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A green-leaved cenizo with lavender flowers.

Texas Sage is the ultimate South Texas shrub: it thrives in summer heat.

Extremely fragrant blooms, with moon-white foliage.

The wild South Texas shrub sage.

An invasive privet that forms monocultural stands, dominating native woodlands in Texas and the Southeastern U.S. Not recommended.

A dense hedging plant that tolerates compacted soil.

A decent screening shrub in deep soils, with hot-colored tropical blooms.

A big evergreen shrub suitable for hedging.

Works well as a tall evergreen screen.

Always there, always green: boxwood is a classic for low hedges and topiary.

One of the few thornless South Texas evergreens… but the berries are poisonous.

A Methuselah among South Texas native shrubs, with evergreen leaves and an unmistakable craggy form.

A Mediterranean small shrub with silvery leaves and lavender flowers.

Probably the most drought-tolerant shade tree for south-central Texas.

Rangy, tough, and fragrant. Great for screening native edges. Unlike cenizo, it stays fairly dense in shade.

A poisonous wild nightshade with pale, trumpet-like flowers. It grows and reseeds easily.

A semi-evergreen native with aromatic white foliage.

A tough shrub with so many butterflies it can be hard to see the flowers.

Extremely drought tolerant tree with summer flowers that range in color from pink to purple.