A: Consider Lacey oak. It’s native to the Hill Country, also to far Southwest Texas. It grows 20 to 25 feet tall and 15 to 20 ...

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Evergreen shrubs such as boxwood, holly, rhododendron, yew and arborvitae provide year-round green color in the landscape. Thanks to plant-breeding technology, many different size cultivars are ...

so they’re not plants you’d want to use in total shade. I’ve used a good many leatherleaf mahonias in total shade, both for their rich yellow mid-winter flower spikes and for the large ...