r/TexasNativePlants

Included are

Salvia Greggii
Gregg's Mistflower
White Mistflower
Mealy Blue Sage
Texas Rock Rose
Blackfoot daisy
Bat faced cuphea
Cigar plant
Mexican feather grass
Mexican honeysuckle
Mexican oregano
Mexican heather
Lantana (non native, may remove later)
Rock Penstamon
Four nerve daisy
Damianita
Frog fruit
Horseherb
Salvia indigo spires
Zexmenia (still a baby so might not see in pic)
Gaura
Esperanza
Pink skullcap
Couple of agaves
Probably a few others I forgot

Early spring:
https://www.reddit.com/r/NativePlantGardening/s/z6gjrbSB5C

Howdy friendly Texas plant people! I've got a volunteer pecan seedling, about 18 in tall, 1/4 inch thick growing 8 ft from my house. I kinda love it because it started growing right under a sick peach tree that I couldn't save.

Is it too late to transplant? I have sunny space elsewhere in my yard, just not here. I could also keep it in a pot until the fall, but don't want to kill it in the process.

1. Black samson I think? (Echinacea angustifolia)
2. Rock penstemon maybe? Unlabeled. (Penstemon sp. maybe baccharifolius)
3. Prairie verbena (Gladularia bipinnatafida). Really a great year for these.
4. Plains fleabane (Erigeron modestus), and I think some kind of Gomphrena? Maybe nealleyi. Really good looking low growing combo for the front of a bed.
5. Black eyed susans (Rudbeckia hirta), some Gaillardia pulchella, more plains fleabane, and some kind of flax (Linum) gone to seed.
6. Giant coneflower (Rudbeckia maxima) looking incredible this year. Plus some mealy blue sage (Salvia farinacea), more black samson, and one of the four-nerve daisies (Terraneuris sp., probably linearifolia)
7. Pyramid flower (Melochia tomentosa). I love this plant but have never been successful growing it.
8. Twist leaf yucca (Yucca rupicola) and yarrow (achillea millefolium)
9. More gaillardia and a gorgeous little yellow stonecrop (sedum nuttalli) pool. I really love how they grow on flat little rock depressions.
10. Snek.

I planted this thing last fall and it is now 3 feet tall and bushy as hell, but it does, in fact, bring all the bees to the yard.

Hoping I get this again this year. Where can I buy milkweed in DFW?

This morning Michael McDowell opened up his garden to the community. Just wanted to share the photos I got. It’s such a cool and inspiring garden!

Any idea what this is? It’s growing along my fence and I’m wondering if I should pull it.

Part 6 and links to previous parts (many of these plants are still setting seed so it is not too late): https://www.reddit.com/r/TexasNativePlants/s/dR9IEs64If

We have a couple of great new annuals/short lived perennials going over in Central TX this week if you’re out looking for some seeds!

1. Pink ladies, Oenothera speciosa. These spread FAST. They are actually edible too and I use the leaves as a spinach replacement in early spring before the flowers get going and the plants turn more bitter. Host plant for certain hummingbird moths. Watch out though because this (early summer) is also grapeleaf skeletonizer moth caterpillar season (they’re all over my half dried up pink ladies right now) and those little shits STING.

2. Blue curls, Phacelia congesta. Hugely important to native bees and just a fun shape. Seeds are ready when the pods are brown, and there’s a ton of them. Once you have one plant, next year you’ll have 50. These do surprisingly well in part shade too.

3. Annual helenium, Helenium amarum (I think). I actually tried growing some kind of bare root cultivar helenium last year and it was a miserable disappointment so I’m excited to see if I can get these little tiny guys going. This is a new discovery to me so we’ll see!

I planted this Carolina Buckthorn last fall. I made sure to plant with root flare exposed. It’s planted on East side of house wall so gets only morning and midday sun. This spring it’s been extremely slow to leaf out, while all my other trees have leafed out. I see some leaves on the tips but the remainder of the tree has made little to no progress. The soil is clay but I amended it somewhat to allow for better drainage. Location is SE Texas. Anyone have experience with these?