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 ...

Summer is not far off, with plenty of warm weather ahead. Plan now so you know what flowers to grow, ones you can cut and ...

Botanically speaking, it is a Salvia farinacea, commonly called a mealycup sage. Gosh, I hate that common name. I suppose it is because I always look at things from a marketing standpoint.

As you may know, the Native Plant Society of Texas passionately advocates for the use of landscape trees, shrubs and other ...

Winter weather may be on the wane, but it will still be a while before we can get outdoors and work in the soil. Even so, ...

Unplugged Pink salvia have delicate pink, tubular flowers that bloom profusely on sturdy, upright spikes against deep-green foliage.

Take, for example, Salvia x guaranitica "Black and Blue," anise-scented sage. Imagine deep sapphire blue tubular flowers surrounded by black calyxes on black stems held above deep green anise ...