Best Texas Native Plants - Backyard Tour
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- Today we'll continue with my tour of the backyard, highlighting the Texas Native plants that are doing the best. Find out which perennial plants come back every year and can take the Texas heat, drought and cold.
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You got to be the Best Gardener of Texas in TH-cam !!!!! Pls Upload More of plant lists and Trees list. You’re so good at it
Thank you! I will keep videoing the best plants and trees for our area!
It is so disheartening how much we are no longer able to plant in the Houston area in recent years! We have pivoted to plants that make it through/or regrow after our recent annual freezes. Thank you for posting!
So glad to inspire you with all the plants that survive and look beautiful.
Hi Cindy! I just wanted to let you know that nandina is actually listed as an invasive plant to the United States. I think people have come to think of it as a native just because we see them everywhere. I read that the berries can actually be harmful ( even kill) some birds. I am not one to tell people what to plant and what not to, I just thought you would appreciate the information. Thanks for the great video!
I appreciate the information! Thank You!
@@therockyhillgardener What you have is not Obsession Nandina, as you stated in the video. Obsession is a completely sterile Nandina variety, as are several more modern Nandinas. Obsession will not set flowers or berries. By the look of the shrub, it appears to be the highly invasive "Heavenly Bamboo" or possibly Gulf Stream, although Gulf Stream doesn't flower that often in Central Texas. Obsession is a 3-4' tall and wide shrub.
Edit: The master gardeners up in Tarrant County recommend three family of shrubs that can handle the Texas heat, are drought tolerant, and are cold hardy to at least Zone 6 (-10° F). They are Hollies, Abelias, and the sterile varieties of Nandina. Those include Obsession, Lemon Lime, Firepower, and Blush Pink.
@@MickF04 I finally got rid of that stuff from my property, nightmare of a plant. btw the orchid tree(Bauhinia lunarioides) is a nice looking tree/shrub. Mine almost died, almost forgot about it and years later it's finally taken off. I'm trying to get seed pods from it, I like growing from seed.
Thank you for all the ideas! I'm new to Texas and needed to know what grows best here. I look forward to getting many of these for my gardens.
I love this channel. Thank you for identifying the plants for us!!
Loved your video. We are in Burnet, TX. I have 2 plants that I can't kill, my 4 o'clocks and my irises. My friend who is a gardening genius harvested some seeds from her 4 o'clock plants, and I spread them in a few problem areas. The ones near my driveway are about 3 feet tall, big bushes with pink flowers that open in the afternoon. The soil there is only a few inches deep. I planted some in the backyard garden, deeper soil, and they are over 5 feet tall. They survive solely on our occasional rainstorms. They die in the winter but come back every spring for the last 20+ years. I also have purple irises that spread from my neighbor's house. I moved them to a garden area, and they have been growing there for almost 30 years. They were about 40 years old when I moved them. I had 2 rosemary plants, one about 5' diameter, that were 10+ years old, but they were killed by the deep freeze a couple of years ago. The freeze killed most of our red tip photinias, huge 15' tall bushes, about 25 years old. 15 years ago I planted 2 bamboo plants, which were good little plants until about 8 years ago when they decided to take over. I love that they are a natural fence, but we are forever fighting to keep them from taking possession of the entire yard. I loved your video and took many notes. I do not have a green thumb. I buy plants to watch them die, according to my family. But I am forever the optimist, and I have a new basil that has survived 2 days so far.
I'm glad you're still trying! This is a tough environment to grow in, but you can do it!
Belinda’s Dream was a cultivar created by Dr. Basey from Texas A&M for our local veterinarian for his daughters birthday whose name was Belinda. Caldwell, TX
Really! Thanks for sharing!
I just discovered your site and enjoyed the tour. I live in North/Central Texas and am dealing with herds of deer. It's challenging finding plants they won't destroy. I love your Cherry Laurels and want to try some. Photinias have all been hit with that virus, so have lost most of them, sadly. Thank you for sharing your beautiful landscape. I appreciate that you post the names of the plants on the screen too!
Please let me know which plants you've found that stand up to deer munching.
Thank you ❤! I am new to TX gardening and am learning so much from you! We are a bit north of you in 8a.
Wonderful! Keep watching and your garden will be beautiful!
Beautiful garden, thank you so much for sharing! I just purchased a 2 acre home in central Texas a couple months ago that was covered with nothing but grass and a couple of trees. In this short time I’ve planted many of the plants you featured in your video so it’s nice to see them coming back for you year after year. I’m definitely feeling inspired after watching your video, my pollinator garden still has a LONG way to go!
I'm so glad to hear things are coming back year after year! That's my goal!
I lost my pittosporum too. We had them for years outside. They were very established.
Yes, it's time to choose alternative evergreens that can take the extreme cold we're getting.
