by Happy Gardener | Aug 27, 2025 | Cactus & Succulents, Native/Xeriscape/Wildflowers, Xeriscape Solutions
Soft-leaf yucca (Yucca recurvifolia) is an excellent choice for gardeners in San Antonio, Texas. You get to enjoy the striking structure and form of yucca without any poky parts. Let’s explore what you need to know about planting and nurturing this unique plant in...
by Happy Gardener | Aug 18, 2025 | Cactus & Succulents, Native/Xeriscape/Wildflowers, Xeriscape Solutions
If you’re looking to enhance your garden with the stunning Hesperaloe parviflora, also called “false yucca”, and commonly known as “red yucca”, you’re in for a treat! This resilient plant thrives in San Antonio, Texas. We’ll highlight some basic growing...
by Happy Gardener | Jul 24, 2025 | Cactus & Succulents
Planting agave, cactus, and other desert specimens can offer a world of textural and structural interest into your landscapes. Their low water usage is a highly desirable trait for our area that sees more than its fair share of droughty summers. But San Antonio...
by Happy Gardener | Jul 21, 2024 | Cactus & Succulents, News & Events
Desert Rose, Adenium obesum, is a beautiful container specimen for San Antonio and surrounding areas. Its beautiful, trumpet-shaped flowers are a big draw (pollinators love them too), but the unique shape of its trunk, or caudex, is also one of the reasons enthusiasts...
by Happy Gardener | Oct 3, 2023 | Cactus & Succulents
Have you heard about Mangave? We are thrilled to be bringing in some of these unique specimens that offer your landscape structural interest, wrapped up in a hardy agave and mandfreda crossbreed. Mangave are quickly becoming a hot collectors item, and hopefully this...
by Happy Gardener | Nov 15, 2022 | Cactus & Succulents, News & Events, Winter Garden
This time of year, we are inundated with requests for holiday plants and Christmas cactus are usually one of the top requests. We bring in these beautiful schlumbergera and they fly out the doors. However, did you know that what you think might be a Christmas cactus...