Common Boxwood

Partial sun or shade. Evergreen. With their tiny evergreen leaves and their ability to regrow thickly after pruning, boxwoods have long been favored when a sheared hedge is desired. On […]

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 […]

Fairy Duster

Full scorching summer sun; semi-evergreen in warm winters (below 20-25 degrees it will die back to the roots.) A dense, woody shrub with velvety fernlike leaves and profuse red puff […]

Elbow Bush

Sun/part sun; deciduous. A dense, thicket-forming low shrub in shaded dry settings. Small, very fragrant flowers appear in late winter; elbow bush is also known as a spring herald. \n\nA […]

Aucuba

Full shade to dappled shade, protected from hot sun; evergreen. A classic foliage plant, with big glossy leaves splattered with yellow flecks (\”Gold Dust\” is a popular cultivar.) In some […]

Whitebrush

Sun; partially evergreen in some winters, with tiny leaflets and spikes of delicate, fragrant, white flowers that attract bees and butterflies from spring to fall. Useful in massings, native edges, […]

Spiny Allthorn

Sun or bright shade. The stems and thorns are evergreen; the leaves themselves are tiny and scale-like, appearing only after summer rains. Greenish-white star flowers appear in warm weather, with […]

Texas Torchwood

Understory shade or partial sun. Evergreen, with glossy compound leaves which perfume the garden with the fragrance of citrus or rue. Torchwood is dense and hedge-like, blooming throughout the warm […]