A Texas Gardening Influencer Followed by Thousands
A Texas Gardening Influencer Followed by Thousands

Whether or not you use social media, you are no doubt at least aware of Instagram, a visual social-media platform that has 500 million active daily users and over a billion who use it on a monthly basis. We’re talking worldwide here, which adds up…

Grow Texas-Tough Tarragon
Grow Texas-Tough Tarragon

Really? You can grow tarragon in Texas? Well, not quite. Texas tarragon (Tagetes lucida) is a Texas Smartscape superstar plant that adds tarragon-like flavor to food and drinks. Unlike the temperamental French tarragon (Artemisia dracunculus), which is challenging to grow in Texas because it does…

Landscapes with a Tapestry of Textures
Landscapes with a Tapestry of Textures

It’s the middle of winter, and your landscape has settled into a sleepy dormant period. Deciduous trees and shrubs, now barren of leaves, show their skeletal twigs, branches and trunks. Conifers as well as evergreen trees and shrubs now hold court with their greenery. While…

Paste Tomatoes
Paste Tomatoes

Juicy, flashy and intensely flavored tomatoes seem to get all the glory these days, so it may come as a shock to tomato aficionados that not everyone swoons over a platter of luscious love apples. Some gardeners don’t care for fresh tomatoes, yet they enjoy…