Botanical Name: Cyclamen Height: 8″ Width: 8″ Exposure: Part Sun, Shade Performance: Annual Bloom: Red, Pink, Purple, White (December – May) Little tongues of fire blossom atop frost kissed, heart-shaped foliage. The laser series is a compact and uniform variety, perfect for garden and container use. In winter, this tender cool season plant needs protection from…

Cool Wave Pansies Height: 6″ Width: 8″ Exposure: Full Sun Performance: Annual Bloom: October – April (Frost, Mix, Violet Wing, White, Yellow) Looking for instant cool-season color? Pansies are the most popular fall bedding plant around. The new Cool Wave series has a trailing habit, which lends itself for use in tall urns, retaining walls,…

Botanical Name: Brassica oleracea Height: 12-24″ Width: 16″ Exposure: Full Sun Performance: Annual (Fall/Winter) Foliage: Red (Purple) or White (Green) This winter garden favorite thrives in cool-season temperatures and is practically maintenance free. Use the distinct ruffled texture of ornamental kale for a coarse tactile effect in the garden. Cold temperatures enliven the foliage for a colorful winter display.

Botanical Name: Brassica oleracea Height: 12″ Width: 16″ Exposure: Full Sun Performance: Annual (Fall/Winter) Complete a cool season landscape with the colorful rosettes of ornamental cabbage. For fall, this low growing foliage plant offers crisp color, that later intensifies in cold winter temperatures. Large flat leaves with ruffled edges add a simple and soft texture to the landscape. Place balance in a garden by contrasting…

Botanical Name: Muhlenbergia capillaris   Height: 4′ Width: 4′ Exposure: Full Sun Performance: Perennial Bloom: Raspberry Pink (September – October) A sweet mist of raspberry pink inflorescences parade atop the slender blue-green foliage of Muhlenbergia capillaries providing late summer and fall color. This ornamental grass has a soft flowing texture, and shakes up the fall garden with its vibrant…

Botanical Name: Bouteloua gracilis ‘Blonde Ambition’ Height: 3′ Width: 3′ Exposure: Full Sun Performance: Perennial Bloom: Wheat ‘Blonde Ambition’ adds a soft, fine, wispy texture to a garden with its narrow foliage and unusual vertical flower. The unique display of airy flower heads begins in late summer and persists well into fall. Its tall, slender bluish-green foliage…

Botanical Name: Salvia longispicata x farinacea ‘Mystic Spires’ Height: 3′ Width: 2′ Exposure: Full Sun Performance: Perennial Bloom: Violet-Blue (June-October) A cross between the Texas native Salvia farinacea and Salvia longispicata, a native to Mexico, was produced at the Huntingdon Botanical Gardens in California. Cross-pollinated by bees, the two species resulted in Salvia x. ‘Indigo Spires’, a tall,…

Botanical Name: Rudbeckia fulgida ‘Goldsturm’ Height: 24-36″ Width: 15″ Exposure: Full Sun, Part Shade Performance: Perennial Rudbeckia fulgida ‘Goldsturm’ is a late summer to early fall perennial offering golden daisy-like flowers with an intense blackish-brown eye. This vigorous perennial is a true performer in the landscape with green serrated foliage forming a thick, dense mound….

Botanical Name: Perovskia atriplicifolia Height: 3′ Width: 3′ Exposure: Full Sun Performance: Perennial Perovskia atriplicifolia, commonly known as Russian Sage, is an excellent summer perennial for a xeric garden. Bluish-lavender flowers create a misty mass atop silver-gray foliage for some cool summer color. In the landscape, Perovskia atriplicifolia loves full sun and makes a great backdrop for smaller plants….

Botanical Name:  Conoclinium greggii, formerly Eupatorium greggii Height: 24″ Width: 36″ Exposure: Full Sun Performance: Perennials Bloom: Blue (May – October) These soft, fuzzy lavender-blue inflorescences are essential to a north Texas butterfly garden. This butterfly magnet blooms intermittently from spring to fall. In nature, this heat-loving Texas native grows in damp areas along creeks, bottomlands, ponds, springs and bogs, hence the name Mistflower….

Botanical Name: Cyrtomium falcatum ‘Rochfordianum’ Height: 2′ Width: 2′ Exposure: Part Sun, Shade Performance: Perennial Serrated holly-like leaflets provide sharp coarse texture to a shade garden. The stiff, erect glossy green fronds of the Holly Fern form a vase-like shape common of the species, Cyrtomium which stems from the Greek word kyrtos meaning arched.

Botanical Name: Mandevilla Height: 12′ Width: 3′ Exposure: Full Sun Performance: Annual Bloom: Pink, Red, & White (May-October) Create a north Texas oasis with rich green leaves and exotic red, pink and white flowers of Mandevilla. This tropical South America native vine loves the heat and humidity. Its large radiant flowers are sure to make a statement in your garden.