skip to main content

Texas Gardening

Houston chartreuse shrubs?

19 years ago

Hey y'all,

Any suggestions for a nice chartreuse or yellow-leaved smaller shrub for Houston-Galveston (gumbo) with a western exposure? I used to grow Magic Carpet and Goldmound Spireas in clay/sun in northern Illinois but not sure if those will fly here (more like fry here, har!). :)

TIA!

chel

Sort by:Oldest

Comments (2)

little_dani
19 years ago
You can grow the Duranta 'Gold Mound', 'Cuban Gold', or Variegated Duranta. The Variegated will get taller than you want probably, but they are all gorgeous.

Janie
laurine97
Original Author
19 years ago
JUST what I was looking for, thanks! I have a larger Duranta in the back but I didn't know there were smaller varieties. :)
Related Professionals
Springfield Landscape Architects & Landscape Designers · Colorado Springs Landscape Architects & Landscape Designers · Evanston Landscape Architects & Landscape Designers · Somerset Landscape Contractors · Greenville Landscape Contractors · Fredericksburg Landscape Contractors · Cape Coral Stone, Pavers & Concrete · Cambridge Stone, Pavers & Concrete · Fort Worth Stone, Pavers & Concrete · Boston Stone, Pavers & Concrete · Keene Stone, Pavers & Concrete · Buffalo Stone, Pavers & Concrete · Hempstead Stone, Pavers & Concrete · Youngstown Stone, Pavers & Concrete · Lubbock Stone, Pavers & Concrete

Related Stories

DECORATING GUIDES Chartreuse: Love It or Hate It?

By Debbie Snider

Try a Sip of Yellow-Green With Blue, Chocolate, Hot Pink, Eggplant and Teal

GARDENING GUIDES 20 Ways to Create a Chartreuse Splash in the Landscape

By Paintbox Garden

Use this hot garden color for plantings, paint and accessories to create a cool outdoor vibe

GARDENING GUIDES 7 Ways to Rethink the Shrub

By Falon Mihalic

These versatile plants can do more than frame your home’s foundation or line an entry walk

TREES How to Buy Healthy Trees and Shrubs

By Falon Mihalic

A healthy young plant with a strong form is more likely to do well in your yard. Here’s what to look for at the nursery

LIME FOLIAGE Great Design Plant: Illicium Parviflorum ‘Florida Sunshine’

This shrub from the anise family brings a ray of chartreuse sunlight to the woodland garden

LANDSCAPE DESIGN 10 Evergreens for Beautiful Foliage All Year

Give your landscape consistent color and structure with the emeralds, chartreuses and blues of evergreen trees and shrubs

FOLIAGE Great Design Plant: Golden Breath of Heaven

By Annie Thornton

Aromatic foliage as soft as an angel's wing makes this plant a blessing in any garden, but it's the vivid chartreuse color that's divine

COLOR What Goes With Purple Walls?

By Laura Gaskill

Make a plum wall come alive with art, warm metals, ivory, chartreuse, natural wood — and at least one wild card

LANDSCAPE DESIGN Great Design Plant: Old Fashioned Smoke Bush

Balance garden color with this shrub's cool blue-green foliage, luminous when backlit and sporting yellow-green flowers in spring

LANDSCAPE DESIGN Great Design Plant: Sun-Loving Ninebark Puts on a Color Show

This tall, dark and handsome native shrub is equally at home in jeans and boots or in a suit and tie

Sponsored