Fredericksburg, Texas sits like a well-kept secret in the Hill Country, where retirement dreams come true without the nightmare of coastal price tags or big-city hassles.

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The healthiest Texas sage I ever saw was a large specimen that, seemingly by a miracle, was blooming adjacent to a freeway ...

One of the first and most difficult was back in the late 70s when we all were searching for a replacement for common St. Augustine — the most popular turfgrass in Texas. A fatal virus called St.

When I first visited Mrs. Lee’s Daffodil Garden around 40 years ago, I left a note in their suggestion box letting them know that they needed to cut or thin some trees in order to keep the daffodils ...

After 88 years of brightening Big Spring lives, the cherished name Faye’s Flowers has a beautiful new chapter — and a ...

Each fall, millions of monarch butterflies fly across Texas skies on their 3,000-mile journey to the mountains of central Mexico. The state's position in the center of the migratory route makes it ...

Pennsylvania’s climate is perfect for growing spring-blooming bulbs. We have plenty of winter cold for favorites such as tulips and daffodils to get their needed “chill” time, then we usually have a ...

Fall is the perfect time to plant wildflower seeds if you want a vibrant yard of bluebonnets, sunflowers, coreopsis, and other Texas favorites next spring. Michael Arnold, Ph.D., director of The ...

As the autumn season progresses, many of our annual and perennial flowers are sporting seed heads or fruit. If you examine the tops of spent flower spikes, you will usually see a nice seed head with ...

SPRING, Texas — Spring ISD is now the first school district in Texas to earn the region's highest-level certification for active shooter preparedness. The “Active Shooter Preparedness Certification” ...

CLEBURNE, Texas — At Cleburne Floral, beauty meets grief. Corey Hartley is one of roughly 25 florists across Texas who’ve joined a grassroots effort called Flowers for Texas — a coalition formed just ...