MASTER GARDNERS SPRING 2013 SALE Page 1 of 15 BULBS, FERNS, MISC. Moss Rose Portulaca grandiflora Variegated Airplane Plant from www.floridata.com: Moss rose Chlorophytum comosum 'Variegatum' makes a beautiful ground cover in a Leaves can be all green, Pale green dry or rocky area, although it cannot with white or yellow central stripe or be walked on. Use moss rose as green with wihte margins. Excellent edging at the front of borders or in the for hanging baskets or can be used cracks in a rock wall, or the spaces as groundcover under trees or in a between stepping stones. It's perfect very protected patio.Sends daughter for a hot, dry, south facing slope. off by shoot. Here's more than you need to know about this plant. Http://goto.glocalnet.net/natal/amp/am pel.htm Queen's Tears zebrina Desert Rose They are generally epiphytic. They Adenium obesum grow on rock from southern Mexico to from www.plantoftheweek.org: northern Argentina with the greatest Succulent member of the oleander number found in Brazil. They require family. Desert Rose needs to have a strong light to enhance leaf coloration soil mix of sand or brick chips mixed and beautiful markings. These into regular soil, or a cactus mix. The superior foliage plants will tolerate dry soil should dry completely between air. Their few leaves grow upright waterings. Water sparingly during forming a narrow rosette. winter months. All parts of the plant are poisonous. ANNUALS Holly Fern Blackeyed Susan Cyrtomium falcatum Rudbeckia hirta Likes rich, acidic soil and good from http://aggie- drainage. It thrives with occasional horticulture.tamu.edu: A stiff, upright fish emulsion or liquid fertilizer. annual or shortlived perennial native Groom when foliage becomes frayed to the eastern United States, but has or unsightly. Ferns will soon regrow become endemic throughout North after being cut back, but avoid cutting America. The Black-Eyed Susan is into or damaging the crown. probably the most common of all American wildflowers Thrives in most soils in full sun.

Southern Wood Fern Giant Coneflower Thelypteris kunthii Rudbeckia maxima from www.wildflowers.org: The from www.wildflowers.org: Giant gracefully arching fronds of this fern brown-eyed Susan has clumps of are lime to medium-green in color. silvery-blue foliage that give rise to The takes on a bronze cast stately flower stalks. The flowers have as winter approaches. Wood Fern intense yellow ray flowers that dangle can add texture to a shade garden from tall brown centers. It should be throughout the year and is great for cut back to the base after blooming to wetland and water garden habitat. keep tidy and be planted in mass for best effect in landscapes.

Society Garlic Tulbaghia violacea from desert-tropicals.com Evergreen leaves of the Society Garlic are narrow, looking like onion leaves, and have an onion smell when bruised. This smell is the reason why society garlic flowers are not ideal as cut flowers. The name of society garlic comes from the fact that, supposedly, although its taste is close to real garlic, it doesn't give bad breath. MASTER GARDNERS SPRING 2013 PLANT SALE Page 2 of 15 SMALL PERENNIALS Bulbine Bulbine frutescens Yellow Alder from plantzafrica.com: Bulbine Turnera ulmifolia frutescens is often used in May be invasive. From landscaping where a drought- www.davesgarden.com: The two- resistant, tough groundcover is inch wide, bright yellow flowers open required. It also has its value in the in the morning and are closed by home garden. This plant is ideal to noon. It has tiny seeds that sow grow and is a useful first-aid remedy prolifically. It will often grow out of a for childrens' daily knocks and crack in the sidewalk after a seed scrapes. germinates there.

Mexican Butterfly Weed Asclepias curassavica Cane Begonia from Michael Womack: . . . another Begonia coccinea required plant for butterfly gardens - it Begonia coccinea is a species is most noted as the larval plant for begonia native to Brazil. Many hybrids monarch butterflies. from have been produced using it as a www.floridata.com: The butterflies parent. Plant has thick, leathery, solid whose caterpillars feed on milkweeds bright-green leaves with a soft sheen contain the same poisonous and bright red flowers. Variants in glycosides and are poisonous as well. flower color include dark pink and deep coral/salmon.

Chile Pequin Capsicum annuum Texas Betony from texasnature.blogspot.com: Stachys coccinea Cilipiquins, the wild progenitor of the from www.nativesoftexas.com: A jalapeno pepper, packs a wallop that deer resistant red tubular flowered surpasses all of the cultivated hot West Texas beauty. This plant is very peppers. The little yellow to bright drought tolerant after it is established. green berries, about an inch long and Hummingbirds love its red flowers. conical or egg-shaped, ripen in fall. Grow in full sun or part sun and enjoy They can be used fresh or dried and a full season (March to October) of stored. blooms.

