Great year-round plants for your Belclaire garden in Texas

Gardening can be a great way to beautify your home’s exterior and soak up the golden Texas sun. We asked our friends at Garden Design for some of the best year-round plants for North Texas gardens. The best year-round plants are drought tolerant, heat tolerant and use less water than their seasonal counterparts.

Here are some of our favorites:

Shade Trees grow tall and wide, providing shade and shelter from sunlight in the surrounding area with a spreading canopy and crown.

• Live Oak
• Cedar Elm
• Lacebark Elm
• Chinese Pistachio

Ornamental Trees are grown for their aesthetic value. They often have outstanding flowers and fragrance, an interesting shape or unique coloring.

• Desert Willow
• Blue Point Juniper
• Crape Myrtle
• Texas Mountain Laurel

Shrubs are small- to medium-sized woody perennial plants. They’re distinguished from trees by their multiple stems and shorter height

• Soft Leaf Yucca
• Dwarf Nandina
• Indian Hawthorne
• Sunshine Ligustrum

Perennials are plants that live longer than two years. The term “perennial” is often used to differentiate a plant from shorter-lived annuals and biennials as well as to distinguish plants with little or no woody growth from trees (which are also technically perennials).

• Butterfly Bush
• Lantana
• Esperanza
• Blue Salvia

 Sod is the surface of the ground with grass growing on it. Some sod is better than others in the variable North Texas climate.

• Bermuda
• Augustine
• Zoysia

Garden Design Landscaping can help you create a flourishing garden to complement your Belclaire home in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. Their team of passionate and award-winning landscape designers and construction professionals work with clients every step of the way. Get in touch with them today to learn more!