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 ...

Some shrub-type salvias such as Mexican bush sage (Salvia leucantha) and bog sage (Salvia uliginosa) grow five feet or taller ...

Botanically speaking, it is a Salvia farinacea, commonly called a mealycup sage. Gosh, I hate that common name. I suppose it is because I always look at things from a marketing standpoint.

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

Take, for example, Salvia x guaranitica "Black and Blue," anise-scented sage. Imagine deep sapphire blue tubular flowers surrounded by black calyxes on black stems held above deep green anise ...