Technically speaking, the aster family is a botanical crazy quilt of composite bloomers (plants whose inflorescences contain ...

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The best time to plant roses in West Texas is fall or early spring. If you find yourself planting in the spring, it is even ...

As climate change makes South Texas' summers hotter and winters more likely to bring freezes, homeowners may want to reconsider their landscaping plants.

Asps, also call puss caterpillars, are found on shrubs and live oaks, but you can kill them without harming your plants.

Biodynamic winemaking goes beyond organic or sustainable farming. Some producers believe it also influences when wine tastes ...

Texas Superstars must also be easy to propagate ... then produce numerous stalks of small, white, bell-shaped flowers above green foliage during early spring. The foliage then goes dormant ...

As the second-largest state, Texas covers an extraordinary amount of the geographical area in the U.S., able to fit 15 of the smallest states together in its boundaries. Because of the size of the ...

There’s perhaps nowhere that native wildflowers put on a more marvelous display than ... the oldest dance hall in Texas. The white-clapboard venue hasn’t changed much since its founding in Gruene, ...

It’s an overcast day in November, and Amy Medley, a lead horticulturalist at the Ladybird Johnson Wildflower Center, stands ...