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        • Buchanan’s Native Plants has been serving Houston gardeners since 1986. Located in the historic Houston Heights, the garden center is dedicated to native plants and organic gardening.  You will find the best selections of hardy natives as well as perennials, herbs, vegetables, trees, shrubs & roses — all suited to the Houston climate.

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Texas Native Plants

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Texas Native Plants

It’s no secret that we love Texas native plants at Buchanan’s. In fact, they’ve been our passion since 1986.

Texas Natives are much more than a beautiful addition to your landscape. They are an investment in our local ecosystem, especially when the habitat is heavily damaged. Native plants also help keep soil in healthy balance by reducing erosion and aiding in drainage. Offering benefits like these, native plant ecosystem benefits are far greater than expected.  

On top of their ecosystem benefits, Texas native plants are often brightly colored, with red, orange, yellow, and purple flowers. These plants are excellent choices for the garden because their foliage is among the top choices for ornamental beauty in our region.

Native of the Week

Common Name: Clasping Coneflower

Botanical name: Dracopis amplexicaulis

A smooth-stemmed, annual coneflower, loved for its solitary yellow bloom heads and dark cone-shaped centers. Its common name is due to its clasping bases from leaf to stem. Reseeds well year after year! Blooms can be enjoyed from April to July.

Fun fact:  The Cherokee used the juice of the root for an earache. Also, tea made from leaves was used as a tonic and diuretic.

Ht: 2-4ft

Native Milkweed

Make Your Garden a Monarch Pitstop!

Go native with your milkweed this season! Snag varieties including Swamp Milkweed (Asclepias incarnata), Zizotes Milkweed (Asclepias oentheroides), Whorled Milkweed (Asclepias verticillata), Showy Milkweed, and Butterfly Milkweed (Asclepias tuberosa).

Planting native milkweed promotes migration since, unlike Tropical Milkweed, it dies back in late fall/winter. They are also of special value to native pollinators. While grabbing your native milkweed starts, be sure to also grab some native milkweed seeds to get started!

*Call for updated availability!

Going Native

Incorporate Texas Natives into Your Landscape!

Native plants. The term has different meanings for different gardeners. There are Texas natives, US natives and those plants that act like natives. All in all, what most of us want in our garden are low maintenance plants that are attractive and functional. Plants that are not invasive and are a benefit to wildlife. When you plant a garden, it is not just for you – it is a habitat for all living things around you. So with that in mind, here is our top 10 native plants for Houston that do just that. Many are heat and drought tolerant – cheerfully returning year after year in your garden.

Check out our ‘Tree & Shrub Planting Guide’ here.

Colorful Natives

Who Said a Native Garden Can’t Be Colorful?

Incorporate Texas natives into your garden and enjoy low maintenance blooms year after year.

Colorful native blooms you can enjoy now include Turk’s Cap, Gregg’s Mistflower, Fall Obedient, Esperanza, Fall Asters and more. Not only will you get to enjoy them but so will local wildlife and native pollinators.

See more Texas native plants here.

Learn ‘How to Create a Pollinator Garden’ here.

Native Trees for Houston

Our Native Tree Picks

Bald Cypress
Longleaf Pine
Mexican Buckeye
Bubba Desert Willow
American Sycamore
Roughleaf Dogwood
Barbados Cherry Tree
Texas Redbud
Nuttall's Oak | Quercus texana Nuttal Oak
Bald Cypress
Parsley Hawthorn
Texas Kidneywood
Red Maple | Acer rubrum Burr Oak
Southern Magnolia
Texas Olive Tree

Native Plants for Houston

Our Top 10 Picks

Gregg’s Mistflower
Black-Eyed Susan
Inland Sea Oats Inland Sea Oats
Southern Wax Myrtle | Myrica cerifera Southern Wax Myrtle
Pride of Houston Yaupon Holly Pride of Houston Yaupon Holly
Texas Lantana
Texas Olive
Salvia greggii
Gulf Coast Muhly Gulf Coast Muhly
Turk's Cap | Malvaviscus arboreus var. drummondii Turk’s Cap

Explore Native Plants

  • American Beautyberry | Callicarpa americana

    American Beautyberry

  • American Elder | Sambucus canadensis

    American Elder

  • Anise Hyssop | Agastache foeniculum

    Anise Hyssop

  • Autumn Sage | Salvia greggii

    Autumn Sage

  • Baldcypress | Taxodium distichum

    Baldcypress

  • Bigtooth Maple | Acer grandidentatum

    Bigtooth Maple

  • Blue Mistflower | Conoclinium coelestinum

    Blue Mistflower

  • Bur Oak | Quercus macrocarpa

    Bur Oak

See more Texas native plants

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611 East 11th Street
Houston, Texas 77008

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