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® ANNUAL PLANTS What it takes to be a Superstar® It isn’t easy to become a Texas Superstar® Angelonia, Summer “Baby’s Breath” Texas Bluebonnet plant. Only the toughest, most reliable Snapdragon Euphorbias Lupinus texensis and best-looking plants make the cut. Angelonia angustifolia Euphorbia hypericifolia USDAZone7 Serena series (syn. Chamaesyce hypericifolia) Every plant earning the Texas Superstar® The Texas state flower is a designation undergoes several years of hardy winter annual native to extensive field trials by Texas A&M Angelonia is a spreading annual These Euphorbias are very fine Texas. This species is the most AgriLife Research and the Texas A&M with upright flower spikes that textured, rambling annuals that commonly seen variety along AgriLife Extension Service, both part of the resemble minature snapdragons. present the appearance of a roadsides and in pastures The Serena series are the only Texas A&M System. They must be shown cloud of white in the landscape. throughout the state. Flowers are angelonias that are grown from Very well suited for the hot densely arranged on a spike to be super-performing plants under Texas seed. Flower colors available Texas summers, these unusual with a characteristic ice white growing conditions. During the field trials, include white, pink, purple, plants perform well as edging, terminal tip. plants receive minimal soil preparation, lavender, and lavender pink ground cover, and mixed con- reasonable levels of water and no pesticides. which flower season long until tainer plants. Several varieties Exposure: full sun What does that mean to the average home- frost. Angelonia can be used as performed well in the Texas Height: 12-24 inches a border planting, a ground Superstar® trials, inlcuding owner? It means landscape success with Plant type: annual cover, or as a trailing plant for “White Manaus”, “Breathless Planting time: fall beautiful, proven, Texas-tough plants. mixed containers. White”, “Silver Fog” and “Hip Soil type: well-drained soil Find these plants at your local nursery Hop” and thus are all Suggested uses: flower beds, and be sure and look for the Texas Exposure: full sun recommended. meadows and hillsides Superstar® logo on the plant tags. Visit Height: 12 to 18 inches Special notes: The Texas blue- Plant type: annual TexasSuperstar.com for additional details Exposure: Full sun. bonnet, which blooms between Planting time: spring Height: 12 to 18 inches March and May, has a blue about these amazing stars. The term Soil type: most soil types as Plant type: annual flowering stalk tipped with “Texas Superstar” is a registered trademark long as well drained Planting time: spring white (like a bunny’s tail). These of Texas A&M AgriLife Research, Suggested uses: mass bedding Suggested uses: edging, ground hearty plants rarely suffer from Texas A&M System. or ground cover, mixed borders, cover, and mixed container insect and disease problems, and containers plants however a well- balanced fertil- Special Notes: Very reliable Special notes: Very useful for izer applied in the fall will help performer in all areas of Texas; blending other flowering plants with flower production. GO TEXAN tolerates heat well. together in either mixed borders or mixed container plantings. GO TEXAN is the Texas Department of Flower heavily through the Agriculture’s program promoting the prod- summer and till frost. ucts, culture and communities that call Texas home. As a mark of Lone Star pride, the GO TEXAN logo – a glowing brand in the shape of Texas – can be found on every- thing from floral products and grapefruit to cowboy boots and retirement destinations. For more information see GoTexan.org. ANNUAL PLANTS

Texas Maroon Lady Bird Johnson Royal Cool Season Euphorbias Globe Amaranth Dakota Gold Helenium Bluebonnet Blue Bluebonnet Euphorbia martinii, E. Gomphrena globosa Helenium amarum Dakota Gold Lupinus texensis,‘Texas Lupinus texensis characias subsp. wulfenii, E. Maroon’ ,‘Alamo Fire’ ‘Lady Bird Johnson Royal Blue’ amygdaloides USDAZone7 USDAZone7 USDAZone6 Globe amaranth (known by Helenium is a native Texas some as bachelor’s buttons) are wildflower that now has A selection of the Texas state A selection of the Texas state These cold and drought tolerant versatile, often overlooked sum- improved cultivars for garden flower is a hardy winter annu- flower with a distinct royal winter annuals provide mounds mer annuals that thrive in the use. Plants are Texas tough, al native to Texas. Flowers are (cobalt) blue color named in of color in the landscape from Texas heat. Varieties range in continuing to grow and flower densely arranged on a spike honor of former first Lady, fall to spring in all parts of size from 8 inches to 48 inches, with little or no irrigation once with a characteristic ice white Lady Bird Johnson; flowers are Texas. They are not fond of and vary in color from whites, established. Young plants are terminal tip. densely arranged on a spike summer heat, but may behave as to pinks, to lavendars, to dark, small flattened rosettes of with a characteristic ice white perennials in western Texas. For rich purples. Many named vari- foliage in the spring (or even Exposure: full sun terminal tip. a tight mounding plant of bluish ety series were tested and found late winter in southern locations) Height: 12-14 inches green foliage, select ‘Tiny Tim’. to be true Texas Superstars® that develop strong tap roots. Plant type: annual Exposure: full sun is essential For variegated foliage, try including the All Around, Las By mid- to late spring a canopy Planting time: fall for optimum bloom ‘Ascot Rainbow’. For more of a Vegas, QIS, and Audray series of thready dark green foliage Soil type: well-drained soil Height: 12 to 14 inches red or dark maroon color, try and Fireworks. develops and 1" diameter bright Suggested uses: bedding, Plant type: annual ‘Blackbird’. ‘Rudolph’ has dark yellow composite flowers begin window boxes, patio containers Planting time: sow scarified green foliage with red accents. Exposure: Full sun to appear. Flowering continues and hanging baskets seed in the fall; if one misses ‘Tasmanian Tiger’ or ‘Glacier Height: 1 - 4 feet and about as through autumn. The cultivar Special notes: Texas maroon the planting window, transplants Blue’ is notable for excellent wide depending on variety ‘Dakota Gold’ grows typically bluebonnets have a spreading can be set out in late winter. cream and green variegated Plant Type: heat-loving, sum- as low cushions of foliage growth habit and reddish- Soil type: numerous, but must foliage. All are recommended. mer annual topped with bright yellow flow- maroon flowers with a charac- be well drained. Planting Time: early summer ers. Plants can be grown on teristic white terminal tip. It is Suggested uses: accent beds, Exposure: Full sun to partial after nights have become warm. most any well drained soil with recommended they are spaced meadows and hillsides as well shade Soil Type: well-drained; toler- a sunny exposure. Good for low 12 inches apart when transplant- as containers. Height: 1 to 2 feet ates wide range of soil types input landscapes where irriga- ing or seeding. Special notes: The distinct Plant type: cool season annual Suggested use: mass plantings, tion water is limited. cobalt color sets this bluebonnet Planting time: late summer combination plantings with apart from the Texas and fall other summer annuals such as Exposure: full sun Bluebonnet. It is a vigorous Soil type: best in potting soil in salvia and Mexican mint Height: 6 to 8 inches plant and will do best if spaced containers, but will perform in marigold, and also make nice Plant Type: reseeding annual 12 inches apart. It tends to ground beds if soil is very well cut flowers for beautifying the Planting Time: anytime from produce more seed than other drained indoors. containers bluebonnets so it should easily Suggested uses: best use is in Soil type: well drained slightly naturalize in an area given mixed containers, but also in acidic soil is best, but it adapts proper care. well drained landscape beds or to alkaline clay soils as long as rock gardens drainage is adequate Special Notes: Very pest and Suggested uses: accent, border disease resistant. They are hardy Special notes: PVP 200600009 to zone 6 and hardy in contain- issued June 22, 2010. ers unless the temperature drops below 15F. The most heat toler- ant are ‘Ascot Rainbow’ and ‘Tiny Tim’.

