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Texas Gardening Gadgets
Most Helpful Gardening Gadgets Getting Young Trees through Hot Times Large Southern Magnolia Tree: you cannot buy a tree like this you can only take care [...]
June Perennials for Texas
June Blooming Texas Perennials Purple Cone Flower and Salvia Greggii both June blooming perennials in Texas. June blooming perennials Sedums [...]
Fig Trees
Fig Trees I absolutely adore a fig tree. Each year my grandmother would send me off to college with a jar of fig preserves. Sometimes [...]
Red Crape Myrtles
Dynamite Crape Myrtle Dynamite® was widely acclaimed for its red flowers and became hugely popular, inspiring searches for more red-flowering crape myrtles. Dr. Whitcomb continued [...]
Dallas Field of Tulips in Vinca Minor
Dallas Field of Tulips in Vinca Minor Vinca is a ground cover that thrives in the shade blooming in mid-March to early April in Texas. [...]
Spring Lettuce in Texas
Spring and Fall Lettuces in Texas Spring and Autumn Lettuces in the Texas Garden There really are no differences between spring and fall lettuces in [...]
Gadgets and Ideas
Features and Concept Gardens
Touch of Class Hybrid Tea
Touch of Class hybrid tea is rated by the American Rose Society as the finest hybrid tea rose in the world.
Top Ten Texas Roses
Top Texas Roses Heat hardiness is the crucial component for the Texas Rose Garden. Two factors cannot be overcome, even in lush east [...]
Welcoming Doors in Dallas Landscape Design
Welcoming Doors and Drive / Dallas Landscape Design Ready for summer with a classic combination of Geraniums, red and orange, and gray Dusty Miller with [...]
Ferns in Texas
Ferns Are Happy in Texas!! Ferns are perennials and provide incredible texture and contrasting color to a garden. They are found in all parts of [...]
Dallas Landscaping April Bloomers
Dallas Landscaping What's Blooming in April!
Dallas Landscaping May Bloomers
Dallas Landscaping and Design: What's Blooming in May!
Lady Bugs in Texas Gardening
Gardening with Ladybugs and Children Lady bugs eat aphids and other garden pests. Release your Lady Bugs into your garden at night after it has [...]
Japanese Maple
Japanese Maples in Texas Japanese Maple is the understory tree of choice in Texas now. They are slightly easier than dogwoods to initiate into the [...]
Japanese Maple
Japanese Maples in Texas Japanese Maple is the understory tree of choice in Texas now. They are slightly easier than dogwoods to initiate into the [...]
Best Texas Shrubs
Shrubs that can withstand Texas drought conditions.
Texas Gardening Gadgets
Most Helpful Gardening Gadgets Getting Young Trees through Hot Times Large Southern Magnolia Tree: you cannot buy a tree like this you can only take care [...]
June Perennials for Texas
June Blooming Texas Perennials Purple Cone Flower and Salvia Greggii both June blooming perennials in Texas. June blooming perennials Sedums [...]
Smoke Tree
The ‘Royal Purple’ cultivar is prized for its deep burgundy foliage and has received the Royal Horticultural Society’s Award of Garden Merit for its ornamental value.
Fig Trees
Fig Trees I absolutely adore a fig tree. Each year my grandmother would send me off to college with a jar of fig preserves. Sometimes [...]
Julia Child – A Shrub Rose
Julia Child Shrub Rose Julia Child a Texas shrub rose. The leaves are a dark, leathery glossy green. The blossoms are a brilliant yellow. This [...]
Carefree Beauty or Katy Road Pink – A Texas Shrub Rose
Carefree Beauty Rose (a.k.a. Katy Road Pink) Designated Texas Superstar rose. Carefree Beauty Rose Carefree Beauty, also known as Katy Road Pink, is another rose [...]
What’s Working in Dallas
Texas Gardening
Julia Child – A Shrub Rose
Julia Child Shrub Rose Julia Child a Texas shrub rose. The leaves are a dark, leathery glossy green. The blossoms are a brilliant yellow. This [...]
Carefree Beauty or Katy Road Pink – A Texas Shrub Rose
Carefree Beauty Rose (a.k.a. Katy Road Pink) Designated Texas Superstar rose. Carefree Beauty Rose Carefree Beauty, also known as Katy Road Pink, is another rose [...]
Prairie Harvest Rose
Prairie Harvest The 'Prairie Harvest' rose is a notable cultivar developed by Dr. Griffith J. Buck in 1985. This medium to large shrub rose [...]
Gemini – Texas Rose – Hybrid Tea
Gemini Rose - Hybrid Tea for Texas Hybrid tea roses bloom after the shrub roses. Their root structure is typically not as deep, but when [...]
Top Ten Texas Container and Annual Gardening Ideas
Best Flowers to Plant in Texas Single Plant Containers The best flowers to plant in Texas are often a combination of annuals and perennials even [...]
Landscaping Design with Crape Myrtles
Landscaping Design with Crape Myrtles This Dallas Red crape myrtle creates stunning welcome. And here is my same old question: wouldn't a loropetalum or two [...]
Drought Tolerant Landscape Design in Texas
Water Restrictions! Water Bills! Forgot to Water! Irrigation System Broken! Forget all that. Go drought tolerant. Here are some ideas. Drought resistant landscape design in [...]
Raised Bed Gardening in Texas
Raised Bed Gardening in Texas Raised Gardening Beds in Texas Landscape Design Concrete blocks will raise the PH in your garden soil so you may [...]
Twilight Garden Walk
Shaded Perennial Garden Dallas is and always has been a gardening town though it is not always easy to garden here. You must fight drought [...]
Magnolias Alone and as Hedges
Magnolia Popular Hedge Row Tree A Note About Magnolia Hedges If you want a true thick hedge plant the magnolias as close as you want. [...]
Japanese Garden Landscape
Full Moon Bridge - Japanese Garden Landscape More on Japanese Garden and Landscaping Like all gardens Japanese Garden landscaping is a work in [...]
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