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Learn how companion planting with Texas native plants conserves water, attracts pollinators and helps vegetables thrive, plus ...

The wide-open vistas of the Texas High Plains weren’t always cotton fields and center-pivots, they were once carpeted in ...

In some ways, plants are like people. They need food and water. They’re made to grow. And each one is meant to put down roots in the right environment and thrive. For 30 years, the Northeast Texas ...

LONGVIEW, Texas (KLTV) - The Native Plant Society of Texas works to preserve and promote the plants that make up the region. The Northeast Texas Chapter celebrated their 30th anniversary at the ...

You are ready to take the plunge and move to a more well-adapted regional landscape. But where do you start? The good news is you do not have to start by eliminating the landscape plants you already ...

Since 1989, the Houston Press has been the city's first free major arts, news and entertainment weekly. Today, it continues as an independent daily online publication to bring best in class reporting ...

Large shrubs and small trees complement the shade trees and small plants in a landscape and increase the variety and number of wildlife species that the landscape supports. Many of those available ...

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 Boerne. At Cibolo Nature Center, a hundred-acre preserve adjacent to Boerne ...

What are the best alternatives to invasive exotic plants? What are the best alternatives to invasive exotic plants? Get Jared Pyka's ideas. On tour, see how a native garden found new life when ...

Andrew Kaufmann / Courtesy of the George W. Bush P Now that spring is officially here, ways to spend more time outdoors are top of mind, including getting your hands dirty tending to the garden. For ...