By Emmy Ulmschneider and Debbie Roland, Master Gardeners Across the Great Plains, including Texas, there are a gradient of physical...

Native shortgrass prairie remnant at Windlands Park. (Photo by Emmy Ulmschneider) By Emmy Ulmschneider and Debbie Roland, Master...

By Debbie Roland and Emmy Ulmschneider, Master Gardeners Have you ever noticed that some perennial beds look like they just pop up all by...

By Debbie Roland and Emmy Ulmschneider, Master Gardeners Prolific beautiful red blooms Turk’s Cap, Malvaviscus arboreus var. drummondii,...

Start with a plan and research how to implement it. By Debbie Roland, Master Gardener Permian Basin Master Gardeners all hope you had a...

By Debbie Roland and Emmy Ulmschneider, Master Gardeners Coreopsis is a daisy like flower that is dependable and colorful. Plains...

By Debbie Roland and Emmy Ulmschneider, Master Gardeners Did you know that less than 10% of flowers are blue? For the past few years,...

By Debbie Roland and Emmy Ulmschneider, Master Gardeners Texas is known for its iconic spring wildflowers. But to have wildflowers in...

By Debbie Roland and Emmy Ulmschneider, Master Gardeners I think we get so busy planting vegetables in the summer that sometimes we...

By Debbie Roland and Emmy Ulmschneider, Master Gardeners Curly Mesquite (Hilaria Belanger) is a native, warm season grass that grows...

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...

By Emmy Ulmschneider and Debbie Roland, Master Gardeners In our last article we described four native plants that make wonderful ground...

By Debbie Roland and Emmy Ulmschneider, Master Gardeners After the rain some of us were blessed with, the weeds will start popping up. ...

By Debbie Roland and Emmy Ulmschneider, Master Gardeners Have you ever stood in your yard and thought “I need to do something in here.”...

By Debbie Roland and Emmy Ulmschneider, Master Gardeners We first wrote about Butterfly Bush (Buddleia davidii), in August, 2021. It is a...

By Jessie Clark, Master Gardener While some plants may express their resentment of the desert heat in the summer, well-established...

By Debbie Roland and Emmy Ulmschneider Lemongrass (Cymbopogon citratus) is a herb-like grass that is native to Malaysia and India. It is...

By Debbie Roland, Master Gardener Society garlic (Tulbaghia violacea) is a herbaceous perennial that produces long narrow leaves and...

By Debbie Roland and Emmy Ulmschneider, Master Gardeners Liriope (Liriope spp.) is an evergreen, tough, grass-like perennial. Also called...

By Debbie Roland and Emmy Ulmschneider, Master Gardeners When you see a passionflower (Passiflora spp.) it seems to be a very delicate...