I recently went looking for one of the rarest of Texas’s rare plants in what seemed like an odd place: near the middle of ...

When spring is in the air, there’s nothing like seeing color in the garden. These bright spring annuals, from violets, pinks, ...

Grow milkweed (Asclepias) to support monarch butterflies, hummingbirds, and bees while adding color, fragrance, and beauty to ...

Over the past few years, a new weed has been making an appearance in Southern lawns. Called skyseed, or Chevreul’s sharp lawn ...

Companion planting is a mutually beneficial placement of compatible plants and natural pest management — the keys to complete ...

A expert has shared their “must have” flowers to create a beautiful cottage garden. Cara Thompson of makeitflourish on TikTok posted a helpful video showing which blooms she has chosen in order to ...

You’d never guess by looking at a seed that it’s alive; that suspended in a state of dormancy, it waits for a certain set of environmental conditions to spur it into growth. Those triggers ...

Ideally, mature fruit trees should be irrigated to a depth of 3 feet. Blast aphids from plants with a spray of water or insecticidal soap. Pinch back perennials and fast-growing annuals to encourage ...

Most types of annual and perennial flowers can be pinched back to control growth ... Other flowers, such as campanula, cockscomb, dill, larkspur, and most sunflowers, do not benefit from this and ...