Despite the overwhelming heat, there is a long list of plants that are blooming. Texas sage (cenizo) is blooming, and to many of us, that is a precursor of rainfall. Yes, I know that some ...

Q: Our city’s chamber of commerce tries to keep flowers in large 30-inch round pots that are 24 inches deep at each of the four corners of major intersections in our downtown area. We have volunteers ...

SAN ANTONIO – It’s April, which is prime time to plant those spring perennials! Planting in San Antonio is tough because, come summer, we are battling months of consecutive triple digits, extreme ...

During the record-breaking heat of summer 2023, some Texans put their hopes of rainfall in the flowering of a silvery-gray shrub. An evergreen native to West Texas, South Texas, and the Edwards ...

Warmer, drier weather means we’ll be seeing more bees, birds, and butterflies visiting our gardens. This is the perfect time to stop by your favorite garden center and pick up some pollinators to make ...

The Pride of Barbados is an exotic-sounding name for a plant, and it lives up to its name! Besides the vibrant colors of the flowers and the lacey leaves, the wonderful thing about this plant is that ...

Each year, Central Texas gardeners face eminent heat, drought, floods or freezes, sometimes all four. The following story ran July 11, 2022, just months after a major freeze, and just before our ...