Vine Antigonon leptopus Allamanda rom Michael Womack: …is a native Allamanda cathartica vine that can grow from seeds, but from www.floridata.com: Grows well they are hard to find unless you in most soils, but becomes chlorotic in harvest them from a friend's plant. very alkaline conditions. Train up a This fast growing vine will grow up to trellis, tree, or side of a building where 20 feet in a year and cover a fence. there is support. Or prune and Its pink flower clusters in the fall maintain as a shrub. In areas where attract both hummingbirds and there is seasonal change, keep fairly butterflies while turning the heads of dry during winter and prune in spring. passers-by.

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. MASTER GARDNERS FALL PLANT SALE - 9/21/2013 Page 10 of 18 Cuban Blue Pea Vine Mexican Flame Vine Clitoria ternatea Pseudogynoxys chenopodioides from Micheal Womack: This fast from www.floridata.com: Use growing annual produces lots of Mexican flame vine to drape over bright blue flowers and a thin vine. It porch rails and mailboxes. It's expert will freeze, but the plant produces at improving the visual charm of chain seeds in pea pods that can be dried link fences. Use in mixed hedges to and kept to replant in future years. create splashes of summertime color. Look for it as a one-gallon plant. The It also looks great clambering up palm plants tend to get leggy very quickly, or pine tree trunks. Tends to be rather so pinching helps to keep it bushy. compact.

Grass, Aztec Passion Flower, Incense Liriope muscari 'Aztec' Passiflora 'Incense' from www.magnoliagardens.com: from Liriope muscari 'Aztec' (also sold as www.missouribotanicalgarden.org: Ophiopogon spp.) has a tufted Rapid growing, tendril-climbing, stoloniferous growth habit and can deciduous vine with three-lobed, dark get up to 24" tall. Aztec Grass has green leaves and complex, round, white spikes of bell shaped flowers in showy, 5" diameter flowers having the summer. This grass is prized for violet petals and sepals and a lighter its foliage. Aztec Grass is slow crown. Effective around sheds and growing and not overly cold-hardy. as a greenhouse plant.

Honeysuckle, Coral Snake Herb Lonicera sempervirens Dyschoriste linearis from www.wildflowers.org: This vine from http://www.wildflower.org: has showy, trumpet-shaped flowers, Several erect stems, 6–12 inches tall, red outside, yellow inside, in several grow from the root of this plant, the whorled clusters at the ends of the branches and stems are covered with stems. Papery, exfoliating bark is stiff, coarse hairs. They grow in the orange-brown in color. This beautiful, leaf axils on very short stems and are slender, climbing vine is frequently somewhat tucked in between the visited by hummingbirds. Not too leaves, scattered here and there on aggressive. Good climber or ground the main stem. cover.

Lantana, Purple Trailing Winecups Lantana montevidensis 'Purple' Callirhoe involucrata from Dr. Michael Womack: This Perennial herb, evergreen tough plant not only blossoms most of groundcover, widely distributed the year, but it is also drought and throughout Texas west to Arizona & sun hardy. The most effective use of north through Arkansas to Minnesota these plants is often mass plantings in & North Dakota, north to sunny areas with well-drained soils. Wyoming [The smaller the leaf, the smaller the - May go dormant in full sun, easily plant will be]. The shortest varieties of grown in dry to moist, well-drained lantana commonly are called trailing soils, long tap root gives plant good lantana. drought tolerance but makes transplanting difficult - no serious pests or diseases Mandevillea Mandevilla spp. - nectar & larval plant for common from www.floridata.com: Grow checkered skipper butterfly mandevilla for its pretty and prolific pink flowers, beautifully presented against the dark handsome foliage. It is a fast grower and is a great way to quickly screen an eyesore. It's a popular plant that is easy to procure at virtually all large chain garden centers in Florida and other warm climate areas. MASTER GARDNERS FALL PLANT SALE - 9/21/2013 Page 11 of 18 Wisteria, Texas Barbados Cherry, Dwarf Wisteria frutescens Malpighia glabra from www.wildflowers.org: Flowers fruit is edible and sometimes used for are in large, drooping clusters 6–9 preserves. from article in Rockport inches long that appear after the plant Pilot by Ernie Edmundson: The fruit has leafed out, a difference from the are edible in preserves. Dwarf popular Asian species. The blooms Barbados cherry makes a colorful only appear on new wood. Individual compact small shrub for part sun to flowers are nearly 1 inch long and are full sun locations in the landscape. lilac or bluish purple and quite Tucked up under some of the taller fragrant. shrubs, you may find several perennial plants.