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Larkspur Rio Series Mandevilla Mari-mum Laura Bush Petunia Tidal Wave Silver and Consolida ambigua Mandevilla syn. Dipladenia Tagetes erecta Petunia x ‘Laura Bush’ Cherry Petunia USDAZone7 Petunia x hybrida This reseeding annual has a The Rio series mandevillas sport There are several different This is an old-fashioned reseed- backward-projecting spur, glossy foliage and broad, showy, varieties of African-type (large- ing petunia. It is more cold tol- These petunias represent two formed by the upper petal of the trumpet-shaped flowers that flowered) marigolds such as the erant, disease resistant and heat colors from the Tidal Wave flower. The long spikes or pani- come in pink, hot pink, and Antigua, Discover, or Taishan tolerant than modern hybrids. series of petunia. They are more cles of flowers come in both sin- deep red. These mandevillas series which can be used to heat, disease and cold tolerant gle and double forms. Colors grow upright with little twining. produce the Mari-mum effect. Exposure: full sun than typical grandiflora type range from various shades of These compact plants grow best The Mari-mum type marigolds Height: 24 inches petunias. The vigor of these blue or purple- blue to pink and in patio containers, and can be bloom two to three times longer Plant type: annual plants ensures a plentiful flower white. The soft, lacy foliage grown alone or mixed with than chrysanthemums and are Planting time: spring supply during the summer and makes a great backdrop other annuals wherever a splash very low maintenance. and summer into the fall. for the showy flower spikes. of color is needed. They tolerate Soil type: well-drained soil summer heat, but would benefit Exposure: full sun Suggested uses: bedding, Exposure: full sun Exposure: full sun for best from some afternoon shade. Height: 8-16 inches window boxes, patio containers Height: 18-20 inches but can bloom but will tolerate partial Plant type: annual and hanging baskets spread 4 feet shade Exposure: full sun for part day; Planting time: transplant in late Special notes: The Laura Bush Plant type: annual Height: 36 inches likes afternoon shade summer using plants with only petunia performs best in hardi- Planting time: spring and Plant type: reseeding annual Height: 1 - 2 feet and about tight flower buds showing – ness zone 7. It has a spreading summer, can be planted in Planting time: fall as wide preferably no open flowers growth habit with medium-size October/November for late- Soil type: well-drained soil Plant Type: treat as a summer Soil type: well-drained soil with violet flowers. It grows best winter and early-spring Suggested uses: in bedding, annual in most of Texas; peren- organic matter when transplanted 36 inches flowering window boxes, cut flowers and nial in south Texas Suggested uses: Mari- mums apart. This Texas Superstar Soil type: adaptable to dried flowers Planting Time: spring or early have such visual impact that blooms from spring until frost. different soil types as long as Special notes: The Rocket summer they’re a wonderful choice for Between bloom cycles, prune well-drained Larkspur performs best in Soil Type: well drained contain- mass planting along the front back by 20 percent and lightly Suggested uses: bedding, hardiness zone 7, spaced 10-12 er mix, or in soil bed with high edge of a flower bed, walk- fertilize. ground cover, large containers inches apart. Disease or pest organic matter and good ways or garden paths. Mari- Special notes: Flowers are problems are minimal if plants drainage mums also do extremely well more vibrant if drip irrigation are grown in well-drained soils. Suggested use: accent plant in in containers. is used. Drought tolerant, but container on patio Special notes: Applying benefits from regular watering Special notes: Excellent plant 1-2 pounds of a slow release and regular fertilization. If around pools or wherever a col- lawn fertilizer per 100 square trimming is desired in mid to orful, tropic effect is needed. feet of bed area will enhance late summer, the plants can be blooming. lightly trimmed about 20 percent (a string trimmer works well). Water and lightly fertilize after trimming to stimulate growth and flowering. ANNUAL PLANTS PERENNIAL

