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Plazas del Lago
Edinburg, Tx
Ken and Nadia Sabe
Landscaped: Spring 2007
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Mountain Laurel
Mountain Laurel is an
evergreen shrub with
aromatic violet flowers. New
leaves and stems appear hairy
while mature leaves and
stems are smooth. Branches
grow upward in a slender
canopy and can reach thirtyfive feet in height. It grows in
limestone soils of the South
Mountain Laurel
Texas Plains and Edwards
Plateau. The flowers bloom
from March to April and
provide food for insects.
The red seeds are extremely
hard and are poisonous when
eaten because they contain
quinolizidine alkaloids.
Mescalbean, Frijolito, Texas
Features: Large, white flowers bloom throught the year.
Comments: Bold leaves
contrast large flowers.
Problems: Susceptible to
freeze damage.
Anacahuite (Wild / Mexican Olive)
within a week with a new crop.
Takes well to hedging but can
grow tree-like with a long,
straight trunk. Native sumacs
are important wildlife plants.
They are fast growing, generally
insect and disease-free, and
drought-tolerant. Colonies are
often single-sexed, formed from
a single, suckering parent. Only
female plants produce flowers
Evergreen Sumac
of 3 to 5 and each have a cap
covering about one half of its
length and measure 1/3 to 1
inch long. The acorns are also
eaten by feral hogs, javelina,
squirrels, turkeys and various
other birds. Live Oak also
provides shade and a place for
nesting and roosting. The bark
is used to create tannin.
Live Oak
Mountain Laurel
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Family : Fabaceae
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Wild Olive
Growth Rate: Slow
Water Needs: Dry
Tolerances: Drought, poorly
drained sites, alkaline soils
(pH > 7.5).
Attributes: Texas native,
showy or fragrant flower,
seeds or fruit eaten by
wildlife.
Cordia boissieri
Small
Evergreen
DRIVEWAY (WEST)
Evergreen Sumac
Evergreen Sumac is from 8
to 12 ft. in height. Its shiny,
evergreen, pinnate foliage
is tinged with pink in early
spring and maroon after
frost. Whitish-cream flowers
appear in 2 in. clusters and
are followed by orange-red,
fuzzy fruits. Leaves are green
through the winter, then
are dropped, to be replaced
Rhus virens
Tobacco Sumac
Habitat: Rocky hillsides, gullies,
and bluffs.
Range: Arizona, New Mexico, and
Texas to N. Mexico.
DRIVEWAY & FRONT
Live Oak
Live Oak can be found growing
in sandy or gravelly soils of the
Edwards Plateau and South
Texas Plains. This tree can
reach a height of 60 feet. The
leaves are 1 to 4 inches long,
1/2 to 1 inch wide, and have
smooth or lightly toothed
margins. Live Oak blooms
from March to May. The
acorns are found in clusters
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Fagaceae
Perennial
Native
Cool to Hot Season
Edwards Plateau and South Texas
Plains
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Tiger Apple
Thevetia peruviana is a plant
probably native to Mexico and
Central America and a close
relative to Nerium oleander. It
is an evergreen tropical shrub
or small tree that bears yellow
or orange-yellow, trumpet like
flowers and its fruit is deep red/
black in color encasing a large.
It contains a milky sap containing a compound called thevetin
that is used as a heart stimulant but in its natural form is
extremely poisonous, as are all
parts of the plants, especially
the seeds. Its leaves are long,
lance shaped and green in color.
Leaves are covered in waxy
coating to reduce water loss. Its
stem is green turning silver/gray
as it ages.
Green apples, trumpet flowers
tall. They are much larger in
frost-free areas like deep South
Texas, easily growing to 10 feet
or higher. Remove seedpods as
they form to keep flowers producing, or save a few seeds for
planting indoors next winter.
They are also easy to propagate
from cuttings, and the smaller
plants are easier to over-winter.
Bignoniaceae
way because of the spreading
growth habit. "Evergreen Giant"
Liriope could be a better choice
for an edging because it spreads
very slowly. The best choice
may turn out to be heavy plastic
edging, rolled out and staked
around the flower beds. Highly
recommended if you too hire
an idiot with a lawnmower.
Liriope muscari
trees. The leaves are alternate,
simple, ovate to lanceolate,
often with a toothed or lobed
margin. The flowers are large,
conspicuous, trumpet-shaped,
with five or more petals from
4-18 cm broad. The color of the
Hibiscus grows darker as it ages.
Attracts butterflies and bees. Its
flowers are used in herbal teas.