SHRUBS Buddha Belly Plant Jatropha podagrica American Beautyberry from www.toptropicals.com: An Callicarpa americana attention grabber and a must in every from article in Rockport Pilot by Ernie tropical garden. It has a large bottle- Edmundson: Early spring is the time like caudex and huge leaves up to 10- to cut them down before they put on 12 inches in diameter. The more their new spring growth. They can be shade, the bigger the leaves. Makes a trimmed back almost to the ground, good potted plant but can also be however unpruned plants will develop used as a conversation piece a weeping effect . . . with purple, or in specimen in a small garden. some cases, white berries in the fall.

Buttonbush Cephalanthus occidentalis Angel's Trumpet from http://aggie- Brugmansia candida horticulture.tamu.edu: The flowers, from www.floridata.com: It can be one-inch white fragrant globes that pruned to a small tree with a single look like pincushions, appear from trunk, or allowed to grow in a clump June to August. They attract with several erect and spreading butterflies and hummingbirds, and at stems. Use it where you want to least 25 species of birds eat the make a bold statement. Its large, seeds, which resemble those of the coarse leaves and huge drooping sycamore tree and stay on the plant flowers will be the center of attention. throughout winter.

Candlestick, Giant Senna alata Artemisia, Powis Castle from Michael Womack: . . . another Artemisia x 'Powis Castle' must-have if you want the little yellow from www.floridata.com: Artemisia X or sulphur butterflies in your yard 'Powis Castle' is believed to be the since it provides both nectar and result of a cross between Artemisia leaves necessary for these small, pale arborescens and A. absinthium. This yellow butterflies. This plant grows is a beautiful silver-gray plant that extremely fast. It can grow from seed grows in a dense, billowing mound. to maturity of six to eight feet tall in Essentially evergreen in warm winter the same growing season. climates. Cut back in early spring to encourage new growth to come up from the bottom. Cenizo Leucophyllum frutescens Babybonnet from www.floridata.com 'Alba' has Coursetia axillaris white flowers, 'Rain Cloud' has violet- from http://aggie- blue. 'Green Cloud' produces green horticulture.tamu.edu: Pretty but foliage & pinkish flowers. 'Sierra elusive, babybonnet is rare in Texas, Bouquet' bears lavender-blue although it is common in blossoms. Pink flowered 'Compacta' in Mexico. Baby bonnets has a is a smaller variety used for low graceful natural form, eventually hedges. 'Bertstar Dwarf', aka spreading in a vase shape to be as "Silverado Sage", is exceptionally full wide as it is tall, and pruning should and dense even at the base. be restricted to removing dead branches only. MASTER GARDNERS FALL PLANT SALE - 9/21/2013 Page 12 of 18 Cenizo, Compact Desperado/Reneg Datura Leucophyllum frutescens 'Desperado' Datura stramonium Variants of the Compact Texas Sage. from www.floridata.com: The flowers Very drought tolerant. Useful as a open for only one evening, but new hedge, in a mass or in the perennial ones continue to open throughout the border. summer and autumn. Also known as jimsonweed which is a corruption of Jamestown, where early colonists noted jimsonweed growing in abundance. All parts of jimsonweed are very poisonous.

