Plants with Purpose: Wild onions bolt their bulblets in early spring heat
Every spring our family relishes the Wild onion crop [...]
Plants with Purpose: multitasking plants that do more than look beautiful
You have space in your garden and are pondering [...]
Agarita crop goes from “gangbuster” to busted this year
Exceptional drought, an untimely freeze, and extremely high spring [...]
Legacy lawn at historic home in San Antonio transformed to wildflower meadow
The decision to convert a half acre of imported [...]
Migrating monarch butterflies seized at Texas border as part of Trump’s deportation policy
Border agents seized hundreds of monarch butterflies along the [...]
San Antonio’s H-E-B grocery chain partners with Native Plant Society of Texas
When the largest independent grocery store chain in the [...]
Drought, wind and wildfires await monarch butterfly spring migration in Texas
Monarch butterflies are making their way north, launching the [...]
Monarch butterfly numbers in Mexico vault 99% over last year’s near historic low, California population teetering
The eastern migratory population of monarch butterflies increased 99% [...]
Commercial butterfly breeders meet with USFWS regarding monarch butterfly ESA listing
Members of the International Butterfly Breeders Association (IBBA) recently [...]
The recovering beekeeper: my misguided quest to “save the bees”
In 2018 my friend Hugh called to offer me [...]