OUTSTANDING LANDSCAPE PLANTS FOR SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS

Planting begins with selection of adaped species to site and climate. The time to decide on the species is long before you go to the nursery to select the tree. To help those who don't know the best trees and shrubs for this area, the following is a list which you should choose from:

GROUND COVERS
(space 1' apart)

Algerian Ivy
Asiatic Jasmine
Bearded Iris
Confederate Jasmine
Day Lilies
English Ivy
Japanese Purple Honeysuckle
Liriope (standard, 'Big Blue', 'Giganta')
Monkey grass/mondo grass
Oregano
Perennial Verbena, Princess Series
Plumbago (deciduous)
Prostrate Rosemary (herb)
Ruellia, Dwarf Series (pink, purple & white)
Santolina (gray and green)
Texas Gold Columbine
Trailing Juniper
Trailing Lantana; 'New Gold' Lantana, 'Trailing Lavender' or 'Trailing White'
Wedelia (deciduous)
VINES

Boston Ivy (4' apart; deciduous)
Butterfly vine (Stigmaphyllon/Mascagnia) (4' apart)
Carolina Jessamine (4' apart)
Cl. Cecile Brunner (sweetheart rose; 10' apart)
Confederate Jasmine (4' apart)
Coral Honeysuckle (3' apart)
Coral Vine (12' apart; deciduous)
Creeping Fig (4' apart)
Cross Vine (8' apart)
English Ivy (3' apart)
Grapes, var. Champanel or Black Spanish (deciduous)
Hall's Honeysuckle (6' apart)
Improved Trumpet Vine (12' apart; deciduous)
Lady Banks Rose (12' apart
Passionflower (4' apart)
Sweet Autumn Clematis (4' apart)
Virgina Creeper (3' apart; deciduous)

DWARF SHRUBS

Crimson Pygmy Barberry (2'x 3')
Dwarf Abelia (3'x 2')
Dwarf Chinese Holly (3'x 2')
Dwarf Pomegranate (2'x 2')
Dwarf Yaupon Holly (2'x 2')
Gray Cotoneaster (3'x 3')
Mexican Oregano (3'x 4'; herb)
Nandina domestica 'Compacta' (4'x 3')
Plumbago (3'x 3')
Rosemary (3'x 3'; herb)
Santolina (green and gray) (2' x 3')

SMALL SHRUBS

Dwarf Burford Holly (5'x 4')
Dwarf Oleander (4'x 3')
Flowering Quince (4'x 4'; deciduous)
Glossy Abelia (6'x 4')
Japanese Acuba (4'x 4')
Japanese Boxwood (4'x 4')
Red Leaf Japanese Barberry (5'x 5'; semi-deciduous)
Sago Palm (4'x 5')
Standard Nandina (5'x 3')

MEDIUM SHRUBS

Agarita
Burford Holly (9'x 6')
Chinese Holly (9'x 6')
Coppertone loquat (7'x 5')
Crapemyrtle, dwarf (6' x 5')
Fatsia (5'x 4'; shade, tropical effect)
Flowering Pomegranate (8'x 5')
Italian Jasmine (5'x 5')
Ligustrum
Nellie R. Stevens Holly (8'x 6')
Oleander (9'x 8')
Primrose Jasmine (5'x 7')
Salvia leucantha
Sandankwa Viburnum (8' x 6')
Tea Rose; 'Mrs. Dudley Cross' (5'x 4'), 'Mrs. B. R. Cant' (5'x 4') Texas Sage (6' x 6')

LARGE SHRUBS

Crapemyrtle (9'x 8')
Eleagnus (10'x 8')
Japanese Yew (12'x 5')
Ligustrum (Glossy Privet) (15' x 10')
Pampas Grass (10'x 6')
Pineapple Guava/Feijoa (12'x 11')
Sweet Viburnum (10'x 8')
Texas Mt. Laurel (15'x 10')
Xylosma (15'x 10')
Yaupon Holly (10'x 8')

SMALL TREES

Crapemyrtle (25'x 15')
Japanese Black Pine (25'x 20')
Japanese Persimmon (25'x 20)
Loquat (15'x 12')
Mediterranean Fan Palm (10'x 15')
Mexican Buckeye (20'x 15')
Mexican Plum (12'x 20')
Mexican Redbud (20'x 15') (understory)
Possumhaw/Deciduous Holly (12'x 8')
Texas Mt. Laurel (15'x 10')
Texas Redbud (20'x 15')(understory)
Vitex (20'x 15')
Windmill Palm (12'x 7')
Yaupon Holly (15'x 10')

MEDIUM TREES

Anaqua (40'x 25')
Bradford Pear (25'x 15')
California Fan Palm (Washingtonia filifera) (40' x 15')
Cedar Elm (45'x 30')
Chinese Pistache (40'x 30')
Lacey Oak (45'x 40')
Osage Orange (40' x 30')
Sierra Red Oak (40'x 30')
Texas Red Oak (25'x 20')

LARGE TREES

Bald Cypress (60'x 25')
Bur Oak (60'x 30') (deep soils only)
Chinkapin Oak (50'x 30')
Live Oak (50'x 50')
Mexican White Oak (40' x 40')
Montezuma Cypress (50'x 30')
"Texas" Shumard Oak (60'x 40')