Copper Canyon Daisy

Sun/part shade; deciduous, with strongly scented feathery foliage and a sprawling, sagelike form. Orange-yellow flowers are unleashed as the days shorten in autumn — often just before the first freeze.

Blackfoot Daisy

Sun/part shade; deciduous. A mounding perennial with narrow, green leaves and creamy-white flowers with orange centers. Useful in rock gardens.\r\n\r\nSurvival requires excellent drainage; this native may be short-lived if over-watered.

Barbados Cherry

Sun/shade; a nearly evergreen shrub or small tree (there are many different growth habits.) In subfreezing winter temperatures, it may drop leaves. Usually seen in south-central Texas: a soft, rounded […]

Frogfruit

Sun/part shade; semi-evergreen; a low-growing, low-maintenance groundcover that spreads quickly, mixes freely with grasses, and clambers over baskets and walls. The verbena flowers resemble lantana and attract butterflies.\n\nFrogfruit is commercially […]

Foxtail Fern

Part sun/part shade; a mounding evergreen perennial with bright green whorls of needle-like leaves. More dense and strongly formed than asparagus Sprengeri; somewhat drought tolerant, but protect from afternoon sun. […]

Flame Acanthus

Sun or partial shade. A deciduous woody perennial, with thin leaflets on rangy stems. The orange tubeflowers are made-to-order for hummingbirds, butterflies and bees; they festoon the branches like tiny […]

Firebush

Sun or partial shade. A heat- and sun-loving rounded shrub that grows larger each summer, reaching up to five feet in diameter. Small, red tubular flowers attract hummingbirds.\n\nIn winter, firebush […]

Green Cenizo

Full sun (in shade, cenizo tends to grow leggy.) Evergreen, with smooth, dusty-green leaves that contrast with the typical silverleaf cenizo. Lavender-colored flowers appear sporadically during hot humid weather.\n\nGreen Cloud […]

Fragrant Cenizo

Sun. Evergreen, with striking moon-white foliage and deep purple flowers. A somewhat smaller, rangier, more delicate xeric relative of our native cenizo; it makes a nice (and extremely fragrant) accent […]

Cenizo

Full sun (any shade makes it grow leggy.) Cenizo is evergreen, with silvery foliage covered with tiny dusty hairs. Sweet-scented pink flowers appear briefly after rain events in summer and […]