Are there any natives that comes to mind that stays under 1 foot tall???....I have a project in the making..lol..I have few weeds that will work but need some color added...
Texas Natives Question
You could try Wild Petunia, Ruellia humilis
http://davesgarden.com/pf/go/708
Ruellia Nodiflora
http://davesgarden.com/pf/go/3822
Frog Fruit
http://davesgarden.com/pf/go/62730
Pink Purslane
http://davesgarden.com/pf/go/54502
Those came to mind.
Josephine.
Well wine cup but it get's big in diameter.
My trailing lantana stays under 6" TALL but can fill out a large plot.
You could also consider Damianita. Fragrant foliage and it has clusters of yellow flowers. One of my favorites, because it even tolerates the caliche on the hillside above my house. This site says it gets taller, but it sure doesn't get over a foot tall around here.
http://www.desert-tropicals.com/Plants/Asteraceae/Chrysactinia_mexicana.html
This message was edited Jul 5, 2006 6:42 PM
Good idea! Nice plant, I had never looked at it before.
http://davesgarden.com/pf/go/68511/index.html
Here is a nice link:
http://www.sabot.org/gguide/texas_natives.htm
Also Scutellaria - it is a nice mounded plant with pretty purple or pink flowers that gets less than a foot tall and spreads about 15 " drought tolerant
I am thinking about doing a small garden area with my small garden figurines that I have picked up on my road plant trips...
Nadine
my favorites are native yellow primrose, I think it is Calylophus drummondii and blackfoot daisy
Ooh, lovely! That's the yellow Calylophus at the front, isn't it? My C. drummondii is yellow and black and I love it! Nice use of rock also. I like how you can frame beds with rock!
I just LOVE blackfoot daisy but the ones I had died when we got the two 100 year floods two years in a row. The plant did NOT like all the water. 32" in 4 days was just a bit much for it *giggle, and I haven't bought any more to replace it yet.