Butterfly Deep Pink Vinca Cora Series Fall Zinnias Texas Gold Columbine ‘Princess Caroline’ Pentas Catharanthus roseus Zinnia marylandica, Zinnia Aquilegia chrysantha var. Napier Grass Pentas lanceolata hybrida, and Zinnia elegans hinckleyana ‘Texas Gold’ Pennisetum hybrid USDAZone6 USDAZone7 Cora and Nirvana vinca (com- Highly heat, soil, and pest monly referred to as periwinkle) The Profusion and Zahara series This cool season perennial has ‘Princess Caroline’ has tolerant, this very low mainte- are the first varieties of this of zinnia produce disease resist- bright yellow, lightly fragrant beautiful wide leaves that are nance tropical annual provides species to be resistant to the ant mounds of color that last spring flowers atop its long a deep purple in color which a profusion of bright pink Aerial Phytophthora fungus, until frost when planted in late stems. Its gray-green foliage is reflex gracefully on a vase blooms spring through late fall. a devastating disease that summer. The more traditional ever- green in warmer climates. shaped plant. It does not flower Excellent for mass plantings until now limited the use of this flowers of the Dreamland and and is resistant to leaf spot that and containers where it attracts species in Texas landscapes. Magellan series can also be Exposure: filtered shade in the can be seen on older varieties. butterflies and hummingbirds. In addition, they are heat and enjoyed at this time of year summer and full sun in the It is very heat and drought humidity tolerant and deer while avoiding the disease winter and spring, such as tolerant and is perennial in Exposure: Full sun to partial resistant. They are available in issues that can show up in the ound under the canopy of a most of the state. shade a wide array of colors with spring. All have vibrant colors deciduous tree Height: 24 inches tall, either upright or trailing habits with the cool nights of fall on Height: 18-24 inches Exposure: full sun 24 inches wide and flower throughout the sum- sturdy compact plants. Plant type: cool season Height: grows from 4 to 6 feet Plant type: annual mer with some of the largest perennial tall depending on amount of Planting time: spring flowers in the genus. Exposure: full sun Planting time: spring watering and length of the Soil type: adaptable to most Height: 12-18 inches Soil type: well-drained soil growing season soils as long as well drained Exposure: full sun, but will Plant type: annual Suggested uses: garden Plant type: perennial in most Suggested uses: mass bedding, tolerate semi-shade Planting time: late summer to accent, specimen, hummingbird of the state mixed borders, and mixed Height: 14-18 inches early fall garden and container garden Planting time: spring containers Plant type: annual Soil type: Adaptable to soil type Special notes: The Texas Gold Soil type: almost any well Special notes: Benefits from Planting time: late spring if well drained and a variety of columbine has an open clump- drained soil mulching and regular summer to summer potting mixes ing habit and grows as wide as Suggested uses: specimen irrigation. Soil type: adaptable to most Suggested uses: mixed borders, 24 inches. It works best in a plant, accent plant in mixed soils mass bed displays, and full sun environment with borders or quick growing Suggested uses: bedding, containers medium water. screen containers, hanging baskets Special notes: Very heat Special notes: Plants freeze to (trailing types), window boxes tolerant. Do not overwater. the ground, but make rapid Special notes: The best time to growth in the spring to make a plant vinca is after the soil has strong statement in the land- thoroughly warmed in late scape. Hardy in north Texas if spring or early summer. It temperatures are mild and it is does best in hot weather. It is grown in a protected location. drought tolerant, but does best Very little fertilizer is needed to with good soil drainage and get this plant to perform. regular water and fertilization Nitrogen fertilizer will cause the at moderate levels. leaves to green up and lose the striking purple foliage that is a hallmark of this great plant.

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Flare Perennial Hibiscus Pink Flare and Lord Baltimore Moy Grande Perennial New Gold Lantana Hibiscus x ‘Flare’ Peppermint Flare Perennial Hibiscus Hibiscus Lantana camera ‘New Gold’ USDAZone5 Hibiscus Hibiscus x ‘Lord Baltimore’ Hibiscus x ‘Moy Grande’ USDAZone8b Hibiscus x ‘Pink Flare’ and USDAZone5 USDAZone5 This herbaceous perennial has ‘Peppermint Flare’ The New Gold Lantana is a apple-green foliage and large USDAZone5 This perennial has glossy The giant-flowered rose mallow low maintenance plant with iridescent fuchsia-red flowers foliage and large red flowers has the largest flowers of any golden yellow flowers. It is up to 10 inches wide. Part of the Flare Series, these up to 10 inches wide. hardy perennial. These are drought and heat tolerant, and showy perennials have large descendants of the native hibis- its reduced fruit set promotes Exposure: full sun glowing fuchsia flowers. The Exposure: full sun cus found in Louisiana and prolific blooming from spring Height: 3-4 feet offspring have the same superior Height: 5 feet other Gulf Coast states. Ying until frost. Plant type: perennial traits as the original but their Plant type: perennial Doon Moy cross-bred a Planting time: spring colors are pink and peppermint Planting time: spring Hibiscus moscheutos hybrid Exposure: full sun Soil type: any soil type, (white with red stripes). Their Soil type: prefers neutral to with Hibiscus grandiflorus to Height: 12-24 inches including high alkaline clays maple-like emerald-green acid soils create the largest, open-face Plant type: small spreading Suggested uses: perennial bor- foliage is very attractive on Suggested uses: perennial hibiscus flower in the world. woody shrub, herbaceous der, butterfly and hummingbird compact plants that are practi- border, butterfly and perennial or annual depending gardens and containers cally sterile, which encourages hummingbird gardens Exposure: full sun on the location Special notes: The Flare continuous bloom. Special notes: The Lord Height: 5 feet Planting time: spring to sum- hibiscus performs best in Baltimore performs best in Plant type: perennial mer from containers hardiness zone 5. It produces Exposure: full sun hardiness zone 5. It has attrac- Planting time: spring Soil type: adapts to most soils large leaves and is a profuse Height: 3-5 feet tive foliage, provides stunning Soil type: well-drained soil from acidic to moderately alka- bloomer with a mounding Plant type: herbaceous color, loves the heat and containing plenty of organic line with moderate drainage habit. It is also self-sterile, perennial requires very little maintenance. matter and nutrients Suggested uses: accent, which encourages re-bloom. Planting time: spring It also has excellent pest and Suggested uses: perennial bedding, bank cover or patio The Flare hibiscus will bloom Soil type: any soil type, disease resistance, and works border, butterfly and containers from summer through the including high pH clays best with medium amounts hummingbird gardens Special notes: When well first frost. Suggested uses: perennial of water. Special notes: Moy Grande established, the plants are very border, butterfly and humming- will grow up to 5-feet wide drought tolerant and continue bird gardens, containers and bloom between May and to produce bright and attractive Special notes: Great grown as September. Removing spent blooms in the hottest of complements with Flare, Moy flowers and developing seed weather. Whiteflies can Grande and Lord Baltimore pods will promote re- bloom. sometimes be a pest. This hibiscuses with an expanded Flowers are usually 12 inches annual also needs periodic color range. Peppermint Flare wide and have a rose-pink color. renewal pruning to remove offers an unusually striking Moy Grande hibiscus will per- old dead wood. two-tone flower. form best in hardiness zone 5. PERENNIAL PLANTS

