As a member of the Texas Native Plant Society, I always enjoy reading their quarterly publication. On page 20 of their 2025 summer issue of Texas Native Plants, I found Martha Whitehouse’s article ...

As a member of the Texas Native Plant Society, I always enjoy reading their quarterly publication. On page 20 of their 2025 – Summer issue of Texas Native Plants, I found Martha Whitehouse’s article ...

The healthiest Texas sage I ever saw was a large specimen that, seemingly by a miracle, was blooming adjacent to a freeway ...

Whether you're a gardening expert or can't keep a succulent alive, today is the day to strive for a greener thumb, celebrate the beauty of plants and embrace the joy of growing something of your own.

Layer your garden from pathway to treetop for beauty, wildlife, and good eating. Layer your garden from pathway to treetop for beauty, wildlife, and good eating. Explore a native plant garden that ...

A: Spear grass (Nassella leucotricha) is a Texas native plant. I’m a longtime native Texas who grew up playing war games with spear grass seeds just like any other young boy. I also know it’s nothing ...

The native plant I am most excited about in my "unlawned" front yard this spring won’t be showing up in beauty pictures anytime soon. But one morning this week, I was elated to discover that the ...

November in East Texas is a season of change. The mornings are crisp, the afternoons are pleasant, and the leaves crunch ...

I recently went looking for one of the rarest of Texas’s rare plants in what seemed like an odd place: near the middle of Boerne. At Cibolo Nature Center, a hundred-acre preserve adjacent to Boerne ...

Lady Bird Johnson once said, “I want Texas to look like Texas. … Native plants give us a sense of where we are in this great land of ours.” Native plants, also called indigenous species, have evolved ...