Lanceleaf Coreopsis Coreopsis lanceolata Blue Daze from www.wildflower.org: This native Evolvulus glomeratus 'Blue Daze' species has branching stems at base from www.floridata.com and often forms sizable colonies The feltlike gray-green foliage and along roadsides and in old fields. pale blue flowers make blue daze a Nearly a dozen other perennial yellow- standout in beds and borders or as a flowered Coreopsis species occur in ground cover. It's especially attractive the East. grown in masses along with yellow or pink flowering plants. Blue daze is spectacular in hanging containers. It is highly tolerant of salt, and makes a fine ornamental for the coastal garden or in a planter on an oceanside Crown-of-Thorns balcony. Let it cascade over a window Euphorbia milii box or a porch planter. from www.floridata.com: Grown for its long lasting, colorful petal-like bracts which surround inconspicuous little flowers. Although often grown in pots on the patio, this thorny succulent is perfect for rock gardens and sunny borders. Crown of thorns is salt tolerant and often used in frostfree coastal areas, even quite near the sea. MASTER GARDNERS SPRING 2013 PLANT SALE Page 3 of 15 Blackfoot Daisy Bronze Fennel Melampodium leucanthemum Foeniculum vulgare 'Rubrum' Plains Blackfoot is a low bushy from www.nichegardens.com perennial growing from 8 to 12 inches Bronze Fennel is easily identified by in height. It can be found in rocky, tall, billowy masses of aromatic, gravelly, calcareous or sandy soils of bronzy-green, feathery foliage. Tiny, the Edwards Plateau. The leaves mustard-yellow flowers sway in the have rough hairs and are 1 to 2 summertime breeze atop large flat inches in length. The flower head umbels, eventually yielding multitudes consists of 7 to 13 white ray flowers of seeds. Fennel is a favorite larval and 25 to 50 yellow disk flowers and food source for Swallowtail butterflies blooms from April to October. The and provides burgundy softness in leaves and flowers are readily eaten sunny butterfly gardens. Freely self- by white-tailed deer. seeds in the garden. Remove spent Copper Canyon Daisy flowering stems before seed is Tagetes lemmonii produced to avoid any unwanted self- from www.floridata.com: What is that seeding. smell? Ripe passionfruit...mint...a hint Variegated Shell Ginger of camphor. Brush by the foliage of Alpinia zerumbet 'Variegata' mountain marigold and you are hit from www.wikipedia.com: Grows in with a distinctive, pungent fragrance. upright clumps 8-10 feet tall in tropical Mountain marigold, or Copper climates. In more typical conditions, it Canyon daisy, is a sprawling, shrubby reaches 4-8 feet tall in the green perennial daisy with delicately house, and 3-4 feet tall, as a house filigreed highly aromatic foliage. plant. It is called a shell ginger or shell flower most commonly, because its individual pink flowers resemble sea shells. Gerber Daisy Gerbera jamesonii from www.floridata.com: Match gerbers of a single color with other Lemon Grass bedding plants of similar or Cymbopogon citratus complementary hue. I have a bed of from floridata.com: Gardeners in bright yellow gerbers planted among subtropical areas will enjoy using blue Stoke's aster that explodes into a lemongrass in beds and borders. It glorious blanket of color every April. also does well in tubs and containers. Gerber daisies are prolific, sturdy and It is especially nice along walkways available in a spectacular palette of where plants release fragrance when colors. brushed against by passersby.

Fan Flower Scaevola aemula 'New Wonder' from www.floridata.com: Fanflowers can be grown in containers or Perky Pink Guara hanging pots outdoors in summer and Gaura lindheimeri 'Perky Pink' brought indoors during the winter. In from www.provenwinners.com: Each subtropical climates, they are grown flowering stem adds blooms, in perennial beds and borders. They continuously to the end of the spike. are tolerant of sandy soils and salt As time goes on, the flowering stems spray. The sprawling cultivars make can get rather long and tangled. excellent groundcovers in seaside Although deadheading isn't gardens. necessary for continued blooming you may find that you prefer to trim back some of the flowering stems at some point in mid-summer. MASTER GARDNERS SPRING 2013 PLANT SALE Page 4 of 15 Christmas Kalanchoe Mother-In-Law's Tongue Kalanchoe blossfeldiana Sansevieria trifasciata from www.desert-tropicals.com: Use from www.wikipedia.com: of house plant fertilizer for actively about 70 species of flowering plants growing plants. Blooms in winter, and in the family Ruscaceae, native to needs uninterrupted 14-hour nights tropical and subtropical regions of the for a month and a half before Old World. They are known for their blooming. weird hissing behaviour in which CO2 builds up in their stems and hisses when the release valve opens. Currently considered a weed in Australia.

Variegated Flax Lily Obedient Plant Dianella tasmanica 'Variegata' Physostegia virginiana from www.monrovia.com: With its from www.floridata.com: narrow, reed-like foliage and a bonus Physostegias are widely used in of variegation, this plant is dramatic in wildflower meadows and water natural gardens, with Asian themes or garden fringes, as well as in more as a stark vertical texture in the spare, civilized borders. They are especially modern landscape. Highlighted easy to arrange because flowers stripes suggest sun dappling. pushed to face a different direction Contrasts well against very large- from the stem will stay in their new leafed, shade-loving and positions obediently, which is where bronzy-colored plants. the plant got its name.

Mexican Mint Marigold Mexican Oregano Tagetes lucida Lippia graveolens also Mexican Tarragon; from from www.davesgarden.com: sbates www.floridata.com: Mexican tarragon from Austin, TX wrote: This plant is an attractive landscape provides an amazing flavor to salsa's ornamental. Use it in perennial when used fresh. Use just the leaves, borders where its shiny green leaves wash them and chop them. The and little golden flowers make a flavors combine very well with cilantro. polite, subtle statement. Use the The plant is hardy and roots easily flowers of Mexican tarragon fresh in with cuttings. The flavor is much more salads and the leaves as a substitute pungent and quite different than the for French tarragon. dried versions.

Fragrant Mistflower Pentas Ageratina havanensis Pentas lanceolata from http://aggie- from www.floridata.com: Splendid in horticulture.tamu.edu: An open butterfly beds with buddleias, ixora, with slender branches that can reach and lantana. Also a wonderful annual six feet tall, fragrant mist flower when planted in drifts of uniform color. explodes in the fall with masses of Pentas is probably underused in white, fuzzy, very fragrant flowers that landscape flowerbeds. It makes an act as a magnet to hummingbirds, ideal container plant throughout the butterflies, and a plethora of other summer, and mixes well with any . number of warm weather annuals.