Cigar Plant Elbowbush Cuphea ignea 'David Verity' Forestiera angustifolia from http://www.floridata.com: A fast from http://aggie- grower and requires little attention. horticulture.tamu.edu: Evergreen But it will command your attention as shrub with stiff, dense branches that party place for all manner of come off the stems at a 90 degree butterflies and hummingbirds. Plant a angle, forming elbows. Male and mass of cigar plants near a window or female flowers are produced on the patio where you can enjoy separate plants, followed by a dark watching hordes of happy purple berry. Livestock and small hummingbirds come to feast on the mammals browse the twigs and fruit. beautiful banquet.

Copperleaf Esperanza Acalypha amentacea ssp. wilkesiana Tecoma stans from www.floridata.com: Copperleaf LARVAL HOST for: Plebeian sphinx is a popular outdoor plant that moth (Paratrea plebeja). from provides color throughout the year. It www.floridata.com: Var. stans is a is used in mixed hedges and shrub Central American tree that grows to borders and as a specimen shrub. 25 ft. Arizona yellow bells (var. Elsewhere copperleaf is grown as an angustata) is a 10 ft deciduous annual where it's spectacular foliage shrub. Gold Star Esperanza grows to replaces flowers from late summer 3-4 ft. Perfect for the South Texas until frost. Gulf Coast.

Coral Bean Esperanza, Orange Star Erythrina herbacea Tecoma stans 'Orange Star' from article in Rockport Pilot by Ernie from Edmundson: Sprouts large clusters www.magnoliagardensnursery.com: of bright red tubular flowers in March This plant is a orange flowering or April. It loses its leaves in the Tecoma that is very similar in looks to winter and can be cut to the ground in Tecoma stans Yellow Bells. Tecoma very early spring. It develops seed 'Orange Star' is an evergreen and can pods when ripe split open to reveal reach 12' tall with a 6' spread at bright coral seeds that are toxic. maturity.

Cuphea, Bat Face Firebush Cuphea llavea Hamelia patens from From Michael Womack: . . . www.magnoliagardensnursery.com: butterflies also use the large leaves produces masses of 1" purple tubular as roosting sites at night. from flowers. The tubes are lipped with two www.floridata.com: It can be kept upward facing pedals. These small by pruning. Firebush is a resemble ears and the purple tips valuable addition to butterfly and resemble the face of a bat, hence the hummingbird gardens. Also does common name. well in containers. MASTER GARDNERS FALL PLANT SALE - 9/21/2013 Page 13 of 18 Firecracker Hibiscus Russelia equisetiformis Hibiscus sp. LARVAL HOST for: Common MULTIPLE COLORS. From Buckeye butterfly (Junonia coenia). www.floridata.com: Use as a Has a white varient. From foundation plant around houses and www.magnoliagardensnusery.com: buildings in frost-free areas. The Produces thin wiry-like foliage and hibiscus is underused as a tree form. scarlet to coral tubular flowers. Great For a spectacular flowering tree, limb for containers or for spilling over walls, up at the base and allow to grow as it much like a fountain. will.

Firecracker, Red Hibiscus, Hawaiian Variegated Russelia sarmentosa Hibiscus tiliaceus 'Variegata' LARVAL HOST for Common Buckeye from www.floridata.com: Mahoe is butterfly (Junonia coenia); from grown as an ornamental throughout www.wikipedia.com: Russelia the tropics in both the New World and equisetiformis and Russelia Old World, hence the many common sarmentosa are commonly used to names. It is especially popular in hide unattractive retaining walls or Australia. Mahoe is salt tolerant and fences because they grow quickly and produces flowers almost all year long. have dense foliage. They will tolerate It makes an attractive specimen tree full sun to partial shade. As in beach-front settings. evergreens they bloom for most of the year. Flame Acanthus Hibiscus, Red Zinger Anisacanthus quadrifidus 'Wrightii' Hibiscus acetosella LARVAL HOST for Janais Patch, from www.wikipedia.com: Often used Texan Crescent (Anthanassa texana) to transfer genetic resistance to root- comes back readily after a freeze. knot nematodes with compatible From wildflower.org: This spreading, Hibiscus species. known for its drought- and cold-tolerant shrub will slightly sour or pleasantly tart young adapt to a variety of soils and does leaves which are commonly used as a well in patio pots. Cutting the plant vegetable, either raw or cooked. Not back severely in winter will provide the source for the trademarked Red more blooms and encourage a Zinger tea. bushier form.

