Earth-Kind® Circle Garden

The Earth-Kind® Circle garden demonstrates how using Earth-Kind® landscaping principles and practices can create beautiful, easy-care landscapes, while conserving and protecting natural resources and the environment. Earth-Kind® principles are developed by Texas A&M AgriLife Research and the Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service.

For more information about Earth-Kind® landscaping principles and plants, visit Texas A&M’s page on Earth-Kind® landscaping.

Common Name	Botanical Name	Characteristics	Earth Kind rating	Picture
Blue Plumbago	Plumbago auriculata	Evergreen with blue flowers in summer	10
Blue Salvia Mystic Spires	Salvia farinacea	Dormint in winter, blue spike flower	9
Carefree Beauty	Rosa hybrida 'Carefree Beauty'	Pink flower	10
Cast Iron plant	Aspidistra elatior	Evergreen shade loving ground cover	8
Chinese Fringe Tree	Chionanthus retusus	White flowers in spring, Deciduous in winter	9
Ducher	Rosa hybrida 'Ducher'	White flower	10
Dwarf Coreopsis Nana	Coreopsis auriculata Nana	Low growing, yellow flower in spring	9
Dwarf Pittosporum	Pittosporum Tobira Nana	Evergreen schrub	10
Fox Tail fern	Asparagus denisflorus Myers	Evergreen with long spiked fronds	not rated
Japanese Holly fern	Cyrtomium falcatum	Large clumping evergreen no flowers	8
Jasmine Primrose	Jasminum mesnyi	Yellow fall and winter flowers	10
La Marne Rose	Rosa hybrida 'LaMarne'	Pale pink small cluster flowers	10
Lantana, New Gold	Lantana spp.	Yellow flowers spring, summer, fall	9
Lily Turfs	Liriope muscari	Evergreen low growing, purple spike flower	10
Nandina Heavenly Bamboo	Nanadina Domestica	Red berries in fall	10
Ruby Crystals Grass	Melinis nerviglumis	Small grass with plumes	not rated
The Fairy Rose	Rosa hybrida 'The Fairy'	Dwarf species, pink flower	10
Uptick Coreopsis	Coreopsis	Yellow flower spring and summer	9
Viburnum Spring Bouquet	Viburnum tinus	White spring flowers	10
Yellow Bells Esperanza	Tecoma Stans	Dormant in winter, yellow flower	10