Plants for Landscapers

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Cactus Prickly Pear
Botanical Name: Opuntia ficus-indica
Prickly pear cacti typically grow with flat, rounded platyclades that are armed with two kinds of spines; large, smooth, fixed spines and small, hairlike spines called glochids, that easily penetrate skin and detach from the plant. Many types of pric...

Cactus Red Bunny Ears
Botanical Name: Opuntia rufida
Aspecies ofcactus native to northern Mexico and west Texas. It forms a denseshrub 4060cm tall, occasionally more, composed of pad-like stems 615cm long and 412cm broad. It has no spines, but instead has numerousredish brownglochids 23mm long in dense...

Cactus Spineless Dwf Prickly Pear
Botanical Name: Opuntia ficus-indica 'Dwarf Spineless'
mostly spine-free, popular for it's lack of offending spines. The fruit is somewhat tartand can be used in recipes using "Indian fig".

Cactus Spineless prickly pear
Botanical Name: Opuntia cacanapa 'ellisiana'
As an ornamental the prickly pear is an interesting specimen plant. Depending on the selection, it can grow from 2- to 8-feet tall. In summer, plants produces teacup-sized yellow blossoms that are followed by a fleshy, edible purple fruit. Anaturalfo...

Cactus Yellow Bunny Ears
Botanical Name: Opuntia macrocalyx
Aspecies ofcactus native to central and northern Mexico. It forms a denseshrub 4060cm tall, occasionally more, composed of pad-like stems 615cm long and 412cm broad. It has no spines, but instead has numerous white or yellowglochids 23mm long in dens...

Camellia Kanjiro
Botanical Name: Camellia sasanqua 'Kanjiro'

Camellia Shishi Gashira
Botanical Name: Camellia sasanqua 'Shishi Gashira'
Shi-Shi Gashira isundoubtedly the best landscape camellia. Its smaller size makes it versatile. Its red - pink blooms are as prettyany rose grown.

Camellia Yuletide
Botanical Name: Camellia sasanqua 'Yuletide'

Canna
Botanical Name: Canna
Cannas are tropical and subtropical flowering plants with large, banana like leaves. They can be grown as annuals in cooler regions, where they add an instant touch of the tropics to gardens. Cannas are often grown from their foliage alone. The large...

Carolina Jessamine
Botanical Name: Gelsemium sempervirens
Highly aromatic golden yellow bells cover an evergreen cascade from February to April. The vine can be trained to climb or cascade over a fence, wall, or slope.

Caryopteris Dark Knight
Botanical Name: Caryopteris Dark Knight
North of zone 7, this fall bloomer is grown as a soft-wooded perennial rather than a deciduous shrub. Southern gardeners prune back in Spring and allow its new growth, from which the plants bloom, to push up from the ground. Its deep blue blooms ap...

Catmint Blue Wonder
Botanical Name: Nepeta faassenii 'Blue Wonder'
Gray-green, aromatic foliage gives way tomasses of lavender-blue flowers in early thru midsummer. The relatively short stature of this variety makes it a good candidate for the front of the border. Whenits stems are broken, they release an aroma into...

Cedar 'Blue Atlas'
Botanical Name: Cedrus atlantica 'Glauca'
If you yearn for a Colorado Blue Spruce and have finally conceded that they sneer at our Texas heat, try this blue-gray conifer. The Blue Atlas Cedar will satisfy your urge for cool blue in the landscape, and you'll be pleased with its irregular pyr...

Cedar Deodara
Botanical Name: Cedrus deodara
Like the Blue Atlas Cedar, the Deodara becomes wide-spreading and flat-topped with age, so siting the tree is important. The ends of the horizontal branches tip toward the ground, making the limbs look like a personified Disney tree--a majestic, lit...

Cedar Weeping Blue Atlas
Botanical Name: Cedrus atlantica 'Glauca Pendula'
Weeping Blue Atlas Cedar is an evergreen conifer that adorns the garden with soft, silvery blue needles around twisted branches that arch toward the ground. The gardener can train the conifer to conform to a desired silhouette, much like a large bon...