Kingdom: Plantae
Nerium oleander (related)
Kingdom: Plantae
Order: Gentianales
Family: Apocynaceae
Genus: Thevetia
Species: T. peruviana
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Esperanza
The "Gold Star" Esperanza is
known botanically as Tecoma
stans and is in the family
known as Bignoniaceae, which
means it is related to the native cross-vine. It is a tropical
native to the warmest parts of
the United States, Mexico and
South America. It is listed as a
zone 9 or higher plant. In San
Antonio, they reach 4 to5 feet
Tecoma
Cultivar: Orange Jubilee
Height: 8-10 ft. (2.4-3 m)
Full Sun
Evergreen
Deciduous
Attracts bees, butterflies
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Aztec Grass
This densely clumping, evergreen, grasslike perennial is
quite attractive when grouped
in a mass as a groundcover
Spreading by underground rhizomes, Lilyturf quickly creates
a 12-inch-tall, dark green mat,
accented by attractive spikes of
lilac purple blooms. Although
frequently used as an edging,
it is difficult to maintain it this
Plant use: ground cover
Exposure: Part Sun to Shade
Water Requirements: Medium
Drought tolerance: moderate
Pest resistent
Flower color: lilac, purple
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Hybiscus
Hibiscus is a genus of plants
with member species often
noted for their showy flowers.
This large genus includes 220
species of flowering plants in
the family Malvaceae native to
warm, temperate, subtropical
and tropical regions. The genus
also includes both annual and
perennial herbaceous plants, as
well as woody shrubs and small
Order: Malvales
Tribe: Hibisceae
Genus: Hibiscus
Family: Malvaceae
Subfamily: Malvoideae
Ornamental
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Royal Poinciana
Delonix regia is a species of
flowering plant from the
Fabaceae family, noted for its
fern-like leaves and flamboyant
display of flowers and often
called Royal Poinciana or
Flamboyant. The species was
previously placed in a genus
Poinciana, named for Phillippe
de Longvilliers de Poincy who
Kingdom: Plantae
is credited with introducing
the plant to the Americas. It
is endemic to Madagascar. The
flowers are large, with four
spreading scarlet or orange-red
petals up to 8 cm long. Each
leaf is 30-50 cm long and has 20
to 40 pairs of primary leaflets
or pinnae on it-20 pairs of
secondary leaflets or pinnules.
Division: Magnoliophyta
Mid to late summer flowers
range from pink, to white, to
red, or lavender and variations
of. To encourage a second flush
of flowers, remove old flowers with hand pruners. Seed
heads follow flowers and persist
throughout the winter, adding
an ornamental quality.
Cultivar: Basham's Party Pink
meters tall, scrambling over
other plants with their hooked
thorns. The thorns are tipped
with a black, waxy substance.
The flower is small and
generally white, but each cluster
of three flowers is surrounded
by three or six bracts with the
bright colors associated with
the plant, including pink,
magenta, purple, red & yellow.
Kingdom: Plantae
Class: Magnoliopsida
Order: Fabales
Family: Fabaceae
Subfamily: Caesalpinioideae
Tribe: Caesalpinieae
Genus: Delonix
Species: Delonix regia
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Bashams Crape Myrtle
This gentle lavender-pink crape
myrtle is a fast growing, larger
form. It can grow over 20 feet
and is slightly resistant to mildew and aphids. The quintessential tree for the Southern
garden. Form may range from
upright and vase-shaped to
low, horizontal, and shrub-like.
Family: Lythraceae
Height: to 30 feet
Deciduous
Foliage: green, red or burgundy
Flowers: pinks and purples
Peeling bark
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Bougainvilla
Bougainvillea is a genus
of flowering plants native
to South. The plant was
discovered in Brazil in 1768,
by Philibert Commerçon,
French Botanist accompanying
explorer Louis Antoine de
Bougainville during his voyage
of circumnavigation. They
are thorny, woody vines
growing anywhere from 1-12
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Order: Caryophyllales
Family: Nyctaginaceae
Genus: Bougainvillea
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Calypso Oleander
Nerium ("Calypso") Oleander
is an evergreen shrub reaching 6 to 12 feet in height and
spread, occasionally 20 feet.
Not cold hardy, so subject to
freeze damage. The leaves are
dark green throughout the seasons. Flowers bloom in summer to early fall; each flower is
1 1/2 inch in diameter, borne in
terminal cymes on new growth.
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Flowers are showy, fragrant,
pink, white, salmon, rose, red
or magenta, singles or doubles.
Various cultivars are available.
Bears a slender pod fruit, not
really ornamental. Native to
southern Asia, Mediterranean
area. A toxic plant, "Calypso" is
very hardy.