Trailing Lantana Turk’s Cap Dwarf Mexican Petunia John Fanick Perennial Victoria Perennial Lantana montevidensis Malvaviscus arboreus var. Ruellia brittoniana Phlox Phlox USDAZone8b drummondii (various dwarf cultivars) Phlox paniculata,‘John Fanick’ Phlox paniculata ‘Victoria’ USDAZone7b USDAZone8 USDAZone4 USDAZone4 Beautiful trailing or spreading A rapidly growing, coarse Under proper growing condi- Masses of fragrant, light pink This heat and drought resistant perennial with a profusion of textured plant that produces a tions, dwarf Mexican petunias flowers sporting a dark pink perennial sports masses of lavender, purple or white flow- profusion of “turban-like” tend to reseed and produce tall eye in the summer highlight purplish-pink (magenta) flowers ers that bloom consistently from flowers in various colors rang- upright clumping, dark green this heat and drought resistant in the summer and in the fall spring through frost and attract ing from bright red to pink to plants with lance-shaped leaves perennial. It blooms several (if cut back after summer butterflies. Outstanding heat, white. Flowers are produced all and bright, tubular flowers when weeks later than Victoria phlox bloom occurs). wind & drought tolerance. summer, but heavily in the fall in full bloom during the hottest and does not lodge as easily as and attract hummingbirds and part of the summer. Victoria. It is more disease Exposure: full sun for best Exposure: Full sun butterflies. Turk’s cap is native resistant as well. bloom but will tolerate partial Height: 1 foot tall, 4 feet wide to south Texas, where it Exposure: full sun to partial shade Plant type: perennial becomes an established shade Exposure: full sun for best Height: 24-36 inches Planting time: spring to perennial, but in north Texas is Height: 6-8 inches bloom but will tolerate Plant type: perennial summer from containers should be used as an annual. Plant type: herbaceous partial shade Planting time: spring Soil type: adapts to most soils Turk’s Cap is very drought tol- perennial or annual depending Height: 24-36 inches Soil type: well-drained soil from acidic to moderately alka- erant once established. The cul- on the location Plant type: perennial Suggested uses: specimen line with moderate drainage tivar “Pam Puryear” has soft Planting time: spring to Planting time: spring and background in perennial Suggested uses: mass bedding, pink flowers and 'Fiesta' is a summer from containers Soil type: well-drained soil gardens ground or bank cover, and as a variegated form with yellow Soil type: adapts to most soils Suggested uses: specimen and Special notes: The Victoria spiller over the edge of beds and white splotched leaves. from acidic to moderately background in perennial gardens perennial phlox has an attractive above garden walls or in alkaline with moderate drainage and as a cut flower evergreen foliage with a com- containers Exposure: Sun or shade; Suggested uses: accent, small Special notes: The John pact growth habit. It is a hardy Special Notes: Hardy to zone flowers heavier in sun, but the scale groundcover, perennial Fanick perennial phlox perennial with showy clusters 8b and resistant to lantana foliage is more attractive with borders, edging or mixed has attractive evergreen foliage of magenta pink blossoms. It lacebug. some shade. plantings with a compact growth habit. also has lighter green foliage Height: 3 to 6 feet with about Special notes: Dwarf Mexican This Texas Superstar tolerates and a more open growth habit equal spread petunias are very adaptable and heat, drought and powdery than the John Fanick. This Plant type: perennial will tolerate both wet and dry mildew, but avoid overhead Texas Superstar tolerates heat, Planting time: anytime from soils. They prefer full sun, but irrigation with salty water. drought and powdery mildew, containers will grow in shade though Plants should be spaced but avoid overhead irrigation Soil type: adaptable to most flowering will be less. Although between 24 and 36 inches apart. with salty water. Plants should soils dwarf Mexican petunias are Cut back in late summer for be spaced between 24 and 36 Suggested uses: accent, drought tolerant once estab- fall blooms. inches apart. The ideal perennial border, butterfly and lished, they perform best with hardiness zone is 4. hummingbird gardens, and as a regular irrigation during deciduous hedge droughts and with regular Special notes: Root-hardy feeding of high phosphorus perennial in most of Texas fertilizers. including to zone 7b.

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Cape Plumbago Mexican Bush Sage Henry Duelberg Salvia Mystic Spires Blue Salvia Blue Princess Verbena Plumbago auriculata Salvia leucantha Salvia farinacea Salvia longispicata x Verbena x hybrida USDAZone8b USDAZone8 USDAZone7 farinacea ‘Mystic Spires Blue’ ‘Blue Princess’ USDAZone7 USDAZone7b Cape Plumbago produces A tough, drought tolerant, Henry Duelberg is a low- profuse blue flowers and thrives highly pest resistant salvia maintenance; heat-tolerant, Mystic Spires Blue Salvia is a This butterfly-attracting, easy in the hot Texas summer. It is with showy spikes of purple Texas native plant that pro- compact form of another popu- care perennial has masses of sometimes called “sky flower” and white, or solid purple, duces masses of showy blue lar salvia called Indigo Spires. beautiful, lavender blue flowers. because of the sky-blue color blossoms that appear in the flowers from spring until Though shorter than Indigo of its flowers. It produces fall. Also good as a cut flower. the first frost. Spires, it flowers even more Exposure: full sun from May until the first frost. freely during the entire growing Height: 12 inches Exposure: Full sun Exposure: full sun season. It produces masses of Plant type: perennial Exposure: full sun; partial sun Height: 3 to 4 feet tall, Height: 3 feet; width 3 feet true blue flowers that mix nicely Planting time: spring Height: 4 feet tall, up to 3 feet wide Plant type: perennial with other annuals and perenni- Soil type: well-drained soil 5 feet wide Plant type: perennial Soil type: adapts to most soils als, is tolerant of heat and Suggested uses: bedding plant, Plant type: perennial Planting time: spring or Suggested uses: bedding, humidity (low and high) containers, baskets, perennial Planting time: anytime from summer from containers containers, xeriscape, perennial and is not bothered by pests, border, butterfly and humming- containers Soil type: adaptable, but needs border, cut flower diseases or deer! bird gardens Soil type: adapts to most soils excellent drainage Special notes: Shearing fre- Special notes: The Blue from acidic to moderately alka- Suggested uses: accent, quently between bloom cycles Exposure: full sun Princess verbena blooms early line with moderate drainage bedding, perennial borders will promote bloom develop- Height: 18-30 inches spring through late fall. Shear Suggested uses: container or Special notes: Perennial in ment. Henry Duelberg is not Plant type: perennial Planting between bloom cycles to accent plant southern half of state to zone preferred by deer. time: spring to summer from promote new blooms. Rose Special notes: Dried flowers 8 with good drainage. Stems containers Princess is also available. should be pruned from the brittle - protect from high Soil type: adapts to most soils, Both are available as virus Plumbago to encourage winds. but needs good drainage indexed plants. re-blooming and to maintain Suggested uses: bedding, desired plant shape. It is containers, perennial border, excellent for attracting butter- cut flower flies. It can handle hot, humid Special notes: Mystic Spires summers and is reason- ably Blue Salvia is hardy to zone 7 drought tolerant. Imperial with good drainage. Excess Blue is a variety that holds water and fertilizer can result in its color well. excessive vegetative growth and lack of flowers. If needed, plants can be pruned during the grow- ing season as reflowering occurs quickly. Shoots can be pruned to 12 inches or more in the fall after being killed by freezing, but refrain from pruning to the ground until growth is strong in the spring. PER-ANNUAL PLANTS

