Garden Planning
Purple Fountain Grass: A Tender Perennial for San Antonio, Texas
Purple Fountain Grass can provide your landscape with beauty, texture, movement, and a plant that local birds will love. With fall in our reach, it's a great time to get some ornamental grass into your yards. This is their time to shine.The Beauty of Purple Fountain...
How to Grow Hesperaloe in San Antonio, Texas
If you're looking for a plant that can take the San Antonio heat, blazing sun, periods of drought, and still put on an impressive flower show, hesperaloe deserves a spot in your landscape. You may know hesperaloe best as red yucca, but despite its common name, it...
Top 10 Ways to Help Plants Battle Extreme Summer Heat
When temperatures stay in the upper 90s and 100s, plants can struggle even when they’re considered “full sun” or drought tolerant. We are all feeling the heat about now, right? The goal during extreme heat is often not to push new growth or blooms; it’s to reduce...
Identification of Pests: What to Look for and Where to Look
We recently included a survey in our newsletter and asked you about your summer gardening struggles. We had a great response and are working this week to answer all who participated individually, but a couple of struggles were so prominent that I thought I'd address a...
Native, American Beautyberry: Benefits from Leaf to Berry
Today is all about the American Beautyberry (Callicarpa americana). This eye-catching plant provides flowers for tiny pollinators, berries and shelter for wildlife, and spectacular late summer/early fall interest for us gardeners. But beyond that, it also has a...
Identifying and Controlling Mealybugs
Are your plants showing signs of weakness? Perhaps they just don’t look like they are growing healthily, or maybe you're seeing yellow leaves or leaves dropping? Mealybugs are out and about right now, and it’s possible that they may be out and about on your plants....
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