Explore the variety of native and adapted plants for your corner of Texas — whether you’re looking for color, shade, a home for wildlife or just never want to mow again.
A mid-sized pine with a moderate growth rate.
The Sandpaper Tree: a South Texas specialty.
A big and fast-growing suburban shade tree, but not famously long-lived.
A West Texas evergreen, and a fast-growing anchor for the watersaver landscape.
Fast-growing and fragrant.
The classic swamp cypress: plant it near water.
The “Lost Maple” is a relic from cooler times in Texas.
A large-growing oak with fist-sized acorns. Well-adapted to clay soils.
A nicely-shaped shade tree, well-adapted to the challenges of local soil types.
Adaptable to any site except very heavy clay soils.
A majestic tree, one of the largest east of the Rockies.
A Texas-sized crape myrtle, with waterfalls of silvery-pink blossoms all summer long.
A big, stately conifer for deeper soils.
The most durable and adaptable oak for south-central Texas.
A fast source of easy shade and a terrific tree for wildlife, who plant it on every fenceline.
Probably the most drought-tolerant shade tree for south-central Texas.
A slow-growing and long-lived umbrella pine.
An extremely drought-tolerant (but slow growing) small oak.
The most alkaline- and drought-resistant of Texas’ eastern pine species; well displayed in Bastrop, it occurs only very rarely in Bexar County and eastward on specific soil types.
A fast-growing, evergreen Mexican red oak.
A beautiful native tree, well-suited to deep coastal and riparian soils. Not recommended for thin hill country soils.
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