I live in the DFW area and have tried star jasmine several times but I’ve always lost it. I have perennial phlox blooming right now. Also have needlepoint ivy in the ground as a ground cover. Creeping fig in other beds. Lots of wood fern and hostas, peony’s, but no roses. I had to remove every single rose, including knock outs due to rose rosette disease Clematis vines are still blooming, so pretty. Lantana, of course, as well as asparagus ferns that come back every year I have a huge oakleaf hydrangea plus other mophead hydrangeas. Nandinas, youpons, chrysanthemums. I have so many reliable perennials, filling in with a few annuals. I love gardening ❤
Wow! Your garden sounds beautiful. I wish I could visit. I'm going to try the phlox next. I've had rose rosette too. I hope to keep the last few roses I have.
I really enjoy watching your videos because you give a lot of tips on how to maintain and keep your plants growing. I had recently planted a new Mystic Spires salvia and it is not growing as fast as I thought it would. I'm going to try your tip on trimming it down to allow the plant to become more established.
Yes! Try doing that and also sprinkle a little organic fertiliser around the base.
@@therockyhillgardener Will do! Thank you.
Thank you for posting this ❤❤❤❤❤ you give out so much knowledge !!!!
I have so many of the same plants. You are so correct about the blue mist flower. Butterflies 🦋 all over them. Amazing!!
Hello!
I live in Alpine Texas and just found your video.
Beautiful gardens. And great tips. So far this year I’ve had some daylillies return and dahlias and morning glories.
Hello, Alpine garden friend! Glad you found me! I'm jealous you can grow dahlias! Keep watching for more garden ideas.
New subscriber here! Enjoyed your show... from Willis TX, North of Houston. 😊
So glad you watched today! More great tips and tricks ahead!
I’m in San Anton and just starting gardening. Such a great and helpful video. Thanks so much for!
Glad the video's are helpful! Keep watching!
TH-cam just recommended your channel, very glad it did. I enjoyed watching and have subscribed. I'm in Florida zone 9b, so hot like your zone. I love that you have so many natives, so important to grow them. 😊
Thanks so much for watching and subscribing! Keep planting natives and you'll have a beautiful garden.
It looks like a beautiful space back there ~ plenty of room for lots of different plants! Love all of the variety!
Thank you! Yes, lots of space for trying out plants.
Thank you Cindy. Wow! I have lots of Carolina Jassmine as a foundation plant on the side of my house. Every few years I cut it back. Daylilies. Esparanza, Pride of Barbados, and knock out roses. I got a Belindas Dream rose for Christmas. Haven't decided the best spot for it yet. We use cactus as filler in several of my beds. Queens lace and lantana of course!
Sounds like a lovely garden. Do you garden in Central Texas?
Thank you for the tour! I'm in far north Tx, heavily wooded. We cleared a spot for my Greenhouse/She Shed. All plants are safe there. Outside of that, grasshoppers devour everything!! Except Elephant Ears and Blue Bedder Salvia, I started from seed. My Lamb's ear is gone, my Rudbeckia is gone! And several other plants they devoured. I made a list from your recommendations, I'm not giving up!
I would call the Texas A&M Agrilife Extension Service and ask for help! They will steer you toward the best treatments for those pesky grasshoppers.
@@therockyhillgardener Great! Thanks so much!
Lovely Video :))
Love these videos for Austin gardening tips :) my four nerve daisies come back with more every year!
I've been meaning to plant some of those. Thanks for the reminder.
Your Oakleaf Hydrangea is gorgeous! I am hoping to plant one in my garden. Everything looks lovely!
Thank You!! I love it too!
Thank you for sharing! I was thinking about getting some star jasmine but I think after watching this I'll try for something else :D
Yes, It's "iffy" on whether it will come back after a hard freeze.
Fellow central Texan here. You have a lovely garden. :)
Thank you so much for watching, Fellow Texas!!
I LOVE froggruit! It is prolific, but not invasive, as it's native.
Totally agree!
I have this in my backyard in Texas it is under a hackberry tree it did not bloom this season leaves but no blooms not enough sun I guess and it’s small I am cutting down that hackberry tree that is not letting in the sun.
With more sun your plant will do much better.
@@therockyhillgardener I am not cutting the tree down but I am trimming the canopy much higher.
Passion Vine !!!
You have a lot of space to work with. Very nice. Our nearly rectangular backyard is 70' wide by 32' deep off the patio. All Bermuda lawn (thanks, house builder!), with a fair slope downward toward the house. Same rocky soil as you here in Central Texas. I keep thinking I could just create some circular areas in the lawn with the Bermuda removed and plant some shrubs and perennials there. Not looking for style, but rather attraction for the pollinators. Biggest concerns are rain washout and watering.
