Larry Stein, a professor and horticulturist with the Texas A&M AgriLife center, said most plants are designed to take the ...

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.

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 ...

The following story ran July 11, 2022, just months after a major freeze, and just before our plants faced another ... mixing in drought-tolerant Texas native perennials adds longevity to your ...

(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 ...

Once they begin blooming in spring, these plants provide color all summer long and they are water thrifty. Blackfoot daisy is a Texas native. It has daisy-like flowers that are white with yellow ...

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.

Working outside put him closer to nature and increased his curiosity and appreciation for the sheer numbers of plants in general and Texas native plants in particular. “I got deeper into this ...

Biking along country roads inspired Laura O’Toole to rip out lawn for beautiful native plants. Biking along country ... wildlife waterhole. Central Texas Gardener is a local public television ...