ZONE: 5 - 9

LIGHT: Sun to part shade

HEIGHT: 10 - 15 ft.

SOIL: Moist/Well drained

FLOWER: Magenta

LANDSCAPE VALUES:

The buds open to numerous dark magenta, 3" upright flowers with pale pink interiors and a very sweet fragrance. Small in stature it will make an excellent specimen for smaller gardens, container culture or a shrubby boarder. Fast growing blooms well on young growth.

ZONE: 6 – 9

LIGHT: Sun /Part shade

HEIGHT: 25 - 30 ft.

SOIL: Tolerates most soils

FLOWER: Very fragrant, white flowers in early spring.

ZONE: 5 - 9

LIGHT: Full Sun

HEIGHT: 60 - 80 ft.

SOIL: Very moist, well-drained

FRUIT: .7 to 1" acorn; cup covers most of the acorn

LANDSCAPE VALUES:

ZONE: 7-9b

LIGHT: Sun / Partial shade

SOIL: Well drained

HEIGHT: 12 - 15 ft.

FLOWER: Pink and fragrant

LANDSCAPE VALUES: Beautiful small tree. Light green leaves turn golden yellow in Fall. Pink, fragrant Spring bloom. DROUGHT RESISTANT. Mildly POISONIOUS seeds.

TREE / Deciduous

ZONE: 5 - 10

LIGHT: Full sun

HEIGHT: 60 – 80 ft.

SOIL: Adaptable to most

FLOWER: Female flowers are inconspicuous, male flowers are clustered of hanging catkins

FRUIT: acorns in fall

GROWTH RATE: Moderate to Fast

LANDSCAPE VALUES:

Shumard is one of the largest of the southern oaks. It is very heat and drought tolerant. Very showy red fall color.

ZONE: 7 – 10

LIGHT: Sun /Part shade

HEIGHT: 20 - 30 ft.

SPREAD: 15 – 25 ft.

SOIL: Most, well-drained

LANDSCAPE VALUES:

Carolina Cherry Laurel is a dense native evergreen shrub to small tree with aromatic smooth green foliage. Packed panicle clusters of fragrant white flowers bloom in late winter to early spring and are followed by small drupes that ripen to black by fall. Flowers best in full sun and rich moist well-drained soils. Very drought tolerant once established. Toxic to pets, livestock and humans if ingested.

Host and/or nectar source for:Eastern Tiger Swallowtail, Viceroy, Coral Hairstreak, Red-spotted Purple, Spring/Summer Azures

ZONE: 9-11

LIGHT: Full Sun to part shade

HEIGHT: 15-20 ft.

SOIL: Moist /well drained

FLOWER: Purple

GROWTH RATE: Fast

LANDSCAPE VALUES:

Bauhinia Purpurea is also known as The Purple Orchid Tree. It is an exotic tropical tree that blooms over a long period of time. The beautiful & fragrant, classic, Orchid-like flowers of Bauhinia Purpurea makes this small tree, a favorite of many plant lovers. In fall, before the leaves drop, Orchid-Tree is festooned with many showy and delightfully fragrant, five-inch-wide blossoms, the narrow purple, pink, and lavender petals arranged to closely resemble an orchid. These flowers appear on the trees from September through November and are a beautiful sight to see, creating a vivid splash of color in the autumn landscape. Curiously, the flower colors vary quite a lot. Heavy mulch will protect the roots in the winter.

ZONE: 6 – 8b

LIGHT: Sun

HEIGHT: 20– 30 ft.

SPREAD: 20 – 30 ft.

SOIL: Dry, sandy, well-drained

LANDSCAPE VALUES:

Small deciduous tree tends to be multi-stemmed, with ascending branches becoming slightly cascading. Long, narrow, bright green leaves back abundant clusters of trumpet-shaped pale white flowers with purple throats. Ideally suited to most soils and climates of the Southwestern states. Excellent, long blooming accent specimen for dry sites and minimal-care landscapes.

