by Happy Gardener | Apr 16, 2018 | News & Events, Troubleshooting
You’ll most likely encounter pests at some point during your gardening endeavors in Texas. We share our worlds with these living creatures, and like all living creatures pests have needs to eat and find shelter, and they do so in our gardens if they can. However, you...
by Happy Gardener | Apr 14, 2018 | Pollinators
Inviting beneficial insects into your landscape is a great way to help you naturally fight off pest problems we face while gardening here in San Antonio. How does helping out our pollinators by providing them a safe and organic environment to feed and energize...
by Happy Gardener | Apr 12, 2018 | Garden By Season, Garden Tips, Gardening Basics, News & Events, Spring Garden
Air layering is a way to propagate your favorite plants, especially those “hard to root” plants with woodier stems. Instead of removing a stem/limb from a parent plant, you actually make small cuts to the stem/limb while it is still attached. It’s only after roots are...
by Happy Gardener | Apr 4, 2018 | Garden Tips, Gardening Basics, News & Events, Spring Garden
Propagating plants is a great way to give you more of what you love. When all you need is a container, water, and a few pieces of a favorite plant, why wouldn’t you want to give *propagating plants directly in water a try? Supplies Needed for Propagating Plants...
by Rainbow Gardens | Apr 4, 2018 | News & Events
San Antonio Water Systems rolls out their SAWS WaterSaver Landscape coupons in both spring and fall to help us beautify our landscapes while saving water and money! We are blessed to live in such an awesome city like San Antonio where we have money-saving city...
by Happy Gardener | Mar 25, 2018 | Garden Tips, News & Events, Troubleshooting
Deer don’t care for new experiences. Rotating your deer-deterrent tactics can help prevent deer from catching on to how you are trying to keep them away. Rainbow Gardens has found that what appears to work best is to first only buy plants from deer resistant...
by Happy Gardener | Mar 18, 2018 | Garden By Season, Garden Tips, Troubleshooting
We hear, “Point me to the deer-proof section”, almost everyday at Rainbow Gardens. When we point, we’ll be pointing you to the “deer-resistant” section instead because the truth is, there’s no such thing as a truly “deer-proof” plant. But Rainbow Gardens can help you...
by Happy Gardener | Mar 11, 2018 | Garden By Season, Garden Tips, Troubleshooting
Deer resistant plants are your best choices for gardening in areas that deer either live in or pass through. Read the title of the blog, and then reread it again. See that word resistant? That is key to remember when it comes to deer. We’ve said it before and...
by Rainbow Gardens | Jan 27, 2018 | Garden By Season, Garden Planning, Garden Tips, Winter Garden
It’s been a cold one this year hasn’t it? Hopefully you did your duty and protected your plants accordingly and they look to have survived the several cold snaps (Surprise! Snow!). Yes, we’re still having drizzly and cloudy days, but there are plenty...
by Rainbow Gardens | Oct 25, 2017 | Composting, Fertilization, Garden By Season, Garden Planning, Garden Tips, Gardening Basics
I’ve done it. I’m all in. It’s taken me about 6 out of the 7 years I’ve worked at Rainbow Gardens to take the final plunge, but I’ve finally done it! I’ve gone completely organic. I really don’t know why it’s taken me this long to get there, I can only blame it on a...
by Rainbow Gardens | Jul 31, 2017 | News & Events
The time has arrived for our doors to be thrown open in wild abandon by eager friends hustling in to get a well-earned discount on practically anything in the store. That’s right, it’s Bonus Bucks Redemption Days once again! It’s our way of giving thanks back to you...
by Rainbow Gardens | Jun 15, 2017 | Garden By Season, Garden Tips, Summer Garden, Tree & Lawn Care
I glanced at the 10 day forecast for this week and regretted it instantly. 96, 98, 97, and so on. I think you get the drift. It’s only June and I’ve had to peel my leg from a hot car seat a handful of times already! I’ve been trying to get up early...
by Rainbow Gardens | May 4, 2017 | Garden Planning, Garden Tips, Gardening Basics
The Natives Are Restless! When I first started working at Rainbow Gardens, I was pretty limited in my knowledge about plants. I mean, I could tell you the difference between a petunia and a pansy, I knew that tomatoes needed to be staked and vines needed to be...
by Rainbow Gardens | Apr 6, 2017 | Garden Planning, Garden Tips, Troubleshooting
Spring vegetable season is well on its way but you still have time to start a garden. We hope you were able to join us for some of the amazing seminars we have had so far but if you haven’t had a chance yet, take heart, we’ve got a lot more on the way....
by Rainbow Gardens | Mar 2, 2017 | Pollinators
I’ve embarked on a new adventure and frankly, it is taking over my life. I went to one seminar, Monarch Tagging and Releasing with Drake White (The Nectar Bar), and took one trip to visit Laura Jarvis’s (our event coordinator) backyard butterfly oasis back...
by Rainbow Gardens | Feb 8, 2017 | Garden Planning, Garden Tips
I feel it. Do you feel it? Although there may be a smattering of cold days here and there, the sun is making itself known. I’ve already seen new growth pushing up from the ground on many of my perennials. The birds have an extra little peep in their chirps, and...
by Rainbow Gardens | Jan 20, 2017 | Garden By Season, Garden Tips, Spring Garden, Winter Garden
We’re coming round to the end of January and this is usually the time that some of us (ok, I mean me) ditch the resolutions and fall back into our (meaning, my) old habits. I think it is because we tend to make broad, general resolutions rather than specific...
by Rainbow Gardens | Dec 8, 2016 | Garden By Season, Garden Tips, Troubleshooting, Winter Garden
As I sat here writing this blog today, I was sure thankful for a warm and cozy spot. It was the first day this season that I actually felt a slight chill in my bones when I drove my daughter to school. Our winter season has been so incredibly mild so far that I...
by Rainbow Gardens | Nov 14, 2016 | Garden Planning, Garden Tips, Tree & Lawn Care
This is the time of year I usually start shifting my interests towards my surroundings inside. It seems as soon as Daylight Savings Time arrives, I start thinking about what I can do inside my home to brighten things up when the dark of night starts creeping in...
by Rainbow Gardens | Nov 3, 2016 | News & Events, Pollinators
October was an amazing month for butterflies! Whether it was the hordes of Snout Nose butterflies we tried in vain to avoid greeting with our windshields, or the masses of Queens visiting before the Monarchs flew in, there really wasn’t a day that didn’t...