Pride-of-Barbados Duranta Gold Star Esperanza Firebush Compact Spicy Jatropha Caesalpinia pulcherrima Duranta erecta Tecoma stans ‘Gold Star’ Hamelia patens Jatropha integerrima USDAZone8b USDAZone9 USDAZone9 USDAZone9 USDAZone9

Pride of Barbados is an ever- Brazilian Sky Flower is a This heat-loving, semi-ever- Firebush offers real hope to This subtropical evergreen green shrub or small tree in rapid-growing, dense shrub green shrub has golden-yellow heat-hammered summer land- shrub has glossy leaves and frost-free climates, a deciduous with small glossy leaves and a bell-shaped flowers late spring scapes. Once established, clusters of star-shaped bright shrub in zone 9, a returning profusion of pendulous racemes through fall. firebush is very heat and scarlet or vermilion flowers. perennial in zone 8 and an of small flowers with colors drought tolerant. Firebush is an Jatropha is a spectacular shrub annual in North and West varying from light blue to Exposure: full sun evergreen shrub or small tree in bloom, which is most of the Texas. Pride-of-Barbados dies purple. Height: 4 feet native to many areas in tropical year in warmer portions of the to the ground following frost Plant type: root hardy and subtropical America. state, and spring to frost in or freezing temperatures, but Exposure: sun or shade; perennial colder locations. in zone 8b (South Central flowers heavier in sun Planting time: spring Exposure: full sun Texas) it comes back reliable Height: 12-15 feet in south Soil type: well-drained soil Height: 18-30 inches Exposure: best flowering in middle spring. Pride-of- Texas depending on pruning Suggested uses: containers, Plant type: annual from is in full sun, but plants will Barbados has incredibly showy Plant type: root-hardy perennial flower beds, butterfly and Central Texas northward, remain attractive in partial shade blossoms of orange and red. in South Texas, but annual or hummingbird gardens perennial in South Texas Height: in tropical climates The striking orange-red flowers tender perennial in most Special notes: Gold Star Planting time: set trans- plants may grow 8-10 feet tall, are an attention grabber! of the state esperanza is recommended for plants from mid-May through but as patio plants or summer Planting time: anytime from hardiness zone 9. It has attrac- summer months and space annuals they are usually 3-5 Exposure: full sun containers tive glossy foliage and grows one foot apart feet tall. Height: 8-12 feet Soil type: adapts to most soils up to 3-feet wide. Gold Star Soil type: almost any well- Plant type: summer annual Plant type: summer Suggested uses: can be used as esperanza requires medium drained soil, even highly where winters are cold, woody annual, perennial, or woody a container plant or an accent amounts of water. Water weekly alkaline, heavy clays shrub along the coast and in shrub depending upon the plant in a landscape in lieu of one inch of rain. Suggested uses: mass plantings south Texas severity of winter temperatures Special notes: Some selec- Immediately remove the fruit with white blooming annuals, Planting time: spring after Planting time: spring to early tions fruit heavily and the (beans) after flowering to pro- containers and hummingbird danger of frost is past summer plant becomes covered with mote rebloom. Make sure gardens Soil type: adapted to most Soil type: very easy to grow small, golden ball-like drupes. you have Gold Star and not a Special notes: The firebush well-drained garden soils and in alkaline to acidic, well- Must be treated as an annual- tecoma grown from seed. blooms between June and can be grown in a variety of drained soils root hardy perennial in most November with terminal clusters potting mixes Suggested uses: use as a parts of Texas, but will be of scarlet red, tubular blossoms Suggested uses: use as a specimen or in a mixed perennial in South Texas. with deeper red throats. Its summer accent where frosts shrub border Brazilian Sky Flower blooms foliage turns to a blood are frequent or in a mixed Special notes: Plants tolerate best from summer until the red color in the fall. Firebush shrub border where winters are very high temperatures and does not usually show signs of warm. Use as a container plant drought, but do not tolerate insect or disease damage when to attract butterflies and poorly drained soils. Pride-of- grown outdoors in a full sun hummingbirds. Barbados is best grown in location. Special notes: Fruit are raised beds in humid climates. reported to be poisonous, but appear to be seldom produced in most Texas regions.