ZONE: 6b - 9

LIGHT: Sun / part shade

SOIL: Any soil/ well-drained

HEIGHT: 35’ – 60’

FLOWERS: Small greenish

FRUIT: Red fruit on Female Trees

GROWTH RATE: Moderate to Fast

LANDSCAPE VALUES:

Regarded by many knowledgeable horticulturists as one of the most beautiful, pest free and easily maintained shade trees for the Southwest and Gulf Coast regions. Chinese pistache is an excellent choice for home gardens, commercial landscapes, and street trees. Medium to fine textured foliage (an asset in smaller landscapes) that creates a light–textured shade pattern.

ZONE: 4 – 9

LIGHT: Sun /Part shade

HEIGHT: 60 - 80 ft.

SPREAD: 30 – 60 ft.

SOIL: Most, well-drained

FLOWER: 4-6" racemes of white flowers in early spring; the bitter cherries are edible, and used for jelly and wine making and to flavor brandy.

LANDSCAPE VALUES:

This tree is perfectly suited for a woodland, semi-natural garden. It can be too messy in a more formal setting. Subject to defoliation from eastern tent caterpillars; leaves are poisonous to livestock.

Host and/or nectar source for:

Eastern Tiger Swallowtail, Viceroy, Columbia Silkmoth

ZONE: 5 – 9

LIGHT: Sun /Part shade

HEIGHT: 20 - 40 ft.

SPREAD: 30 – 40 ft.

SOIL: Moist to wet, acidic

LANDSCAPE VALUES:

Drummond Red Maple is a medium to large deciduous shade tree similar in many respects to the species type. Drummond Red Maple tends to have a more leathery leaf, better adaptability to warmer climates and more poorly drained soils than the species type.

Food source for birds and squirrels.

ZONE: 5 - 9

LIGHT: Sun / Part shade

HEIGHT: 25 –40 ft.

SPREAD: 23 - 35 ft.

SOIL: Moist/Well drained

FLOWER/FRUIT: Catkins of small nutlets

LANDSCAPE VALUES:

‘Dura Heat’ is fast-growing, nicely forked, and wind and ice resistant. Exfoliating bark and a interesting profile. It has a denser canopy of foliage than the native River Birch along with leaf spot resistance. Will grow on hotter, drier sites better than other river birch.

Attracts Birds.

ZONE: 5 - 9

LIGHT: Sun to Part Shade

HEIGHT: 8 - 10 feet

SPREAD: 8 -10 feet

SOIL: Any – well draining

FLOWER: deep purple-red flower

LANDSCAPE VALUES:

This Magnolia is low maintenance, perfect for the smaller yard or garden, and will fit practically any landscape. Ann is a really nice Magnolia selection that deserves a prominent location in your yard. Let it become the focal point of your backyard, protect you from prying eyes in a side yard or make a big, beautiful statement in the front yard. She usually blooms in March after the last frost, but will bloom earlier in a mild winter and bounces back to bloom again if we have a late frost. Ann's flowers develop just prior to the leaves emerging, so they are incredibly showy and eye-catching. If the weather remains cool during the bloom the flowers will last much longer. Do not be surprised to see her blooming again in the summer.

ZONE: 6 - 9

LIGHT: Full sun

HEIGHT: 15 – 20 ft.

SPREAD: 15 – 20 ft.

SOIL: Well-drained

LANDSCAPE VALUES:

The Peppermint Flowering Peach is a real conversation piece that will wow everyone, from experienced gardeners to little kids. Everyone loves how every flower is unique, with petals striped or blotched in white, pink and rose-red. Some flowers are solid red and others are solid white – anything goes with this fun tree. It is fast-growing, soon making a small tree with a dense, rounded crown up to 20 feet tall and wide. The flowers are almost 2 inches across, and fully double, carried in March on bare stems. Grow it on a lawn or in a bed, or even in a large planter box.

ZONE: 6 – 9

LIGHT: Sun /Part shade

HEIGHT: 30 - 50 ft.

