During the record-breaking heat of summer 2023, some Texans put their hopes of rainfall in the flowering of a silvery-gray shrub. An evergreen native to West Texas, South Texas, and the Edwards ...

Texas purple sage (Leucophyllum frutescens) is a native Texas plant that has many outstanding characteristics. It can tolerate poor soils, has very low water needs, can take the heat and the cold and ...

The healthiest Texas sage I ever saw was a large specimen that, seemingly by a miracle, was blooming adjacent to a freeway ...

When it comes to evergreen shrubs in the landscape, few can brag about having brilliant color, wide temperature hardiness, and the ability to thrive in almost any soil type. Texas sage (Leucophyllum ...

Texas sage shrubs, also called Texas rangers (Leucophyllum frutescens), are a familiar sight in Tucson. Older houses in particular may have large specimens of this plant. The Texas sage is native to ...

No plant takes the heat better than this beautiful blooming bush. Fact checked by Khara Scheppmann Texas sage is called barometer bush because it blooms after a rainfall, increase in humidity, or ...

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 Boerne. At Cibolo Nature Center, a hundred-acre preserve adjacent to Boerne ...

Q. I seem to remember you having taught us what this particular bush is but for the life of me, I can't remember what it's called ... monsoon plant? The couple next door have a grey-green shrub ...

Gladiolus – This summertime bulb is a great cut flower. When I got this picture from a reader, I immediately thought a gladiolus, but I was somewhat surprised by the size of the individual blooms, the ...