Get the secret to success with Billy Garza. Those cheery red seed coats are as hard as Texas summers! Billy Garza, Hill Country landscaper and grower, demonstrates his trick for fast germination. Once ...

Large shrubs and small trees complement the shade trees and small plants in a landscape and increase the variety and number of wildlife species that the landscape supports. Many of those available ...

Dear Neil: My Texas mountain laurel has been dying back trunk by trunk. I’m wondering if it’s due to the deep freeze of a few years ago or if it’s from the drought. It seems to be spreading. Should I ...

Q: I wrote earlier in the week about those pesky bugs that attack our Texas mountain laurel every year, and they have already started attacking this year. I am including a photo of the critter so that ...

Dear Neil: I have a Texas mountain laurel, but I'm thinking about taking it out. I'm tired of pulling the little new shoots that come up from its seeds. Is there a better solution? A: Oh, there has to ...