Family: Apocynaceae
Height: 6 ft. to 20 ft.
Width: 6 ft. to 20 ft.
Low maintenance, poisonous
Foliage Color: dark green
Flowers: long lasting, showy
Flower Color: reds
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New Gold Lantana
Lantana hybrida "New Gold"
is a cross between a Lantana
camara and a Lantana montevidensis. This plant has a
great show of flowers and are
great at attracting butterflies.
Lantana is drought tolerant,
salt tolerant, deer tolerant, is
very adaptable and had outstanding heat tolerance. "New
Gold" can grow up to 18" high
and 3 feet wide. In general all
Lantana's are extremely easy to
grow requiring little attention
and they are seldom bothered
by pests or disease. They have
low water requirements and
can handle hot summers. It is
considered among the world's
worst 100 Invasive Species in
agricultural areas.
Family: Verbenaceae
Genus: Lantana
Cultivar: New Gold
Height: 6-12 in.
Sun Exposure: Full Sun
Foliage: Herbaceous
Annual
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Purple Lantana
Lantana montevidensis is a
trailing form of Lantana and
will only get 12-15" in height
with a 3-6 foot spread, making it a nice groundcover. The
blooms are lilac pink to purple
with yellow centers, appear
in masses from spring to fall,
and are great for attracting
butterflies. Purple Trailing
Lantana's foliage will change
to a red to purple color in the
colder months. The foliage is
very aromatic and can irritate
the skin of some people. This is
a small, strongly-scented shrub
with oval-shaped leaves. The
inflorescence is a circular head
of purple to lavender flowers
with lobed corollas each nearly
a centimeter wide.
Family: Verbenaceae
1" (2.5 cm) long that look like
little firecrackers inspiring the
plant's other common name,
“firecracker plant.” It is fast
growing, easy to cultivate and
blooms almost continuously.
This plant in a staple in butterfly gardens. Firecracker plant
is a native of Mexico.
Family: Scrophulariaceae (figwort)
characteristics: Coppery orange
flowers from summer into fall.
Good for hedges, borders, and
accents where hardy. As an annual, it can be grown in borders
and containers. Good plant for
butterfly and bird habitat gardens. Excellent fence cover if
you have an especially annoying
neighbor next door named Ken.
Family: Rubiaceae
Genus: Lantana
Cultivar: Purple Trailing
Height: 20 - 24"
Sun Exposure: Full Sun
Plant Habitat: Mounded
Perennial
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Firecracker
Russelia equisetiformis is a
multi-branched subshrub with
slender, rushlike stems that are
angled with ridges and leaves
that are reduced to little more
than small scales. The wiry
branches start out erect then
fall over to cascade down in
lengths as long as 4 ft (1.2 m).
It produces hanging clusters of
scarlet tubular flowers about
Genus: Russelia
Species: equisetiformis
Height: 24-36 in
Sun Exposure: Full or partial shade
Foliage: Green, prickly
Perennial
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Mexican Firebush
A tropical tree by design, the
Mexican fire bush can freeze
to the ground in winter, but it
grows up to 5 feet tall by summer's end. The erect, branched,
woody stems bear simple copper-toned leaves with small orange flowers bunched along the
tips. It loves the heat, and the
more you can give it, the more
vigorous it will be. Noteworthy
Genus: Hamelia
Species: patens
Height: 4 to 12 ft
Sun Exposure: Full only
Foliage: Evergreen
Synonym: Hamelia coccinea
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Sapphire Duranta
Grown for its summer
flower and ornamental fruit,
this selection of the popular
Pigeon berry grows with an
arching habit to 25 feet tall.
In late spring and summer,
cascading clusters of 3/4
inch wide tubular flowers
are an intense violet-blue
with a white picotee edge
Family: Verbenaceae
along the flared petal tips. As
with the species the flowers
are followed by wonderfully
contrasting orange-yellow
berries. A good choice for
espaliers, as a small tree or
large bush. Flowers are very
attractive to butterflies.
Origin: West Indies
There are about 400 species spread from Africa to
India to Southern Asia. For
red color, Ixora is popular
in warm South Texas with
blooms all year long, but
maximum beauty is from
late spring, peaking in the
hot months of summer.
Family: Rubiaceae
Portuguese traders. The mature
small trees bear separate male
and female flowers, and do
not grow very tall. As with
many members of the family
Euphorbiaceae, Jatropha
contains compounds that are
highly toxic. Jatropha seeds
are used in the production of
biofuel.
Family: Euphorbiaceae
grown, one smaller and one
very dwarf. Planted out, they
cluster to form a thick ground
cover. No special food or water
is required.