Gregg's Mistflower Cora Periwinkle Conoclinium greggii Catharanthus roseus 'Cora' May be invasive. This is the most from common variety in local nurseries. www.multifloragreenhouses.com: larval food for Bordered Patch larvae, Heat tolerant and low maintenance. nectar source for Monarch & Huge flowers that completely cover Swallowtail butterflies. from the plant – crown to tip – Cora is sure www.davesgarden.com: desert rose to create a colorful impact. A terrific from Dripping Springs, TX wrote: I performer in hot and dry conditions, can't do without this plant in my the upright, basal-branched plants garden! It's easy and attracts so many resist stretching even in intense heat. butterflies. Perfect for landscapes, gardens and containers. MASTER GARDNERS SPRING 2013 PLANT SALE Page 5 of 15 Porterweed Henry Duelberg Salvia Stachytarpheta jamaicensis Salvia farinacea 'Henry Duelberg' LARVAL HOST for: Tropical Buckeye from http://texassuperstar.com: butterfly (Junonia genoveva). from Spikes of showy blue flowers from http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu: Plants grow spring until frost. More floriferous than about 4 feet tall before stems droop other cultivars. Texas native plant; and touch the ground. Blue or pink found by Greg Grant in a small central flowers are borne terminally on long, Texas cemetery. Taller with bluer and stringy spikes at the ends of the more floriferous flowers and larger stems. Rich, dark green foliage is and greener leaves than modern displayed on square, green stems cultivars. Not preferred by deer.

Australian Rosemary Indigo Spires Salvia Westringia fruiticosa Salvia var. Indigo Spires from www.wikipedia.com: shrub that Mystic Spires is a dwarf form, up to 2' grows near the coast in eastern tall. From an article by Ernie Australia. This shrub is very tough Edmondson in the Rockport Pilot and grows on cliffs right next to the 09/16/2009: Indigo Spires Salvia is ocean. Its tolerance to a variety of an evergreen perennial hybid of two soils, the neatly whorled leaves and native salvias with long purple flower all-year flowering make it very popular spikes. It is a spreading plant to three in cultivation. feet tall by six feet wide requiring low to medium water and full to partial sun.

Upright Rosemary Heartleaf Skullcap Rosmarinus officinalis Scutellaria ovata from mountainvalleygrowers.com: A from www.wildfowers.org: Heartleaf favorite Rosemary variety because of skullcap provides a beautiful blue its carefree growth, great flavor and color to any shade garden in the dark blue flower. Leaves can be used spring. It may go dormant over the fresh or dried. If used fresh be sure to summer but is evergreen during the chop them very fine or use whole winter. There can be a lot of loss due stems and remove from food before to rotting over the summer. It is serving. probably best to water pots infrequently over summer.

Lyreleaf Sage Hawaiian Ti Plant Salvia lyrata Cordyline fruticosa from www.wildflowers.org: Lyreleaf from www.mgonline.com: Ti plants or sage is a strictly upright, hairy cordylines, are extremely popular perennial, 1-2 ft. tall with a rosette of worldwide for their intense leaf colors leaves at the base. Lyreleaf sage and leaf shapes producing interest makes a great evergreen and contrasts even in deep shade. groundcover, with somewhat ajuga- Natives use plants for fiber, cloth and like foliage and showy blue flowers in livestock food. The roots are said to spring. It will reseed easily in loose, be edible. Ti is pronounced like 'tea' in sandy soils and can form a solid cover some areas, but in Florida the name with regular watering. rhymes with 'hi.'

Tropical Sage Salvia coccinea LARVAL HOST for: Painted Lady butterfly (Vanessa cardui). From article in Rockport Pilot by Ernie Edmundson: Covered with bright red flowers, is a perennial salvia. It makes a great ground cover in both shade or sun by just trimming back periodically with a line trimmer. MASTER GARDNERS SPRING 2013 PLANT SALE Page 6 of 15 Philippine Violet Black Fountain Grass Barleria cristata Pennisetum alopecuroides 'Moudry' from http://toptropicals.com from www.monrovia.org: It's the black Grows into a shapely shrub with flower heads that make this very minimal pruning. The trumpet-shaped special. With a height more like 2" flowers open in in terminal clusters groundcover, this Fountain Grass in November and continue into mid- looks beautiful grown in masses. Ideal December. This is an easy-to-grow candidate for rock gardens, dry shrub, about 3ft height, which can be streambeds and next to landscape used for a garden hedge or tightly boulders. clipped into geometrical shapes. Barleria is easily propagated from cuttings planted in fall directly in the ground. It requires some sun to flower Fountain Grass profusely and occasional pruning to Pennisetum setaceum promote bushy growth. Over 60 varieties exist. from Moonshine Yarrow www.floridata.com: Fountain grass Achillea x 'Moonshine' makes a dramatic statement from www.monrovia.com: An anywhere in the landscape. Use it as outstanding Mediterranean aromatic a foundation plant, a specimen, in a for everlasting color in beds and group, or in a border. Highly favored borders. Works nicely in dryland in both fresh and dried floral xeriscapes where it matches arrangements. Listed among the demands of arid western natives. "most invasive widespread wildland Achillea x 'Moonshine' is a hybrid of pest plants" in California. A. taygetea, a native of Greece and A. millefolium, the most common form. Inland Seaoats Chasmanthium latifolium One of the more shade tolerant of the GRASSES ornamental grasses. self-seeds and may become invasive. Leaving foliage Bamboo Muhly in place over winter adds interest to Muhlenbergia dumosa the landscape and helps protect from crowns from the cold. Cut back to the www.magnoliagardensnursery.com: ground in early spring. Seed heads This grass has fern-like leaves and a flutter in the breeze, makes excellent lacy texture giving it a Bamboo look. dried arrangements. 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 Big Muhly some drought but it will look its best Muhlenbergia lindheimeri on a moist well-drained soil. from www.wildflower.org: Native only to the Edwards Plateau of central Texas, Big muhly or Lindheimers Prairie Cordgrass muhly has become increasingly Spartina pectinata popular since the 1980s as an from www.wikipedia.com: This plant elegant, large-scale specimen grass, can grow in a variety of habitat types, large enough for screening. It can be but it is a facultative wetland species, a soft-textured substitute for most often found in wet habitats. introduced Pampas grass, which it These include fens, wet prairies, approaches in stature. rivers, floodplains, ponds, moraines, and marshes. The grass is tolerant of water, but it does not tolerate Gulf Coast Muhly prolonged flooding. Muhlenbergia capillaris 'Filipes' from http://www.magnoliagardensnursery.c om: Absolutely one of the most beautiful ornamental grasses around. A North American native and more importantly a Texas Native Plant! Puts on a real show with flowers that look like a purple cloud from far away, giving a spectacular fall color show. MASTER GARDNERS SPRING 2013 PLANT SALE Page 7 of 15 Weeping Muhly Crossvine Muhlenbergia palmeri Bignonia capreolata from www.nativesoftexas.com: This from www.wildflower.org: Some deer graceful muhley grass is native to resistance. A climbing, woody vine Arizona but does well in the Texas Hill reaching 50 ft. long with showy, Country. It has a graceful weeping orange-red, trumpet-shaped flowers 2 appearance and enjoys full sun. It is inches long and 1 1/2 inches across very drought tolerant when which hang in clusters of two to five. established. Like the other grasses in They are sometimes seen high in a this genera it blooms in the fall with tree, as the vine climbs by means of slender seed heads. It grows to 1½ claws at the end of its tendrils. or 2 feet tall.

