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Wednesday - May 20, 2009
From: Dallas, TX
Region: Southwest
Topic: Planting, Herbs/Forbs, Shrubs
Title: Need plants for full sun in Dallas Texas.
Answered by: Jimmy Mills
QUESTION:
What plants are best to use for full sun in Dallas Texas?ANSWER:
Sunflowers come to mind.
Seriously, since you didn't mention what kind of plants you have in mind, let's go to our website and let you make some choices. If you go to our Recommended Species page and select North Central Texas on the map, you will get a list of 105 commercially available native plant species suitable for planned landscapes in Texas. Go to "Narrow Your Search" in the right hand panel where you can become more selective.
You see that you have several parameters along with "full sun" from which to choose. For the first run, choose TX for the state, Herb under "Habit", Perennial under "Duration", Sun under "Light requirement", the appropriate moisture for your site under "Soil moisture" (I chose moist), and the appropriate bloom characteristics (you can leave that blank for now). Click the "Narrow your search" button and you will get a list of 12 plants that meet these criteria. Clicking on each plant name will bring up its NPIN page that describes the plant's characteristics.
You can modify your listing by changing the choices in each box for the types of plants that you have in mind.
Once you have found some plant names, go to our Suppliers Directory to locate businesses in North Texas that have these plants for sale.
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