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Variegated Tapioca Thyrallis or Lynn’s Legacy Cenizo Belinda’s Dream Rose Grandma’s Yellow Rose Manihot esculenta Shower-of-Gold Leucophyllum langmaniae Rosa x ‘Belinda’s Dream’ Rosa ‘Nacogdoches’ USDAZone11 Galphimia glauca USDAZone8 USDAZone7 USDAZone6 Galphimia gracilis Variegated Tapioca is a tropical USDAZone8b Lynn’s Legacy (also known as A cross between ‘Tiffany’ Grandma’s Yellow Rose is plant grown as an annual in all Lowery’s Legacy) was select- and ‘Jersey Beauty,’ this fast deep yellow with 17 to 25 but southern-most Texas. The As the name implies, Shower- ed for its profuse and frequent growing shrub is upright and petals and repeatedly blooms variegated leaves form a char- of-Gold offers season-long flower displays. Its sage-green sturdy and has bluish-green from spring until the first hard treuse/yellow pattern. It is a spikes of bright, yellow foliage is a wonderful backdrop foliage. Its blossom is a clean frost. Its new leaves have a non- blooming plant that offers flowers; flowers are mostly for the lavender flowers. pink, double and high-cen- shade of bronze, then turn dark a tropical flare to summer held at or above the dark-green Compared to most selections tered rose in the classic green. Flowers have a light and landscapes. to blue-green foliage; with of Texas sage, it is not as hybrid tea style and has a spicy fragrance. It is a repeat periodic pruning, plants dependent on changes in rich fragrance. Blooms occur bloomer from spring until frost Exposure: full sun; partial sun, develop a dense handsome relative humidity for flowering in abundance all through the and is quite disease resistant. however plants are most color- canopy with enough flowers to and can bloom more often warm months, especially if It is cold hardy to zone 6. ful when grown in full sun draw the eye from a distance. during the course of the sum- spent blooms are removed Height: 4 feet tall, up to mer than other selections. immediately. Exposure: full sun for at least 5 feet wide Exposure: full sun to very six hours per day Plant type: annual in all but light shade Exposure: full sun Exposure: full sun for best Height: 4-5 feet southernmost Texas Height: 3-5 feet Height: 5 feet bloom Plant type: shrub rose Planting time: spring after Plant type: woody shrub Plant type: woody shrub Height: 5 feet with a floribunda type habit last frost (South Texas) or summer Planting Time: anytime Plant type: shrub rose Planting time: anytime from Soil type: requires a well- annual (North Texas) from containers Planting time: fall and spring containers drained soil or container potting Planting time: anytime from Soil type: tolerant of most Soil type: well-drained soil is Soil type: well-drained slightly mix and will tolerate a wide containers as a shrub, spring soils as long as they are well best but will grow in high acidic soil is best, but it adapts range of pH as a summer annual drained and not soggy alkaline clay soils to alkaline clay soils as long as Suggested uses: container or Soil type: tolerant of most Suggested uses: general- Suggested uses: shrub border, drainage is adequate accent plant soils as long as they are well purpose shrub where a touch cut flowers, dried flowers for Suggested uses: accent, shrub Special notes: Variegated drained of silvery foliage is desired; potpourri border with perennials, low tapioca is a heat lover and does Suggested uses: general- other uses include as a founda- Special notes: Belinda’s hedges, cut flowers not grow vigorously until the purpose evergreen shrub in tion shrub, in island plantings, Dream performs best in Special notes: Can be attacked night temperatures are warmer portions of Texas; xeriscapes or in mixed hardiness zones 7-9. It has a by black spot during wet consistently above 60° F. It tolerates summer heat as a boarders; with appropriate bush habit and can be as periods, mainly in the spring will exhibit chilling injury patio container; nice back- substrate, it can be used in wide as 4 feet. Needs day- and fall. A few fungicide appli- when night temperatures ground for perennial or annual containers on sunny patios long full sun and good air cations in the spring or during dip below 50° F. Keep the borders in South Texas. Special notes: Multiple flower- movement over the leaves. long wet periods will control growing medium moist, and Special notes: This plant ing flushes frequently occur Drip irrigation or a soaker the disease. Plants tolerate mulch if planted in the soil. blooms whenever temperatures during a growing season; avoid hose is recommended. the disease well by readily Plants will grow just as well permit; annual pruning will over-watering. The plant is occasionally producing new growth after in alkaline soil as they will in maintain a denser habit and attacked by black spot during defoliation acidic soils. They are plants work well when pruned the cool season but is usually somewhat tolerant to foliar back as a sub-shrub or herba- vigorous enough to overcome salt exposure in the Coastal ceous perennial. the disease. Bend area. TREES

Knockout™ Rose Marie Daly Rose Texas Lilac Vitex Possum Haw Shantung Maple Rosa ‘Radrazz’ Rosa x polyantha ‘Marie Daly’ Vitex agnus-castus Deciduous Holly Acer truncatum USDAZone4 USDAZone5 USDAZone7 Ilex decidua USDAZone6 USDAZone5 The Knockout™ Rose produces This easy care shrub rose has The Texas Lilac Vitex is a This beautiful maple has a fluorescent, cherry-red blooms few thorns and lots of very fra- small-flowering tree and This outstanding small native spreading canopy with that begin in spring and continue grant, double pink blooms. It grows best when planted in tree requires very low mainte- attractive foliage that turns to provide color until the first offers successive flushes of full sun and in a location that nance. It will drop its leaves spectacular red or red-orange frost. bloom from spring to frost. drains well. in fall to reveal showy red or in late fall. It is reminiscent Developed for Texas, this rose orange berries (on female of Japanese maple but much Exposure: full sun offers a new color of renowned Exposure: full sun plants) that remain throughout tougher. Height: 3-4 feet, but can grow antique rose ‘Marie Pavie’ and Height: 10-15 feet the winter. Possum Haw up to 5-feet high and good disease and alkaline soil Plant type: large deciduous attracts songbirds and is heat Exposure: full sun to partial 5-feet wide when mature tolerance. woody shrub or small tree and drought tolerant. shade Plant type: shrub rose Planting time: anytime from Height: 25 feet Planting time: anytime from Exposure: full sun containers Exposure: full sun to partial Plant type: ornamental containers Height: 3 feet Soil type: adapts to most soils shade deciduous tree Soil type: adapts to most soils Plant type: shrub rose from acidic to moderately alka- Height: 10-15 feet Planting time: fall and spring from acidic to moderately alka- Planting time: fall and spring line with moderate drainage Plant type: large deciduous Soil type: various soil types line with reasonable drainage Soil type: well-drained soil is Suggested uses: accent, shrub woody shrub or small tree and tolerates alkaline soils Suggested uses: accent, shrub best but will grow in high alka- border, seasonal screen or Planting time: anytime from Suggested uses: shade tree for border, rose garden or low line clay soils limbed up as a small containers small yards hedges Suggested uses: cut flowers, ornamental tree Soil type: adapts to most Special notes: Shantung Special notes: The dried flowers for potpourri and Special notes: Texas Lilac Vitex soils from acidic to slightly maples tolerate heat, however Knockout Rose grows well landscapes needs periodic renewal pruning alkaline they are not adapt- ed to West in planting zones 4 through Special notes: Marie Daly to remove old dead wood. Suggested uses: accent, shrub Texas, and the trunk must be 9 and is highly tolerant of black Rose performs best in hardiness It prospers in hot and dry envi- border, fall to winter speci- wrapped the first three years spot, powdery mildew and zone 5. It has a bush habit and ronments. It is also a spectacular men, limbed up as a small to prevent sunscald. Performs aphids. It is also cold- hardy can be as wide as 3 feet. Needs butterfly-attracting plant. The ornamental tree or patio tree best in hardiness zone 6. throughout the state, will grow daylong full sun and good air three cultivars of Texas Lilac Special notes: Plant female in a wide range of soils (even movement over the leaves. available are Le Compte, Shoal clones for fruit effects, highly alkaline clays) and is Drip irrigation or a soaker hose Creek and Montrose Purple however a male pollinator very heat and drought tolerant is recommended. which all have exceptionally must be in the area. Possum once established. The double long flower spikes. Also avail- haw tolerates seasonal poorly form is more compact and has able in pink and white. Avoid drained soils. more color impact. use in areas where it becomes weedy.

