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.

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

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 ...

Start by seeing what invasive plants you do grow. Check to see if the plant you have is on the Invasive Plant Database from the Native Plant Society of Texas (NPSOT) website. You can sort the ...

(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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Native plants typically are low-maintenance, support wildlife and help soil, according to the Native Plant Society of Texas.