GRAPEVINE - Tim Yatko considers his front yard a suburban oasis, lush with native Texas grasses that require little water and draw butterflies and other beneficial insects. City officials in Grapevine ...

Learn how to remove horseherb from zoysia, whether to move Texas mountain laurel and what may be wilting a redbud tree.

Many native ornamental grasses are host plants (food sources) for the larval or caterpillar stages of butterflies and moths. Most of these grasses stand upright through fall and winter, providing ...

Every spring I come to the same conclusion; mowing grass is a colossal waste of time. While I go around and around on a ...

The wide-open vistas of the Texas High Plains weren’t always cotton fields and center-pivots, they were once carpeted in shortgrass prairie, a hardy mix of native grasses. Today, re-establishing and ...

Q: Why is my crape myrtle dead? The bark is splitting and peeling off. Inside, the trunk is black and the wood is moist. The plant beside it has leafed out normally. My grapefruit is another story. It ...

Yet Glynn has both a personal and a professional grudge against the ornamental shrub, which is not native to Vermont. As the state botanist for the Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department, she’s ...