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How to Water Native Plants
By Debbie Roland and Emmy Ulmschneider, Master Gardeners We both love natives! They can be challenging to find, easy to plant, require...
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- Jun 12
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Wild Spring Flowers
Photo: Emmy Ulmschneider. Native prairie yard. By Emmy Ulmschneider and Debbie Roland, Master Gardeners We love the spring wildflower...
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- Apr 24
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Buffalograss – a Short Grass
By Debbie Roland and Emmy Ulmschneider, Master Gardeners An article about our short native grasses lets me talk about two of my favorite...
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- Apr 17
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Tall Native Prairie Grasses
By Emmy Ulmschneider and Debbie Roland, Master Gardeners Across the Great Plains, including Texas, there are a gradient of physical...
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- Apr 10
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Native Prairie Grasses
Native shortgrass prairie remnant at Windlands Park. (Photo by Emmy Ulmschneider) By Emmy Ulmschneider and Debbie Roland, Master...
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- Mar 20
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Planning for Year-Round Color
By Debbie Roland and Emmy Ulmschneider, Master Gardeners Have you ever noticed that some perennial beds look like they just pop up all by...
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- Feb 8
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Turk’s Cap
By Debbie Roland and Emmy Ulmschneider, Master Gardeners Prolific beautiful red blooms Turk’s Cap, Malvaviscus arboreus var. drummondii,...
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- Jan 9
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Beginning a Yard
Start with a plan and research how to implement it. By Debbie Roland, Master Gardener Permian Basin Master Gardeners all hope you had a...
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- Oct 29, 2022
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Coreopsis
By Debbie Roland and Emmy Ulmschneider, Master Gardeners Coreopsis is a daisy like flower that is dependable and colorful. Plains...
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- Sep 20, 2022
- 2 min
Get the Blues
By Debbie Roland and Emmy Ulmschneider, Master Gardeners Did you know that less than 10% of flowers are blue? For the past few years,...
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- Sep 14, 2022
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West Texas Wildflowers
By Debbie Roland and Emmy Ulmschneider, Master Gardeners Texas is known for its iconic spring wildflowers. But to have wildflowers in...
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- Sep 3, 2022
- 2 min
Fall Flowers
By Debbie Roland and Emmy Ulmschneider, Master Gardeners I think we get so busy planting vegetables in the summer that sometimes we...
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- Aug 1, 2022
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Curly Mesquite Grass
By Debbie Roland and Emmy Ulmschneider, Master Gardeners Curly Mesquite (Hilaria Belanger) is a native, warm season grass that grows...
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- Jun 24, 2022
- 2 min
Creating a Rock Garden
By Emmy Ulmschneider and Debbie Roland, Master Gardeners In West Texas we have access to rocks. Rock gardens can be made up of any size...
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- Jun 6, 2022
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Flagstone and Rock Border Plants (Ideas)
By Emmy Ulmschneider and Debbie Roland, Master Gardeners In our last article we described four native plants that make wonderful ground...
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- Jun 4, 2022
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Native Groundcovers
By Debbie Roland and Emmy Ulmschneider, Master Gardeners After the rain some of us were blessed with, the weeds will start popping up. ...
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- May 10, 2022
- 3 min
Elements of the Attractive Yard
By Debbie Roland and Emmy Ulmschneider, Master Gardeners Have you ever stood in your yard and thought “I need to do something in here.”...
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- Feb 6, 2022
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Vitex and Butterfly Bush: Why or Why Not?
By Debbie Roland and Emmy Ulmschneider, Master Gardeners We first wrote about Butterfly Bush (Buddleia davidii), in August, 2021. It is a...
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- Jan 9, 2022
- 2 min
Plumbago
By Jessie Clark, Master Gardener While some plants may express their resentment of the desert heat in the summer, well-established...
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- Jan 4, 2022
- 2 min
Lemongrass
By Debbie Roland and Emmy Ulmschneider Lemongrass (Cymbopogon citratus) is a herb-like grass that is native to Malaysia and India. It is...
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