Texas Gardening: What Works / What Doesn’t
Perennials Crape Myrtles
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Perennials in Dallas Landscape Design
What’s Spectacular
Texas Landscape Design
Cotoneaster Glaucophyllus
Cotoneaster Glaucophyllus Cotoneaster - Gray spikey shrub for Texas and thyme with its tiny blue blooms in front. Cotoneaster glaucophylus In a [...]
June Perennials for Texas
June Blooming Texas Perennials Purple Cone Flower and Salvia Greggii both June blooming perennials in Texas. June blooming perennials Sedums [...]
Swiss Avenue Historic Wilson District
Wilson Historic District The Wilson Historic District was created by the Meadows foundation. It is located two blocks north of Baylor Hospital and just blocks [...]
Chitalpa Tree: Morning Cloud
Chitalpa Tree Pink Dawn Chitalpa Tree, blooms in the summer. Is a cross between the native Texas tree Desert Willow ant the Catalpa. [...]
Dallas Field of Tulips in Vinca Minor
Dallas Field of Tulips in Vinca Minor Vinca is a ground cover that thrives in the shade blooming in mid-March to early April in Texas. [...]
Cross Vine in Texas
The Robust Cross Vine in Texas Cross Vine Spring Blooms in Texas: Early March Cross Vine Early April for shaded vine. [...]
Gadgets and Ideas
Features and Concept Gardens
Top Ten Texas Roses
Top Texas Roses Heat hardiness is the crucial component for the Texas Rose Garden. Two factors cannot be overcome, even in lush east [...]
Red Long Stem Floribunda
Veterans Honor Veterans Honor is a grandiflora that blooms prolifically with large five inch blooms and a 25-30 petal count. Stem is 18"-22" and [...]
Welcoming Doors in Dallas Landscape Design
Welcoming Doors and Drive / Dallas Landscape Design Ready for summer with a classic combination of Geraniums, red and orange, and gray Dusty Miller with [...]
Garden Gates and Welcoming Doors
Garden Gates and Welcoming Doors Build the entrance high and proud, Darkening and eke brightening, Of a riven thunder-cloud Veinëd with the lightning. Use one [...]
Dallas Landscaping April Bloomers
Dallas Landscaping What's Blooming in April!
Dallas Landscaping May Bloomers
Dallas Landscaping and Design: What's Blooming in May!
Ferns in Texas
Ferns are Happy in Texas!! Ferns are perennials and provide incredible texture and contrasting color to a garden. Ferns are found in all parts of [...]
Lady Bugs in Texas Gardening
Dallas Landscaping and Design: Gardening with Ladybugs Lady bugs eat aphids and other garden pests. Release your Lady Bugs into your garden at night [...]
Japanese Maple
Japanese Maples in Texas Japanese Maple is the understory tree of choice in Texas now. They are slightly easier than dogwoods to initiate into the [...]
Japanese Maple
Japanese Maples in Texas Japanese Maple is the understory tree of choice in Texas now. They are slightly easier than dogwoods to initiate into the [...]
Best Texas Shrubs
Shrubs that can withstand Texas drought conditions.
Cotoneaster Glaucophyllus
Cotoneaster Glaucophyllus Cotoneaster - Gray spikey shrub for Texas and thyme with its tiny blue blooms in front. Cotoneaster glaucophylus In a [...]
June Perennials for Texas
June Blooming Texas Perennials Purple Cone Flower and Salvia Greggii both June blooming perennials in Texas. June blooming perennials Sedums [...]
Loropetalum Purple Flowering Shrub
Loropetalum and Barberry Loropetalum Burgundy Flowering Shrub Hardy and a relatively new shrub, Loropetalum has burgundy leaves with deep rose colored tubular flowers. It is [...]
Spring Lettuce in Texas
Spring and Fall Lettuces in Texas Spring and Autumn Lettuces in the Texas Garden There really are no differences between spring and fall [...]
Sweet Fragrance Texas Shrub Rose
I know the image is blurry and will get better image but for now: I can spend the summer adding [...]
Honey Perfume
Honey Perfume is a small floribunda which grows to about four feet high in Texas with a spicy scent.
What’s Working in Dallas
Texas Gardening
Sweet Fragrance Texas Shrub Rose
I know the image is blurry and will get better image but for now: I can spend the summer adding [...]
Honey Perfume
Honey Perfume is a small floribunda which grows to about four feet high in Texas with a spicy scent.
Maman Cochet Tea Rose for Texas
Maman Cochet Tea Rose has a thick green leaf. It is a full bloomer at first spring blush in Texas. This rose is in its [...]
Gates and Gardens that Say Welcome Home
Lee Ann Torrans: Gates and Gardens that say Welcome Home! [...]
Drought Tolerant Landscape Design in Texas
Water Restrictions! Water Bills! Forgot to Water! Irrigation System Broken! Forget all that. Go drought tolerant. Here are some ideas. Drought resistant landscape [...]
Raised Bed Gardening in Texas
Raised Bed Gardening in Texas Raised Gardening Beds in Texas Landscape Design Concrete blocks will raise the PH in your garden soil so [...]
Landscaping Design with Crape Myrtles
Landscaping Design with Crape Myrtles This Dallas Red crape myrtle creates stunning welcome. And here is my same old question: wouldn't a loropetalum or [...]
Top Ten Texas Container and Annual Gardening Ideas
Best Flowers to Plant in Texas The best flowers to plant in Texas are often a combination of annuals and perennials even in containers. Container [...]
Twilight Garden Walk
Shaded Perennial Garden Dallas is and always has been a gardening town though it is not always easy to garden here. You must fight drought [...]
Hedges – Little Gem Magnolia
Magnolia Popular Hedge Row Tree Little Gem Southern Magnolia is the most popular hedge in Dallas now. It grows to 30 feet in height with [...]
Japanese Garden Landscape
Full Moon Bridge - Japanese Garden Landscape More on Japanese Garden and Landscaping Like all gardens Japanese Garden landscaping is a work in [...]
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