Texas Gardening: Gardening with Texas Native Plants & Wildflowers, part 18, 1 by Agaveguy

Agaveguy wrote:
Yes. These are all pictures from my yard. The yard is mostly densely shaded with centuries old live oaks, but there is an area with more sun and a few big Texas persimmon. This is what I call the "dry garden" with cactus, agaves, succulents, yuccas, etc. Most of my soils are very shallow and stony with bedrock a few inches to a foot down. Here and there I have built up the soil. Most of the rest of the yard is dominated by shade tolerant subtropicals. One long bed had semi-shade and is more devoted to flowering perennials. Here's another photo from the dry garden with a little-leaf form of Texas Purple Sage, Leucophyllum frutescens, I think. May be another species. It was collected by Lynn Lowrey who gave it to me. I am not sure where Lynn collected this. He was all over Texas and northeastern Mexico. I like it for the dry garden for its open form. It has never formed the dense ball that other Leucophyllums do. This is the plant's natural habit. I only prune out dead wood and nip a branch now and then to keep it back from the path. The leaves are tiny and not so grey, more sage green. It might be a form of L. langmannii. It is different from any other Leucophyllum I have ever seen.