Privacy fences are fine, but they send a certain message to your neighbors. If you have a small yard, these trees might be a ...

If your yard could use more shade and needs it pronto, here are some of the best fast-growing shade trees to plant in the ...

Restoring even a fraction of the Tamaulipan thorn forest could help the region cope with the ravages of a warming world.

The Tamaulipan thorn forest once covered 1 million acres on both sides of the bor. Restoring even a fraction of it could help ...

Within a year, he’d counted 150 species flitting through the trees that circled ... provide climate benefits that will blossom for decades: providing shade, preserving water, reducing erosion ...

Growing ordinary apples and strawberries in your garden is satisfying, but there's something particularly exciting about harvesting exotic fruits that your neighbors have never seen. Contrary to ...

Texas is known for many things – sprawling ranches, BBQ that’ll make you weep with joy, and enough state pride to fill the Gulf of Mexico twice over. But tucked away in Gonzales County, about 80 miles ...

Housed in a historic building with gorgeous courtyard dining, Mary Mahoney’s serves up some of the Gulf’s finest treasures. Their gumbo is the stuff of legends. It’s packed with fresh seafood and has ...

Brighten up the shaded areas of your yard with shade-loving, flowering woodland plants. Here are some plants (with ...