S & J Nursery’s Guide to Selecting
Drought Tolerant Trees
for the northeast Florida Jacksonville
| St. Augustine area Landscapes
Note:
Listing is for tolerance to drought conditions on established landscape trees only. Care must be taken for supplemental irrigation design the establishment period after planting from an S & J Nursery container.
Watering Guides
for more information on how to water your newly planted drought tolerant trees for Northeast Florida landscapes.
Arizona Cypress
Arborvitae Blue Cone
Bald Cypress (Taxodium distichum)
Bottlebrush Red Cluster
( Callistemon citrinus)
Bottlebrush Slim
Bottlebrush Weeping ( Callistemon veminalis )
Brodie Cedar ( Juniperus virginiana ‘Brodie’)
Citrus Trees
Crape Myrtle Acoma ( Lagerstoemia ‘Acoma’)
Crape Myrtle Black Diamond Best Red
Crape Myrtle Black Diamond Crimson Red
Crape Myrtle Black Diamond Red Hot
Crape Myrtle Black Diamond White
Crape Myrtle Burgundy Cotton
( Largestroemia ‘Burgundy Cotton’)
Crape Myrtle Catawba
( Lagerstoemia ‘Catawba’)
Crape Myrtle Dynamite
( Lagerstroemia ‘Dynamite’)
Crape Myrtle Muskogee
Crape Myrtle Natchez
Crape Myrtle Peppermint Bicolor
( Lagestroemia )
Crape myrtle Pink Velour
( Lagestroemia ‘Pink Velour’)
Crape Myrtle Red Rocket
( Lagerstroemia ‘Red Rocket’)
Crape Myrtle Sioux
( Lagerstoemia ‘Sioux’)
Crape Myrtle Tonto
(Lagerstroemia ‘Tonto’)
Crape Myrtle Tuscarora
( Lagerstroemia ‘Tuscarora’)
Crape Myrtle Tuskegee
(Lagerstoemia ‘Tuskegee’)
Crape Myrtle White Chocolate
(Lagerstroemia ‘White Chocolate’)
Crape Myrtle Zuni
(Lagerstroemia ‘Zuni’)
Eastern Red Cedar
( Juniperus virginiana )
Elm Drake
Winged Elm
( Ulmus alata)
Fig
Golden Rain Tree / Chinese Flame Tree (Koelreutria bipinnata)
Hollywood Juniper
(Juniperus torulosa)
Italian Cypress
Loquat / Japanese Plum
(Eriobotrya japonica)
Magnolia Brackens Brown Beauty
(Magnolia grandiflora
‘Brackens Brown Beauty’)
Magnolia D.D. Blanchard
(Magnolia grandiflora ‘D.D. Blanchard’)
Magnolia Southern
( Magnolia grandiflora)
Mulberry
Oak, Laurel
(Quercus laurifolia)
Oak Shumard
(Quercus shumardii)
Podocarpus
Red Bud Eastern
(Cercis canadensis)
Red Cedar Tree
( Juniperus silicicola)
Viburnum, Sweet
(Viburnum odoratissimum)
Wax Myrtle
(Morella Cerifera)
Weeping Youpon
( Ilex vomitoria ‘Pendula’)
