ROCK ROSE

I arrived at the garage sale just as it was finishing. "Did you sell the bench you were advertising?" I asked. "No" It w...

Yesterday I worked outside my walls. I had a new plant to put in the ground. This cane cholla, Opuntia imbricata , was a passalong from one ...

I decided some time ago that I needed to paint the bamboo in the jar the same color as the Whale's tongue agave, Agave ovatifolia ....

It's not a plant that everyone would want to grow even though it has such amazing flowers. The problem is that when the flowers opens th...

Two of my favorite views of my whale's tongue agave, Agave ovatifolia , are looking through the side gate into the front garden. An...

Drive around Texas after a fall rain and as like as not you'll see roadsides of rain lilies, Zephranthes ssp and gardens of oxblood lili...

Last year, at my local nursery, they had some floating islands in their water garden. What a great idea. They were made out of some kind of ...

When I posted the photograph of my Texas fishhook barrel cactus, Ferocactus hamatacanthus, earlier this week I was totally unaware of its m...

My garden has got the blues. Cape plumbago,  Plumbago auriculata,  on the left and Leadwort plumbago,  Ceratostigma plumbaginoides, on t...

There is no better sign that cooler days are on the way than the flowering of the senna that grow in my garden. The first is the Lindheimer ...