How’d you feel about the sun recently pushing our temperatures up into the upper 90’s recently? We had a big string of cloudy weather (and not enough rain), and now that the sun has finally arrived, it blazed in like a furnace! We need the sun to rosy up our tomatoes,...
A stop in to one of my favorite Facebook pages, The Butterfly Landing, inspired this week’s blog on Maximilian sunflowers. Laura Jarvis, owner and operator of The Butterfly Landing, often highlights amazing pollinator plants, many of them native, on her...
Is there a picture that pops into your mind when you hear the word “xeriscape”? I know that when I first envisioned what this word meant, I pictured sparse, twiggy plants, with little to no color, sticking up out of dry dusty soil. Maybe an occasional green cactus...
You know how at the end of summer, plants look a little peaked and you are craving some color in your landscape but the weather is still too warm for cool weather annuals to really live comfortably? Enter the solution. Profusion zinnia is a great choice for...
Water conservation is no joke here in San Antonio, Texas. It’s feast or famine in our neck of the woods. Conserving water might not be on our minds when we have a spring that is so wet and cloudy we struggle to get our tomatoes to blossom and fruit. On the other hand,...
This year we have been blessed with extra rain during summer, but most of us remember how dry and hot it normally is this time of year. It’s a given that our dry, hot, summers are bound to return. If you’re tired of flowers fading with the onset of heat,...
