The dormant season is a great time to sow flower seeds, establish trees and shrubs, and get started on the vegetable garden.

Houston’s landscape may look browner than usual after this week’s frigid spell, but where the environment is healthy, there is no such thing as the ‘dead’ of winter. Hundreds of species of creatures ...

Check out new varieties of annual and perennial plants, including the 'Cookies and Cream' hibiscus, Golden Feathers ...

They provide striking architecture in the landscape and gorgeous color throughout the year, from yellow winter blooms to ...

A new study has revealed the dramatic impact that rising temperatures and changing rainfall patterns due to climate change ...

These are some of the best new perennial flowers and ornamental grasses hitting the market for your 2025 gardens.

J. conferta ‘Blue Pacific’ – Also called Blue Pacific Shore, this slow-growing, heat-tolerant juniper has handsome blue-green ...

Innovative sensor technologies, such as those used on dairy cattle, are generating large data sets that open up new research opportunities.

Special to The Highlander Wondering how to start a lush landscape of foliage that can survive the harsh Texas weather?Colleen Dieter, a top gardening educator, will address the topic of “Drought ...

Even well adapted plants can suffer damage if they enter the winter stressed by drought. With a little planning ... prepare landscape plants for the coming winter. Choosing Cold-Tolerant Plants As ...

New research points to an alarming pattern: Neighborhoods where money is tighter experienced twice the increase in dangerous combinations of heat and drought compared to wealthier areas over the last ...

We struggled out of the monsoon with most locations around the Valley well below on rain and way above on heat. State Climatologist Erinanne Saffell reported that 2024 was the driest on record for ...