Althea (Rose of Sharon) - Requires Full Sun - A Deciduous Tree - Deciduous plant flowering from July through September and can be grown as a shrub or small tree.
Catalpa - Requires Full Sun - A Deciduous Tree - Grown to attract black caterpillars for fishing, this large fast-growing open branching tree has smooth bark, very large light green leaves, white flower clusters in early summer cigar like seed pods. Easy to grow in any soil, rarely needs pruning.
Cherry Laurel - Requires Full Sun - A Evergreen Tree - With an upright bushy growth habit, blooming in spring with white flowers along stems, this bright and tightly compact cultivar is not long-lived.
Chitalpa - Requires Full Sun - A Deciduous Tree - This cross between catalpa and desert willow blooms all summer in any soil type with open branching leaves growing 6''-8'' long and 1''-2'' wide.
Crape Myrtle - Requires Full Sun - A Deciduous Tree - A small ornamental tree, usually multi-trunked, offers beautiful flowers of red, rose, pink, purple or white all summer long with fall foliage in yellow or orange to red.
Deodar Cedar - Requires Full Sun - A Evergreen Tree - As a large growing and pyramidal evergreen with weeping branches, prefers full sun and tolerates most soils. This plant matures 40'-60' in height.
Desert Willow - Requires Full Sun - A Deciduous Tree - This small, fast growing tree blooms trumpet shaped flowers of pink, white rose, or lavender marked with purple from summer through fall. Tolerates heat, drought, and poor soils.
Dogwood - Requires Shade Sun - A Deciduous Tree - Growing best in shade and well drained acidic soils, this mall rounded ornamental tree is native to east Texas. It blooms in early spring with pure white flowers and leaves turning red in the fall.
Dwarf Palmetto Palm - Requires Full Sun - A Evergreen Tree - Low growing palm, reaching mature height of 5'-6'. Prefers full sun to partial shade and moist fertile soils and hardy in cold weather.
Eastern Redbud - Requires Full Sun - A Evergreen Tree - Small purplish-pink flowers bloom in early spring with heat-shaped leaves forming a round head and tolerating full sun or partial shade. This hardy plant matures to a height of 20'-25'.
Eve's Necklace - Requires Partial Sun - A Deciduous Tree - Moderately fast-growing plant, with greenish bark at young growth. It is easy to maintain in any soil and drought conditions. Offering pink wisteria-like flowers and black bead like seed pods in fall.
Flowering Crabapple - Requires Full Sun - A Deciduous Tree - Hardy tree, with rounded, oval to upright habit. Flowers at of before new foliage in spring and grows best in full sunlight and well drained acidic soil.
Flowering Peach - Requires Full Sun - A Deciduous Tree - Spreading ornamental tree blooms in early spring with flowers of all colors while easy to maintain in any soil and relatively tolerant to drought.
Forest Pansy - Requires Full Sun - A Deciduous Tree - Hardy red-purple foliage blooms early in spring, to reach a height of 25'-30' in full sun or partial shade with color fading as the season progresses.
Foster's Holly - Requires Partial Sun - A Evergreen Tree - A narrow, pyramidal holly with dark glossy green leaves and deep red berries to cover the plant in fall and winter. Plant a male and female for berry production.
Italian Cypress - Requires Full Sun - A Evergreen Tree - This medium sized tree, with dark green foliage and upright branching, blooms in colors ranging from dark green to a rich blue green shade.
Japanese Maple - Requires Partial Sun - A Deciduous Tree - A low-growing and shrubby, round-headed, deciduous tree with deeply lobed leaves turning orange to yellow or red in fall. It blooms with tiny, purple-red flowers followed by red fruit in late summer.
Leland Cypress - Requires Full Sun - A Evergreen Tree - Pyramidal evergreen with bluish-green to dark-green foliage and scaly, reddish bark.
Lavender Tree - Requires Full Sun - A Deciduous Tree - Small fast-growing ornamental tree, sometimes called chaste tree. It is usually multi-trunked with spikes of lavender blue flowers and aromatic leaves appearing in summer and fall. Pink and white varieties are available.
Loquat - Requires Partial Sun - A Evergreen Tree - Small evergreen tree with dense, rouded head, grows best in full sun to partial shade. Offers creamy-white flowers in late autumn and early winter and yellow-orange edible fruit in late spring.
Mediterranean Fan Palm - Requires Full Sun - A Evergreen Tree - Use in containers or as specimen plant, as plant grows in clumps developing from offshoots of parent plant.
Mexican Buckeye - Requires Partial Sun - A Deciduous Tree - With fragrant purple flowers blooming in spring, brilliant yellow in the fall and decorative 3-pod seed showing on bare branches in winter. This plant is easy to grow in any soil with little fertilization.
Mexican Plum - Requires Full Sun - A Deciduous Tree - This thorny plant offers small edible plums and showy white flowers in the spring with orange colors in the fall. The exfoliating bark and graceful branching structure makes the plant easy to grow in any soil and drought conditions.
Pindo Palm (Jelly Palm) - Requires Full Sun - A Evergreen Tree - Slow growing plam with heavy trunk and feathery arching green leaves, is also knows as Jelly Palm.
Possumhaw Holly - Requires Partial Sun - A Evergreen Tree - An upright, deciduous shrub prized for its ornamental fall-ripening fruit. Features bright green leaves on short stems that turn yellow in fall. Varieties to consider include Warren's Red, Council Fire, and Byer's Golden.
Purple-Leaf Plum - Requires Full Sun - A Deciduous Tree - Small Pyramidal tree, producing pink flowers in early spring and purplish-red foliage following the spring bloom. Matues to a height of 15'-20'.
River Birch - Requires Full Sun - A Deciduous Tree - This deciduous tree is distinct with pinkish-brown exfoliating bark, with leaves changing to a yellow fall color as it thrives in moist, sandy, acidic soil.
Saucer Magnolia - Requires Full Sun - A Deciduous Tree - This small, ornamental, flowering tree offers pinkish-red flowers before leaves in early spring.
Savanna Holly - Requires Full Sun - A Evergreen Tree - With moderately upright and pyramidal growth habits, this medium green spiny leaved plant blooms with many red barriers in winter, preferring well drained soil.
Skyrocket Juniper - Requires Full Sun - A Evergreen Tree - This narrow columnar juniper offers attractive blue green foliage.
Texas Mountain Laurel - Requires Full Sun - A Deciduous Tree - An elegant evergreen tree with pinnate leaves. It blooms fragrant sweat pea-like violet-blue flowers in the spring followed by bright red seeds.
Texas Sable Palm - Requires Full Sun - A Evergreen Tree - Slow growing fan palm native to the extreme southern tip of Texas.
Vitex - Requires Full Sun - A Deciduous Tree - Also referred to as a lilac shade tree, this multi-stemmed brittle-wood tree with purple or white flowers blooming early in summer, is not long-lived yet grows easily in any soil or drought conditions and gives nicely textured foliage.
Wax Myrtle - Requires Partial Sun - A Evergreen Tree - This large, native evergreen shrub, or small multi-trunked tree, thrives in full sun and moist acidic soil, but tolerates a wide range of growing conditions. Offers a rich barberry candle odor attractive to birds.
Windmill Palm - Requires Full Sun - A Evergreen Tree - As a compact growing plam reaching up to 20' in height. This plant grows best in sun to partial shade with well drained soil to offer dark green leaves and a brown fibrous trunk.
Little Gem Magnolia - Requires Full Sun - A Evergreen Tree - Medium, compact, upright tree is the smallest of southern magnolias and blooms at a young age.