Texas Gardening: New beds going in... need shady plant suggestions., 1 by TXMel

TXMel wrote:
Sheila your gardens are gorgeous!!! We have a similar situation in one area, that we took down 3 huge bradford pear trees, and we now have a full sun area... opportunity to plant some sun loving things, EXCEPT the bed is FULL of asian jasmine. PRO... its established, looks great, low maintenance CON... its boring, would take a LOT of work to remove. I'm wanting to just grind the stumps out, plant about 3 new focal shrub/tree things and put large pots in for color... Seems less maintenance for me! If /when hubby gets the drip irrigation converted on the sprinkler system, it will make it less work, too.

Saw some great plants at Marshall Feed (grapevine) yesterday, and Plant Shed. Will go back on Thursday to make purchases, so we can plant next weekend!

Any opinions on Yews? Considering them for an area as well.

I'd better get busy hauling some more compost...oh , and heres some updates!