Germander, Silver Bush Hibiscus, Texas Star Teucrium fruticans Hibiscus coccineaus from www.monrovia.com: The blue from flowers of this germander are much www.magnoliagardennursery.com: sought after in gardens. A good Tall, slender perennial Hibiscus that choice for poor soils. In cultivated produces large bright red, 5 petal gardens for over 300 years, it was flowers that has embassingly been introduced into Britain in the 18th mistaken as Cannabis sativa. Blooms century but proved of too limited on new growth and can be cut back hardiness and became a vital plant of after flowering to maintain size and Craftsman-era Los Angeles. encourage new bloom.

Guava, Pineapple Honeysuckle, Cape Feijoa sellowiana Tecoma capensis from www.floridata.com: Rarely have from www.floridata.com: Cape any disease or pest problems. This is honeysuckle can be used as a a good low maintenance shrub for hot climbing vine (it needs tying) or barrier dry problem areas. If you are hedge/screen, trained as a specimen interested in fruit production purchase shrub, or used as a ground cover on cultivars selected for fruit quality, steep slopes or rocky banks. It is climate, time of ripening and ability to sometimes trained as an espalier. It is self-pollinate. especially attractive cascading over walls or planters. It can be trained to a garden arch. MASTER GARDNERS FALL PLANT SALE - 9/21/2013 Page 14 of 18 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, Compact Loropetalum Jatropha integerrima 'Compacta' Loropetalum chinense Tropical shrub to small tree with from www.floridata.com: Attractive glossy, dark green foliage and a evergreen foliage, fragrant flowers continuous supply of hot, pinkish-red and low maintenance requirements flower heads. A spectacular shrub in are just a few of loropetalum's talents. bloom, which is most of the year. Use Due to its vigor and adaptability, in accent or shrub border. many new selections have become available in the past several years.

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.

Lantana, Dallas Red Pigeonberry Lantana camera 'Dallas Red' Rivina humilis from not drought tolerant. from article in www.magnoliagardensnursery.com: Rockport Pilot by Ernie Edmundson: compact growth habit and is great for Often hidden under prickly leaved attracting butterflies into the garden. Agarita, you will often find Lantana is drought tolerant, salt Pigeonberry. Protected from the deer tolerant, deer tolerant, is very and the sun by the Agarita, adaptable and had outstanding heat Pigeonberry blooms with pink or white tolerance. Texas Grown, Tested in clusters of flowers and tiny red fruit, Texas to perform outstanding for both at the same time. Texas Gardens.