VINES & GROUNDCOVERS Frogfruit Phyla nodiflora Baby Sun Rose from www.baynatives.com: Tiny Aptenia cordifolia ground hugging plant, thought of as from www.desert-tropicals.com weedy but very useful between They are very tough, look clean most stepping stones in harsh conditions. of the time, and bloom from spring to All sorts of insects are drawn to the fall. They grow in light shade, but flowers of this relative. bloom a lot less. They grow well on retaining walls and hanging baskets. Aptenia 'Red Apple' is an hybrid commonly encountered in nurseries.

Aztec Grass Liriope muscari 'Aztec' Bleeding Heart from www.magnoliagardens.com Clerodendrum thompsoniae Liriope muscari 'Aztec' (also sold as from www.floridata.com: This is the Ophiopogon spp.) has a tufted common garden flower known as stoloniferous growth habit and can Bleeding Heart. It likes high humidity get up to 24" tall. Aztec Grass has and moist soil.Outside the tropics, white spikes of bell shaped flowers in bleeding heart is usually grown in the summer. This grass is prized for containers so it can be protected its foliage which is variegated pale when temperatures fall below 45 F. It yellow to white. Aztec Grass is slow can be kept pruned into a shrub, or growing and has a coarse root system given support and allowed to and is not as cold hardy as other scramble like a vine. Liriope spp. So keep protected until well established. Butterfly Vine Coral Mascagnia macroptera Lonicera sempervirens from www.wikipedia.com: The from www.wildflowers.org: This vine clusters of dainty flowers on Butterfly has showy, trumpet-shaped flowers, Vine shine as brilliant as the summer red outside, yellow inside, in several sun. But it's the seed pods that give whorled clusters at the ends of the the plant its name. During summer, stems. Papery, exfoliating bark is chartreuse 'wings' unfold on the seed orange-brown in color. This beautiful, pods that look like butterflies. In mild slender, climbing vine is frequently winters, the vine will retain its gloss visited by hummingbirds. Not too green foliage. aggressive. Good climber or ground cover.

Coral Vine Purple Trailing Lantana Antigonon leptopus Lantana montevidensis 'Purple' rom Michael Womack: …is a native from Dr. Michael Womack: This vine that can grow from seeds, but tough plant not only blossoms most of they are hard to find unless you the year, but it is also drought and harvest them from a friend's plant. sun hardy. The most effective use of This fast growing vine will grow up to these plants is often mass plantings in 20 feet in a year and cover a fence. sunny areas with well-drained soils. Its pink flower clusters in the fall [The smaller the leaf, the smaller the attract both hummingbirds and plant will be]. The shortest varieties of butterflies while turning the heads of lantana commonly are called trailing passers-by. lantana. MASTER GARDNERS SPRING 2013 PLANT SALE Page 8 of 15 White Trailing Lantana Pothos Lantana montevidensis 'White' Epipremnum pinnatum prune severly in late winter - also from www.wikipedia.com: Sometimes white variety. from Michael Womack mistakenly labeled as a Philodendron in the CCCT 03/22/2008: This tough in plant stores. Liana growing to 60 ft. plant not only blossoms most of the tall, with stems up to 2 in. in diameter, year, but it is also drought and sun climbing by means of aerial roots hardy. The most effective use of which hook over tree branches. It is a these plants is often mass plantings in popular houseplant. It is also efficient sunny areas with well-drained soils. at removing indoor pollutants such as formaldehyde, xylene, and benzene.

