Sun. A tough, coarse annual wildflower with minty gray-green leaves. Common in fields and along Texas roadsides, its pink pom-poms are a standout in early summer when other wildflowers are going [...]
Full sun. Evergreen. An attractive tree-form yucca. Many sources consider it simply a branching variety of the popular Big Bend Yucca (rostrata). Thin blue-gray leaves grow in a cluster, later [...]
Sun/part shade; nearly evergreen, with velvety ovate leaves, floppy branches and a rounded shrub-like form. Orange tube flowers appear on and off throughout the year, but especially from June to [...]
Sun/part shade; semi-evergreen, with unusual leaves that completely encircle the stems. Clusters of coral-colored blooms appear during warm weather and may persist into winter.\n\nUnlike the [...]
Partial sun/shade. Semi-evergreen. Tangerine blooms with yellow throats appear in late spring, with occasional blooming until frost. The flowers resemble trumpet creeper, but crossvine is far [...]
Full sun or partial shade. A deciduous, herbaceous perennial, with glossy spadelike leaves, striking tubular pink or red flower spikes, and blackish pods bearing poisonous red beans. An [...]
Full sun. Deciduous, thornless and fast-growing, with a low, spreading canopy and pale pink trumpet flowers from spring through fall. It provides terrific shade for old-fashioned garden plants [...]
Sun/part shade; a small evergreen, with aloe-like leaves. Delicate, orange and yellow bloom stalks appear from spring through frost. Easily cultivated, bulbine is great for cursed, scorched [...]
Dappled shade in summer, sun in winter. A cool-season perennial, with bushy foliage resembling maidenhair fern. It grows leaves in fall, winter and spring, going dormant in summer. The big, [...]
Sun/part shade; mostly evergreen, with dark glossy leaves, turning bronze in autumn. Cascades of pale flowers appear throughout the warm season, attracting hummingbirds.\n\nLarge enough to shear [...]