After years of leting the pages here languish I have begun to update them to reflect some of the newer plants that we are starting to grow. The plant selector feature is not working and it has been the sore point about why we can't get the information to the site.

 The site is still under construction and we hope to have it up and running at 100% soon. Thanks for your patience.

The picture above is a common Palm from northern Mexico, Brahea bella. It is very cold hardy and adaptable to many difficult situtations here in Texas.

That's just one of the 60 or so species of cold hardy palms we have started to grow. I am putting togather the images so I can put a page up showing some of them.

Over the Years we have refined a list of plant species  suitable for wetland plantings.  In the drier parts Texas traditional wetland species don't work. We have genotypes local clones that have the ability to withstand drought that would kill their eastern kin.

A common Problem here in Central Texas is the availability of certain kinds of plants adaptable for our soils and climate. W are trying to grow a broader range of species  so that we have more choices. Another factor is collecting seed and cuttings from individual plants that have superior characteristics like increased cold or drought tolerance. We are growing  Sophora secondiflora, mountain laural from seed collected in New Mexico and can take temperatures as low as -15. We now have Montezuma Cypress Taxodium mucronatum that can take -15 to -20 degrees.We have a Hybrid Oak we call Winergreen that turns red late and holds it leaves through Febuary. I also have a Cork Oak Quercus suber that can withstand temperatures down as low as -15. Those plant are just the tip of the Iceberg for what we have gotten into now.

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