Just because a plant grows wild in the swamps of Southeast Texas or the deserts of West Texas, it doesn’t get a blanket ...

In the heart of the Texas Hill Country, the sprawling 1,000-acre Spicewood Ranch is serving as a living laboratory for vital ecological research.  Spicewood Ranch, located just outside of Austin, has ...

Texas A&M says St. Augustine is native to areas around the Gulf of Mexico, the West Indies, and Western Africa. It has also been collected from Africa, Australia and New Zealand. This grass ...

We certainly have native azaleas in the U.S., but the types we most commonly see in nurseries and landscapes have descended ...

Do you want to have the Texas iconic bluebonnets, Indian blanket or golden tickseed in your yard next spring? Now is the time ...

Then one day I got an email asking questions about this mystery grass. A landowner had it blooming on their property and wanted it identified. They also wanted to know if it was native or non ...

Prairie dogs also have a significant role in maintaining native grasslands, a whopping 62 percent of which have been lost ...

according to Texas A&M AgriLife Extension). In fact, too much rain (or fertilizer) permits infiltration by other types of grasses and weeds. This native turfgrass prefers poor soils, including ...

Re “Garden Mastery: California native grasses bring ‘natural’ into home landscapes” (Sept. 14): Thank you so much for the excellent article by Sherry Goldman. I only wish there was space ...

Texas peanut producers increase acreage after back-to-back years of drought, according to Texas A&M AgriLife Extension ...

But the spread of two things — people and non-native grasses — are helping disrupt that pattern by putting too much fire on the landscape too often. Lightning accounts for less than a quarter ...

Highs in Dallas-Fort Worth have been in the high 80s these last few days but are expected to break 90 Thursday, Saturday and ...