Where can i find information about planting native plants in North Texas in my yard?
Texas A&M has a vascular plant website which lists just about anything which grows in Texas. I don’t know of any websites that are more landscape oriented, although they’re bound to exist…. What I would recommend though, is to go to a park near where your new house is and take a walk. Many beautiful plants are native to North Texas and it’s a shame they’re not offered regularly in nurseries. When you see something shrubby that you like, take a picture so you can identify it online. A quick search on the plant’s name & “landscaping” will probably pull up a list of independant nurseries offering that plant for sale. A lot of trouble, but your yard won’t die (especially when they start rationing water in July) and you’ll help the local environment by providing a native habitat for the local fauna. Also, I have an old field guide by the Texas Monthly Press, c. 1987, by Delena Tull. It’s not landscape oriented but lists lots of neat native plants and their ethnobotanic uses. Don’t know if
