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...
by Happy Gardener | Aug 11, 2022 | Cactus & Succulents
Agave are wonderful specimens to include in your San Antonio landscapes. They bring textural interest to your surroundings while providing an evergreen, low maintenance and low water usage plant. They love the sunshine and the heat it produces, most can even tolerate...
by Happy Gardener | Mar 8, 2022 | Cactus & Succulents, Native/Xeriscape/Wildflowers
Including desert specimen plants (yucca rostrata, yucca thompsoniana, agave, sotol, cactus, etc…) can create striking texture and interest in your Texas landscapes. These plants are not only beautiful, most are also native and xeriscape options. Today i’m...
