David Rodriguez, Extension Agent-Horticulture, Bexar County
Planting begins with selection of adapted species to site and climate. The time to decide on the species is long before you go to the nursery to buy. To help those who don’t know the best landscape plants for this area, the following is a list which you should choose from:
Click on a topic below to go directly to the type of plants you’re looking for.
- Ground Covers
- Vines
- Dwarf Shrubs
- Small Shrubs
- Medium Shrubs
- Large Shrubs
- Small Trees
- Medium Trees
- Large Trees
GROUND COVERS (space 1′ apart)
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Algerian Ivy*
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Plumbago
(deciduous) |
Asiatic Jasmine **
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Prostrate Rosemary
(herb) |
Bearded Iris
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Ruellia Dwarf Series
(pink, purple, white)** |
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Confederate Jasmine
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Santolina
(gray and green) |
Day Lilies
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Texas Gold Columbine *
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English Ivy **
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Trailing Juniper
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Japanese Purple Honeysuckle
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Trailing Lantana
(“Harbor’s Dwarf”, “New Gold”) |
Lirope (standard, “Big Blue”,”Giganta”)*
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Nandina domestica, var.**
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Verbena, “Tex Tuf”
(perennial-red, rose, purple) |
Oregano
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Vinca Major **
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Wedelia
(deciduous) |
Monkey Grass/
Mondo Grass * |
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Boston Ivy
(4′ apart; deciduous) |
English Ivy
(3′ apart) ** |
Carolina Jessamine
(4′ apart) |
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Grapes, var. Champanel or
Blk Spanish deciduous |
Climbing Cecile Brunner
(sweetheart rose; 10′ apart) |
Hall’s Honeysuckle
(6′ apart) |
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Confederate Jasmine
(4′ apart) |
Improved Trumpet Vine
(12′ apart, deciduous) |
Coral Honeysuckle
(3′ apart) |
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La Marque Rose
(10′ apart) |
Coral Vine
( 8′ apart, deciduous) |
Lady Banks Rose (12′ apart)
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Creeping Fig
(4′ apart) |
Passionflower
(4′ apart) |
Cross Vine
(8′ apart) |
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Butterfly Vine (Stigmaphyllon/Mascagnia)
(4′ apart) |
Virginia Creeper
(3′ apart; deciduous) |
Sweet Autumn Clematis
(4′ apart) |
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Crimson Pygmy Barberry
(2′ x 3′) |
Nandina domestica, var.
‘Harbor Dwarf’ (2′ x 2′) |
Dwarf Abelia
(3′ x 2′) |
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Plumbago
(3′ x 3′) |
Dwarf Chinese Holly
(3′ x 2′) |
Pomegranate
(2′ x 2′) |
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Dwarf Yaupon Holly
(2′ x 2′) |
Rosemary
(3′ x 3′ herb) |
Gray Cotoneaster
(3′ x 3′) |
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Santolina
(1.5′ x 1) (green and grey) |
Mexican Oregano
(3′ x 4′ herb) |
Nandina domestica, var.
Dwarf ‘Compacta’ (4′ x 3′) |
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Dwarf Burford Holly
(5′ x 4′) ** |
Red Leaf Japanese Barberry
(5′ x 5′, semi-deciduous) |
Dwarf Oleander
(4′ x 3′) |
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Sago Palm
(4′ x 5′) |
Flowering Quince
(4′ x 4′ decidious) |
Salvia farinacea Mealy Sage
(2′ x 3′) |
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Glossy Abelia
(6′ x 4′) |
Salvia greggii
(3′ x 2′) |
Japanese Acuba
(4′ x 4′) * |
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Standard Nandina
(5′ x 3′)** |
Salvia leucantha
(2′ x 2′) |
Japanese Boxwood
(4′ x 4′) |
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Agarita
(3′ to 8′) |
Italian Jasmine
(5′ x 3′) |
Standard Burford Holly
(10′ x 8′) ** |
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Nellie R. Stevens Holly
(8′ x 6′) |
Chinese Holly
(9′ x 6′) ** |
Oleander
(9′ x 8′) |
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Coppertone Loquat
(7′ x 5′) |
Primrose Jasmine
(5′ x 7′) |
Fatsia
(5′ x 4′, shade, tropical, effect) |
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Crape Myrtle, Dwarf
(6′ x 5′) |
Texas Sage, Ceniza
(6′ x 6′) |
Sandankwa Viburnum
(8′ x 6′) |
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Flowering Pomegranate
(8′ x 5′) |
Tea Rose
(Mrs. B.R. Cant, 5′ x 4′) |
Tea Rose
(Mrs. Dudley Cross, 5’x4′) |
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Crape Myrtle
(9′ x 8′) |
Pineapple Guava/Feijoa
(12′ x 11′) |
Elaeagnus
(10′ x 8′) |
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Sweet Viburnum
(10′ x 8′) |
Standard Burford Holly
(10′ x 8′) |
Texas Mt. Laurel
(15′ x 10′) |
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Ligustrum
Glossy Privet) (20′ x 15′) |
Xylosma
(12′ x 8′) |
Japanese Yew
(12′ x 5′) |
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Yaupon Holly
(10′ x 8′)** |
Texas Lilac
(10′ x 3′) |
Pampas Grass
(10′ x 6′)
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Crape Myrtle
(25′ x 15′) |
Possumhaw /
Deciduous Holly (12′ x 8′) |
Esperanza
(3′ to 6′ x 4′) |
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Mexican Redbud
(20′ x 15”) |
Japanese Persimmon
(25′ x 20′) |
Texas Mt. Laurel
(15′ x 10′) |
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Loquat
(15′ x 12′) |
Texas Redbud
(20′ x 15′) |
Mediterranean Fan Palm
(10′ x 15′) |
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Vitex
(20′ x 15′) |
Mexican Buckeye &
Mexican Redbud (understory 20′ x 15′) |
Windmill Palm
(12′ x 7′) |
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Mexican Plum
(12′ x 10′) |
Japanese Black Pine
(25′ x 20′) |
Yaupon Holly
(understory 15′ x 10′) |
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Aleppo Pine
(20′ x 15′) |
Lacey Oak
(45′ x 40′) |
Anaqua
(40′ x 25′) |
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Osage Orange
(40′ x 30′) |
Bradford Pear
(25′ x 15′) |
Palm-Washitonia Filifere
(40′ x 12′) |
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Cedar Elm
(45′ x 30′) |
Sierra Red Oak
(40′ x 30′) |
Chinese Pisache
(40′ x 30′) |
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Texas Red Oak
(25′ x 20′) |
California Fan Palm
(Washingtonia filifere) (40′ x 15′) |
Fan-Tex Ash
(40′ x 40′) |
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Bald Cypress
(60′ x 25′) |
Monterrey Oak
(Mexican White Oak) (40′ x 40′) |
Bur Oak
(deep soils only) (60′ x 30′) |
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Montezuma Cypress
(50′ x 30′) |
Chinkapin Oak
(50′ x 30′) |
“Texas” Shumard Oak
(60′ x 40′) |
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Live Oak
(50′ x 50′) |
Pecan
(50′ x 30′) |
*Shade
**Sun & Shade