My Plant List for Brenham, TX Zone 8B

In my garden I have many varieties of plants growing. And just as long a list of plants that have died, quite frankly. I am not including in this list the ones that didn't make it, but it happens - the wrong soil, the wrong light, the wrong water, voles. Besides what I listed here, I have sown many varieties of wild flowers, many of which come back every year. I also have a culinary herb garden, a medicinal herb garden, and a vegetable garden with plants that change seasonally.

Shrubs:

• Oak Leaf Hydrangea
• White By the Gate Camellia - white doubles
• Debutante Camellia - double pinks
• George Taber Azalea - big pale pink singles
• Spirea - Spirea cantoniensis 'Lanceata' - white
• White Snakeroot- will die back in the winter, but it reseeds heavily, likes shade, it is poisonous and will come through a cow's milk and poison people (as well as kill the cow) - pretty in the shade, though!
• Morningstar Sweetspire - Itea virginica - likes some shade, white flowers in the spring
• Coralberry - good shade plant, not very dense, purple berries in the fall
• Giant Ligularia - Ligularia tusilaginea 'Giant' - it blooms yellow daisy-like flowers if we get a late freeze.  Wonderful foliage - huge leaves
• Thryallis - yellow flowers
• Pavonia Hastata - a rock rose with pink flowers, deep pink throat, will produce lots of seed and seedlings
• Barbados Cherry - pink flowers, can take some shade
• Kiowa Blackberries - huge blackberries
• Pam Puryear Pink Turk's Cap - not as floriferous as the red, but pretty and unusual, can take shade
• Red Turk's Cap - Native
• False Indigo - Amorpha fruticosa - purple dangling flowers, likes some shade
• Japanese Rose - Kerria japonica plenifora - yellow double flowers
• Double Pink Althea - my neighbor gave me a cutting
• Satin Marina Althea - this althea has single blue flowers - gorgeous!
• Single White Althea
• China Chiffon Althea
• Blueberry Smoothie Althea
• Strawberry Smoothie Althea
• Minerva Althea
• White Pillar Althea
• White Mist Flower - Eupatorium havanese - late summer bloomer, insect magnet
• Banana Shrub - banana smell permeates the garden, great plant for a Scent Garden
• Sweetshrub 'Venus' - Calycanthus hybridus 'Venus' - white flowers, unusual
• Sweetshrub - Calycanthus raulstonii 'Hartlage Wine'
• Bottlebrush Buckeye - Aesculus parviflora, extremely slow grower, I don't recommend unless you plan to live to 100
• Spicebush - Lindera benzoin - larval plant for the spicebush swallowtail
• Mexicali Rose - Clerodendrum bungei - invasive but pretty
• Pink Vitex agnus castus - the pink color is rare
• Blue Vitex
• Snow Storm Beautyberry
• Hojo Santo - Rootbeer Plant
• Mock Orange
• Elderberry
• Yuletide Camellia 
• Nikko Blue Hydrangea
• Strawberry Bush - also known as Hearts-a-Burstin because of the fruit it produces
• Yellow Strawberry Bush (myrianthus and nitides)
• Bear's Breeches - Acanthus mollis - a shade lover that throws up a big flower stalk in the summer. 
• Coral Delight Camellia
• Royal Velvet camellia
• Junior Miss camellia
• Pride of Oregon hydrangea
• Texas Kidneywood - Native
• Beautyberry - Native
• Anacostia camellia
• Goji Berry
• Buttonbush - Native
• Bee Bush - Native
• Velvet Leaf Senna - Native
• Eastern Blue Star - Native

Trees :

• Red Buckeye - Native
• Mexican Plum - Native
• Mexican Buckeye - Native
• Eve's Necklace - Native
• Santa Rosa Plum
• Beauty Plum
• Ison Muscadine - my male grape vine
• Black Beauty Muscadine - my females
• Almond Verbena - the best smell ever
• Sassafras - beautiful fall color, early spring yellow flowers and a medicinal
• Southern Crab Apple
• 3-in-1 Apple tree - Anna, Dorsett Golden, Einshemer
• Paw Paw - Native
• Sugarcane Jujube
• Celeste Fig
• Becnel's Smith Fig
• Retama - native with pretty pinnate leaves, yellow flowers and bright green trunk
• Witch Hazel - native, yellow flowers
• Parsley Hawthorn - native, white flowers, parsley-like leaves
• Fragrant Mimosa - native, pink puff ball flowers
• Pineland Wattle - Native
• Guajillo - drought tolerant, flowering
• Cat's Claw - Native
• Simpson's Stopper - more shrub than tree, white flowers and fruits that are attractive to wildlife
• Desert Willow - Native
• Arroyo Sweetwood
• Summer Chocolate Silk Tree - gorgeous foliage
• Dersertnyi Pomegranate
• Two Winged Silverbell - Native
• Arkansas Oak
• Maple Leaf Oak
• Blue Japanese Oak - Quercus glauca

Roses:

