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American Beauty Berry

American Beauty Berry.

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American Beauty Berry

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  1. American Beauty Berry American beauty-berry most often grows 3-5 ft. tall and usually just as wide, It can reach 9 ft. in height in favorable soil and moisture conditions. It has long, arching branches and yellow-green fall foliage, but its most striking feature is the clusters of glossy, iridescent-purple fruit (sometimes white) which hug the branches at leaf axils in the fall and winter. Water Use: Low Light Requirement: Part Shade Soil Moisture: Moist

  2. Lantana Water Use: Low Light Requirement: Sun Soil Moisture: Dry Heat Tolerant: yesSoil Description: Poor, well-drained soils.

  3. Buffalo Grass Water Use: Low , Medium Light Requirement: Sun Soil Moisture: Dry CaCO3 Tolerance: High Drought Tolerance: High

  4. Esperanza (yellow bells) Water Use: Low Light Requirement: Sun , Part Shade Soil Moisture: Dry CaCO3 Tolerance: High Cold Tolerant: yesHeat Tolerant: yes

  5. Red (false) Yucca Not a yucca, this member of the Century-Plant family produces soft, yucca-like, evergreen leaves, 2-3 ft. in length, crowded on the perennial’s short, woody base. The flower stalk rises 5 ft. and bears showy, coral-colored, tubular flowers occur on arching, wand-like, pink stems. Leaves are plum-colored in winter; blue-green other times. Duration: Perennial Habit: Cactus/Succulent Root Type: Fibrous Water Use: Low Light Requirement: Sun Soil Moisture: Dry

  6. Turk’s Cap This spreading shrub, often as broad as high, grows 2-3 ft., sometimes reaching 9 ft. Water Use: Medium Light Requirement: Part Shade , Shade Soil Moisture: Moist , Dry

  7. Mexican Buckeye Mexican-buckeye, an 8-12 ft., deciduous tree, can reach 30 ft. in height. It is often multi-trunked with with light gray to brown bark, smooth on young branches, becoming fissured with age. Leaves up to 12 inches long, with a central axis supporting 2 to 6 paired leaflets and a terminal one; leaflets up to 5 inches long, ovate to narrower with an elongate tip, rounded base, and serrate margins. Pinnate foliage turns golden yellow in fall. Clusters of bright-pink, fragrant flowers appear before or with the leaves from the axils of the previous season. Water Use: Low Light Requirement: Sun , Part Shade Soil Moisture: Dry Propagation Material: Seeds Description: Untreated seed will germinate in three weeks. Germination is best in warm soil. Field plant or use deep containers to accomodate a long initial root.

  8. Kidney wood aka bee-brush Texas kidneywood is an unarmed, much-branched shrub, 3-10 ft. tall, with an open, airy structure. A many-branched shrub with an open crown and gland-dotted, aromatic, resinous leaves and flowers. Water Use: Low Light Requirement: Sun Soil Moisture: Dry Propagation Material: Seeds Description: Fresh seed; softwood or semi-hardwood cuttings in early fall

  9. Scarlet Buckeye Red buckeye is a handsome shrub with showy, spikelike clusters of deep red, funnel-shaped flowers. The flower clusters are 6-10 inches long. Native Habitat: Common in woods, along streams, in thickets, and on rocky hills in East and Central Texas. Moist, well-drained sand, loam, clay, limestone. Water Use: High Light Requirement: Part Shade Soil Moisture: Moist

  10. Portulaca Works well in a rock garden, as a groundcover or in a pot. Needs good drainage. Water Use: Low , Medium Light Requirement: Sun , Part Shade Soil Moisture: Moist , Dry

  11. Prickly Pear Duration: Perennial Habit: Cactus/Succulent Leaf Retention: Evergreen Size Class: 1-3 ft. Size Notes: 6-10 Pads are about 2½in wide and 4in long. Flower Size: Up to 2¼in wide. Fruit Color: Reddish purple Water Use: Low Light Requirement: Sun Soil Moisture: Dry

  12. Strawberry Cactus Duration: Perennial Habit: Cactus/Succulent Size Class: 0-1 ft. Size Notes: Up to 10 inches high. Flower Size: 2-3¼in long and over 3in across Water Use: Low Light Requirement: Sun Soil Moisture: Dry Soil Description: Sandy, rocky or gravelly soils.

  13. Blue Grama Blue grama grows in bunches in the south. This is an important, drought-resistant, short grass in the mixed prairies and throughout the Great Plains and the Southwest. Water Use: Low , Medium Light Requirement: Sun Soil Moisture: Dry

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