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Texas Mountain Laurel
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added by Annie Thornton to Great Design Plant: Texas Mountain Laurel
How to use it. Texas mountain laurel is a great pick for a patio or small space due to its human scale and upright form. If you prefer to leave it untrained, Texas mountain laurel will spread nicely to form a landscape screen year-round.
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Areas 3 and 8.
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Texas Mountain Laurel
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purple flower tree
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Texas mountain laurel
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Texas Mountain Laurels - front yard?
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Texas Mountain Laurel - use like a Crepe Myrtle
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How to use it. Texas mountain laurel is a great pick for a patio or small space due to its human scale and upright form. If you prefer to leave it untrained, Texas mountain laurel will spread nicely to form a landscape screen year-round.
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Texas Mountain Laurel - bushes
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Mountain Laurel
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tress bushes laurel
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Peme
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texas mountain laurel
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Mountain laurel
added by lookylooky to Garden (2 months ago)
Texas Mountain Laurel, good landscape screen, draught resistant.
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BLUE
added by Jennie Torres to Patio (3 months ago)
I love this tree
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Texas mountain laurel - could this survive the broiling conditions at the back of our garden?
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Texas Mountain Laurel
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texas mountain laurel
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Texas mountain laurel
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Texas mountain laurel
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otanical name: Sophora secundiflora
Common names: Texas mountain laurel, mescal bean, mountain laurel, mescal bean sophora, frijolillo, frijolito
USDA zones: 7 to 10
Water requirement: Infrequent
Light requirement: Full sun to partial shade
Mature size: 15 to 25 feet tall, 10 to 15 feet wide
Tolerances: Drought, wind, deer and frost
Caution: Seeds are poisonous if ingested
added by mwl800 to What to Plant (4 months ago)
Texas mountain laurel flowers smells like grapes
added by pamlee1 to BackYard Landscaping (4 months ago)
Like the trees/color
added by zwemer to plants (4 months ago)
Texas mountain laurel
added by blotridge11 to ranch chic (5 months ago)
Landscape idea - mountain laurel
added by Bonnie Mitchell to Garden (5 months ago)
Texas moutain laurel
added by juliluj610 to new backyard oasis (5 months ago)
good tree for TX & drought
added by tommy2145 to landscaping (5 months ago)
texas mtn laurel
added by hartonsue to exterior (6 months ago)
Love mountain laurel
added by juliarenae to Landscaping (6 months ago)
Texas Mountain Laurel
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Texas mountain laurel
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Front of the house tree at the driveway.
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Texas Mountain Laurel
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Trees
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Tx mountain laurel tree shape
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Texas Mountain Laurel
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Botanical name: Sophora secundiflora
Common names: Texas mountain laurel, mescal bean, mountain laurel, mescal bean sophora, frijolillo, frijolito
USDA zones: 7 to 10
Water requirement: Infrequent
Light requirement: Full sun to partial shade
Mature size: 15 to 25 feet tall, 10 to 15 feet wide
Tolerances: Drought, wind, deer and frost
added by mneese77 to yardmike (8 months ago)
texas mountain laurel
added by nudgiepearl to Landscape/Garden (8 months ago)
Botanical name: Lagerstromium indica
Common names: Common crape myrtle, crepe myrtle
USDA zones: 7 to 9 (find your zone). If you're at the coldest end of the spectrum (around or above the Mason-Dixon line), you'll want to find a warm, protected microclimate for it.
Water requirement: Needs moist, well-drained soil but can tolerate drier conditions once it is established
Light requirement: Full sun
Mature size: 15 to 40 feet high and 6 to 15 feet wide
Benefits and tolerances: Can tolerate dry soils and clay
Seasonal interest: Summer and fall flowers; exfoliating bark; beautiful silhouette in winter
When to plant: Either after the last frost or at least four weeks before the first frost
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How you do it
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Texas Mountain Laurel”
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Botanical name: Sophora secundiflora
Common names: Texas mountain laurel, mescal bean, mountain laurel, mescal bean sophora, frijolillo, frijolito
USDA zones: 7 to 10
Water requirement: Infrequent
Light requirement: Full sun to partial shade
Mature size: 15 to 25 feet tall, 10 to 15 feet wide
Tolerances: Drought, wind, deer and frost
Caution: Seeds are poisonous if ingested
added by dksuttle to Landscape (8 months ago)
How to use it. Texas mountain laurel is a great pick for a patio or small space due to its human scale and upright form. If you prefer to leave it untrained, Texas mountain laurel will spread nicely to form a landscape screen year-round.
