by Happy Gardener | May 5, 2021 | Gardening Basics, News & Events, Spring Garden, Summer Garden
There’s no real mystery why we love when the weather warms up enough to plant impatiens. Impatiens deliver on providing quick, impactful color, and they offer it in the shade! Yes, you can have flowering color in your shade garden and impatiens are a fast way to...
by Rainbow Gardens | Apr 21, 2021 | Garden Planning, Spring Garden, Summer Garden
Is it too soon to start thinking of the inevitable heat that will be blasting it’s way into our gardens before we know it? I personally don’t think so. Our advice at the stores is to think and prep a season ahead for the best success; summer is up next....
by Happy Gardener | Mar 6, 2021 | News & Events, Spring Garden, Summer Garden, vegetables
Large Red Cherry tomatoes are one of the best producing tomatoes for our climate in San Antonio. The heat of our summers is too harsh for most large and extra large tomatoes. Once the temperatures hit the 90’s and higher, fruit production is essentially shut...
by Happy Gardener | May 12, 2020 | Gardening Basics, News & Events, Pollinators, Summer Garden
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...
by Happy Gardener | May 12, 2020 | News & Events, Pollinators, Summer Garden
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...
by Happy Gardener | May 12, 2020 | Fall Garden, News & Events, Pollinators, Spring Garden, Summer Garden
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...
