Bryan and Moorpark are the best candidates, but they have fairly low chilling requirements. Montmorency sour cherries have the best chance of succeeding, but even they will struggle in Texas.Īpricots. Most of Texas is too warm by about 15 degrees, summer and winter. A better alternative is the less available Scarlet’s Peak yaupon holly.Ĭherries. It’s heavily marketed in the big cities along I-35, but it’s poorly adapted to the black clay gumbo soils there. As such, it’s poorly adapted to alkaline soils but better suited to East Texas. This is a selection of Japanese holly ( Ilex crenata). Try a few to see how they do before you invest the big bucks. But they’re expensive and not ultra-dependable. They’ll do fairly well in Northeast Texas, and you do see them in DFW and even farther south. These are stellar plants in the Midwest and along the Upper East Coast, but they succumb to our heat. Yews.Taxus – true Japanese yews from the North. Except for the sweet aroma of lilacs, purple crape myrtles are a lot more spectacular here. They know what real lilacs are supposed to look like. Try them if you wish, but don’t boast about them in front of people from Iowa, Illinois or Washington State. According to the veterans who worked there, a plant at the TAMU Center on Coit Road in North Dallas where I worked for five years was actually shorter in 1977 than it had been 25 years earlier. ![]() And the plants struggle just to make it through our summers, let alone grow. What we are able to turn out in Texas are the size of tennis balls. Their flowerheads are supposed to be as big as basketballs. I do not think Texans should spend time, money and space on lilacs. Maybe the Panhandle can grow it, and maybe the Davis Mountains, but not for the rest of us. You see it sold, but have you ever seen it being harvested here in Texas? I haven’t. I have other things I’d much rather grow. ![]() The only one I’ve ever seen grow well in hot Texas is a red variety called Dorman Red that originated in Mississippi. South of that line I can’t recommend them, and north of that line, I’d suggest planting only a few. However, their flowers are huge and susceptible to late March and April rain and windstorms. There are a few heirloom varieties you see in older neighborhoods that bloom many springs. I’ve lived in the DFW area for the past 49 years, and I’ve observed that I-30 is just about the dividing line of where you can even grow peonies at all. I grew up in College Station, and my mom and dad (from Nebraska) commented how they missed their peonies. Pyramidal hollies are better choices in almost all cases. ![]() Mine started struggling by mid-June and was gone by mid-July. I don’t hear rave reviews from people who have tried this plant, and it did not fare at all well in the heat in my own landscape. Will these grow here? I’d appreciate your comments on them.” “I’m new to Texas, and there are plants I see, but I don’t see them in your books and I don’t hear you recommending them.
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