by Happy Gardener | Apr 16, 2018 | Pests & Diseases
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 | Pests & Diseases, Pollinators
Inviting beneficial insects into your San Antonio landscape is a great way to help you naturally fight off pest problems we face while gardening in our city. Beneficial insects are helpful insects that make their living by devouring your garden pests, working...
by Happy Gardener | Mar 25, 2018 | Pests & Diseases
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 | Pests & Diseases
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 | Deer Problems & Solutions, Deer Resistant Plants, Native/Xeriscape/Wildflowers, Pests & Diseases
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 | Sep 8, 2015 | Pests & Diseases
If there was one complaint we heard plenty this summer, it was about plants being munched up left and right by deer. Some folks said they would plant up some brilliantly blooming specimens when it seemed that the word got out that their yard was the new delectable...
