Plant guides
Hardiness zones, light and water needs, and when to plant, counted from your own frost dates.
State plant programs: see the directory of university plant programs and the Texas plant lists.
Annual
- Angelonia (summer snapdragon)
- Annual vinca (Madagascar periwinkle)
- Begonia (wax and dragon wing)
- Coleus
- Impatiens (incl. New Guinea)
- Marigold
- Pansy and viola
- Pentas (star cluster)
- Petunia (incl. spreading types)
- Snapdragon
- Zinnia
Bulb
Perennial
- Autumn sage
- Bee balm
- Black-eyed Susan
- Catmint
- Coreopsis (tickseed)
- Daylily
- Firebush
- Garden phlox
- Hellebore (Lenten rose)
- Hosta
- Lantana
- Lavender
- Mealy blue sage 'Henry Duelberg'
- Mexican bush sage
- Peony
- Pink/Gulf muhly grass
- Purple coneflower
- Russian sage
- Sedum 'Autumn Joy'
- Shasta daisy
- Turk's cap
Shrub
- American beautyberry
- Annabelle (smooth) hydrangea
- Azalea (incl. Encore rebloomers)
- Belinda's Dream rose
- Bigleaf (mophead) hydrangea
- Boxwood
- Butterfly bush
- Camellia
- Cenizo (Texas sage)
- Common lilac
- Drift groundcover rose
- Dwarf yaupon holly
- Forsythia
- Gardenia
- Glossy abelia
- Indian hawthorn
- Knock Out rose
- Limelight hydrangea
- Loropetalum (Chinese fringe flower)
- Oakleaf hydrangea
- Spirea
- Viburnum
- Weigela
Shrub/tree
Tree
Vine
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