Lantana, New Gold Plum, Natal Lantana x hybrida 'New Gold' Carissa macrocarpa cross between a Lantana camara and from hort.ufl.edu: This evergreen a Lantana montevidensis. from shrub has lustrous, leathery, rich Michael Womack in the CCCT green, oval leaves and spines along 03/22/2008: [applicable to most its branches. Flowers are somewhat Lantanas]. This tough plant not only fragrant, white, and star-shaped. The blossoms most of the year, but it is bright red, edible, plum-shaped fruit also drought and sun hardy - two tastes like cranberries and can be important keys to its success in used to make jam. Flowers and fruits landscaping. are often simultaneous. MASTER GARDNERS FALL PLANT SALE - 9/21/2013 Page 15 of 18 Plumbago, White Rose, Belinda's Dream Plumbago auriculata 'alba' Rosa x 'Belinda's Dream' from www.floridata.com: Use from www.texassuperstar.com: First plumbago in borders, foundation rose to be named a Texas plantings, and for color massed in SuperstarTM and to receive beds. Many gardeners use plumbago prestigious EarthKindTM designation. as a background or filler plant under Gorgeous shrub rose with large, and in front of shrubs that have fragrant and very pink double stronger frameworks. Plumbago can blossoms. Successive flushes of be pruned as a formal hedge, or used bloom spring to frost. So disease in mixed informal hedges. tolerant that fungicide sprays are seldom required. A nearly perfect landscape rose. Rose, Grandma's Yellow Plumeria rubra Rosa chinensis 'Grandma's Yellow' from www.floridata.com: Plumeria is from http://texassuperstar.com: Deep perfect as a patio tree or as lawn yellow with 17-25 petals and it repeat specimen. Use shrubbier forms in blooms from spring until the first hard mixed hedges where they contribute frost. Its new leaves have a shade of color and texture. Plant bronze, then turn dark green. near porches and bedroom windows Flowers have a light and spicy so that its delightful frangrance can be fragrance. It is a repeat bloomer enjoyed on summer evenings. from spring until frost and is quite disease resistant.

Poinciana, Mexican Rose, Martha Gonzales Caesalpinia mexicana Rosa 'Martha Gonzales' from http://aggie- from www.davesgarden.com horticulture.tamu.edu: Mexican Suze_ from Bastrop County, TX poinciana is found in Texas only in (Zone 8b) wrote: This is just a the extreme lower Rio Grande Valley. fantastic plant/shrub for Texas. Cute It is grown mainly for its highly as a button, new growth tends to be fragrant, golden flowers borne in darkish foliage, has a sort of attractive racemes 3 to 6 inches long. Victorian/'eclectic' look to me. Fairly It is highly ornamental with its drought tolerant and disease spectacular flowers and ferny foliage, resistant. Super easy to maintain, just and thrives in heat, tolerating give it a light trim in late winter/early reflected heat. spring if desired. Can also be shaped into a low hedge. Pomegranate Punica granatum Rose, Nearly Wild Punica granatum 'Nana' dwarf variety, Rosa x 'Nearly Wild' 4' h x 4' w; from www.floridata.com: from The pomegranate was cultivated by www.magnoliagardensnursery.com: the ancient Egyptians. Dried fruits Old garden type floribunda hybrid that have been found in Bronze Age was bred in 1941 from 'Dr. W Van tombs. Moses had to assure the Fleet' x 'Leuchstern'. They won’t Israelites that they would still have sprawl or sucker like most roses. pomegranates when they reached the They will repeat their bloom all Promised Land. summer, are self-cleaning, and are lightly fragrant.

Pride of Barbados Caesalpinia pulcherrima Sage, Mexican Bush Brilliant scarlet and yellow flowers, Salvia leucantha feathery foliage, and quick growth from www.floridata.com: Mexican make Dwarf Poinciana a popular bush sage, with its graceful arching evergreen shrub. It is hard to find a stems and soft downy foliage, is one more attractive flower. This open- of our favorite salvias. The fuzzy branched, fine-textured shrub will purple calyces are the main show, tolerate hot, dry areas, and forms an and these persist even after the effective thorny barrier. It flowers actual flowers have fallen off, making year-round with peak displays in Mexican bush sage one of the few spring and fall. salvias suitable for use as a cut flower. MASTER GARDNERS FALL PLANT SALE - 9/21/2013 Page 16 of 18 Senna, Flowering Turk's Cap Drummondii Senna corymbosa Malvaviscus arboreus 'Drummondii' from www.backyardgardener.com: Primary food source for migrating Upright to spreading, evergreen hummingbirds. Flowers on native shrub. Leaves are pinnate and form stick up; on the larger tropical yellowish green with lance-shaped variety they hang down. From article leaflets. Many corymbs of yellow in the Rockport Pilot by Ernie flowers bloom in summer. Edmundson: Turk's Cap is found growing along the fringes of live oaks as well as in the low lying areas adjacent to the bays.

