So Mark created “a secret garden” by installing a fence and a yew hedge around the wedge-shaped yard, which he gradually ...

Two of my favorite flowering trees, and perhaps yours, too, are the redbud and lilacs. Both are just finishing their ...

New plants should be watered by hand using a water breaker or a water bubbler on a water wand handle. Apply as much water as ...

As Central Texas faces it first 100-degree heat of 2025, we revisit this 2022 story on how to plant a drought tolerant, frost resistant Austin garden.

Many plants in Texas landscapes are suitable hosts for aphids, including bedding plants, ash, barberry, boxelder, crape myrtle, jasmine, flowering almond, gardenia, hibiscus, hydrangea, mountain ash, ...

Similarly, our younger trees — loquat, cedar elm, pomegranate, Eastern red cedar, red oak, bigtooth maple, flame-leaf sumacs ... stars of my Texas garden. Both are full sun plants, so mine ...

This native southeastern plant has yellow berries as its key identifying mark, plus pale purple flowers and hairy leaves. Horsenettle can grow to be about 3 feet tall. The plant's berries are ...

Once they begin blooming in spring, these plants provide color all summer long and they are water thrifty. Blackfoot daisy is a Texas native ... as needed is curly leaf parsley (Petroselinum).

A century of print journalism may soon come to an end in South Texas after the University of Texas – Rio Grande Valley (UTRGV) announced plans to purchase The Monitor newspaper building.