As scientists stress the importance of providing as much of this valuable plant as possible, gardeners often ask: Does ...

This week on "Central Texas Gardener," explore native plants for sun and shade. In an HOA, Martin and Eileen Byhower designed lawn-free habitat gardens under their live oaks in deer country.

Attract pollinators with native groundcovers for sun and shade. Central Texas Gardener ... work right now because some of our rarest plants in Texas are actually evolved to be pollinated by ...

As Central Texas faces it first 100-degree heat of 2025, we revisit this 2022 story on how to plant a drought tolerant, frost ...

Editor's Note: Senate Bill 1868 no longer contains the list of plants described ... practices. "Texas Mountain Laurel, in particular, is one of the most beautiful and beloved native trees in ...

(If you want to travel and keep container plants, stick with succulents.) Light conditions matter, too. Shade lovers will ... silver-gray foliage. Native to West Texas, it forms mats up to 30 ...

I recently went looking for one of the rarest of Texas’s rare plants ... The latter plants were grown from seeds collected in the mid-2000s by late native-plant expert Bill Ward.

all those plants had succumbed to the Texas heat. “Everything was dead,” she recalled. That failure, however, planted the seed for what would become Nativo Gardens. “I stumbled upon native ...

The mimosa tree is an invasive tree commonly seen across Texas, and it often encroaches on native trees and plants. Its flowers are edible and can be used in jams, salads or as a garnish ...