COLLEGE STATION, Texas (KBTX) - With the current heat, you probably don’t want to work too hard in your yard. The experts at Texas A&M AgriLife have a trick you can use now to start growing your own ...

The most noticeable blooms in my neighborhood are on Texas mountain laurel and redbud, but the cemetery iris, bluebonnets, larkspur and rain lilies are also blooming. Last year, mountain laurels ...

In a normal year, more blooming and other plants would be providing color than what we are seeing so far this year. The plants that are doing their part contributing to the 12 months of color that ...

Dear Neil: That was great information on how to start Texas mountain laurels from seeds you gave us here recently. No wonder I never could get them to germinate. Two more questions. How much water ...

Q: I have had two mountain laurel bushes for 15 years . Suddenly last fall, one dropped its leaves. The stems were green and it is starting to bloom and add some new leaves. The other bush had some ...

Q: Why would a mountain laurel lose leaves and start to tilt? I have two others, and they seem to be doing fine. A: That sounds like drought damage. Even venerable native Southwest Texas plants can ...

Dear Neil: How hard is it to transplant Texas mountain laurel shrubs? A friend in the Hill Country has offered me some large ones growing on his property. Answer: It's not easy. The first issue comes ...

Q: I wrote earlier in the week about those pesky bugs that attack our Texas mountain laurel every year, and they have already started attacking this year. I am including a photo of the critter so that ...

Dear Neil: Is it possible to influence the flower color of my Texas mountain laurels? They bloom light blue. I'd like to find something I could put on them to get darker blue flowers. A: Unfortunately ...

A regional tollway authority will spend $1 million on 55 small, native Central Texas trees for Austin Memorial Park Cemetery. Under federal law, the cemetery was supposed to get a sound wall during ...

Spring is starting to bloom across Texas and some wildflowers are putting on a spectacular show. At the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center, horticulture educator Andrea DeLong-Amaya says Texas ...