Lilyturf Missouri Primrose Liriope muscari Oenothera macrocarpa also variegated and giant varieties. from http://aggie- The evergreen foliage is thick and horticulture.tamu.edu: A hardy luxurious and fallen leaves and debris perennial native from Texas to tend to disappear within. Liriope is Missouri and extending throughout tough, easy to grow and readily much of central North America. A available from nurseries and garden prolific bloomer with magnificent centers. Because it is inexpensive lemon-yellow flowers which last for and fast growing, this is an ideal several days. An excellent border shape defining plant in the landscape. plant remaining green throughout the year. Prefers well-drained soil in full sun. Mexican Flame Vine Creeping Rosemary Pseudogynoxys chenopodioides Rosmarinus officinalis 'Prostratus' from www.floridata.com: Use from Mexican flame vine to drape over www.magnoliagardensnursery.com: porch rails and mailboxes. It's expert Prostrate Rosemary is a low- at improving the visual charm of chain spreading, evergreen shrub or link fences. Use in mixed hedges to groundcover. Its leaves are green, create splashes of summertime color. leathery and very aromatic. This It also looks great clambering up palm Rosemary has pale-blue flowers from or pine tree trunks. Tends to be rather early to mid-summer. Rosmarinus compact. officinalis 'Prostratus' can be used as a beautiful groundcover.

Palay Rubbervine Moss Verbena Cryptostegia grandiflora Verbena tenuisecta May be invasive. From from http://aggie- www.wikipedia.com: It is also a horticulture.tamu.edu: A sprawling significant weed in northern Australia, perennial, native to South America, sometimes regarded in fact, as the and introduced to the southern United worst weed in all of Australia. It has States. The small flowers have a rich also been introduced to most other violet to purple hue, clustered tropical and subtropical regions by together forming a small bouquet. An man, because of its attractive flowers excellent drought-tolerant variety for and the fact that its latex contains arid regions. Prefers light to heavy commercial quality rubber. soils in full sun. A valuable asset for summer color. Native Passionflower Yellow Dots Wedelia trilobata from www.floridata.com. The fruits of from www.floridata.com: Excellent this species of passionflower are ground cover in warm climates in its called maypops and are about the native range. Plantings are very size of an apricot and have a similar, attractive with nearly constant and but stronger and more aromatic flavor prolific blooming. Wedelia may be (like a guava). Indeed, it is the fruit of mowed to keep low and manicured. a related species (P. edulis) that gives The plant is no longer considered Hawaiian Punch® its distinctive taste. appropriate for any of these usages in Florida where it has proven to be an invasive nuisance. MASTER GARDNERS SPRING 2013 PLANT SALE Page 9 of 15 SHRUBS Bougainvillea Bougainvillea sp. Agarita Hummingbirds are attracted to Mahonia trifoliolata bougainvillea but cannot use it for an from texasbeyondhistory.net: Agarita energy source. Be careful around (algerito) is a small-to-medium, play areas because of the thorns. evergreen shrub that produces an Great vine for large containers to abundant spring crop of red berries. decorate hot patios and plazas. It can Its leaves are spine tipped, appearing be trained as a shrub or clipped into somewhat like holly, and spread out shapes. palmately in threes.

Cenizo Leucophyllum frutescens American Beautyberry from www.floridata.com 'Alba' has Callicarpa americana white flowers, 'Rain Cloud' has violet- from article in Rockport Pilot by Ernie blue. 'Green Cloud' produces green Edmundson: Early spring is the time foliage & pinkish flowers. 'Sierra to cut them down before they put on Bouquet' bears lavender-blue their new spring growth. They can be blossoms. Pink flowered 'Compacta' trimmed back almost to the ground, is a smaller variety used for low however unpruned plants will develop hedges. 'Bertstar Dwarf', aka a weeping effect . . . with purple, or in "Silverado Sage", is exceptionally full some cases, white berries in the fall. and dense even at the base.

Dwarf Barbados Cherry Malpighia glabra Angel's Trumpet fruit is edible and sometimes used for Brugmansia candida preserves. from article in Rockport from www.floridata.com: It can be Pilot by Ernie Edmundson: The fruit pruned to a small tree with a single are edible in preserves. Dwarf trunk, or allowed to grow in a clump Barbados cherry makes a colorful with several erect and spreading compact small shrub for part sun to stems. Use it where you want to full sun locations in the landscape. make a bold statement. Its large, Tucked up under some of the taller coarse leaves and huge drooping shrubs, you may find several flowers will be the center of attention. perennial plants.

Cigar Plant Cuphea ignea 'David Verity' Powis Castle Artemisia from http://www.floridata.com: A fast Artemisia x 'Powis Castle' grower and requires little attention. from www.floridata.com: Artemisia X But it will command your attention as 'Powis Castle' is believed to be the party place for all manner of result of a cross between Artemisia butterflies and hummingbirds. Plant a arborescens and A. absinthium. This mass of cigar plants near a window or is a beautiful silver-gray plant that the patio where you can enjoy grows in a dense, billowing mound. watching hordes of happy Essentially evergreen in warm winter hummingbirds come to feast on the climates. Cut back in early spring to beautiful banquet. encourage new growth to come up from the bottom. Coral Bean Erythrina herbacea Little John Bottlebrush from article in Rockport Pilot by Ernie Callistemon viminalis 'Little John' Edmundson: Sprouts large clusters from www.californiagardens.com: In of bright red tubular flowers in March many places Bottle Brush trees are or April. It loses its leaves in the just too big. Callistemon Little John winter and can be cut to the ground in provides all of the interest in a small very early spring. It develops seed package. The leaves and stature are pods when ripe split open to reveal reduced. The flowers, aside from bright coral seeds that are toxic. being a deeper red are the same. They attract hummingbirds like almost no other plant. And they require almost no care MASTER GARDNERS SPRING 2013 PLANT SALE Page 10 of 15 Coralberry Firebush Symphoricarpos orbiculatus Hamelia patens from www.wildflower.org: This is a From Michael Womack: . . . small, mound-shaped, deciduous butterflies also use the large leaves shrub. The greenish-white flower as roosting sites at night. from clusters are not as showy as the www.floridata.com: It can be kept clusters of coral-pink to purple small by pruning. Firebush is a berries. Forms extensive colonies valuable addition to butterfly and and spreads by rooting at the nodes hummingbird gardens. Also does where it touches the ground. A good well in containers. choice for a woodland garden.