Chamaedrys Germander
Botanical Name: Teucrium chamaedrys Germander chamaedrys
Grown for its attractive, dark green aromatic foliage and its light pink to deep purple flowers, which blossom in summer and early fall. This garden workhorse can be used in troughs, containers, low hedges, knot gardens, rock gardens, or as edging. I...

Chamisa
Botanical Name: Chrysothamnus nauseosus 'Chamisa'
Billowing clouds of deep yellow flowers cover the bush, providing a dramatic backdrop or centerpiece to any xeric garden. Largeshrub with thin blue-gray leaves. Rabbit Brush can be clipped to make a tough drought tolerant hedge.

Cherry 'Stella'
Botanical Name: Prunus avium
Stella cherry is a late harvesting cherry tree with deep red sweet fruit and near black flesh. An excellent cherry for fresh eating, the fruit is resistant to cracking, but must be protected from birds, who love them! Not only does the Stella pro...

Cherry Bing
Botanical Name: Prunus avium 'Bing'

Chinese Mahonia
Botanical Name: Mahonia fortunei
Chinese mahonia is a compact, graceful little shrub that stays in its space and doesn't crowd its neighbors. Its fernlike evergreen foliage and dense structure make it an attractive accent or specimen. The flowers, appearing in autumn, are lemon yell...

Chitalpa Pink Dawn
Botanical Name: Chitalpa tashkentensis
Abundant showy pink flowers (as many as 40 to a cluster), droop from the branches of this ornamental tree from Spring to early Fall. Its willow-like leaves and airy structure allow underneath plantings to flourish. 'Pink Dawn' has 1" long purple thr...

Chrysanthemum
Botanical Name: Chrysanthemum

Cleyera
Botanical Name: Ternstroemia gymnanthera
Cleyera's tear-shaped leaves emerge red, later turning to a deep glossy green. The leaves remain shiny throughout the year and white flowers appear on previous growth in spring, followed by red berries. Although the flowers and berries are not parti...

Colorado Blue Spruce
Botanical Name: Picea Pungens
A slow-growing, long-lived tree of medium size that, because of its symmetry and color, is planted extensively as an ornamental.

Compact Cherry Laurel
Botanical Name: Prunus caroliniana 'Compacta'
Compact Cherry Laurel differs from the native species in two ways--its compact growth habit and smaller leaves. The compact variety grows upright, bearing dark green waxy leaves that have a maraschino cherry fragrance when crushed. The scented sprin...

Copper Canyon Daisy
Botanical Name: Tagetes lemmonii
Copper Canyon Daisy is a wide-spreading shrub daisy that bears tiny aromatic leaves and profusions of small yellow blooms from August until frost. The aromatic foliage repels deer. Copper Canyon Daisy does well on rocky slopes, in xeric gardens and ...

Coralberry
Botanical Name: Symphoricarpos orbiculatus

Coreopsis Baby Sun
Botanical Name: Coreopsis grandiflora 'Baby Sun'
Flowers have bright golden serrated petals radiating from an orange-gold eye ringed in maroon. The fast-growing plant is clump-forming with thready foliage and long leafy stems. Its casual habit makes it perfect for cottage gardens, but it also perf...

Coreopsis Early Sunrise
Botanical Name: Coreopsis grandiflora 'Early Sunrise'
Yellow petals flush to orange-yellow and contrast beautifully with the dark green thread-like foliage--a definite winner for a border or foreground planting. Mass plantings make a warm contrast to a cool green lawn.

Coreopsis Moonbeam
Botanical Name: Coreopsis verticillata 'Moonbeam'
Pale yellow clusters of daisy-like blooms sit atop green wispy foliage. A perfect contrasting border along the lawn, the 'Moonbeam' Coreopsis blooms from June to October.