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Lacey Oak Chinkapin Oak Chinese Pistache Natchez Blackberry Caricature Plant Quercus glaucoides Quercus muehlenbergii Pistacia chinensis Rubus fruticosus ‘Natchez’ Graptophyllum pictum USDAZone7 USDAZone5 USDAZone5 USDAZone5 USDAZone11

This beautiful small oak, native Chinkapin Oak is an attractive This is a long-lived shade tree Natchez blackberry is a Caricature Plant is an excellent to the Texas Hill Country, has a medium to large shade tree suit- with spectacular red, red-orange thornless cultivar out of the summer annual for a wide range spreading canopy with attractive able for use in much of Texas. fall color. It has outstanding heat University of Arkansas. It is a of light condi- tions from full bluish-green foliage. Lacey oaks Its distinctive saw-tooth leaves, and drought tolerance and is trailing plant that produces an sun to dense shade. Several new are highly tolerant of heat, which resemble those of the extremely pest resistant. abundance of large, elongated cultivars on the market offer drought, alkaline soil and pests. chinquapin tree found in the fruit. The fruit is the largest foliage that varies from dark They make wonderful shade eastern United States, are a rich Exposure: full sun produced by a thornless culti- green or chocolate bronze with trees for smaller yards. green, turning yellow to bronze Height: 40-50 feet var. Fruit quality is firm and creamy white centers to tri- in fall. Plant type: deciduous shade outstanding and could be a color foliage with various Exposure: full sun tree commercial variety. combinations of green, white, Height: 25 feet Exposure: full sun Planting time: fall (September cream and pink. Plant type: deciduous tree Height: 50-60 feet through November) is best Exposure: full sun for maxi- Planting time: fall and spring Plant type: large deciduous tree Soil type: grows in any type of mum production. Exposure: full sun to dense Soil type: will survive in well- Planting time: anytime from soil; try to avoid heavy clays Height: Canes are trailing and shade drained clay soils, but grows containers that hold water can attain heights of six to Height: 2-4 feet as an annual, best in well-drained limestone Soil type: adapts to most soils Suggested uses: ideal size for eight feet. Some sort of trellis to 6-8 feet as a tropical shrub soils from slightly acidic to moderate- shade for single- story homes will be in order to keep the Plant type: summer annual Suggested uses: Xeriscapes or ly alkaline with moderate Special notes: Develops an canes off the ground. (cold climates) or woody shrub low water-use landscapes are drainage umbrella-like canopy and has a Plant type: biennial; grow a (tropics) perfect conditions for growing Suggested uses: shade tree, width of 30 feet. Fruit set will top the first year, those canes Planting time: anytime from Lacey oak. Works best as a street tree or park tree only occur on female trees fruit the next year and then containers as a shrub, late spring shade tree in a small to medium Special notes: It grows in the which can result in undesireable they die. The plant sends up for use as a summer annual landscape. wild on well-drained bottomland seedlings. Choose male selec- new canes each growing sea- Soil type: tolerant of most soils Special notes: Best adapted to soils and lime- stone hills near tions when possible. Light but son for the next year’s crop. as long as they remain moist the western two-thirds of the water, but it is adaptable to a frequent fertilizations are recom- Planting time: Plant dormant during the growing season state. Don’t water too frequently. range of soils and exposures. mended. Once established, it has root cuttings in early winter or Suggested uses: ideal for those It is moderate- to fast-growing superior drought, heat and wind plants in early spring three transition beds from sunny and develops an open rounded tolerance but will not tolerate feet apart. courtyards to the dense shade of crown as it ages. Chinkapin oak excess or standing water. The Soil type: numerous as long as entryways; can also be used in is heat and drought tolerant, ideal hardiness zone is 5. well drained. Iron chlorosis interiorscapes and containers. which makes the species widely may be an issue when soil pH Special notes: Caricature Plant adaptable throughout Texas. is over 7.8. is very heat tolerant, but wilts Suggested uses: Container under drought conditions; it is patio plant or a fruit producing cold sensitive and can be dam- accent bed in the landscape. aged by temperatures much Special notes: To maintain below 55° F. plant health and vigor, some of the fruit should be removed each growing season. Too much fruit can cause subse- quent prima canes to be weak with a poor crop the next year. SPECIALTY PLANTS

