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 ...

If drops in barometric pressure, local rainfall and high humidity are triggers for getting a plant to come into bloom, Texas sage should have been flowering its branches off this past week. And it has ...

With more than 6,000 species of California native plants, you would think that would be enough for a garden devoted exclusively to them. Yet occasionally you come across a plant with a pedigree that ...

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 ...