Autumn Sage
A native Texas semi-evergreen shrub, blooming spring through frost. Small, tubular flowers in a variety of colors, most commonly red, attract hummingbirds and bees. Heat and drought tolerant once established. Grows well in borders and mass plantings.
Bee Balm, ‘Peter’s Purple’
Purple flowers mid-summer through fall on mint-scented foliage. Attracts bees, butterflies, and hummingbirds. Use for a bold effect in borders, bets, cutting, and also good for naturalization.
Blackfoot Daisy
A low mounding, bushy Texas native perennial, blooming white and yellow daisy like flowers from spring through fall. Heat and drought tolerant.
Blanket Flower
A low-maintenance herbaceous perennial perfect for a hot and sunny garden spot. Attracts butterflies and birds. Dasiy-like blooms make attractive cut flowers.
Butterfly Weed
Also known as Butterfly Milkweed and Pleurisy root. A native prairie, long-lived herbaceous perennial, highly attractive to Monarch butterflies, bees, and birds. Orange flowers bloom mid-summer through autumn, followed by ornamental seed pods.
Catmint, ‘Walker’s Low’
This herbaceous perennial features gray-green foliage and violet-blue flowers, late spring through fall. Grow as as a spreading groundcover or cascading off walls or container edges. Drought tolerant once established. Attracts hummingbirds and butterflies.
Cedar Sage
A sweet little native perennial that grows in the shade and boasts showy red edible flowers from spring through summer. Attracts hummingbirds and butterflies. Adapted to grow in the shade and leaf mulch of Ashe Juniper, will self-sow to create a ground cover if not too heavily mulched or covered with leaves.
Cheddar Pinks, ‘Firewitch’
Compact, low-growing with blue-green foliage and profuse, fragrant magenta-pink flowers in mid to late spring, and throughout fall if spent flowers are sheared; can be grown as a ground cover. Evergreen perennial.
Chives
A hardy edible perennial. Onion chives (Allium schoenoprasum) have round leaves with pink or purple flowers in spring through early summer. Garlic chives (Allium tuberosum) are flat leaved with white flowers in late summer.
Columbine, Texas Gold
An early spring blooming native columbine with 3″ bright yellow flowers and long spurs. Blooms sporadically in summer. Suited for dry shade locations. Attract butterflies and hummingbirds.
