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Layer your garden from pathway to treetop for beauty, wildlife, and good eating. Layer your garden from pathway to treetop for beauty, wildlife, and good eating. Explore a native plant garden that ...

This well-illustrated guide captures the beauty, diversity, and engaging world of bees and the native plants that support them. Superbly designed and organized, this is an indispensable source of ...

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SAN ANTONIO — Even before winter dormancy turned lawns from green to brown, drought took its toll on turf. For those thinking ahead to spring's warmer days and green grass, there's a new native grass ...

Across the Texas High Plains, native grasses play a critical role in conserving water, discouraging invasion by unwanted ...

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 ...