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Perennials in Dallas Landscape Design
What’s Spectacular
Texas Landscape Design
Texas Gardening Gadgets
Most Helpful Gardening Gadgets Getting Young Trees through Hot Times Large Southern Magnolia Tree: you cannot buy a tree like this you can only take care [...]
June Perennials for Texas
June Blooming Texas Perennials Purple Cone Flower and Salvia Greggii both June blooming perennials in Texas. June blooming perennials Sedums [...]
Red Crape Myrtles
Dynamite Crape Myrtle Dynamite® was widely acclaimed for its red flowers and became hugely popular, inspiring searches for more red-flowering crape myrtles. Dr. Whitcomb continued [...]
Crape Myrtle Chart
Crape Myrtle Size and Bloom Chart This chart addresses the details for each crape myrtle. Variety Flower Color Trunk Habit Height (ft) Hybrid Panicle Size [...]
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 [...]
Mrs. Dudley Cross – Hands Down the Fairest Rose Today
Mrs. Dudley Cross Rose Profile, History & Texas Garden Performance The Mrs. Dudley Cross rose is a cherished heirloom tea rose known for its refined [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Dallas Landscaping April Bloomers
Dallas Landscaping What's Blooming in April!
Dallas Landscaping May Bloomers
Dallas Landscaping and Design: What's Blooming in May!
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 after [...]
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.
Texas Gardening Gadgets
Most Helpful Gardening Gadgets Getting Young Trees through Hot Times Large Southern Magnolia Tree: you cannot buy a tree like this you can only take care [...]
June Perennials for Texas
June Blooming Texas Perennials Purple Cone Flower and Salvia Greggii both June blooming perennials in Texas. June blooming perennials Sedums [...]
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 [...]
Purple Crape Myrtles
Purple Crape Myrtle Twilight Large Purple Crape Myrtle Tree Sometimes your yard just needs a dash of purple. The five leading purple crape myrtles are: [...]
Carefree Beauty or Katy Road Pink – A Texas Shrub Rose
Carefree Beauty Rose (a.k.a. Katy Road Pink) Carefree Beauty Rose Carefree Beauty, also known as Katy Road Pink, is another rose introduced by Dr. Griffith [...]
Prairie Harvest Rose
Prairie Harvest The 'Prairie Harvest' rose is a notable cultivar developed by Dr. Griffith J. Buck in 1985. This medium to large shrub rose [...]
What’s Working in Dallas
Texas Gardening
Carefree Beauty or Katy Road Pink – A Texas Shrub Rose
Carefree Beauty Rose (a.k.a. Katy Road Pink) Carefree Beauty Rose Carefree Beauty, also known as Katy Road Pink, is another rose introduced by Dr. Griffith [...]
Prairie Harvest Rose
Prairie Harvest The 'Prairie Harvest' rose is a notable cultivar developed by Dr. Griffith J. Buck in 1985. This medium to large shrub rose [...]
Gemini – Texas Rose – Hybrid Tea
Gemini Rose - Hybrid Tea for Texas Hybrid tea roses bloom after the shrub roses. Their root structure is typically not as deep, but when [...]
Texas Roses – Chireno
Chireno Shrub Rose Another very good Texas Rose. Hybridized by Ponton and introduced in 2005. Grows four to six feet. Chiero Rose – Profile, History, [...]
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 two [...]
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 you may [...]
Top Ten Texas Container and Annual Gardening Ideas
Best Flowers to Plant in Texas Single Plant Containers The best flowers to plant in Texas are often a combination of annuals and perennials [...]
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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