Flowers for North Texas Heat

Time for heat loving plants! Hotsy Totsy!

Okay, okay, we’ve had mild weather, plenty of rain —  now it’s time to get to the business of a HOT TEXAS SUMMER and the plants that thrive in Texas Heat.

Weaklings will hold back their blooms until it cools down. We’re looking for the commandos of flowers — the elite flower team to get us through to fall with pops of color all over

When nighttime temps stay above 80, it’s time to pull out all the stops and select plants that are Texas Tuff and with small watering requirements morning and night!

Garden Centers are a great source of  new varieties of plants available, and we look for plants to give us the most bang for our buck and clients buck!

Below is a list of our favorites, tested and true performers year after year. Offering beautiful color displays in years both wet and dry. Remember most flowers will need at least some supplemental irrigation.

Annuals

  • Angeolina
  • Blue Daze
  • Plumbago
  • Lantana
  • Celosia
  • Coleus
  • Penta
  • Wax Begonia
  • Zinnia

Perennials

  • Autumn Fern
  • Autumn Sage
  • Bear Tongue
  • Bee Balm
  • Blackfoot Daisy
  • Gaillardia
  • Liatris
  • Salvia farinacea
  • Buddeja daviddii
  • Asclepias tuberosa
  • Echinaea purpurea
  • Ruellia
  • Hamelia patens
  • Rudbeckia fulgida
  • Hosta
Blues and reds are a pretty combination for patio pots
Blues and reds are a pretty combination for patio pots
A great way to contain invasive plants is to place them in pots
A great way to contain invasive plants is to place them in pots
Canna, Lantana, Salvia
Canna, Lantana and Salvia

Caring for Landscape After Flood

Landscape recovery after flooding: when the flood waters have receded the landscape is covered in thick silt and it may have a strong sewage like odor, indicating a lack of oxygen in the soil. Your plants may look dead. Plants with good survival after two weeks under floodwaters are native trees, shrubs, perennials and hardy… read more

Lawn Aeration

Now is a good time to think about aerating your lawn. It is coming up on the height of the growing season for grass, and aerating soon will allow the grass the time to fill in the open areas created by the removal of the plugs. Lawn aeration is the process of removing small plugs of soil… read more

Reduce Lawn Areas

Having established trees that cast shade over a large area of you yard is almost sure to create issues for the most                                 common breeds of warm season grass. If your turf dies out in a heavily shaded area, take that as a hint, instead of re-seeding or re-sodding in shady areas. In addition to being… read more

Texas Tough Plants

  Leucophyllums Leucophyllum frutescens, Texas sage, Barometer bush, Purple sage, Sliverleaf.  What ever you call it, this is one of our favorite Xeriscape plants. A star in our lineup of Texas Tough Plants.   As a native to the Southwest a solid performer you can count on for minimal care and I think, they perform best… read more

Container Gardening

Super Container Planting Containers have the same principals as landscape; the right plant in the right place.  Is it sized for the plant to contentedly hold the plants you want to grow when they are full grown. Canna in an 8” pot is not cool, and won’t work, too top heavy! But we like to use Canna… read more