SPREAD: 20 – 40 ft.

SOIL: Most, well-drained

LANDSCAPE VALUES:

Ulmus alata is an early successional tree native to moist to dry forests across the southeast. It prefers to grow in full sun or part shade. The smaller branches of this tree have distinct ridges or “wings” of bark (hence the common name of Winged Elm). This is an important host plant for several native butterfly species. Songbirds and small mammals eat the seeds produced. Ulmus alata is a great tree for restoration projects.

Larval Host of the Question Mark Butterfly

Wildlife coverage, nesting and food source

ZONE: 2 – 9

LIGHT: Sun

HEIGHT: 60 - 80 ft.

SPREAD: 40 – 70 ft.

SOIL: Any, well-drained

LANDSCAPE VALUES:

Handsome and graceful, Ulmus americana is a medium to large tree of upright-spreading habit, forming a very broad, flattop or vase like crown. In years past, the American elm was used widely as a shade tree because of it fast growth and graceful broad and wide looking form. In the 1950’s this tree was devastated by Dutch Elm disease. This tree is native to all area of the US east of the Rocky Mountains.

Larval Host of the Question Mark, Painted Lady, Mourning Cloak, Comma

Wildlife coverage, nesting and food source

ZONE: 5 – 11

LIGHT: Sun

HEIGHT: 25 - 40 ft.

SPREAD: 20 – 35 ft.

SOIL: Dry, well-drained

LANDSCAPE VALUES:

The Texas Red Oak is a medium to small oak that is native to the southern plain states. It is related to the Shumard Oak, but has a better drought and heat tolerance, and it can grow in alkaline soils. Leaves are a glossy medium green and turn bright red in the fall. The acorns are an excellent source of food for wildlife and the tree is a great habitat for birds. Native to the Southern Plains States of Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas.

ZONE: 6a – 9b

LIGHT: Full sun/Part sun

HEIGHT: 8 - 10 ft.

SPREAD: 6 – 8 ft.

SOIL: Moist Well Drained

LANDSCAPE VALUES:

Christmas Jewel is an attractive small, upright dense pyramidal tree having narrow dark green polished leaves. Blunt spines are not sharp to the touch. These female plants produce large abundant apple red berries without need of a pollinator. Berries color by December and remain until early summer. Can be used as part of shrub border, a specimen, or even a hedge.

ZONE: 7a – 9a

LIGHT: Full Sun

HEIGHT: 75 - 90 ft.

SPREAD: 40 – 70 ft.

SOIL: Very moist, tolerates most soils types.

FRUIT: .5 " acorns

GROWTH RATE: Moderate

LANDSCAPE VALUES:

Also called Bottomland or Swamp Red Oak, this very attractive large shade tree has a rounded crown, and is distinguishable from Southern Red Oak by the blackish cherry-like bark. Tolerates wet sites. Native to North America.

ZONE: 4 - 9

LIGHT: Sun to partial shade

SOIL: Well drained

HEIGHT: 9 – 20 ft.

FLOWER: White

LANDSCAPE VALUES:

Early bloomer with large, fragrant, white double flowers appearing before the foliage emerges in spring. Useful in areas where late freezes can occur. Open-branched, multi-trunked large shrub or small tree. A spring time thriller will that add a nice touch to the landscape as the seasons progress.

ZONE: 5 – 9b

LIGHT: Sun/Part Shade

HEIGHT: 5 - 6 ft.

SPREAD: 6 – 8 ft.

SOIL: Dry, moist, well drained

FLOWER: Rosy-Pink

GROWTH: Moderate

LANDSCAPE VALUES:

The Lavender Twist Redbud is a stunning, weeping ornamental tree known for its cascading, zig-zag branches covered in rosy-pink to lavender flowers in early spring, followed by heart-shaped green leaves, making it a popular specimen plant for year-round interest in sunny to partially shaded spots with well-drained soil. It typically grows 6-10 ft tall and wide but needs staking when young to train its weeping habit into a taller tree, otherwise, it forms a low mound.

