Shrubs

Soft green leaves with purple blooms. This selection of Texas Sage is unique for its darker green leaves. When conditions are optimal, masses of purple to wine-colored flowers appear during summer monsoon season. They are large, fast growing upright shrubs. While this selection accepts shearing, doing so will limit its blooming potential. Their size and dense growth do lend them to be utilized for a low water, evergreen screen or privacy hedge. They are most commonly used as foundational shrubs for virtually all residential and commercial landscapes

Small, wavy green leaves with big purple blooms. This selection of Texas Sage is unique for its smaller darker green wavy leaves. When conditions are optimal, masses of big, bright purple colored flowers appear during summer monsoon season. These are large, fast growing upright shrubs. While this selection accepts shearing, doing so can limit its blooming potential. Their size and dense growth do lend them to be utilized as a low water, evergreen screen, or privacy hedge. They are most commonly used as foundational shrubs in residential and commercial landscapes.

Small dark olive-green leaves with purple blooms. This selection is a compact growing, darker green L. langmaniae. It grows at a slow to moderate rate to a size of about 4 ft. high and wide with a round or domed habit. The flowers are large and lavender in color, which stand out well against the dark olive green foliage. Low maintenance and low water use in well-drained soils. They can be kept smaller by shearing because the flower display is not as significant with this selection.

Olive green leaves with masses of big lavender blooms! This is one of the most floriferous selections of Texas Sage ever made by famed Texas plantsman Mr. Lynn Lowery. These are green, not gray, shrubs that grow moderately fast and sturdily to a manageable size of 4 to 5 ft. They are adaptable, tolerant of low desert heat and high humidity. With regular supplemental summer irrigation in Phoenix or Palm Springs, these shrubs will be healthy and long-lived. Their real show starts during summer when rising relative humidity forces copious amounts of big, bright lavender blooms that completely cover the stems turning the entire plant into a purple mass. Avoid shearing these plants. Give them room and time to grow to full maturity.

Fuzzy gray-green cupped leaves with dark purple blooms. When this selection was originally touted by other valley nurseries, it was mistakenly described as a small, compact growing Leucophyllum. As it got used and specified in projects, it became clear that this plant had no interest in staying cute and compact in urban landscapes with regular supplemental irrigation. The largest one we’ve ever seen was about 6 ft. tall and had spread about 10 ft. across. They will stay compact and grow at an average rate to a modest 4-5 ft. with infrequent, but deep summer watering. Its flowers are dark purple, which stand out well against the gray-green foliage. They can be kept smaller by shearing where needed, but that should be done after flowering in late summer. Like other gray leafed Texas Sage, they must have well-draining soils.

Small tough shrubs with fragrant leaves and flowers. This is a dwarf selection of evergreen hardy myrtle. They do grow in a compact form, with small dark green, aromatic leaves. Cream to white flowers with long stamens appear in spring, followed by small dark berries. These plants take well to shearing or pruning but do so after flowering has finished. Ideal for low formal evergreen borders or short hedges, they also do well in containers and are considered clean enough for pool plantings. They have a lush, Mediterranean look.

Well-behaved, floriferous evergreen shrub. This is one of the most popular dwarf oleander selections, for good reasons. The leaves are a bit shorter, and darker green than most, with complementary dark crimson flowers that appear in large clusters. They will grow slow but steadily to reach a manageable but versatile height and width of about 5 ft. Heaviest flower display is in mid-spring, with potential to pop out flowers almost anytime during the growing season. Remove pods as needed after flowering for tidier appearance. They will appreciate extra or regular watering during flowering, but they are extremely drought tolerant plants.

Widely used floriferous, evergreen shrub. The most popular dwarf oleander selection, if not the most popular evergreen flowering shrub, period! Petite pink oleander grows at a moderate to fast rate. Its height typically matches its width unless manipulated by pruning. The heaviest flower displays are in spring, but they can produce flowers almost anytime during the growing season. Like others, pods can be removed, as needed, after flowering for a tidier appearance. They will appreciate extra or regular watering during flowering, but they are extremely drought tolerant plants. Resist shearing whenever possible for lovelier plants.

Classic evergreen, flowering shrubs, or small trees. Standard or full-sized oleanders, are vigorous, upright growing large evergreen shrubs with long, dark green lance shaped leaves on gray woody stems. They have many practical uses, such as for screening, large formal blooming hedges, to small single or multi-trunked accent trees. They work equally well for residential landscapes as they do for commercial parking lots, parks, open spaces, or golf courses, to name a few. Flowers of standard oleanders are large and bright in pastel hues of pink, red and white, blooming from spring to summer. Flowers are followed by clustered seed pods that look like skinny, dark brown cigars. These can be pruned off in late summer. Extremely heat and drought tolerant plants. Full-sized oleanders can be maintained at about 10 ft. high with pruning, but cutting them shorter than this usually prevents flowering. If shorter plants are required for the space, choose a Dwarf variety (Listed separately)