The City of Garland Water Utilities had 2 free classes on water conservation:
- Water-Wise Landscape Design 101
- Fantastic Plants for North Texas
The following is from the “Fantastic Plants for North Texas” class
If you like what you see, don’t forget to attend the same classes next year!
Presented by:
FANTASTIC PLANTS FOR NORTH TEXAS WATER-WISE LANDSCAPES
Bonnie Reese – Beautiful Landscapes
PERENNIALS
• Aspidistra
• Fall Aster (Aster oblongifolia shown)
• Purple Bleeding Heart (Tradescantia pallida)
• Mexican Butterfly Weed (Asclepius curassivica)
• Native Butterfly Weed (Asclepius tuberosa)
• Blackfoot Daisy (Melampodium leucanthum)
• Four-nerve Daisy (Tetraneuris scaposa aka Hymenoxys scaposa)
• Esperanza (Tecoma stans sp.)
• Esperanza ‘Bells of Fire’
• Holly Fern (Crytomium falcatum)
• Frostweed (Verbesina virginica)
• Gregg’s Mistflower (Conoclinium greggii, formerly. Eupatorium greggii)
• Lantana sp.
• Salvia Greggii
• Cedar Sage (Salvia roemeriana)
• Shrubby Skullcap (Scutellaria suffrutescens)
• Red Shrimp Plant (Justicia brandegeana)
• Turks Cap (Malvaviscus arboreus ‘drummondii’)
• Zexmenia (Wedelia hispida)
ORNAMENTAL GRASSES
• Little Bluestem (Schizachyrium scoparium)
• Inland Sea Oats (Chasmanthium latifolium)
• Giant Liriope (L. gigantea)
• Mexican Feather Grass (Stipa tennuissima)
• Miscanthus sp.
• Pink Muhly Grass
• Lindheimer’s Muhly Grass
• Panicum virgatum ‘Northwind’ Switchgrass
SHRUBS
• Glossy Abelia
• Edward Goucher or Sherwood Abelia
• Prostrate Abelia
• Radiance and Kaleidoscope Abelia
• American Beautyberry
• Japanese Aralia
• Crimson Pigmy Barberry
• Roseglow Barberry
• Yellow Bird of Paradise (Caesalinia gillesii)
• Red Bird of Paradise (C. pulcherrima)
• Cestrum ‘Orange Peel’
• Cleyera
• Dwarf Crape Myrtle
• Weeping Miniature Crape Myrtle
• Germander (Teucrium chamaedrys)
• Hypericum sp.
• Dwf Indian Hawthorne
• Indian Hawthorne
• Blue Rug Juniper
• Tam’s Juniper
• Upright Juniper
• “Plum Delight” Loropetalum “Chinese Fringeflower”
• ‘Purple Pixie’ Loropetalum
• ‘Suzanne’ Loropetalum
• Chinese Mahonia (Mahonia fortune)
• Leatherleaf Mahonia (M. bealei)
• Soft Caress Mahonia (Mahonia eurybracteata ‘Soft Caress’)
• Gulfstream Nandina
• Nana Nandina
• Photinia
• Texas Sage
• Silverado Texas Sage
• Hick’s Yew (Taxus x media Hicksii)
• Upright Japanese Plum Yew (Cephalotaxus harringtonia ‘Fastigiata’)
• Prostrate Plum Yew (C. h. ‘Prostrata’)
• Spreading Yew (Taxus x media ‘Densiformis’)
• Red Yucca
TURFGRASS
• St. Augustine
• Common Bermuda
• Blue Grama
• Buffalo Grass
VINES AND GROUNDCOVERS
• Asian Jasmine
• Crossvine
• Creeping Germander
• Coral Honeysuckle
• Horseherb
• Hypericum (Hypericum calycinum?)
• Green Liriope
• Mondo Grass
• Hardy Plumbago (Ceratostigma plumbaginoides)
TREES Small (10 – 25’) Medium (25 – 50’) Large (50 – 100’)
• Cedar Elm
• Possumhaw Holly
• Yaupon Holly
• Texas Mountain Laurel
• Eve’s Necklace
• Bur Oak
• Chinquapin Oak
• Live Oak
• Shumard Oak/Texas Red Oak
• Chinese Pistache
• Vitex
• Desert Willow