Definitely think about terracing the yard. You don't want to put in a lot of work to just watch it run off the side of the yard! It's easy to do, but does require a full day of hard labor.
@@therockyhillgardener Our lot is not *that* sloped to require terracing, although I am not against the idea or having raised soil of some kind in the backyard. We have no intention of growing vegetables or plants for flowers, so any raised bed concept is probably a waste of time and cost.
I’m wondering about your drop set up. I’ll check out your other videos. This was a great video!!! Ty
Thanks for watching!
Thank you for SUCH a beautiful inspiring garden of what we can do in tough conditions. We are in the clay soil of Bastrop county, Texas (NO sand, bad drainage). You have given me ideas of how to make our yard look more intentional. Our spongy clay soil takes days to dry during our seldom but tenacious rains then turns hard as a rock in summer. So I keep digging up native survivors here and there on our farm pasture and planting them around the house. How did you determine how to lay out your dry creek bed? We have a shallow ditch about 3'-5' from one side of our home we made to drain puddles that form during heavy rains. Maybe we should put a French drain there & cover it with rock like yours? I pine for a little arched bridge. How should we cut back our Mexican sage so it has a beautiful rounded shape like yours? We left ours alone when it died back in winter and cut off the dead stems as it budded out in spring but it is flopping over. Our firecracker bush next to it is doing the same thing so I staked the single thick stem with 2' wide foilage for this season until I find out how to prune it this winter. I can't wait to look through all of your videos to see what to do the other months of the year. I LOVE that you have the written labels on the screen as you tell about each plant so we understand the names correctly. We want to garden responsibly with natives for the pollinators and work with the natural inclinations of the land. It makes more sense to not fight it. Thank you again for sharing your wonderful native garden to inspire us how to carry it out beautifully!
You sound like a wonderful gardener! For the dry creek, we first watched the natural pattern the water took when it rained. We followed that path when making our dry creek. I always chop my Mexican Sage Bush, Firecracker bush, and Salvias when they start to look leggy! You can also stake them up if you want to do that. You are so kind to compliment my garden! Thanks for all your comments.
how many years have you been working on all these gardens? do you have help? how many hours a week do you spend in your beautiful yard? love these tours!
I've been gardening all my life. I'm not telling how old I am. HAHA!! I work 2-4 hours a day since I am retired. My wonderful husband helps me so much on the weekends.
I just planted dianthus in my bed.
It will do great!
Tonight (Friday) is beautiful outside..perfect for 🍷🍷
Will you wait until winter to dig up parts of your Mexican sage to move them? Ours is that big so I probably should move some to bare spaces since it is surviving so well. Thank you for all of your tips!
Yes, I will definitely wait till cooler weather.
I miss my roses😢. I'm in the hill country and all my cuttings I brought with me from my rose garden in California died😢. Too cold in winter I guess.
You can still have roses, but they'll need lots of water.
Cindy, love your channel. I live in Leander also and was wondering if you are involved in any gardening clubs. Please let me know Thanks
Yes, I am a member of the Garden Bloomers. They are a wonderful group of gardeners from North Austin, Cedar Park and Leander. Let me know if you're interested.
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Where are you located? I'm in Schertz and hoping I can get my yard looking as good as yours! Thanks for the inspiration.
I live in Leander, North of Austin
I'm in San Antonio TX Zone 8b /9a 🤠
This is gorgeous! I have salvia greggi. Do you know how to propagate it? Thanks !
Yes! Dig a nice big hole making sure the hole has good drainage. Then dig up a section of Salvia Greggi getting as much of the root system as possible. Pop it in the new hole, fill with soil and keep it watered for 2 weeks. It should take hold and start taking root. I've done this lots of times with great success.
@@therockyhillgardener Thank you! I’ll give it a try. Your garden advice is exactly what I need for this dry Texas weather. Little by little I’m trying to transition to mostly Texas natives. Your experience is so helpful.
U gotta get some hardy hibiscus
I agree! That's next on my shopping list!
Hi from France 8a 😊 Is your whole garden on drip, or do you have some spaces without?
The flower gardens are drip and the grass has above ground sprinklers. 🙂
Where in Texas are you? Amarillo vs DFW?
20 miles north of Austin, Tx
Thank you for your helpful video. We just moved here from Wisconsin, to Liberty Hill. Your next door neighbor! I jotted down about half dozen of plants you mentioned. Thanks for the tips. 🌱🪴🌿
Glad it was helpful!
Welcome to the area!
Love pigs 🐽😄
will deer eat drift rose?
They might nibble a little, but the thorns will keep them away.
Do you mean Carolina Jessamine?
Star Jasmine is what I have. Carolina Jasmine has little yellow flowers.
Yes its Star Jasmine
How do you keep weeds out of the pathways?!
Boiling water
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