Austin Native Flowering Plants

Austin rose bushes are everywhere!

Roses are blooming and just starting to bud. Bees and people both love rose bushes. In Austin, you can spot some truly beautiful varieties of rose blooming and just beginning to bud in late March and through spring.

Bluebonnets are flowering in Texas!

Bluebonnets are the state flower of Texas. There are rolling fields of bluebonnets across the open plains of Austin and the Hill Country during Spring. Bluebonnets can get as tall as a child, and drop their seeds in late Spring. They'll be back next year too. Enjoy the flowers. Butterflies pollinate bluebonnets. Look for them in open fields and on the sides of freeways as you drive around town.

Native Texas Redbud Tree

The Texas variety of Redbud is more drought tolerant than its Eastern Redbud cousin. Look for dazzling purple red blooms in the Spring. This native plant is in the Fabaceae family - the same family as Bluebonnets.

Flowering Peach Trees in Austin

Peach trees are flowering in Austin! Peach trees usually take two to four years to bloom from their first planting. Once they do, they can have hundreds of showy flowers in colors from pink to white to red to beyond! These are beautiful flowering trees in Austin, and benefit from a good prune at the right time.

Plum Trees Flowering in Austin

These beautiful, easy to grow trees are showing off their gorgeous white blooms in the beginning of Spring. As March turns to April, the native plums in Central Texas are starting to leaf out. Enjoy the wonderful flowers of plums in early spring, and then savor their tasty fruit later in the year.

Pear Trees Flowering in Austin

Pear trees, like plums, flower early in Spring. Look for their distinctive white blooms. Pear trees can get quite tall, so enjoy seeing massive thirty foot trees covered in white flowers in the beginning of Spring!

Austin Texas Mountain Laurels

These showy purple blossoms are a real highlight of Spring in central Texas. Texas Mountain Laurels are an evergreen shrub or small tree that can reach upwards of thirty feet at maturity. Most are 10-15 feet tall. All can bloom with showy, grape bunch sized flowers that are heavily scented and attract pollinators. They smell like grape soda, and are powerful enough to be noticed more than thirty feet away. Try to smell as many as you can, it's a real highlight of spring in Austin.

If you'd like help planting a Texas Mountain Laurel, or any of these amazing flowering trees and plants you can call or text us at 512-571-3570 or contact us for a free quote.