Perennial flowers are a gardener’s best friend, returning year after year with little maintenance. But some bloom for on ...

Water passes through sandy soil like a sieve—any plants growing in sandy soil must be drought-tolerant, because water passes ...

Thankfully, this drought-tolerant variety is just as low-maintenance as the fake plants you can buy at the store. ZZ plants only require occasional watering, and while they do best in bright light ...

Perennials, shrubs and small trees native to the Chihuahuan Desert give color to San Antonio gardens while providing food and ...

MARYLOU MARCHAND, Master Gardener The recent siege of bitterly cold days found me with some photos and a rough sketch of my yard scattered on the dining table, seed catalogs and various gardening ...

Note that it often takes drought-tolerant plants one year to establish a root system large enough to enable them to reliably ...

It might be winter but planting season will be here before we know it. If needing help selecting a new tree, shrub, perennial ...

The Perennial Plant Association has announced that the 2017 perennial of the year is Asclepius tuberosa or butterfly weed. It is hardy in USDA zones 4-9 but can be grown in our zone using good ...

The plant blooms from early summer to early fall with the most profuse number of flowers in mid-summer. With a long tap root (it’s a member of the carrot family!), it’s drought-tolerant and ...