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Keep Wimberley Beautiful

February Flowers

The winter flowers of Central Texas have started blooming. The Bush Jasmine ( Jasminum mesnyi .), also commonly known as Primrose Jasmine, has bright yellow flowers sporadically placed on its long graceful stems. This deer resistant bush makes a great evergreen hedge.

Once established it has a tendency to take over much space. Each time the long branches touch the soil during a rainy period, it starts a new plant. If you can keep it trimmed back it is a useful drought tolerant plant.

My Sweet Olive ( Osmanthus fragrans) has been blooming all month. I first met this plant in my Baton Rouge yard. I kept smelling a lovely scent, but could see no blooming plants.

Finally I noticed the tiny white flowers on an evergreen bush that were very fragrant. The surprise to me is that it does well here in Texas. I had to water it when it was young, but now I never water it. I like to place a Sweet Olive near the doorway so that you catch its wonderful fragrance as you first enter the yard. Mine is protected from the deer as I do not think it is deer resistant.

Rosemary provides lovely bluish flowers in the winter months. In addition to the edible needle leaves, it can form an evergreen bush that the deer do not like. It will drape down a wall if positioned in dirt at the top of the wall. It too can get huge and take up a lot of space. I smile when I visit people up North and see their little rosemary plants in small containers.

They don’t know that Rosemary has the Texas spirit and if given a chance will get BIG, like Texas things do.

Written by Jackie Mattice, Hays County Master Naturalist

Wimberley View

P.O. Box 49
Wimberley, TX 78676
Phone: 512-847-2202
Fax: 512-847-9054