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

Texas purple sage (Leucophyllum frutescens) is a native Texas plant that has many outstanding characteristics. It can tolerate poor soils, has very low water needs, can take the heat and the cold and ...

Cenizo, also known as Texas sage, is a native plant that has been selected and bred to fill an important and unusual role in the landscape. A week ago, a number of the Texas sage plants in landscapes ...

Despite the overwhelming heat, there is a long list of plants that are blooming. Texas sage (cenizo) is blooming, and to many of us, that is a precursor of rainfall. Yes, I know that some ...

If drops in barometric pressure, local rainfall and high humidity are triggers for getting a plant to come into bloom, Texas sage should have been flowering its branches off this past week. And it has ...

Texas is a huge state, so it’s not surprising that some of its native plants grow well in Florida if properly sited. Once such plant is Texas wild olive, rarely seen in the Sunshine State. Ranging ...