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Native Plants to Ease the Work Load of Landscaping
The reasons we love native plants at Rainbow Gardens are numerous, but one of the main reasons we encourage purchases of native plants is because doing so lines up with the main philosophy of our business, gardening success! We want nothing more than for you to be...
Texas Native Wildflowers for San Antonio and Hill Country
We are going absolutely wild for wildflowers this fall by bringing you two great products for upcoming wildflower planting season. Our Texas Native Wildflowers Seed Mix is full of native wildflower seeds that intend to bring you gorgeous native blooms year after year....
Wildflowers for San Antonio and Hill Country: Part 4
Here it is! Our last installment detailing the amazing wildflower seeds that you will get in our Hill country Pollinator mix for 2020. October - November is the time to get these seeds planted (September, in the Hill Country). Our mix this year has twice the varieties...
The Beauty of Researching Native Plants for San Antonio
Caring for native plants in San Antonio is most definitely less work than if you choose non-native specimens. However, this doesn't mean that grabbing a native plant, shoving it willy nilly into your landscape, and leaving it to the elements is the route you should be...
Trying Native Plants In Your San Antonio Landscape
Including native plants in your San Antonio landscape can open up a whole new world of gardening. You'll find that the addition of native plants allows you more time in the long run to actually enjoy your garden, to bring species of native pollinators to your...
Agastache: Bountiful Blooms Through Summer
Agastache, also known as hummingbird mint, horsemint, and hyssop, is a wonderful perennial to include in your San Antonio pollinator gardens or potted patio gardens. When agastache is flowering it becomes a workhorse, producing long lasting blooms and bringing in the...
Pride of Barbados: The “IT” Plant During San Antonio Summers
Once the heat of our San Antonio summer pops open the vibrant orange, red, and yellow blooms of the Pride of Barbados plant, you'd think we don't carry any other plant at the nursery. Multiple times a day customers come in describing the most beautiful plant they've...
Gregg’s Blue Mistflower: A Hot Weather Bloomer for Pollinators
Have you heard of Gregg's Blue Mistflower, one of our favorite hot-weather pollinator plants? If you haven't, today is your lucky day because we are giving Gregg's Blue Mistflower a proper shout out. This pollinator attracting plant brings the butterflies in droves...
Salvia: A Tried and True San Antonio Landscape Favorite
Look around landscapes in San Antonio, both residential and commercial, and you will most likely see some variety of salvia thriving there. It's no wonder that salvia fits perfectly into our garden designs. Salvia is a heat tolerant, drought resistant, native, San...
Pests
Purple: TX Fall Aster, Duranta, TX Moutain Laurel, Mona Lavender
The bold hue of a royal robe, a bountiful bunch of ripe grapes, the color of mountains majesty above the fruited plane, today we're celebrating purple. For our second-to-last blog in our "Plant a Rainbow Garden" series, this week we are highlighting four purple...
Wallflower (Erysimum)
Are you looking to add a splash of color to your garden during the cooler months in San Antonio, Texas? Look no further than the delightful Erysimum, commonly known as wallflowers. These charming plants are a must-have for any garden enthusiast seeking vibrant blooms...
Balcony and Patio Gardens: Growing Edibles in Containers
Container gardening is a wonderful solution for those eager to grow their own edibles but limited by space constraints. Whether you live in an apartment with only a small balcony or have a modest backyard, container gardening allows you to cultivate a vibrant array of...
Blue Blooms: Midnight Blue Lobelia, Blue Plumbago, Blue Daze
The color of a glaciers underbelly, Elvis’s chosen shade for suede shoes, and the dye that made Levi Strauss’s jeans a namesake, today is all about the cool, hue that’s blue. We’re talking about Midnight Blue lobelia, Blue plumbago, and Blue Daze. Lobelia ...
Red: Double Red Knock Out® Rose, Firebush, Firecracker Fern
Snow White’s color choice for the perfect apple, the brilliant blur of a racing fire engine, and one of the major stripes on a candy cane, today we are celebrating the color red. Firebush, Double Red Knockout® Rose, and Firecracker Fern will have you seeing red in...
A Rainbow Garden: Orange Trumpet Vine, Mari-Mums, Flame Acanthus
Fall’s reigning color, the hue of a dipping sunset and fresh-squeezed juice in the morning, today’s “Plant a Rainbow Garden” edition celebrates the color orange. Let’s welcome (or coerce) the cooler fall temperatures with some vibrant bloomers that will see you into...
Yellow: Esperanza, Thryallis, Columbine
We’re starting a fun new series, “Growing a Rainbow Garden”, where each week we’ll highlight plants with one color of the rainbow until we’ve covered the entire spectrum. Today it’s all about yellow. The color of sunshine, vibrant lemons, and soft butter, yellow...
Fall Transitional Gardening in San Antonio, Texas.
October is a transitional month when you’re gardening in San Antonio, Texas. There is the prospect of cooler weather, but temperatures may dip one week and rise the next. A fresh round of colorful annuals need a spot in the garden, but you may still be trying to hang...
Coneflower: How to Successfully Plant Coneflowers by Seed
When spring arrives, the thought of wildflowers and blooming beauties like purple coneflowers fill the dreamful eyes of many gardeners. They have the urge to load up baskets with packets of seeds and can’t wait to start planting. But more often than not, wildflowers...