Datura Firecracker Datura stramonium Russelia equisetiformis from www.floridata.com: The flowers LARVAL HOST for: Common open for only one evening, but new Buckeye butterfly (Junonia coenia). ones continue to open throughout the Has a white varient. From summer and autumn. Also known as www.magnoliagardensnusery.com: jimsonweed which is a corruption of Produces thin wiry-like foliage and Jamestown, where early colonists scarlet to coral tubular flowers. Great noted jimsonweed growing in for containers or for spilling over walls, abundance. All parts of jimsonweed much like a fountain. are very poisonous.

Elbowbush Firespike Forestiera angustifolia Odontonema tubiforme from http://aggie- from www.floridata.com: The horticulture.tamu.edu: Evergreen strikingly beautiful crimson flowers shrub with stiff, dense branches that and glossy/shiny leaves of firespike come off the stems at a 90 degree brighten the fall landscape. Plant angle, forming elbows. Male and firespike in mixed shrub borders. It will female flowers are produced on spread by underground sprouting, separate plants, followed by a dark enlarging to form a thicket, but it is purple berry. Livestock and small easy to control and keep contained. mammals browse the twigs and fruit.

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

Orange Star Esperanza Pineapple Guava 'Orange Star' Feijoa sellowiana from from www.floridata.com: Rarely have www.magnoliagardensnursery.com: any disease or pest problems. This is This plant is a orange flowering a good low maintenance shrub for hot Tecoma that is very similar in looks to dry problem areas. If you are Tecoma stans Yellow Bells. Tecoma interested in fruit production purchase 'Orange Star' is an evergreen and can cultivars selected for fruit quality, reach 12' tall with a 6' spread at climate, time of ripening and ability to maturity. self-pollinate. MASTER GARDNERS SPRING 2013 PLANT SALE Page 11 of 15 Hibiscus Sambac Jasmine Hibiscus sp. Jasminum sambac from www.floridata.com: Use as a from www.floridata.com: bushy vine foundation plant around houses and or scrambling shrub with shiny dark buildings in frost-free areas. The green leaves and fragrant little white hibiscus is underused as a tree form. flowers. Expect an Arabian jasmine For a spectacular flowering tree, limb to grow no more than 6-10 ft high and up at the base and allow to grow as it just as wide in frostfree areas. will.

Red Shield Hibiscus Compact Jatropha Hibiscus acetosella 'Red Shield' Jatropha integerrima 'Compacta' from www.about.com: Grown mainly Tropical shrub to small tree with for its foliage, which can come in glossy, dark green foliage and a stunning shades of copper and continuous supply of hot, pinkish-red burgundy that rival red maples. The flower heads. A spectacular shrub in flowers and leaves are edible, with a bloom, which is most of the year. Use pleasant tart taste. Typical Hibiscus in accent or shrub border. funnel shaped flowers in yellow and red. The flowers are incidental on Hibiscus acetosella and some of the newer cultivars don’t flower at all.

Texas Star Hibiscus Texas Kidneywood Hibiscus coccineaus Eysenhardtia texana from from http://www.wildflower.org: Much- www.magnoliagardennursery.com: branched shrub, with an open, airy Tall, slender perennial Hibiscus that structure. Flowers white, small, with a produces large bright red, 5 petal delicate fragrance, arranged in spikes flowers that has embassingly been up to 4 inches long at the ends of mistaken as Cannabis sativa. Blooms branchlets. This tree and its relative on new growth and can be cut back Kidneywood (E. polystacha) were after flowering to maintain size and once used in remedies for kidney and encourage new bloom. bladder ailments.

Cape Honeysuckle Confetti Lantana Lantana camara 'Confetti' from www.floridata.com: Cape from honeysuckle can be used as a www.magnoliagardensnursery.com: climbing vine (it needs tying) or barrier The blooms are tri-colored consisting hedge/screen, trained as a specimen of yellow, pink, and purple to wine shrub, or used as a ground cover on colors that will fade with age and are steep slopes or rocky banks. It is great for attracting butterflies. Confettii sometimes trained as an espalier. It is Lantana will bloom late spring to fall especially attractive cascading over and has an upright growth habit. The walls or planters. It can be trained to a foliage is very aromatic and can garden arch. irritate the skin of some people.

Ixora Dallas Red Lantana Ixora coccinea Lantana camera 'Dallas Red' from www.floridata.com: Ixora is used from in warm climates for hedges and www.magnoliagardensnursery.com: screens, foundation plantings, compact growth habit and is great for massed in flowering beds, or grown attracting butterflies into the garden. as a specimen shrub or small tree. Lantana is drought tolerant, salt This tight, compact shrub is much tolerant, deer tolerant, is very branched and tolerates hard pruning, adaptable and had outstanding heat making it ideal for formal hedges, tolerance. Texas Grown, Tested in although we think it is at its best when Texas to perform outstanding for not sheared. Texas Gardens. MASTER GARDNERS SPRING 2013 PLANT SALE Page 12 of 15 New Gold Lantana Pigeonberry Lantana x hybrida 'New Gold' Rivina humilis cross between a Lantana camara and not drought tolerant. from article in a Lantana montevidensis. from Rockport Pilot by Ernie Edmundson: Michael Womack in the CCCT Often hidden under prickly leaved 03/22/2008: [applicable to most Agarita, you will often find Lantanas]. This tough plant not only Pigeonberry. Protected from the deer blossoms most of the year, but it is and the sun by the Agarita, also drought and sun hardy - two Pigeonberry blooms with pink or white important keys to its success in clusters of flowers and tiny red fruit, landscaping. both at the same time.

