by Happy Gardener | Nov 13, 2025 | Annuals & Perennials, Fall Color, Fall Garden, Seasonal & Gardening Tips, Winter Garden
If you’re looking to add height, movement, and brilliant fall color to your landscape, forsythia sage (Salvia madrensis) is a unique and great choice for San Antonio and surrounding areas. Known for its tall, architectural form and soft, vibrant, yellow flower spikes,...
by Happy Gardener | Apr 2, 2025 | Annuals & Perennials, Native Perennials, Native/Xeriscape/Wildflowers, Texas Perennials
Is sunshine yellow your color? If so, you might want to take a look at an under-utilized, low-growing perennial that also loves the sunshine and can take the heat of our San Antonio, Texas summers. I’m talking about Calylophus. Other names you may have heard...
by Happy Gardener | Oct 3, 2024 | Annuals & Perennials, Seasonal & Gardening Tips
We’re starting a fun new series, “Growing a Rainbow Garden”, where each week we’ll highlight plants with one color of the rainbow until we’ve covered the entire spectrum. Today it’s all about yellow. The color of sunshine, vibrant lemons, and soft butter, yellow...
by Happy Gardener | May 9, 2022 | Herbs, Ornamental Shrubs, Trees & Shrubs
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...
by Happy Gardener | Apr 6, 2022 | Annuals & Perennials, Native Perennials, Native/Xeriscape/Wildflowers, Pollinator Perennials, Pollinators
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...