• Belinda's Dream - one of my favorites, pink, full flowers, good scent, full shrub
• Bermuda's Kathleen - no scent, flowers start deep pink and fade to white so that 3 different colors will be on the shrub at the same time, gets really big
• Blush Noisette - wonderful smell, flowers in clusters, very pale pink
• Ballerina - small pink single clusters
• Champney's Pink Cluster - good smell
• Mmle Franziska Kreuger - my best bloomer
• La Marne - very pretty shrub, very good bloomer, the flowers are deep pink, but in the summer they are almost white due to the heat
• Madame Antoine Mari - pink
• Valentine - red clusters
• Mrs. Dudley Cross - pink and yellow blend
• Perle de Ore - good scent, pale coral flowers in clusters
• Peggy Martin - dark pink vigorous climber - will tip root vigorously
• Marie D'Orleans
• Archduke Charles
• Caldwell Pink
• La Vesuve
• Louis Philippe
• Madame Joseph Schwartz
• Zepherine Drouhin
• Mutabilis
• Martha's Vineyard
• Maggie
• Marie Pavie
• Old Blush
• Cinco de Mayo
• Beverly
• Gaye Hammond - quickly becoming a favorite of mine, very free-blooming, yellow
• Enchantress
• True Passion

Bulbs, Corms, Rhizomes:

• Rolf Fiedler Ipheion - deep blue flower, very low-growing, good for naturalizing in the lawn
• Persian Berry Bearded Iris - pink and ethereal
• Avalanche (Seven Sisters) Tazetta - great smell
• Erlicheer daffodils - wow, what a scent, wonderful
• Shenandoah Canna - pink flowers, not a good multiplier for me, maroon leaves
• Tropical Sunrise Canna - peach flowers, multiplies rapidly
• Dawn Pink Canna - pinkish, on the orangey side of pink, maroon leaves, medium multiplier
• Picasso Canna - bright yellow with red spots
• Scarlet Wave Canna - red flowers, good multiplier, green leaves
• Red Cannas with burgundy leaves given to me by Janine Snapp
• Tropicanna Canna - wonderful striped orange-y foliage
• African Hosta - Drimiopsis maculata - good for shade, excellent multiplier, has to be divided every couple of years, flowers are insignificant
• Daisy's Delite Canna - small clear red flowers, wonderful green seed heads, likes shade, good woodland plant
• Amaryllis 'Aphrodite' - white
• Conjuration Bearded Iris - purple and yellow
• Victoria Falls Bearded Iris - blueish purple, it bloomed last week - strange!
• Missy Prissy Bearded Iris - pink
• Galactic Gold Bearded Iris
• Clyde Redmond Iris
• Yellow Rain Lilies - Zephyranthus citrina
• Freesia Laxa
• Dancing Queen Amaryllis - orange and white, stunning
• Russel Manning Rain Lilies - pale pink
• Pine Cone Ginger - interesting "flower", very dramatic in floral arrangements
• Byzantine Glads - Gladiolus communus byzantus - hot pink species glads
• Naple Garlic - Allium Neapolitanum - white, makes seed
• Spanish Blue Bells - hyacinthoides hispanica 'Excelsior' - the biggest flowers of the Spanish Bluebells
• Blood Lilies - awkward-looking greenery, fantastical red flowers
• Iron Cross Oxalis
• Colocasia 'Illustris'
• Colocasia 'Black Stem' - both of these are really interesting.
• St. Joseph Lily - red, old garden favorite
• Montbretia - orange, good multiplier
• Naked Ladies - Lycoris Squamigera - pink, stem pops up with no greenery around it and the leaves grow after the flowers die
• Maximum Butterfly Ginger - same as above
• White Butterfly Ginger - the most wonderful smell
• Peach Ginger - don't know the name of it, dug it up from the garden in Houston  Flowers are twelve inches long, really special.
• Mojito Colocasia - pretty, strong grower 
• Muscari negectum - blue flowers
• Spider Lilies - red spidery flowers, also called hurricane lilies due the timing of their bloom period
• Campernelles
• Easy Ned Day Lily
• Strawberry Candy Daylily
• Sangria Crinum
• Crinum Powelii 'Roseum'
• Oxblood Lilies - red
• Oxblood Lilies - pink
• Snowflakes - Leucojum aestiva 
• Double Campernelles / Narcissus odorus pleno
• Geranium Narcissus
• Kinkaku Ginger
• Ice Follies 
• Sofia Iris - yellow falls edged in white, white standard
• Sentimental Rose Iris - Pink falls edged in peach, peach standard
• Deliciously Different Iris - pale peach falls edged in darker peach, dark peach standard
• Gaelic Jig Iris - very pale, almost grey color
• Sweetness - 1939, vigorous
• Trevithian - 1927, good multiplier
• Saint Keverne - 1934
• Thalia Sun daffodils
• Martinet Daffodils
• Falconet Daffodils 
• Who Needs a Prince iris
• Over Alaska iris
• American Classic iris
• Ocelot iris
• Badlands iris
• Fall Fiesta iris
• Bollywood iris
• Inwood Daylily
• Summer Nocturne crinum
• Ellen Bosanquet crinum 
• Stella de Oro daylily
• Always Afternoon daylily
• Dancing on Air daylily
• Heavenly Angel Ice daylily
• Siloam Double Classic
• San Antonio Rose Amaryllis
• Kalita daylily
• Laughing Skies daylily
• Edna Slover Memorial daylily
• Baby's Angelic Fave daylily
• Patriotic Beauty daylily
• Sternbergia