Cotoneaster Cranberry
Botanical Name: Cotoneaster apiculatus
Cranberry cotoneaster is a dense, broad-upright, somewhat mounding deciduous shrub with stiffly arching branches. Typically grows to 3' tall with a spread to 6'. Small pinkish flowers in late spring give way to red (cranberry-like) berries (pomes) wh...

Cotoneaster Grey
Botanical Name: Cotoneaster glaucophyllus
Cotoneaster's showy red berries appear after clusters of white flowers, making it a great specimen not only for summer, but for winter too. Its gracefully arching branches are covered in woolly gray-green foliage which adds texture to a shrub bed or ...

Cotoneaster Red Clusterberry
Botanical Name: Cotoneaster parneyi

Cotoneaster Rockspray
Botanical Name: Cotoneaster horizontalis
Rockspray cotoneaster is a valuable landscape plant which offerers good foliage, flowers and fruit.It provides shelter for small birds. Mass as a woody ground cover for sunny areas in the landscape including banks or slopes where it can also provide ...

Cotoneaster Royal Beauty
Botanical Name: Cotoneaster dammeri 'Royal Beauty'
Coral Beauty Cotoneaster is a low spreading evergreen shrub with waxy dark green foliage and prolific dark red berries that provide fall and winter interest. The small white flowers that appear in late May are showy when the shrub is planted en mass...

Cottonwood
Botanical Name: Populus

Crabapple Prairiefire
Botanical Name: Malus 'Prairiefire'

Crapemyrtle 'Tuscarora'
Botanical Name: Lagerstroemia indica x faurei ''Tuscarora''
'Tuscarora' is a small multi-trunked tree with an upright vase shape. Deep coral pink flowers proliferate the branches for approximately 70 days beginning in late summer. Leaves are shiny green in summer and turn to red/orange in fall. Buff colored...

Crapemyrtle Acoma White
Botanical Name: Lagerstroemia 'Acoma'
The Acoma Crape Myrtle blooms from June through September with an extra burst of re-bloom in mid-August. The large profusion of white clusters during summer weight the tree until it appears to be weeping. Its lustrous peeling bark adds winter interes...

Crapemyrtle America Red
Botanical Name: Lagerstroemia indica 'America'
America crapemyrtle is a semi-dwarf crapemyrtle with brilliant ruby-red summer blooms and an upright growth habit.

Crapemyrtle Basham's Party Pink
Botanical Name: Lagerstroemia 'Basham's Party Pink'
Basham's is a fast growing crapemyrtle with delicate light lavender-pink blooms with a form that ranges from upright and vase-shaped to low, horizontal and bushy. Its dark green leaves turn a dramatic orange-red in the Fall. The seed-heads that persi...

Crapemyrtle Country Red
Botanical Name: Lagerstroemia 'Country Red'
'Country Red' features bright red-pink flowers with yellow centers from mid-summer to early fall. Foliage on this upright spreading multi-trunk shrub turns from dark green in Summer to a dull yellow-orange in Fall. The grayish-brown bark peels from...

Crapemyrtle Dallas Red
Botanical Name: Lagerstroemia 'Dallas Red'
'Dallas Red' is a broad canopied upright crapemyrtle that produces an abundance of violet red flower clusters 8" to 16" long. Its rounded glossy leaves are green in Summer, turning to orange and yellow in the Fall. One of the hardiest varieties, 'Da...

Crapemyrtle Dynamite®
Botanical Name: Lagerstroemia 'Dynamite®'
Dynamite® Crapemyrtle stands out with the brightest red flower of any crapemyrtle variety. Crimson-tinged leaves emerge in Spring and turn to green in Summer. Panicles of the fire-red flowers can reach up to a foot in length, with a few white petal...

Crapemyrtle Hopi
Botanical Name: Lagerstroemia indica

Crapemyrtle Miami
Botanical Name: Lagerstroemia 'Miami'
Miami Crapemyrtle has deep pink flowers with young burgundy leaves turning with age to deep green, then orange-rust in fall. The form can vary from upright and vase-shaped to bushy, according to how it is encouraged through pruning. Its attractive ...