Texas Lantana Natal Plum Lantana urticoides Carissa macrocarpa from Michael Womack in the CCCT from hort.ufl.edu: This evergreen 03/22/2008: The most effective use shrub has lustrous, leathery, rich of these plants is often mass plantings green, oval leaves and spines along in sunny areas with well-drained its branches. Flowers are somewhat soils. Often found along fenceposts fragrant, white, and star-shaped. The where it is protected from mowing. bright red, edible, plum-shaped fruit The native form is considered the tastes like cranberries and can be best variety for hummingbirds and used to make jam. Flowers and fruits butterflies because of its high nectar are often simultaneous. content.

Bush Morning Glory Blue Plumbago Ipomoea carnea ssp. fistulosa Plumbago auriculata May be invasive. from from www.floridata.com: Blooms all www.plantanswers.com: Most prolific year long except for the coldest winter bloomer of any of the summer months. A white flowered variety (P. perennials. The plant is covered with auriculata var. alba) is available. The medium-size, light pink (there is a cultivar, 'Royal Cape' has intense white form available) blooms all cobalt blue flowers. Use plumbago in summer. Blooms last only one day borders, foundation plantings, and for but clusters of blooms are formed in color massed in beds. Blooms best in the axil of every leaf. Cut back full sun. monthly to encourage blooming.

Mock Orange Plumeria Philadelphus lewisii Plumeria rubra from www.wildflowers.org from www.floridata.com: Plumeria is A loosely branched shrub, covered in perfect as a patio tree or as lawn the spring by many white flowers. specimen. Use shrubbier forms in Idahos state flower; when in full mixed hedges where they contribute bloom the flowers scent the air with a color and texture. Plant plumerias delightfully sweet fragrance near porches and bedroom windows reminiscent of orange blossoms. The so that its delightful frangrance can be genus is named for the Egyptian king enjoyed on summer evenings. Ptolemy Philadelphus, and the species name (and one of its common names) honors the scientist-explorer Meriwether Lewis, who first Mexican Poinciana discovered and collected it during his Caesalpinia mexicana exploration of the Louisiana from http://aggie- Purchase. Indians used its straight horticulture.tamu.edu: Mexican stems in making arrows. poinciana is found in Texas only in the extreme lower Rio Grande Valley. It is grown mainly for its highly fragrant, golden flowers borne in attractive racemes 3 to 6 inches long. It is highly ornamental with its spectacular flowers and ferny foliage, and thrives in heat, tolerating reflected heat. MASTER GARDNERS SPRING 2013 PLANT SALE Page 13 of 15 Pride of Barbados Mexican Bush Sage Caesalpinia pulcherrima Salvia leucantha Brilliant scarlet and yellow flowers, from www.floridata.com: Mexican feathery foliage, and quick growth bush sage, with its graceful arching make Dwarf Poinciana a popular stems and soft downy foliage, is one evergreen shrub. It is hard to find a of our favorite salvias. The fuzzy more attractive flower. This open- purple calyces are the main show, branched, fine-textured shrub will and these persist even after the tolerate hot, dry areas, and forms an actual flowers have fallen off, making effective thorny barrier. It flowers Mexican bush sage one of the few year-round with peak displays in salvias suitable for use as a cut flower. spring and fall.

Belinda's Dream Rose Flowering Senna Rosa x 'Belinda's Dream' Senna corymbosa from www.texassuperstar.com: First from www.backyardgardener.com: rose to be named a Texas Upright to spreading, evergreen SuperstarTM and to receive shrub. Leaves are pinnate and prestigious EarthKindTM designation. yellowish green with lance-shaped Gorgeous shrub rose with large, leaflets. Many corymbs of yellow fragrant and very pink double flowers bloom in summer. blossoms. Successive flushes of bloom spring to frost. So disease tolerant that fungicide sprays are seldom required. A nearly perfect landscape rose. Martha Gonzales Rose Shrimp Plant Rosa 'Martha Gonzales' Justicia brandegeeana from www.davesgarden.com withstands wind and sand, will freeze Suze_ from Bastrop County, TX to ground but regrow, from (Zone 8b) wrote: This is just a www.floridata.com: Use shrimp plant fantastic plant/shrub for Texas. Cute in mixed perennial beds and borders, as a button, new growth tends to be wherever you want a mass of darkish foliage, has a sort of continuous color - they bloom almost Victorian/'eclectic' look to me. Fairly all year long! Keep the bushes tip drought tolerant and disease pruned to promote bushiness and resistant. Super easy to maintain, just increase flowering. give it a light trim in late winter/early spring if desired. Can also be shaped into a low hedge. Brazilian Skyflower Nearly Wild Rose Duranta erecta Rosa x 'Nearly Wild' Deer love all varieties of this plant. from Purple and white varieties. from www.magnoliagardensnursery.com: www.rareflora.com: Easy to grow and Old garden type floribunda hybrid that bloom. They can also be trained in was bred in 1941 from 'Dr. W Van different shapes. Trimmed on a Fleet' x 'Leuchstern'. They won’t regular basis it will become a shrub, sprawl or sucker like most roses. grown on a trellis as a vine, or shaped They will repeat their bloom all like a patio tree with only 1 trunk. summer, are self-cleaning, and are lightly fragrant.

