Rainbow Gardens

Purple Fountain Grass can provide your landscape with beauty, texture, movement, and a plant that local birds will love. With fall in our reach, it’s a great time to get some ornamental grass into your yards. This is their time to shine. The Beauty of Purple Fountain Grass Let’s say it. One of ...

If you’re looking for a plant that can take the San Antonio heat, blazing sun, periods of drought, and still put on an impressive flower show, hesperaloe deserves a spot in your landscape. You may know hesperaloe best as red yucca, but despite its common name, it isn’t actually a true yucca. These evergreen, yucca-like perennials are native to Texas and northern Mexico and produ...

When temperatures stay in the upper 90s and 100s, plants can struggle even when they’re considered “full sun” or drought tolerant. We are all feeling the heat about now, right? The goal during extreme heat is often not to push new growth or blooms; it’s to reduce stress and help the plant survive until conditions improve. If you’re plants are struggling in the heat, today we hav...

We recently included a survey in our newsletter and asked you about your summer gardening struggles. We had a great response and are working this week to answer all who participated individually, but a couple of struggles were so prominent that I thought I’d address a few in some blogs. Summer pests were a big topic as we expected them to be. Most inquiries were about pests in g...

Today is all about the American Beautyberry (Callicarpa americana). This eye-catching plant provides flowers for tiny pollinators, berries and shelter for wildlife, and spectacular late summer/early fall interest for us gardeners. But beyond that, it also has a fascinating history of culinary, herbal, and even pest control uses.