This week, the St. John’s Wort we have at Rainbow Gardens is bursting into bloom and the display is spectacular! Sunshine-yellow flowers with fiber optic centers appear in profuse numbers as if to greet the arrival of summer and stay long enough to greet fall. Blooms...
February has arrived, and believe it or not, it is time to start prepping for the spring garden season in San Antonio by planting and pruning specific plants. We all know that in this area, the weather can have us shoving our feet in wool socks and boots one day and...
Using shrubs as landscape plantings are a wonderful way to upgrade and add value to your homes. They can create interesting focal points or make wonderful backdrops to your perennial and annual gardens. Shrubs can provide structure to your landscape or provide privacy...
Winter is a time when holly shrubs shine. Many produce vibrant berries, making the local wildlife foraging through winter very happy indeed. It’s still a great time to plant trees and shrubs in San Antonio, so today we are highlighting a few varieties of hollies. With...
Have you thought of growing blueberries in your San Antonio landscape? Rainbow Gardens thinks that is a great idea! Not only do blueberries provide you with sweet and juicy, fruits, they also make attractive landscape specimens in fall when their foliage takes on...
A trip to the softball fields in Burleson, Texas this weekend had me running for my notebook to jot down my thoughts for a PSA blog this week. One look at the trees that lined the perimeter of the fields and i just knew I had to write a PSA on Cedar Fever, and the...
