Neil Sperry’s Lone Star Gardening Holiday Special 2024 • 344 pages and 840 of my best photos. • Hardback, printed on high-quality paper. • I sign every copy as it …
It was probably 35 years ago. I asked my good friend the late Benny Simpson why almost all native Texas plants have incredibly tough seedcoats. It seems like you have …
Datura wrightii. Sacred thorn-apple, Jimsonweed, Datura, Angel trumpet, Sacred datura. Photo by Campbell and Lynn Loughmiller. Closeup photo on the main page of e-gardens by Joe Marcus. Keeping Cool with Silver It’s …
Resurrection fern. Photo by Lynn and Campbell Loughmiller. Native Garden Ferns River fern. Photo by David Mahler Maidenhair fern planted along a created stream. Photo by David Mahler Wavy cloakfern …
Native Polycultural Turf Grass The native turf grass test plots at Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center. Photo courtesy of Andrea DeLong-Amaya. Being a diehard gardener and plant junkie, I tend …
Wanda Lancaster prepares mealy blue sage to add to an arrangement of pink evening primroses, penstemons, and blue curls. All photos by Andrea DeLong-Amaya. Native Wildflowers for Cutting Bouquet of …
Scarlet buckeye (Aesculus pavia), also know as red buckeye and firecracker plant, features red tubular flowers that are especially attractive to hummingbirds. Gardening for Hummingbirds Horsemint False aloes Cardinal flower …
Drummond’s onion (Allium drummondii) is one of several native species that are apt to suffer from unraked leaves around their bases. See Tip 9. Photo by Robert L. Stone. “Dirty …
Native plant garden at the Wildflower Center. Winecup, phlox (P. pilosa), twist-leaf yucca, and prairie beardstongue (Penstemon cobaea) mixed with mealy blue sage. Photo by Andrea DeLong-Amaya. What Is a Native …
