Naked now...but we're about to change that...

Sorry...It's the landscape I'm talking about. Robert changed a bunch when he bought this house, and now it's time to install the landscape. It's in the Hill Country, on a golf course, but there are more deer than golfers. Anyway, here are some basic staples for landscapes up here.

-Pink Abelia (aka Edward Goucher Abelia) has small pink flowers in the summer and it's easy to maintain.

-Yew Podocarpus likes it up here.

-Sandankwa Viburnum does great in landscape up here because deer don't eat it.

-Burgundy Blast Loropetalum has burgundy leaves and hot pink flowers in early spring.

-Variegated Japanese Sedge-colorful and low growing.

-Purple Trailing Lantana will bloom until Christmas.

-Goldsturm Daisy gets better every year.

-Blue Plumbago blooms all the time.

-Bush Germander- silver foliage and small blue flowers in early spring.

-Purple Skullcap is evergreen and blooms a lot too

-Lambs Ear is as soft as a lambs ear.

-Tuscan Blue Rosemary is something deer never have for dinner.

-Bicolor Iris love hot weather.

-Pride of Barbados also likes it hot.

-Prostrate Rosemary will stay low and green all the time.

-Four Nerve Daisy will bloom 12 months out of the year.

-Blackfoot Daisy is a Hill Country Native.

-And another Lantana...New Gold. It's a good one.

-Pride of Houston Yaupon Holly puts on red berries that the birds like.

-And if you like your landscape manicured, Pride of Houston takes shearing very well like this one in the middle picture.

-Need a show stopper. This is a Basham's Party Pink Crapemyrtle. It's the biggest I've ever seen,..and when it blooms the flower heads are huge too.

And speaking of Crapemyrtle, here we have

-Black Diamond

-Natchez

-And Potomac showing off it's fall color.

Well, folks, that's about it for now. Let me know if you need any help with your landscape.