Below is a list of plants that have proven to be hearty and do well in the Town of Prosper.  One should spend time understanding the individual needs of the plant being selected as well as its ultimate size.  This will help you select a plant that will do well over the years.  Keep in mind that even though these plants have proven themselves in Prosper over the years, uncharacteristic weather, be that excess cold, heat, rain or drought could cause these plants to do poorly in the future.

Tolerant Plants for Prosper Landscape

*Ornamental Pear does not include Bradford Pears.

Large Trees (Shade)	Small Trees (Ornamental)	Shrubs	Groundcover	Ornamental Grass
Afghan Pine	Birds of Paradise	American Beautyberry	Asiatic Jasmine	Autumn Blush Muhly
American Elm	Buckeye, Mexican	Argarita	Avens, White	Big Bluestem
Arizona Cypress	Buckeye, Red	Aromatic Sumac	Frog Fruit	Black Fountain Grass
Bigelow Oak	Buckeye, Texas	Bridal Wreath Spirea	Ground Ivy	Blue Grama
Bur Oak	Carolina Buckthorn	Burford Holly	Hardy Plumbago	Broomsedge
Caddo Maple	Crepe Myrtle (tree form)	Chinese Photinia	Horseherb	Bushy Bluestem
Cedar Elm	Desert Willow	Cleyera	Liriope or Lily Turf	Canada Wildrye
Chinquapin Oak	Eastern Red Cedar	Compact Nandina	Mondo or Monkey Grass	Dwarf Maiden Grass
Durrand Oak	Eve's Necklace	Coral Berry	Pigeonberry	Dwarf Pampas Grass
Lacebark Elm	Hawthorne	Crimson Pygmy Barberry	Purpleleaf Euonymus	Eastern Gamma Grass
Lacy Oak	Hollywood Juniper	Dwarf Burford Holly	Santolina	Feather Reed Grass
Live Oak	Japanese Black Pine	Dwarf Burning Bush	Snake Herb	Hamelin's Fountain Grass
Pecan	Juniper, Blue Point	Dwarf Chinese Holly	Wood Violet	Indiangrass
Shumard Oak	Juniper, Wichita Blue	Dwarf Crepe Myrtle		Inland Sea-Oats
Southern Live Oak	Mesquite	Dwarf Glossy Abelia		Lindheimer's Muhly
Southern Magnolia	Mexican Plum	Dwarf Pomegranate		Little Bluestem
Texas Ash	Ornamental Pear*	Dwarf Spirea		Maiden Grass
Texas Red Oak	Pomegranate	Dwarf Wax Myrtle		Morning Light Maiden
Western Soapberry	Possumhaw Holly	Dwarf Yaupon Holly		Ravenna Grass
	Redbud	Elaeagnus		Sideoats Grama
	Roughleafed Dogwood	Flowering Quince		Silver Bluestem
	Texas Persimmon	Forsythia		Standard Fountain Grass
	Vitex	Foster Holly		Switchgrass
	Wax Myrtle	Glossy Abelia		Variegated Japanese Silver Grass
	Winter/Bush Honeysuckle	Harbor Dwarf Nandina		Zebra Grass
	Yaupon Holly	Hypericum
		Indian Hawthorn
		Italian Jasmine
		Leatherleaf Mahonia
		Miniature Crepe Myrtle
		Nellie R. Stevens Holly
		Oakleaf Hydrangea
		Purpleleaf Japanese
		Barberry
		Red Yucca
		Rose of Sharon (Althea)
		Semi-Dwarf Crepe Myrtle
		Smooth Sumac
		Spiraea
		Standard Nandina
		Texas Sage

 

Intolerant Plants for Prosper Landscape

Trees that should be avoided due to short life span, disease or other known problems are listed below.

Intolerant Plants for Prosper Landscape

Silver Leave Maple	Acer Saccharinum
Hackberry, Texas Sugarberry	Celtis laevigata
Honey Locust	Gleditsia triacanthos
Bois d' Arc	Maclura pomifera
Mimosa	Mimosa sp.
Mulberry	Morus rubra
White Poplar	Poplus alba
Cottonwood	Populus deltoides
Mesquite	Prosopis glandulosa
Willow	Willow sp.