Trees, Shrubs, and Vines

Madagascar Ocotillo!

If you are familiar with Fouquieria splendens , a.k.a Ocotillo, then you will have a sense of the form of this plant. Though not a relative of our southwest native the form is strikin... More

Coral Vine! Though the botanical name Antigonon leptopus almost has the sound of some dreaded diseases that could causes warty bumps all over the body, it is not. Antigonon leptopus is however the perfectly harml... More

Orange orchid tree!

This African orchid-tree has large coral-orange flowers, which are produced in such abundance that they completely cover this broad-spreading shrub from mid-summer until frost. The size and color o... More

Agarita! This highly ornamental shrub has twisted, prickly, green to blue-green foliage mottled in silver; and as the name implies, the leaves are arranged in threes. Agarita's butter-yellow blooms suddenly ap... More

Unfolding box!

The outreaching and arching habit of this vigorous boxwood makes it an eye catching evergreen accent for the wild at heart. Unlike its conservative brothers which are rigid, this one is wild! The l... More

Scarlet Bottlebrush! This relatively hardy Bottlebrush comes from Western Australia. It prefers moist, well-drained soil but is tolerant of poorly-drained, almost boggy sites. It has rigid, blueish leaves on a dense everg... More

Gold-tipped bottlebrush! This specie's flowers are a bright red but sport golden tipped anthers, thus, the trait that gives the species it common name. This species generally grows to become a dense shrub at about 12' tall an... More

Willow Bottlebrush! Bottlebrushes are so fascinating to me. The stamen packed flowers that literally look like old time bottle cleaners are so unique and refreshing. The flowers are not only visually fascinating but the... More

Duke Garden's Plum Yew! This low-growing, evergreen conifer performs beautifully in shady woodland conditions, tolerating acid to alkaline conditions as long as the soil is well-drained. This particular cultivar originates f... More

Chinese Redbud! Regardless of how mild or how hard the winter is in your region we all look forward to its end. Plants that herald the forthcoming spring get a lot of attention when they begin to bloom. One of my fav... More

Silk floss seedlings! Chorisia speciosa is native to Southeastern Brazil and Northeastern Argentina where the climate is tropical to subtropical and they seldom experience hard frosts. The overall shape of mature trees is ... More

Damianita! This low spreading shrub or woody perennial inhabits rocky, limestone outcroppings in the Trans-Pecos, Texas Hill Country and Northern Mexico. The plant's foliage is dark-green and needle-like and den... More

Limestone tolerant Dogwood! The typical beloved Cornus florida is known to live in woodland habitats with deep, acid soils such as those found in Eastern Texas and the Southeastern USA. A small, disjunct population can ... More

Cockspur Coral Tree! In the costal regions of Southern Brazil to Argentina, Erythrina cristi-galli grows into a large shrub as apposed to the inland forms which tend to be more tree-like. The branches of this terrific for... More

Texas Kidneywood! Texas Kidneywood is a plant that usually makes it presence known to you through your nose before your other senses are aware of it. I remember walking through an Austin park many years ago searching f... More

Weeping Texas Swamp Privet! We love the form of this South Texas native shrub. I enjoy how the pendant stems arch and mound in a free form fashion creating an informal flowing shrub that could easily be labeled as living modern ... More

Velvetpod mimosa! This light, open shrub produces numerous cane-like stems that reach to about 5'. As the year progresses and summer commences, an abundance of pink (fading to white), fuzzy, elongated flowers are produ... More

Wild Passion Fruit! Along coastal regions of Southeastern Brazil the wild form of Passiflora edulis can be found scrambling and rambling over small trees and shrubs and spreading almost groundcover-like over mounding san... More

Maracuja! Passiflora edulis var flavicarpa is the yellow fruited form of Passion Fruit that is most often processed for juice. The plant grows as a rambling vine that produces glossy, dark-green, three lobed l... More

Dwarf Pinus taeda! In the early 1950's the USDA Agricultural Research Service at Beltsville, Maryland offered seed of a witches' broom (a mutation that results from damage to the tree that usually manifests itself in be... More

Hardier than P. tobira! This great Pittosporum has impressed me for years. It originally came to us from NCSU as a trial plant and has so far survived and prospered in our trying Texas climate. Its small, glossy, thinly text... More

Smooth white bark! Native to northeastern Mexico, where it is found growing along mountain streams. These towering trees with smooth white-and-tan bark dominate the landscape. When the wind rustles their large, maple-li... More

Mexican bald cypress! Taxodium mucronatum is the Mexican version of Taxodium distichum, the American Bald Cypress. This Mexican version produces no knees and tends to have a broader canopy with a more weeping form. In Mexi... More