Even there, no matter what, like all bonsai trees, it required watering once a day, and in Texas twice. ... This bonsai tree owned by Dallas' Bill Ward is estimated to be more than 700 years old.

Texas sage, which isn’t actually in the sage family, is an increasingly popular landscape plant. It is one of the few plants that seem relatively unfazed by the state’s capricious climate ...

A reader recently asked me to write about bonsai tree requirements, but more specifically, how to keep bonsai trees alive during the seasons. Let’s begin with a brief history of Bonsai, which in ...

Ferdinand Lindheimer, the father of Texas botany, collected the first herbarium specimens of big red sage in the 1840s. Other botanists reported it intermittently until 1946.

But it's the Texas sage's bloom that is stunning. Right now, seemingly out of nowhere, they are awash with light purple blooms. They seem to be a favorite of foraging bees too.