Skyflower, Brazilian Vitex, Purple Duranta erecta Vitex trifolia 'Purpurea' Deer love all varieties of this plant. from www.monrovia.com: Purple and white varieties. from Exceptional accent shrub or small tree www.rareflora.com: Easy to grow and for warm, dry climates. Distinctively bloom. They can also be trained in colored leaves have showy purple different shapes. Trimmed on a undersides. Clusters of small purple regular basis it will become a shrub, blooms attract butterflies and an grown on a trellis as a vine, or shaped excellent nectar source for like a patio tree with only 1 trunk. honeybees. Small black berries follow the flowers. Semi-evergreen to evergreen.

Sotol, Texas Yucca, Red Dasylirion texanum Hesperaloe parviflora from aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu: from wildflower.org: Not a yucca, this Light green leaves, a short trunk, and member of the Century-Plant family spectacular flower stalks from 9 to 15 produces soft, yucca-like, evergreen feet tall. The leaves have leaves, 2-3 ft. in length. The flower dangerously sharp spines or teeth stalk rises 5 ft. and bears showy, coral- along their margins, so they must be colored, tubular flowers occur on planted away from pedestrian areas arching, wand-like, pink stems. unless they are used for security Leaves are plum-colored in winter; barriers. blue-green other times.

Sumac, Aromatic PALMS, PALM-LIKE & TREES Rhus aromatica from www.mobot.org: This fragrant Anacacho Orchid Tree sumac cultivar is a dense, low- Bauhinia lunarioides growing, rambling shrub which Anacacho Orchid is a great small spreads by root suckers. Leaves turn flowering tree for Central Texas attractive shades of orange and red in landscapes. It reaches only 10 feet in autumn. Leaves and twigs are height and provides a light to medium aromatic when bruised. Fruit is shade. The foliage is interesting, as attractive to wildlife. the split leaves resemble a cloven hoof. In spring white blooms appear to add beauty and interest to the landscape. gracilis from www.floridata.com: This shrub is Anaqua one of the best for shearing into low Ehretia anacua hedges. Use in foundation plantings from http://aggie- beneath windows where it's dense horticulture.tamu.edu: It is subtropical thicket of stems will discourage and if planted as far north as Dallas it prowlers. Thryallis makes a great will freeze back in cold winters, and background plant for perennial beds. rarely develop flowers. It is sometimes Mass this shrub for large scale called sandpaper tree because of the groundcovers. rough texture of the leaves. It blooms from spring through summer with white, fragrant flowers that cover the tree in dense clusters. MASTER GARDNERS FALL PLANT SALE - 9/21/2013 Page 17 of 18 Avocado Cypress, Montezuma Persea americana Taxodium mucronatum from www.floridata.com: Nothing primarily a riparian tree, growing compares with the understated rich along upland riversides, not in buttery taste of a ripe avocado in a swamps or lakes; does not produce salad, guacamole dip, or just cut in "knees", difficulty surviving winters half and eaten with a spoon. farther north than San Antonio Avocados should be ripened off the tree. Picked green and firm, an avocado will ripen in a week or two in a warm room; considerably longer in the refrigerator.

Bottlebrush Elm, Cedar Callistemon rigidus Ulmus crassifolia from The Latin species name means thick www.magnoliagardensnursery.com: leaf. Dominant species in the woods This Bottlebrush has a bushy growth of much of Central Texas. Larval host habit with stiff stems and stiff linear for the Mourning Cloak & Question shaped leaves and will do best on a Mark butterflies. Although it is well-drained soil. In the summer this susceptible to Dutch Elm Disease, it Callistemon will bloom sporting appears to be less of a problem with it spectacular bright red bottlebrush-like than it is with American Elm, U. flowers that are great for attracting americana, or Winged Elm, U. alata. butterflies and hummingbirds.

