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	My designs are guaranteed to bloom and look pleasing 12 months out of the year. I also strive to do low water designs --as water conservation is a high priority with me. To meet this standard I use a lot of Texas natives [most of my designs are 50-75 percent native]. I also use antique roses; herbs and some well adapted plants that are drought tolerant. The following list is one I use to help me paint my year round canvas. Winter Interest & Early Spring Bloomers Possum Haw--like a tree on fire with berries White Honeysuckle Bush--sweet fragrance Diviracata Phlox--electric and fragrant Pilosa Phlox--fragrance -WOW-soft pink Wine Cup--great showy ground cover Texas Columbine--yummy yellow Larkspur--brilliant blues Spring-Late Spring [some of the above] Calylophus--lasts until November Lanceleaf Coreopsis--until June Purple Cone Flower-butterflies love it 4 Nerve Daisy-blooms off and on most of the time Mealy Blue Sage--blooms until frost Shrubby Skull Cap--blooms until frost Skeleton-Leaf Golden Eye--blooms until frost Summer [some of the above] Butterfly Weed--wispy and colorful--major attraction! Desert Willow--like little orchids all Summer Flame Acanthus--lasts to frost--attracts hummingbirds Red Yucca--lasts to frost--attracts hummingbirds Lantanas--butterflies love them Rock Rose--pretty in pink Esperanza--lasts until frost--sunshine in the garden Fall [some of the above] Violet Silverleaf--very showy with purple blooms Gulf Mulhy--looks like pink fire or mist in mass Eupatorium--butterfly magnet--blue or white Turks Cap--humming birds will come to this American Beautyberry--purple is my choice Fall Senna--this gets your attention Natives that are evergreen and bloom [most years] all year long if trimmed right. Salvia Greggii--White, Pink, Red will bloom all year [unless it is freezing] if you trim them back by 1/3 every 2 months Blackfoot Daisy--if you don't let it get too woody--keep it trimmed up by cutting back to the last node about 3 times a year whenever it gets overgrown and tired looking--these get so heavy with bloom that they will pull themselves out of the ground--if you use a garden staple [bent wire] to secure it at the base this won't happen.