Family: Commelinaceae
Species: erecta
Synonym: Duranta repens
Exposure: Full Sun
Foliage: Everygreen, spines
Perennial
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Maui Ixora
Ixora may be the most common flowering shrub seen
in South Texas and “Nora
Grant” likely the most
popular of them all. Related
to the gardenia and coffee
plants, Ixora is said to be native to Asia and whose name
derives from an Indian deity.
Genus: Ixora
Cultivar: Maui
Height: 36-48 in
Exposure: Full sun to partial shade
Foliage: Evergreen
Perennial
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Jatropha
Jatropha is a genus of
approximately 175 succulent
plants, shrubs and trees from
the family Euphorbiaceae.
Jatropha is native to Central
America and has become
naturalized in many tropical
North America. Originating
in the Caribbean, Jatropha
was spread as a valuable hedge
plant to Africa and Asia by
Height: 5 - 14 ft
Exposure: Full sun
Foliage: Evergreen
Perennial
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Oyster Plant
A herbaceous perennial, the
oyster-plant is native to the
American tropics and is found
everywhere in the warmer
areas of South Texas. The plant
is two toned, green and purple.
It does well in sun or shade
but nicer with some shade. It
grows very easily and can be
seen rooted in cracks and roofs.
There are two other varieties
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Genus: Tradescantia
Species: Spathacea
Synonym: Rhoeo discolor
Height: 18 -30"
Exposure: Full sun to partial shade
Foliage: Green, purple
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Katie Wild Petunia
The ever-blooming “Katie” is a
compact Mexican petunia ideal
for summer beds. It produces
many white or pink trumpetshaped flowers with that are
five-lobed and ruffled at the
edges. These appear against
pretty dark green, lance-shaped
foliage from late spring to fall.
In South Texas they continue
to flower through winter. This
common tender perennial is
actually a vigorous evergreen
subshrub native to South
America, though it has naturalized in parts of the southeastern
United States.
Family: Acanthaceae
Genus: Ruellia
Species: elegans
Cultivar: Ragin' Cajun
Height: 12-18"
Exposure: Sun to Partial Shade
Perennial
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Grafted Gardenia
Grafted gardenias have gorgeous, dark to bright green,
opposite leaves that can grow
up to 16' with almost equal
spread. Leaves are glossy and
leathery. Mature shrubs usually
look round, and have a medium texture. Blooms in midspring to early summer, over a
fairly long season. Flowers are
white, turning to creamy yellow
as they age and have a waxy feel.
They have a powerful, sweet
fragrance, and can perfume an
entire room. Gardenias prefer
acid, moist, well-drained soils.
Grafted plants are usually more
vigorous and produce more and
larger flowers than "own root"
gardenias, one of which is also
planted in the backyard.
Family: Rubiaceae
throughout warm weather.
Little greenish white tubular
flowers rise from above the
leaves all along the stem, followed by shiny white, fleshy
berries. Although the flowers
are not particularly showy to
the eye, their sweet scent fills
the yard.
Family: Solanaceae
sun. It is prone to scale insects,
leaf spots and fireblight. It can
take some shade but leaf spots
can develop if planted in total
shade. Indian Hawthorn is
considered a low maintenance
shrub by those who don't own
them and is drought tolerant
once established. But then,
aren't we all.
Family: Rosaceae
Genus: Gardenia
Species: Jasminoides
Height: 5-20 ft
Exposure: Sun to partial shade
Soil ph: 5.6 to 6.0 (acidic)
Foliage: Evergreen
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Night-Blooming Jasmine
Cestrum nocturnum ("Night
Blooming Jasmine") is a
sprawling shrub has glossy,
smooth, simple leaves 4-8 in
(10-20 cm) long. The long
vinelike stems can form a
mound up to 12 ft (3.6 m)
across, but it seldom gets more
than a 4 ft (1.2 m) across in
cultivation. Night blooming
jessamine blooms periodically
Genus: Cestrum
Species: nocturnum
Height: 8 to 10 ft
Exposure: Sun to partial shade
Soil ph: 6.6 to 7.5 (neutral)
Foliage: Evergreen
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Indian Hawthorne
This bushy and spreading
evergreen shrub with oval to
lance-shaped, deeply toothed,
shiny dark green leaves. It is
native to China. It features
panicles of white flowers with
pink centers bloom in spring
or summer. Grow it in sheltered border. It doesn't like
cold, drying winds and prefers
moist, well-drained soil in full
Genus: Rhaphiolepis
Species: indica
Bloom Color: Pale Pink
Exposure: Sun to Partial Shade
Height: 4-6 ft
Perennial (shrub)
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