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Can’t wait to see your spring blooms? Many wildflowers can be identified just by their leaves. Here’s how. While winter often feels like a time when nature is sleeping, if you planted wildflower [...]

A few easy changes to your landscape maintenance are all it takes to create little spaces for wildlife — and help protect other residents that call Texas home. As temperatures fall and plants [...]

If trees could talk, these spine-chilling stories would startle saplings senseless. A mature shade tree is one of the most valuable additions you can make to your landscape. However, majestic [...]

Don’t let the goofy name or delicate blooms fool you. Woolly tubetongue is seriously hardy, even in our searing heat. By now most people are familiar with horseherb (Calyptopcarpus vialis), but [...]

The summer heat is brutal to ordinary blooming plants. But there are ironclad options that’ll show the scorch who’s boss — and add the color your landscape craves. As the summer heats up, many [...]

Drought can stress many a plant. But these untamed Texas mavericks know just what to do and how to get through. After the hottest May on record and only scant rainfall all year, South Texas is [...]

Using the right plants in the right place of your landscape means less worrying about watering and yardwork during the hottest days of the year. by Cleveland Powell and Brad Wier Flash back to [...]

Aside from beautifying your yard, many of the approved WaterSaver Landscape Coupon plants also double as host plants for butterfly and moth caterpillars. Many of us are familiar with the monarch [...]

Take a spring stroll in a natural setting and you just may spy these rare native bulbed beauties. Flowering plants that produce bulbs are an intriguing group of plants, more closely related to [...]

Believe it or not, blooms do burst forth as early as February. Consider these small trees and shrubs in your landscape for both springtime beauty and nectar. When people think of wildflowers in [...]