ZONE: 5 - 9

LIGHT: Partial shade
HEIGHT: 15 - 20 ft.

SPREAD: 15 – 20 ft

SOIL: Moist, well drained
FLOWERS: Snow White

FRUIT: Glossy red fruit in fall

LANDSCAPE VALUES:

Covered in gorgeous, large 3 to 5 inch wide white flowers, the Cherokee Princess Dogwood will light up your garden in spring. The foliage is rich green until fall when it puts on another spectacular show of color with rich red to purple-red on top and hues of silver underneath for a unique bi-color effect.

Strong resistance to canker and anthracnose.

ZONE: 6 - 9

LIGHT: Sun to part shade

HEIGHT: 30 - 40 ft.

SPREAD: 13 – 15 ft.

SOIL: Moist/Well drained

FLOWER: Pink

LANDSCAPE VALUES:

Many “magnoliaphiles” say if you only have room for one magnolia, make it ‘Daybreak’! Extremely fragrant flowers of clear rose-pink bloom just as the leaves are emerging. The late flowering despite lingering frost makes this Magnolia offer color into early summer.

ZONE: 5 - 9

LIGHT: Full sun to part shade

HEIGHT: 15 - 20 ft.

SPREAD: 10 – 15 ft.

SOIL: Well drained

FLOWER: Rosy Pink to Red

LANDSCAPE VALUES:

A truly spectacular show-stopper in full spring bloom, 'Vulcan' is a tulip-type Magnolia tree featuring large furry buds on nearly every stem of the tree during winter that open to enormous cup-and-saucer shaped blooms up to 12 inches across in early to mid spring. Depending on temperatures and sun exposure, the petals on the luscious looking fragrant flowers can range from a hot to dark rosy pink to dark ruby or purple-red. Sometimes there'll be different color shades on the same tree at the same time or from one year to the next. Starts blooming at a young age. Whatever the color shade, these gorgeous blooms are a painters dream flower. Clothed in large, handsome green leaves that turn to golden yellow shades in fall

ZONE: 6 - 9

LIGHT: Sun to part shade

HEIGHT: 20 - 25 ft.

SPREAD: 15 – 20 ft.

SOIL: Moist/Well drained

FLOWER: Fragrant White

LANDSCAPE VALUES:

A hybrid Magnolia with unusual parentage, 'Charles Coates' is a cross between M. sieboldii, a beautiful Asian species known as the Oyama Magnolia, and M. tripetala, a magnificent North American native species commonly referred to as the Umbrella Magnolia. Discovered at the Royal Botanic Garden in Kew. It features abundant, egg-shaped, white buds that, upon opening, appear as large tulips that fully open to a pleasantly fragrant, saucer-shaped, 5-6" flowers with 9-12 petals surrounding a ringed cluster of crimson stamens. The flowers are showcased against a backdrop of large, ovate, deep green leaves that can reach 10 inches in length, appearing in whorl-like clusters at the stem tips, adding a lush tropical look and feel in the landscape.

ZONE: 7 - 9

LIGHT: Afternoon Shade

HEIGHT: 20-30 ft.

SPREAD: 8 -10 ft.

SOIL: Well-drained

FLOWER: 5” creamy-white flowers with crimped petals and golden stamens

LANDSCAPE VALUES:

A perfect rare blend of two wonderful Southeastern native trees, Gordonia lasianthus and Franklinia alatamaha (thought to be extinct in the wild). This small tree seems to have inherited the good traits of both parents while shrugging off the problems associated with Franklinia in the garden. Large white flowers with a light sweet fragrance resembling big fried eggs in summer followed by older leaves turning colorful blends of orange and red colors in the fall. Attracts Butterflies

ZONE: 6 - 9

LIGHT: Sun to part shade

HEIGHT: 20 - 30 ft.

SPREAD: 12 – 20 ft.

