I recently went looking for one of the rarest of Texas’s rare plants in what seemed like an odd place: near the middle of ...

Texas sage. Not to be confused with Salvia texana, also sometimes called Texas sage, this Texas sage is not actually a true ...

Salvia coccinea brightens up gardens with tall ... but pesky deer and rabbits leave the plants alone. In warm zones, Texas sage is a perennial; in colder zones, it’s treated as an annual.

As you may know, the Native Plant Society of Texas passionately advocates for the use of landscape trees, shrubs and other ...