Moth Orchid Satsuma Mandarin Miho Satsuma Mandarin Orange Frost Mandarin ‘NuMex Twilight’ Phalaenopsis Citrus reticulata Citrus reticulata Hybrid Ornamental Pepper USDAZone11 USDAZone9 USDAZone9 Citrus reticulata Capsicum frutescens USDAZone8 ‘NuMex Twilight’ The moth orchid is one of the Satsuma mandarin is one of Miho Satsuma on its own roots best orchids for growing in the the most cold tolerant citrus produces a smaller tree that will Orange Frost Mandarin hybrid home. Clumped orchid plants for Texas. The tree has attrac- come back true to type if frozen is a cross between a very cold A showy ornamental pepper in small pots are usually the tive, evergreen foliage and to the ground. Of all the hardy Changsha tangerine and a that matures is about 85 days. most spectacular bloom produces white flowers with Satsuma varieties Miho has per- very high quality Satsuma. The Plants produce good yields of producers. an awesome fragrance. The formed the best. It produces an fruit is very sweet, easy to peel ¾" long by ½" wide hot, fruit is very sweet, juicy, easy attractive evergreen tree with and only has one or two seeds edible peppers. Peppers grow Exposure: place near bright to peel and is usually seedless. very fragrant flowers in early per fruit. More importantly the upright in clusters, are very windows with no direct sun spring. The fruit ripens in early tree has more cold hardiness hot, and turn from purple, to Height: 2 feet Exposure: minimum of 8 fall and is very sweet, easy to than Satsuma and can be grown yellow, to orange, to red when Plant type: sub-tropical indoor to 10 hours of sun per day peel and usually seedless. a bit further north. mature. The effect is very plants Height: 8 to 10 feet high showy against the green stems Planting time: pot in late spring and wide on a rootstock in Exposure: minimum of 8 to 10 Exposure: minimum of 8 to 10 and leaves and white flowers. or early summer, after blooming the ground; three to four feet hours per day hours of sun per day New growth, flowers and pep- has completed in a container Height: five feet high and wide; Height: Eight to ten feet high pers are continually produced Soil type: well-draining mix, Plant type: evergreen citrus a bit smaller in containers and wide in the ground; four to which keeps the plant showy such as fir bark, tree fern fiber, tree Plant type: evergreen citrus tree six feet in containers all season long. various types of stone, peat Planting time: early spring Planting time: early spring after Plant type: evergreen citrus tree moss or combinations; standard after danger of frost has the danger of frost has passed Planting time: early spring after Exposure: Full sun potting mixes will kill them passed Soil type: adaptable if well the danger of frost has passed Height: 2 feet by 2 feet wide Suggested uses: interior plants Soil type: adaptable if well drained or a well-drained Soil type: adaptable if well Plant type: annual to add color to a home or office drained or a well-drained potting soil drained or a well-drained Planting time: from spring Special notes: Keep the potting soil Suggested uses: accent plant potting soil through late summer from temperature above 60° F at Suggested uses: accent plant for the patio and containers. Suggested uses: accent plant containers night and between 70° F and for the patio and containers Special notes: Performs best in for backyard and potential Soil type: adaptable to good 82° F during the day. Special notes: Performs best hardiness zone 9. It will flower patio containers soil type with good drainage Temperatures below 78° F for in hardiness zone 9. It will in early spring with fruit ripen- Special notes: This Texas Suggested uses: bedding in three to five weeks with good flower in early spring with ing in early to late fall. If using Superstar® should expand the vegetable or flower gardens light are needed for initiating fruit ripening in early to late a container, at least a 20 gallon planting zone for citrus in the and in containers flower spikes. Thoroughly water fall. Containers should be at size with good drainage is ground to as far north as zone Special notes: Can be started and then let stand and do not least 20 gallon with good suggested. Incorporate a slow 8. Some protection will be from seed in early spring and water again until nearly dry. drainage. Incorporate a slow release fertilizer into the mix required in the establishment set out after all danger of frost Apply a complete fertilizer on a release fertilizer into the mix and water with a water soluble phase. Trees will be on their is past. Excellent for mixing regular schedule during the and water with a water soluble fertilizer monthly. Containers own roots and will come back vegetables into ornamental active growing season to one fertilizer monthly. Containers can be moved in when a severe true if frozen back. The tree flower gardens.This ornamen- teaspoon per one gallon at each can be moved in when a freeze warning is predicted. In will also work well in contain- tal pepper is suitable for watering. Potting should be severe freeze warning is pre- ground plants may need some ers. Amend the mix with slow growing in pots or containers. done in late spring or early sum- dicted. In ground plants may protection as well. release fertilizer and water once mer after blooming is complete. need some protection as well. a month with a water soluble fertilizer.

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‘Purple Flash’ Texas Dawn Ornamental Pepper Nymphaea spp. Capsicum annuum USDAZone Variable ‘Purple Flash’ Texas Dawn received the International Water Lily An exotic looking ornamental Society’s 1990 American pepper with leaves that are Award. It can be expected to almost black and overlayed with produce seven to eight blooms ® splashes of dark purple and at a time by mid- summer. Texas Superstar Videos white. Fruit are small and sec- Texas Dawn produces rich See the “Texas Superstars® Overview Video” at ondary to the foliage for display. yellow flowers with outer petals http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUwk7zDONoE blushed pink, greenish yellow Exposure: full sun to partial with pink border sepal and deep See Tom Spencer, host of Central Texas Gardener on KLRU, shade yellow anthers. Flower size is interview Brent Pemberton, Chair of the Executive Board, Height: 12-15 inches 3- 8 inches with a lemony about the Texas Superstar® Program at Plant type: annual fragrance. Planting time: spring http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QAcX5IstCI Soil type: will grow in most Exposure: full sun See Texas Superstar® commercials produced by the Texas well drained soils and in a Height: flowers grow 3 - 8 Department of Agriculture at: variety of potting mixes inches above the surface Texas Superstars® at Local Nurseries Suggested uses: a great veg- of the water http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byjEvb9DF-c etable to mix in flower bor- Plant type: perennial Texas Superstars® TV Spot 1 ders, use in mass plantings, or Planting time: spring- summer http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLYcpXN9x5Q in containers when water tem- perature is Texas Superstars® TV Spot 2 Special notes: Plants are heat 70- 85° F http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nR5Ps9Z_4iU and drought tolerant. Fruit are Soil type: heavy clay Texas Superstars® TV Spot 3 extremely hot to the taste. Suggested uses: ponds, cut http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drzipQBS9aw flowers, dry flowers Special notes: Green top leaves speckled purple with purple undersides. Leaves are 8 inches Explanation of Symbols with a 3 - 5 foot spread. Even USDA Hardiness Zones though Texas Dawn requires This designates the zone where a plant is typically considered cold full sun, it is one of a few hardy. Summer annuals do not have a hardiness designation, but varieties that can bloom with winter annuals do. Please see the maps on the back cover for a three hours of sun daily, key to the hardiness zones. The maps were prepared by the U.S. increasing your landscaping Department of Agriculture and can be found on the web site. options. Other well-adapted water lily varieties include Water Use Clyde Ikins, Colorado, The number of raindrop symbols denotes the level of water Laydekeri Fulgens, Panama use that can be expected for a particular plant. Even the most Pacific, Perry’s Double White, drought tolerant plants need adequate moisture for initial estab- Red Flare and Star of Siam. lishment. = Low expected water use = Moderate expected water use = High expected water use

Texas Superstar® Deer-resistant plants The designated deer symbol indicates “deer resistant”. Deer tend to avoid some plants and relish others. While no plant can be guaranteed to be “deer-proof,” some types of plants are less appealing to deer. Highly recommended by many gardeners is a good deer repellent to prevent deer damage for a 6 month time frame after planting for plant establishment. USDA HARDINESS ZONES

Texas Superstars perform best at the hardiness zones indicated; however, Texas Superstars are widely adapted across the state.

Due to the wide diversity in climatic conditions across the State of Texas, some perennial plants may be treated as annuals. Contact your local Extension Agent for advice. TEXAS A&M AGRILIFE RESEARCH TEXAS A&M AGRILIFE EXTENSION SERVICE Proving that Texas Superstars® are outstanding landscape plants specifically adapted to Texas

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