Crapemyrtle Muskogee
Botanical Name: Lagerstroemia 'Muskogee'
The Muskogee Crape Myrtle produces 8" to 16" lavender flower clusters that bloom longer than most varieties. The Muskogee is an upright, vase-shaped specimen with a robust growing habit, attractive glossy green summer leaves and appealing yellow and...

Crapemyrtle Natchez
Botanical Name: Lagerstroemia 'Natchez'
Very large white blooms and attractive exfoliating bark make Natchez the perfect specimen single-trunk or multi-trunk accent to the landscape. Red-orange fall foliage follows a long blooming period from June through September. It is one of the tall...

Crapemyrtle Petite Pink
Botanical Name: Lagerstroemia indica

Crapemyrtle Petite Plum
Botanical Name: Lagerstroemia indica

Crapemyrtle Petite Red
Botanical Name: Lagerstroemia indica

Crapemyrtle Petite Snow
Botanical Name: Lagerstroemia indica

Crapemyrtle Pink Velour ®
Botanical Name: Lagerstroemia indica 'Pink Velour®'
Pink Velour Crape Myrtles are noted for their vivid dark wine foliage that appears before long-lasting brilliant pink blooms. If privacy is what you want during the summer months, Pink Velour is a spectacular solution. Planted in a row, or as an ac...

Crapemyrtle Raspberry Sundae ®
Botanical Name: Lagerstroemia indica 'Raspberry Sundae®'
Raspberry Sundae® is a proflic summer bloomer of raspberry red flowers splashed with white strokes that fade to red in summer heat. New growth on the upright bush is bronze/crimson turning to medium green. The bark is brownish/red.

Crapemyrtle Red Rocket ®
Botanical Name: Lagerstroemia indica 'Red Rocket®'
Ninety-nine days and more of wonderful deep red blooms--no pink in these blooms! Red Rocket grows upright into a rounded shape, making it the perfect candidate for a multi-trunked tree loaded with newly emerged leaves of crimson, turning to dark gre...

Crapemyrtle Sioux
Botanical Name: Lagerstroemia 'Sioux'

Crapemyrtle Snowflake Pink
Botanical Name: Lagerstroemia 'Snowflake Pink'

Crapemyrtle Twilight
Botanical Name: Lagerstroemia indica 'Twilight'
Handsome specimen plant with large inflorescences in summer. Brownish red exfoliating bark. Dark purple flowers and an upright broad crown. This crapemyrtle bears deep purple flowers and can be grown as a large shrub or small tree. The quintisent...

Crapemyrtle Victor
Botanical Name: Lagerstroemia indica 'Victor'
Compact habit with dark red flowers in late summer. Good mildew resistance.

Creeping Charlie
Botanical Name: Glechoma hederacea

Creeping Fig
Botanical Name: Ficus pumila
Fig ivy has a wonderful creeping habit. With its small heart-shaped leaves, it easily clings to brick walls or other surfaces and can be used in wire topiaries.

Creeping Phlox
Botanical Name: Phlox subulata
Creeping phlox is a low-growing perennial with fragrant pink blossoms. Blanket an area by planting them en masse on flat land or on slopes to combat erosion. After spring bloom, pinch back the blossoms for repeat summer bloom and tighter foliage.

Crossvine 'Tangerine Beauty'
Botanical Name: Bignonia capreolata 'Tangerine Beauty'
In Spring, this cultivar produces abundant tangerine bell-shaped blooms with yellow throats. The blooms are so prolific, one can barely see the emerging leaves or vines. The vine can be trained to climb a trellis, cascade over a wall, or spill over ...

Cypress Bald
Botanical Name: Taxodium distichum
Bald Cypess is a pyramidal deciduous conifer that makes a stately impression in the yard or scattered in large areas. The dark green flexible needle-like leaves reverse their spring/summer color to orange/brown in fall. Its winter silhouette is beau...
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