10 Awesome Native Texas Landscaping Ideas
Not only can native plants create an even more unique and beautiful garden than traditional landscaping plants, they require less maintenance and little water once established.
5 Tips for Your Sunshine Meadows Wildflower Hike
Are you headed to Banff National Park looking for a unique hike? The Sunshine Meadows hike is not to be missed! At Sunshine Meadows, you not only get gorgeous mountain views along the Continental Divide, you get alpine meadows filled with wildflowers.
20 Beautiful Wildflowers of Alberta Canada
The Canadian Rockies come alive with native Canadian wildflowers during the summer. I had so much fun photographing and identifying these native plants on a recent trip to Banff National Park in southern Alberta.
Cenizo (Texas Sage) – A Beautiful Native Evergreen Shrub!
Cenizo (Leucophyllum frutescens), also known as Texas Sage, is an awesome evergreen Texas native plant to add to your garden. Its gray-green leaves add beauty throughout the year, while it is periodically has displays of prolific purple blooms after a rain, giving it the nickname “Barometer Bush”.
Top 7 Texas Native Ground Covers
There are several great native Texas ground covers, and each deserves a spot in your garden. These low-growing plants are often overlooked but they can provide beautiful interest, an additional dose of color, a natural weed barrier, and soil erosion control.
Snake Herb: A Cool Native Texas Ground Cover
Don’t be turned off by its name: Snake Herb (Dyschoriste linearis). This beautiful Texas native ground cover won’t give you any snake bites! Just lovely petite purple flowers that attract butterflies.
This perennial native ground cover is relatively fast-growing. Add it to a sunny area of your garden with well-drained soil for best results!
5 Reasons to Plant Woolly Stemodia
Are you looking for a Texas native ground cover to add interest to your garden? Look no further than Woolly Stemodia (Stemodia lanata). This silvery-white ground cover creates a beautiful contrast to leafy green perennials. This low-growing and semi-evergreen is a good choice for your garden bed.
5 Reasons to Plant Four Nerve Daisy (Tetraneuris scaposa)
Four-Nerve Daisy is low-growing and evergreen, making it a versatile plant at the front of a landscaping bed, in a zeriscape, or in a container pot. Its delicate flowers sway in the breeze!
5 Reasons to Grow Lemon Mint (Monarda citriodora)
Lemon Mint (Monarda citriodora) may just be my favorite Texas wildflower! I love its unique stacked blooms and pretty purple flowers. This plant goes by more than one common name – you may have also heard it called Lemon Beebalm, Horsemint, or Lemon Bergamot. All are referring to the same plant! Native to the southern US, this wildflower can handle full sun to partial shade. It starts putting on basal leaves in early spring and blooms in the summer.
5 Reasons to Grow Zexmenia (Wedelia texana)
Need a full sun drought-tolerant Texas native plant to add to your yard? Zexmenia (Wedelia texana) is for you! Butterflies and other pollinators love this small shrub with a sprawling growth habit. A long-time bloomer, Zexmenia will brighten your garden from May through November!