What is Fasciation?
Fasciation occurs as the result of a genetic mutation, which induces the growing tip of the plant to produce a
23Aug
02Aug
Survive, Don’t Thrive: Helping Your Garden Make It Through a North Texas Summer
By late July and August, many North Texas gardeners begin to wonder what went wrong
29Jun
Time for the Texas Chop
Are your perennials looking leggy and kind of sad? Time for the Texas Chop
14Jun
Whose Eggs are These?
Identifying eggs from photos can be tricky, especially as there are several birds breeding in North Texas that lay bluish
29May
What Kind of Ants are Eating my Plants?
To be precise, those ants are not eating your plants; they are taking those pieces of leaf back to their nests to feed a
05May
Why do my Irises have Fewer Blooms?
Bearded iris plants are touted as being easy to grow plants for the landscape, but they do have certain needs
18Apr
Sedges perform important ecosystem services.
Many gardeners hear “sedge” and immediately think of nut-sedge
30Mar
Should Redbuds Have Blooms on their Trunks?
A hallmark of the redbud tree, Cercis canadensis, is its ability to produce flowers flowers and fruits on older parts of the tree
03Mar
Are Owls Beneficial in the Garden?
Owls, like many species of native birds, are threatened by urbanization activities that reduce
26Jan
Cold Stratification
What does it mean on the seed packet when it says, “seeds benefit from stratification prior to germination?”
