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| Acacia, Sweet
African Sumac Aleppo Pine Apple, Crab Arborvitae, Oriental Arizona Ash Arizona Cypress Ash, Arizona Australian Bush Cherry Australian Tea Tree Azalea Bald Cypress Bamboo, Heavenly Banyan, Chinese Barbados Cherry Blue Atlas Cedar Blue Palo Verde Blue Spruce Bottle Tree Bottlebrush, Weeping Bougainvillea Boxwood, Japanese Buddhist Pine Burt Davyii Fig Buttonwood California Juniper Cape Honeysuckle Carob Cedar, Blue Atlas Chaste Tree Cherry, Australian Bush Cherry, Barbados Chinese Banyan Chinese Elm Chinese Sweet Plum Chinese Tallow Tree Cotoneaster Crab Apple Crape Myrtle Creosote Cypress, Arizona Cypress, Bald Desert Fern Desert Willow Dwarf Jade Dwarf Myrtle Dwarf Pomegranate |
(Acacia farnesiana)
(Rhus lancea) (Pinus halepensis) (Malus sp.) (Platycladus/Thuja orientalis) (Fraxinus velutina) (Cupressus arizonica glabra) (Fraxinus velutina) (Syzygium paniculatum) (Leptospermum scoparium) (Rhododendron sp.) (Taxodium distichum) (Nandina domestica) (Ficus microcarpa nitida) (Malpighia glabra) (Cedrus altantica 'Glauca') (Cercidium floridum) (Picea pungens) (Brachychiton populneus) (Callistemon viminalis) (Bougainvillea sp.) (Buxus microphylla japonica) (Podocarpus macrophyllus) (Ficus burt-davyii) (Conocarpus erectus) (Juniperus californica) (Tecomaria capensis) (Ceratonia siliqua) (Cedrus altantica 'Glauca') (Vitex agnus-castus) (Syzygium paniculatum) (Malpighia glabra) (Ficus microcarpa nitida) (Ulmus parvifolia) (Sageretia theezens) (Sapium sebiferum) (Cotoneaster sp.) (Malus sp.) (Lagerstroemia indica) (Larrea tridentata) (Cupressus arizonica glabra) (Taxodium distichum) (Lysiloma thornberi) (Chilopsis linearis) (Portulacaria afra) (Myrtus communis 'Compacta') (Punica granatum 'Nana') |
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| Ebony, Texas
Eldarica Pine Elephant's Food Elm, Chinese Elm, Japanese Gray-Bark Eucalyptus English Ivy Euonymus, Evergreen European Grape Evergreen Euonymus Fairy Duster Feather Bush Fig, Burt Davyii Fig, Indian Laurel Fig, Narrow-leaf Fig, Willow-leaf Fig, Weeping Firethorn Five-Needle Pine Fukien Tea Ginkgo Goldwater Pine Grape, European Greasewood Gum Tree Hackberry, Reticulated or Western Hawaiian Elf Schefflera Hawthorne, Indian Heavenly Bamboo Holly, Yaupon Honeysuckle, Cape Hornbeam Huisache Indian Hawthorne Italian Stone Pine Ivy, English Jacaranda Jade Tree Jade, Dwarf Japanese Black Pine Japanese Boxwood Japanese Contorted Quince Japanese Flowering Plum Japanese Gray-Bark Elm Japanese Maple Japanese Privet Japanese White Pine Juniper, California Juniper, Procumben Juniper, Prostrate Juniper, San Jose Juniper, Shore Kumquat Lady Palm Lantana Lavender Starflower Liquidamber Magnolia Maidenhair Tree Manzanita Maple, Japanese Maple, Trident Melaleuca, Pink Mesquite Mimosa Mock Orange Mugho Pine Mulberry, White Myrtle, Crape Myrtle, Dwarf |
(Pithecolobium flexicuale)
(Pinus eldarica) (Portulacaria afra) (Ulmus parvifolia) (Zelkova serrata) (Eucalyptus sp.) (Hedera helix) (Euonymus japonica) (Vitis vinifera) (Euonymus japonica) (Calliandra eriophylla) (Lysiloma thornberi) (Ficus burt-davyii) (Ficus microcarpa nitida) (Ficus nerifolia) (Ficus nerifolia) (Ficus benjamina) (Pyracantha sp.) (Pinus parviflora) (Ehretia microphylla) (Ginkgo biloba) (Pinus eldarica) (Vitis vinifera) (Larrea tridentata) (Eucalyptus sp.) (Celtis reticulata) (Schefflera arboricola) (Raphiolepis indica) (Nandina domestica) (Ilex vomitoria) (Tecomaria capensis) (Carpinus sp.) (Acacia farnesiana) (Raphiolepis