Perennials and Reseeding Annuals:

• Chinese Bloodroot - disappears in the heat of the summer, returns in the spring, likes shade
• Bartletts Bee Balm - pink
• Salvia guaranitica - blue
• Indigo Spires
• Mystic Spires
• Mellow Yellow Hibiscus - sprawling hibiscus with dramatic yellow flowers with burgundy throats. Will produce seed.
• Sedum mexicana - low-growing, mat-forming succulent, yellow flowers, good shoes and socks plant
• Prairie Aster - Aster oblongifolius - love the blue flowers in the fall, sturdy
• Homestead Purple Verbena - deep purple, will take root along the stems
• Dahlberg Daisy - pops up everywhere, low growing, yellow flowers, pretty ,lacy leaves
• Japanese Holly Fern
• Southern Wood Fern
• Feverfew - stays green in the winter, pretty white flowers - small but profuse, medicinal herb, heavy reseeder, seems to do well in dappled shade as well as full sun
• Columbine - love it! blue, yellow, red, likes to be on the edge of sun and shade, reseeds very well and the plantlets are transplanted very easily
• Maximillian Sunflowers - the perennial sunflower, tall to 6 feet
• Swamp Sunflower
• Coral Nymph Salvia - plant it once and you will have it forever, coral pink and white flowers, prolific reseeding annual
• White Nymph salvia
• Black seeded Moudry Grass - pretty seed heads
• Pink Muhly - misty pink seed heads in the fall, leaves are needle-like
• Verbena Bonariensis - pretty electric purple/blue flowers, very tall (five feet) and airy, heavy reseeder, tender perennial
• Lambs Ear - white is always good in the garden, Helene Von Stein does well for me
• Nicotiana 'Indian Peace Pipe' - white, fragrant
• Rudbeckia 'Goldsturm' - great dead-of-summer bloomer
• Red Salvia Greggii - pretty tough based on how often the armadillos root around them
• Lady in Red Salvia - annual, heavy reseeder
• Mexican Salvia 'Santa Barbara' - no white spots, pure purple spikes
• Pink Autumn Sage - pink and shrubby, evergreen unless it gets cold for an extended period
• Hardy Ageratum 'Wayside' - purple perennial form of ageratum, invasive
• Butterfly Plant - orange flowers, throws off seed on silken threads, larval food for the monarchs
• Ox Eye Daisies - stays green in the winter, and I love daisies - such happy flowers
• Obedient Plant - pink flowers, spreads and is hard to pull up
• Spiderwort - blue flowers in early summer, pretty silver-gray foliage
• Wild Onion - white flowers, edible
• Blue Mist flower - a different variety - gets enormous
• White Mist Flower - all insects are crazy for it!  They swarm it when it's in bloom.  The blue mist has a much longer bloom season
• Native Orange Lantana
• Yellow Lantana - lantana attracts butterflies
• Red Yarrow
• Zinnias - mine come back from seed, when you deadhead, just throw the flower head right into the flowerbed. It will break up on its own and reseed.
• Gulf Coast Penstemon - blooms in the spring tubular flower clusters. Heavy reseeder, will colonize quickly. Short bloom season
• Firespike - I have the pink and the red varieties
• Red Shrimp Plant
• Creeping Jenny
• Indian Pinks - Spegelia marilandica
• Many varieties of Rosemary
• Butter Pat Chrysanthemums
• Country Girl Chrysanthemums
• Philippine Violets - white 
• Phlox - the old fashioned hot pink variety 
• Phlox John Fannick - very long bloom time
• Henry Duelberg Salvia - a blue perennial re-seeding salvia 
• Inland Sea Oats
• Pyramid Bush
• Fruity Pebbles Lantana
• Various varieties of Bandana series lantanas
• Trailing White lantana
• Trailing Purple lantana
• Colonial White Verbena - I have wasted years on Homestead Purple, I wish I had discovered Colonial White long ago.  It is amazing.
• Passalong Pink verbena (the very, very most amazing verbena I have found to date)
• Toad Lily
• Russian Sage
• Chili Pequin

Vines:

• Wisteria - Wisteria sinensis 'Purpurea'
• White Coral Vine - a stunner, looks like a wedding
• Cypress Vine - reseeding annual vine, very pretty greenery, small tubular flowers of white, pink and red that close up in the afternoon
• Hops Vines 
• Yellow Butterfly vine
• Alamo vine
• Sweet Autumn Clematis
• Coral Honeysuckle (native)
• Chinese Honeysuckle (invasive - I grow it in a bucket) 
• Grandpa Ott, Pearly Gate (an amazing selection - highly recommend), and Heavenly Blue morning glories