White Skyflower Compact Texas Sage Duranta erecta 'Alba' Leucophyllum frutescens 'Compacta' from www.davesgarden.com: artcons www.westongardens.com: Dense, from Fort Lauderdale, FL (Zone 10) compact form of species. Silvery wrote: I have had my "White Sky" leaves and bell-shaped lavender Alba about 8 years. I started it from a flowers off and on all summer. Very cutting. It's a large bush with drought tolerant. Useful as a hedge, spreading branches that can easily be in a mass or in the perennial border. controlled via trimming. It's a fast grower but requires a lot of space to mature and bloom. MASTER GARDNERS SPRING 2013 PLANT SALE Page 14 of 15 Texas Sotol Red Yucca 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.

Spanish Dagger PALMS & TREES Yucca treculeana This is one of the most impressive Anaqua woody lilies that can be grown, Ehretia anacua thriving in the high humidity of the from http://aggie- Texas Gulf Coast. Y. constricta grows horticulture.tamu.edu: It is subtropical on Padre Island and has leaves that and if planted as far north as Dallas it re 3/4" wide. Edible flowers are will freeze back in cold winters, and produced in the early spring on a rarely develop flowers. It is sometimes spike up to 4' omprised of a hundred called sandpaper tree because of the or so 2" white bells. rough texture of the leaves. It blooms from spring through summer with white, fragrant flowers that cover the tree in dense clusters. Thryallis Galphimia gracilis from www.floridata.com: This shrub is Bottlebrush one of the best for shearing into low Callistemon rigidus hedges. Use in foundation plantings from beneath windows where it's dense www.magnoliagardensnursery.com: thicket of stems will discourage This Bottlebrush has a bushy growth prowlers. Thryallis makes a great habit with stiff stems and stiff linear background plant for perennial beds. shaped leaves and will do best on a Mass this shrub for large scale well-drained soil. In the summer this groundcovers. Callistemon will bloom sporting spectacular bright red bottlebrush-like flowers that are great for attracting butterflies and hummingbirds. Turk's Cap Drummondii Malvaviscus arboreus 'Drummondii' Primary food source for migrating Crapemyrtle hummingbirds. Flowers on native Lagerstroemia indica form stick up; on the larger tropical from www.floridata.com: Crape variety they hang down. From article myrtles have been planted along in the Rockport Pilot by Ernie highways in the southern United Edmundson: Turk's Cap is found States for generations. They are growing along the fringes of live oaks becoming more widely used in urban as well as in the low lying areas areas, especially as new varieties adjacent to the bays. have been developed for smaller size and disease resistance. A single crape is a magnificent specimen in the middle of a lawn. Mexican Turk's Cap Malvaviscus arboreus 'Mexicanus' strong butterfly/hummingbird Spiny Hackberry addractor, flowers droop as compared Celtis pallida to the native Turk's Cap which are from http://www.wildflower.org: One upright, more susceptable to freezing of the few shrubs in the Celtis genus. than the native variety. Its numerous spiny branches are whitish gray. The bark is smooth and gray. Leaves are small, roundish, and somewhat rough. Clusters of small, fairly inconspicuous, white flowers are followed by shiny red, orange and yellow fruit ripening in fall. MASTER GARDNERS SPRING 2013 PLANT SALE Page 15 of 15 Huisache Mexican Redbud Acacia farnesiana Cercis canadensis 'Mexicana' from www.wikipedia.com: Seeds are from http://aggie- non-toxic to humans and are a horticulture.tamu.edu: Mexican valuable food source for people (18% redbud is smaller in stature, has protein). It is a serious weed in Fiji, smaller, glossier, and more wavy- where locals call it Ellington's Curse. edged leaves, and is more drought It is also a serious pest plant in parts tolerant than Texas redbud. It grows of Australia, including north-west New as a multi-trunked tree on hard South Wales, where it now infests limestone soils in west Texas. It thousands of acres of grazing country. cannot tolerate poorly drained soils.

Little Gem Magnolia Schefflera Magnolia grandiflora 'Little Gem' Schefflera actinophylla from from www.floridata.com: Use for www.magnoliagardensnursery.com: screens, windbreaks, hedges, The Little Gem Magnolia grows in a specimens, street plantings, and more compact and upright form than patios. A popular container plant for other Southern Magnolias; with small use indoors and out. Used extensively elliptic to oval dark green leaves with in south Florida along freeways and characteristic long rusty-brown turnpikes. Trim to one trunk for a undersides. Grows to be 20-25 feet more tree-like specimen with in height and 10-15 feet in width. additional height.

Wild Olive Desert Willow 'Regal Cordia boissieri Chilopsis linearis 'Regal' Hardy as far north as San Antonio. from http://www.gardenguides.com: Fruit may make livestock disoriented if The desert willow is a small, many eaten to excess. Needs water to get stemmed, deciduous tree with thin established but drought-tolerant willow like leaves. "Regal" has a afterwards. dense and compact habit, and produces highly ruffled, dark red and lavender blossoms.

Mexican Fan Palm Washingtonia robusta Best not to shave trunk. If done, stop within 2' of beginning of dead fronds. from http://horticulture.tamu.edu: The tallest and fastest growing of the widely planted palms in Texas. Cold damage is common and occasional winters may wipe them out. Washingtonia filifera is a shorter , stockier, more cold hardy version.

Texas Sabal Palm Sabal mexicana from www.floridata.com: The Texas palm fruit is edible and called micharo. The Texas palm is one of only two palms that are native to Texas, the other being the much smaller dwarf palmetto (Sabal minor). Tolerates salty soil, constant southeast wind, storm winds, salt spray and occasional sand blasting. May take 10 years to form a trunk.