Buckeye, Mexican Olive, Wild Ungnadia speciosa Cordia boissieri from http://aggie- Hardy as far north as San Antonio. horticulture.tamu.edu: Pink flowers Fruit may make livestock disoriented if bloom simultaneously as it leafs out eaten to excess. Needs water to get with light bronze colored leaflets - fall established but drought-tolerant color is bright golden yellow. May be afterwards. used as a large multi-trunk shrub or trained into a small tree. Because of its spreading nature it is not well suited near the street. Not related to the Yellow or Ohio Buckeye.

Crepe Myrtle, Natchez Orchid Tree Lagerstroemia x faurei 'Natchez' Bauhinia variegata from http://www.tree-land.com: from www.floridata.com: Orchid tree Developed by the US National is used as a street tree or a shade Arboretum in 1978, The Natchez tree. It bears beautiful fragrant Crape Myrtle was one of the first flowers abundantly in late winter and hybrids released and is certainly the early spring and intermittently through most popular. The Natchez Crape summer. Orchid trees have brittle Myrtle produces long lasting clusters branches that can break in strong of white flowers. It has very good winds and they can be messy, resistance to powdery mildew. dropping hundreds of dried pods in autumn.

Cypress, Bald Papaya Taxodium distichum Carica papaya from www.wildflower.org: This lofty, Not salt tolerant, does not tolerate deciduous conifer grows 50-75 ft. or frost or even periods of near freezing taller. Called the wood eternal temperatures. because of the heartwoods resistance Grown in partial shade, they produce to decay, Bald Cypress is used for fruit that is not very sweet. Papaya is heavy construction, including docks, a short lived plant and young plants warehouses, boats, bridges, as well produce more fruit than older as general millwork and interior trim. specimens. Grow local cultivars for best fruit. MASTER GARDNERS FALL PLANT SALE - 9/21/2013 Page 18 of 18 Persimmon, Texas Schefflera Diospyros texana Schefflera actinophylla Beautifully textured peeling bark from www.floridata.com: Use for combined with fine textured dark screens, windbreaks, hedges, green foliage that stays evergreen in specimens, street plantings, and the southern range, intricate patios. A popular container plant for branching, and wide range of suitable use indoors and out. Used extensively environments for growth, make it in south Florida along freeways and worthy use in modern landscapes, turnpikes. Trim to one trunk for a especially those with limited space. more tree-like specimen with additional height.

Redbud, Mexican Wax Myrtle Cercis canadensis 'Mexicana' Morella cerifera from http://aggie- from article in Rockport Pilot by Ernie horticulture.tamu.edu: Mexican Edmundson: Is found growing wild in redbud is smaller in stature, has coastal areas most often in low-lying smaller, glossier, and more wavy- moister areas, but will adapt to dryer edged leaves, and is more drought conditions and, like the other tolerant than Texas redbud. It grows understory trees, in the shadow of live as a multi-trunked tree on hard oaks. The plant spreads from the limestone soils in west Texas. It roots and forms large clusters if left cannot tolerate poorly drained soils. unpruned.

Redbud, Texas Willow, Desert 'Bubba' Cercis canadensis var. texensis Chilopsis linearis var. Bubba from www.floridata.com: Often used from http://tree-land.com: The Desert as a street tree planted 25-35 ft apart. Willow 'Bubba' has become one of They also make good framing trees the most popular Chilopsis linearis for small homes. Redbud is great for cultivars because of it's beautiful and providing shade for patios and for a fragrant trumpet shaped pink- spring accent tree. The flowers are burgundy flowers. This cultivar of one of the first signs of spring, Desert Willow is also popular because opening about the time of the it does not typically produce seed dogwoods and azaleas. Member of pods. 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.

Rubber Plant, Variegated Ficus elastica 'Variegata' from http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu: has large, 5 to 12-inch-long, thick, light green leaves with white or yellow margins, multiple trunks, and a spreading, irregular canopy. Most often seen at about 25 to 40 feet in the landscape, Rubber Tree is useful as a screen, shade, patio, or specimen tree.