design elements - San Jacinto Texas Historic District
design elements - San Jacinto Texas Historic District
design elements - San Jacinto Texas Historic District
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Among the woody vines were:<br />
Ampelopsis arborea PEPPERVINE<br />
Brunnichia ovata EARDROP VINE<br />
Campsis radicans TRUMPET VINE<br />
Smilax bona-nox CATBRIER<br />
Smilax glauca SAWBRIER<br />
Smilax smallii SMOOTH GREENBRIER<br />
Smilax tamnoides BRISTLY GREENBRIER<br />
The fl ora and fauna of the <strong>San</strong> <strong>Jacinto</strong> are among the more beautiful and<br />
singular as in any province anywhere in the world. The extent to which<br />
the architecture, infrastructural approaches, and landscape contexts<br />
support the integration of <strong>San</strong> <strong>Jacinto</strong>’s aboriginal assets and cultural<br />
history involve in our made or contrived landscape programs is the extent<br />
to which the area will be seen as unlike anywhere else on earth---truly<br />
special with its endowed gifts. As with architecture, the extent to which<br />
our choices include the hum-drum default plantings and commondityscale<br />
maintenance so ubiquitous across the southern United States is<br />
the extent to which <strong>San</strong> <strong>Jacinto</strong> will be in competition with other areas<br />
across the country that have made similar expedient choices, its identity<br />
sublimated to render it invisible.<br />
HORTICULTURAL PLANTS NATIVE TO SAN JACINTO<br />
With respect to the inclusion of trees in landscape plantings, a number of<br />
those native to the <strong>San</strong> <strong>Jacinto</strong> area are suitable as street trees, parkway<br />
trees, or trees in parking lots, provided there is enough room suffi cient<br />
square-footage of soil for lateral root growth and they are planted in<br />
contexts that will be out of the way of trampling. Larger trees will require<br />
a substantially greater unpaved, uncompacted, well-stewarded soil than<br />
would smaller trees.<br />
From among the canopy trees, perhaps the ten more evocative of <strong>San</strong><br />
<strong>Jacinto</strong>, tolerant of a variety of conditions, and relatively free of common<br />
diseases are Carya illinoensis, Juglans nigra, Magnolia grandifl ora, Pinus<br />
taeda, Quercus alba, Quercus lyrata, Quercus macrocarpa, Quercus michauxii,<br />
Quercus shumardii, and Taxodium distichum.<br />
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One might consider the top ten smaller trees of <strong>San</strong> <strong>Jacinto</strong> to include Betula<br />
nigra, Chionanthus virginicus, Cornus fl orida, Crataegus marshallii, Ehretia<br />
anacua, Ilex opaca, Persea borbonia, Sapindus saponaria, Sassafras albidum, and<br />
Vaccinium arboreum.<br />
HORTICULTURAL PLANTS NATIVE TO TEXAS, BUT NOT SAN JACINTO<br />
The nearby city of Houston considers a number of <strong>Texas</strong> canopy trees<br />
as suitable for planting locally along parkways and in parking lots. A<br />
preponderance of their use can evoke <strong>Texas</strong>, but will dampen the<br />
opportunity to enhance and celebrate the uniqueness of <strong>San</strong> <strong>Jacinto</strong>.<br />
Larger trees include:<br />
Acer barbatum SOUTHERN SUGAR MAPLE<br />
Acer leucoderme CHALK MAPLE<br />
Ilexa opaca AMERICAN HOLLY<br />
Liriodendron tulipifera TULIP TREE<br />
Nyssa aquatica WATER TUPILO<br />
Quercus muhlenbergii CHINKAPIN OAK<br />
Quercus palustris PIN OAK<br />
Quercus texana TEXAS RED OAK<br />
Sabal texana TEXAS PALM<br />
Taxodium mucronatum MONTEZUMA CYPRESS<br />
Ulmus americana AMERICAN ELM<br />
Ulmus crassifolia CEDAR ELM<br />
Smaller trees are:<br />
Acacia wrightii WRIGHT’S ACACIA<br />
Aesculus pavia fl avescens YELLOW BUCKEYE<br />
Aesculua glabra var. arguta WHITE BUCKEYE<br />
Asimina triloba PAPAW<br />
Bauhinia congesta ANACACHO ORCHID TREE<br />
Cercis canadensis var. texensis TEXAS REDBUD<br />
Cercis canadensis var. mexicana MEXICAN REDBUD<br />
Cotinus obovatus AMERICAN SMOKE TREE<br />
Crataegus opaca RIVER-FLAT HAWTHORN<br />
Crataegus reverchonii REVERCHON’S HAW<br />
Diospyros texana TEXAS PERSIMMON<br />
Ehretia anacua KNOCK-AWAY<br />
Eysenhardtia texana TEXAS KIDNEYWOOD<br />
Fraxinus texensis TEXAS ASH<br />
Ilex cassine latifolia DAHOON<br />
Malus angustifolia NARROW-LEAVED CRAB