I would love to plant some at my ranch in Round Top. Lindens have heart-shaped foliage and fragrant flowers, and are popular street trees in Italy, Germany and other European countries. I'm not sure which species you saw, but there are possibly two or three linden species that might grow at your ranch. Carolina linden is found in deep, rich soils along rivers and creeks in some counties in Central Texas and in deep, moist soils of East Texas, and flowers for about 10 days in April to June. The white clusters are fragrant and make strong-tasting honey.
Bees make honey from the pendulous clusters of white, fragrant blooms.
The littleleaf linden, T. cordata, which makes a dense pyramid of foliage up to 3 inches wide with silvery undersides, is native to Europe but is grown in this country, too. Ask your nuseryman about availability. Our lime tree has black and white thick stuff on the underside of the leaves. The foliage is curling and turning yellow. The limes are almost ready to be picked.