Are you looking for a fast-growing, drought tolerant, ornamental, native Texas tree to use in your landscape instead of the exotic and over-used crepe myrtle? Or maybe instead of the foreign vitex?

As you may know, the Native Plant Society of Texas passionately advocates for the use of trees, shrubs, and other landscape plants that are native to each area, and each ...

You don’t have to be a tree expert to recognize a “Weeping Willow” tree. Native to China, Salix babylonica, commonly called weeping willow or Babylon weeping willow, is a medium to large shade tree ...

The Salix matsudana is commonly called curly willow because of the loosely curling shape of its branches. It is also known as the corkscrew willow, Pekin willow, Hankow willow, twisted-twig willow and ...

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Fall is the very best time of year to plant landscape trees, and there are still quite a few in the Concho Valley that were killed in the February of 2021 freeze that need to be taken down and ...