Some Plants for a Texas Cottage Garden


by Greg Grant


NOTE: This material appeared originally in the Proceedings of the 10th Annual Oktober Gartenfest, Winedale, Texas, 2003.

air potato
Air potato in the Bill Welch country garden,

AIR POTATO (Dioscorea bulbifera)

BYZANTINE GLADIOLUS (Gladiolus byzantinus)

CASTOR BEAN (Ricinus communis)

CITRUS (Citrus sp.)

CRAPEMYRTLE (Lagerstroemia indica)

FIG (Ficus carica)

JONQUIL (Narcissus jonquilla)

LENT LILY (Narcissus pseudonarcissus)

MILK AND WINE LILY (Crinum x herbertii)

NARCISSUS (N. x tazetta)

OXBLOOD LILY (Rhodophiala bifida)

PAWPAW (Asimina triloba)

POMEGRANATE (Punica granatum)

PEONY POPPY (Papaver paeoniflorum)

PETUNIA (Petunia x hybrida)

RAIN LILY (Cooperia, Habranthus and Zephyranthes sp.)

ROMAN HYACINTH (Hyacinthus orientalis albulus)

SUGAR CANE (Saccharum officinarum)

ST. JOSEPH'S LILY (Hippeastrum x johnsonii)

VERBENA (Verbena x hybrida)


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