Texas Gardening103 Stories
Gardening GuidesGreat Design Plant: Cornus Florida Benefits Wildlife
Flowering dogwood provides fiery red foliage in fall and beautiful springtime blooms
Full StoryGardening GuidesGreat Design Plant: Millettia Reticulata
Large purple flower clusters grace this robust climbing vine
Full StoryGardening GuidesGreat Design Plant: Justicia Spicigera Brings In the Hummingbirds
Brighten shady areas with the colorful flowers of Mexican honeysuckle, also called mohintli, which appear all year long
Full StoryGardening GuidesGreat Design Plant: Skyblue Aster (Symphyotrichum Oolentangiense)
This showy aster tolerates dry conditions and brings in the pollinators with its violet-blue flowers in fall
Full StoryGardening GuidesGreat Design Plant: Conoclinium Coelestinum
Blue mistflower is a critical late-season native for pollinators that blooms for weeks
Full StoryGardening GuidesGreat Design Plant: Salvia Leucantha
Soft, velvety purple spikes gracefully arch over the gray-green foliage of Mexican bush sage in spring through fall in western U.S. gardens
Full StoryGardening GuidesGreat Design Plant: Chamaecrista Fasciculata Brightens City Boulevards
Plant partridge pea in eastern U.S. gardens for its bright yellow flowers, lacy foliage and drought tolerance
Full StoryGardening GuidesGreat Design Plant: Please Bumblebees by Planting Baptisia Lactea
Plant wild white indigo in central and southeastern U.S. gardens for its large white flower heads and early-spring interest
Full StoryGardening GuidesGreat Design Plant: Ebenopsis Ebano
The dense canopy of Texas ebony’s foliage adds a welcome touch of dark green to the Southwestern landscape
Full StoryGardening GuidesGreat Design Plant: Heliopsis Helianthoides, a Pollinator Favorite
Plant smooth oxeye in eastern U.S. gardens for its bright, sunny flowers and upright form
Full StoryGardening GuidesGreat Design Plant: Thalictrum Dasycarpum Dresses Up Shorelines
Plant tall meadow-rue on central U.S. shorelines and in moist gardens for its frilly cream flowers and blue-green softly lobed foliage
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