SOIL: Moist/Well drained

FLOWER: Yellow

LANDSCAPE VALUES:

A beautiful and unique hybrid patented by the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, 'Elizabeth' Magnolia is a cross between M. acuminata, cucumber tree, and M. denudata, Yulan magnolia. Before new leaves emerge in spring, abundant bright yellow buds at the tip of every twig on the tree open to very pretty, tulip-shaped soft-yellow flowers with a wonderful lemony fragrance. The large, 5 to 9 inch obovate leaves are rich green and provide lushness in the landscape through the season. Elizabeth grows naturally in a pyramidal form to 20 to 30 feet tall and 15 or so feet wide at maturity. A magnificent tree that will always have you looking forward to spring.

ZONE: 5 - 9

LIGHT: Sun to part shade

HEIGHT: 15 - 18 ft.

SPREAD: 8 – 10 ft.

SOIL: Moist/Well drained

LANDSCAPE VALUES:

Grace Purple Holly will make a stunning addition to your garden that effortlessly combines beauty and elegance. With its graceful, pyramidal form and rich blue-green leaves, this hybrid holly – a lovely blend of blue and red hollies- adds a touch of sophistication to any landscape. Use as a specimen or a hedge row, it will enhance your landscape with its dense, compact growth habit. This Evergreen beauty offers you year-round interest in your landscape.

ZONE: 5 – 10

LIGHT: Full sun / Part shade

HEIGHT: 25 - 35 ft.

SPREAD: 15 – 20 ft.

SOIL: Moist, organic (Tolerates boggy)

FLOWER: Fragrant sweet lemony 2 to 3 in creamy white

LANDSCAPE VALUES:

The Moonglow Sweetbay Magnolia, Magnolia virginiana 'Jim Wilson', is a magnificent, easy to grow North American native tree that produces sweetly fragrant flowers that look like creamy-white tulips perched upright at the ends of branches before opening to 8-petaled flowers typical of sweetbay magnolias. This selection of Sweetbay Magnolia has attractive large, elongated, glossy, rich-green leaves. It has the ability to maintain a straight central trunk, which allows it to be grown full to the ground or lower branches can be removed to form a very attractive tree with a visible trunk. Cold hardiness is better than other Sweetbay Magnolia trees. This amazing tree grows in full sun or part sun and tolerates wet or average soil conditions.

ZONE: 8-11

LIGHT: Sun/Part Sun

HEIGHT: 10-20 ft.

SPREAD: 10 – 20 ft.

SOIL: Well-drained

FLOWER: White spring to late summer

LANDSCAPE VALUES:

This small, ornamental, usually multi-trunk, deciduous tree has light green, compound leaves that turn gold in the fall. The clusters of creamy white flowers have a sweet, spicy fragrance. If limbed up as a small tree, it might be suitable for sidewalk plantings, plaza areas, or in parking lot islands due to its tolerance of reflected heat

HEAT and DROUGHT TOLERANT - ATTRACTS BUTTERFLIES & BEES

ZONE: 7 – 10

LIGHT: Sun /Part shade

HEIGHT: 30 - 40 ft.

SPREAD: 15 – 20 ft.

SOIL: Moist to well draining, acidic

LANDSCAPE VALUES:

Acer rubrum var. drummondii 'San Felipe' is a compact, upright shade tree that grows up to 40 feet tall. Highly prized in Texas landscapes, it features vibrant orange and yellow fall foliage, silvery-fuzzy leaf undersides, and brick-red branches, though it requires specific acidic soils and moisture to thrive.

Food source for birds and squirrels.

ZONE: 6 – 10

LIGHT: Full Sun/Part Shade

HEIGHT: 10 – 20 ft.

SPREAD: 10 – 20 ft.

SOIL: Moist/Well drained

FLOWER: Dark Pink

LANDSCAPE VALUES:

Great small space tree especially adapted for the conditions of the desert southwest. Brilliant rose-violet blooms appear in spring just before the foliage emerges. Glossy, blue-green leaves have pronounced wavy edges. Native to southwest Texas and northeastern Mexico.

Highly Drought Tolerant once established