Texas Gardener magazine

About Texas Gardener magazine

For more than 40 years, the gardeners of Texas have relied on Texas Gardener magazine to provide them the most up to date, factual, research based horticultural information available. Texas Gardener’s writers are leaders in the Green Industry. They are the horticultural professionals that are developing the plants and processes that constantly improve the gardens and gardeners of Texas. As passionate gardeners, we truly believe that gardening matters.

Latest from Texas Gardener magazine

Honeydew, But Not the Melons: When Aphids Attack
Honeydew, But Not the Melons: When Aphids Attack
#pest control
Honeydew is not just a melon - it's also a sticky, sugar-rich liquid that aphids secrete. 
3 min read
Gourds: King of the Cucurbits | Vego Garden
Gourds: The King of the Cucurbits
#squash#vegetables
I love gourds. I mean I really, really love gourds. I am not sure where my obsession comes from, but I do know that my earliest plant memories involve gourds.
2 min read
Tigers in the Garden | Vego Garden
Tigers on the Loose in the Garden
#pollinators
Swallowtail butterflies are the largest and showiest butterflies, and I’m guilty of admiring them over the smaller, less-flashy flappers.
4 min read
Your May Gardening Checklist | Vego Garden
Your May Gardening Checklist
#gardening tips
Vegetables, herbs, trees, flowers, shrubs, lawn and more. Here's your May gardening checklist.
9 min read
Late April in the Zone 9 Garden
Late April in the Zone 9 Garden
#Garden Beds#gardening tips#lawn care
By now most of our spring and summer veggies are in the ground. This makes the early part of May a time of fertilizing and weeding. 
3 min read
Grow Better Garden Caladiums: Tropical Perennial Heart Leaves
Grow Better Garden Caladiums: Tropical Perennial Known for Heart-Shaped Leaves
#flowers
Few plants are as beautiful and carefree as caladiums. The heart-shaped foliage is a stunner on its own, or planted with annuals.
6 min read
In Your Garden: Grow Better Bell Peppers
In Your Garden: Grow Better Bell Peppers
#fruit#vegetable gardening
All peppers come from plants that produce flowers that have both male and female parts. 
4 min read
In Greg's Garden: Friends that Keep Growing
In Greg's Garden: Friends that Keep Growing
#flowers
As a lifelong horticulturist, naturally most of my friends have been gardeners. And what genuine gardening friends don’t share their plants?
4 min read
Ask Chris: Low Branches, Sick Oleanders and Colorful Squash | Vego Garden
Ask Chris: Low Branches, Sick Oleanders and Colorful Squash
#gardening tips
Do you have a gardening question? Texas Gardener magazine has the answer.
2 min read
All-Season Aloes, Manfredas and Mangaves | Vego Garden
All-Season Aloes, Manfredas and Mangaves
#succulents
Medicinal aloe (Aloe vera), the source of a large number of health remedies, is one of the best-known plants in the world.
5 min read
Texas Gardener magazine

About Texas Gardener magazine

For more than 40 years, the gardeners of Texas have relied on Texas Gardener magazine to provide them the most up to date, factual, research based horticultural information available. Texas Gardener’s writers are leaders in the Green Industry. They are the horticultural professionals that are developing the plants and processes that constantly improve the gardens and gardeners of Texas. As passionate gardeners, we truly believe that gardening matters.
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