Texas purple sage (Leucophyllum frutescens) is a native Texas plant that has many outstanding characteristics. It can tolerate poor soils, has very low water needs, can take the heat and the cold and ...

When it comes to evergreen shrubs in the landscape, few can brag about having brilliant color, wide temperature hardiness, and the ability to thrive in almost any soil type. Texas sage (Leucophyllum ...

Q. I seem to remember you having taught us what this particular bush is but for the life of me, I can't remember what it's called ... monsoon plant? The couple next door have a grey-green shrub ...

If drops in barometric pressure, local rainfall and high humidity are triggers for getting a plant to come into bloom, Texas sage should have been flowering its branches off this past week. And it has ...

At first blush, the hot, dry, sunny weather in Texas can make it sound nigh impossible to cultivate a flourishing garden. Fortunately, that's far from the case, as there are hundreds of plants that ...

NORTH TEXAS (CBSNewsTexas.com) - Over the last three years, the weather in North Texas should be charged with a crime. First, we got the coldest three days in our history, down to -2° in February 2021 ...

Dear Neil: Can I trim and reshape my Texas sage plants (see photo)? They're so leggy. When should I do it? A: Trim them now, before new growth commences. You can remove 30 to 40 percent of their top ...

Gladiolus – This summertime bulb is a great cut flower. When I got this picture from a reader, I immediately thought a gladiolus, but I was somewhat surprised by the size of the individual blooms, the ...

Despite the overwhelming heat, there is a long list of plants that are blooming. Texas sage (cenizo) is blooming, and to many of us, that is a precursor of rainfall. Yes, I know that some ...

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 ...