indica) (Pinus pinea) (Hedera helix) (Jacaranda mimosifolia) (Crassula arborescens) (Portulacaria afra) (Pinus thunbergii) (Buxus microphylla japonica) (Chaenomeles lagenaria) (Prunus mume) (Zelkova serrata) (Acer palmatum) (Ligustrum japonicum) (Pinus parviflora) (Juniperus californica) (Juniperus procumbens 'Nana') (Juniperus prostrata 'Foemina') (Juniperus squamata) (Juniperus conferta) (Fortunella sp.) (Rhapis excelsa) (Lantana montevidensis) (Grewia occidentalis) (Liquidamber sp.) (Magnolia sp.) (Ginkgo biloba) (Arcotostaphylos sp.) (Acer palmatum) (Acer buergeranum) (Melaleuca nesophila) (Prosopis sp.) (Albizia julibrissin) (Pittosporum sp.) (Pinus mugo) (Morus alba) (Lagerstroemia indica) (Myrtus communis 'Compacta') |
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| Narrow-leaf Fig
Natal Plum Norfolk Island Pine Oak Oak, Silk Olive, Fruitless Olive, Texas Palm, Lady or Rhapis Palm, Sago Palo Verde, Blue Pine, Aleppo Pine, Buddhist Pine, Eldarica Pine, Five-Needle Pine, Goldwater Pine, Italian Stone Pine, Japanese Black Pine, Japanese White Pine, Mugho Pine, Norfolk Island Pine, Yew Pink Melaleuca Pistachio Pittosporum Plum, Chinese Sweet Plum, Japanese Flowering Plum, Natal Pomegranate, Dwarf Privet, Japanese or Wax-Leaf Procumben Juniper Prostrate Juniper Purple-leaf Plum Pyracantha Quince, Japanese Contorted Reticulated Hackberry Rhapis Palm Rosemary Sago Palm San Jose Juniper Schefflera, Hawaiian Elf Sedum Serissa Shore Juniper Silk Oak Silk Tree Silver Berry Snow Rose Spruce, Blue St. John’s Bread Starflower, Lavender Sumac, African Sweet Acacia Sweet Gum |
(Ficus nerifolia)
(Carissa macrocarpa) (Araucaria heterophylla) (Quercus sp.) (Grevillea robusta) (Olea europaea) (Cordia boissieri) (Rhapis excelsa) (Cycas revoluta) (Cercidium floridum) (Pinus halepensis) (Podocarpus macrophyllus) (Pinus eldarica) (Pinus parviflora) (Pinus eldarica) (Pinus pinea) (Pinus thunbergii) (Pinus parviflora) (Pinus mugo) (Araucaria heterophylla) (Podocarpus macrophyllus) (Melaleuca nesophila) (Pistache sp.) (Pittosporum sp.) (Segeretia theezens) (Prunus mume) (Carissa macrocarpa) (Punica granatum 'Nana') (Ligustrum japonicum) (Juniperus procumbens 'Nana') (Juniperus prostrata 'Foemina') (Prunus cerasifera 'Atropurpurea') (Pyracantha sp.) (Chaenomeles lagenaria) (Celtis reticulata) (Rhapis excelsa) (Rosmarinus officinalis) (Cycas revoluta) (Juniperus squamata) (Schefflera arboricola) (Sedum sp.) (Serissa foetida) (Juniperus conferta) (Grevillea robusta) (Albizia julibrissin) (Eleagnus sp.) (Serissa foetida) (Picea pungens) (Ceratonia siliqua) (Grewia occidentalis) (Rhus lancea) (Acacia farnesiana) (Liquidamber sp.) |
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| Tallow Tree, Chinese
Tea Tree, Australian Texas Ebony Texas Olive Texas Ranger or Texas Sage Trichodiadema Trident Maple Viburnum Vitex Wax-Leaf Privet Weeping Bottlebrush Weeping Fig Western Hackberry White Mulberry Willow-leaf Fig Willow, Desert Wisteria Yaupon Holly Yew Pine Zelkova |
(Sapium sebiferum)
(Leptospermum scoparium) (Pithecolobium flexicuale) (Cordia boissieri) (Leucophyllum frutescens) (Trichodiadema sp.) (Acer buergeranum) (Viburnum sp.) (Vitex agnus-castus) (Ligustrum japonicum) (Callistemon viminalis) (Ficus benjamina) (Celtis reticulata) (Morus alba) (Ficus nerifolia) (Chilopsis linearis) (Wisteria sp.) (Ilex vomitoria) (Podocarpus macrophyllus) (Zelkova serrata) |
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HARDY, EASY TO GROW |
FAIRLY HARDY |
DIFFICULT AT TIMES |
CHALLENGING, DIFFICULT TO GROW |