added by wdaniels6 to wdaniels6's Ideas (8 months ago)
Texas mountain laurel
added by shopperjanny to fences (9 months ago)
Patio tree with year round foliagr
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texas mountain laurel
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Texas mountain laurel
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TX mtn laurel - purple flowers
added by reneegafnea to reneegafnea's ideas (10 months ago)
Love Texas mountain laurel.
added by mvillemom to gardening (10 months ago)
pretty flowering tree
added by ritafalls to yard (10 months ago)
Sophora secundiflora can be a hedge
added by pegge1 to pegge1's ideas (11 months ago)
Tree with color
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Distinguishing traits. A desert native, Texas mountain laurel possesses survival traits necessary to thrive in an arid climate while exuding characteristics of plants from much more temperate regions. Naturally spreading and shrubby, it can also be trained as a multistemmed upright tree.
Dark green compound leaves cover its branches year-round, but its early spring blooms make Texas mountain laurel shine. Reminiscent of wisteria flowers, drooping clusters of violet-blue buds abound in midwinter. The flowers have been described as smelling like grape Kool-Aid or other artificial grape products. A relatively short bloom time leads to summer seed pods. If possible, remove the seed pods before they open in order to prevent the poisonous seeds from dropping.
Photo by Stan Shebs via Wikimedia Commons
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More texas mountain laurel
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Saw these in Calif. & loved them!
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Texas mountain laurel
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Texas Mountain Laurel
added by houzzsanzbrit to Garden ideas (12 months ago)
Texas mt laurel blooms in April/may and smells like grape koolaid. Only needs water once per month
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Love theses trees
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texas mountain laurel
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Botanical name: Sophora secundiflora
Common names: Texas mountain laurel, mescal bean, mountain laurel, mescal bean sophora, frijolillo, frijolito
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Texas mountain laurel
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flowering grape like draping purple. Texas Mountain Laurel
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mountain laurel
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mountain laurel
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texas mtn laurel
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Texas mountain laurel - deer tolerant!
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Flower
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Patio flower
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Garden
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Common names: Texas mountain laurel, mescal bean, mountain laurel, mescal bean sophora, frijolillo, frijolito
USDA zones: 7 to 10
Water requirement: Infrequent
Light requirement: Full sun to partial shade
Mature size: 15 to 25 feet tall, 10 to 15 feet wide
Tolerances: Drought, wind, deer and frost
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Texas mountain laurel
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Texas Mountain Laurel Sophora secundiflora
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Garden
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Texas Mountain Laurel
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Texas Mountain Laural for around pool
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Beautiful small tree
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landscaping
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texas mt laurel zone 7-10
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Privacy
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Sophora secundiflora
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tree
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Landscape tree
added by amberlynn1208 to Garden (15 months ago)
Texas Mountain Laurel... supposed to smell like cool-aid, low water needs.
added by whitneyk to garden (15 months ago)
Tx mountain laurel
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Texas Mountainn Laurel
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Texas Mountain Laurel
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Texas Mountain Laurel
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Texas Mountain Laurel
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Texas mountain laurel. human scale
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landscape
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texas mtn laurel
added by anthrogirl to anthrogirl's ideas (15 months ago)
Beautiful!
added by lissacaltrider to lissacaltrider's Favorites (15 months ago)
Does it work like a crepe myrtle?
added by jgarrels to jgarrels's ideas (15 months ago)
just love this...might have to see if it will live in MO
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sofora arbol : laurel de las montañas
added by Jeanine Gaston to Garden (15 months ago)
Texas mountain laurel
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