Extras
Create plant communities for rewarding sustainable gardens and wildlife interaction.
Power Up Plant Collaborations
Landscape architect Rachel Raise selects plants to attract specific wildlife.
Planting Pollinator Diversity
Chloe Phea explains semi-hydro techniques and benefits based on her STEM background.
Grow Semi-Hydro Houseplants
Texas gardeners logged incredible wildlife shots; identify a common fungal disease.
How it’s Growing: Summer 2021
Get more fall flowers for pollinators with summer pruning, plus ideas for fall planting.
Native Plants: Summer Prune
See how Yolanda Nagy finds the good food we love at farmers’ market and stands.
Farm Fresh: Keepin’ It Local!
Gardeners across Texas celebrate plants and wildlife rebounding after winter’s freeze.
Spring Surprises Post-Freeze!
Find out what’s bugging you and what you should do with entomologist Wizzie Brown.
Summer Bugs: Trouble or Not?
Cultivating Place: Jennifer Jewell
Jennifer Jewell grows philosophy for change through public radio, podcast, and books.
Cultivating Place: Jennifer Jewell
Learn how to grow drought and flood tolerant crinum lily bulbs with Tejas Bulbs.
Crazy About Crinum Lilies!
Find love and joy growing cut flowers with Laura Ruiz Brennand of La Otra Flora.
Cut Flower Garden Love
See how to include native plants in sun and shade, even with your adapted favorites!
Navigating Native Plants
Get clever ideas to grow micro food in containers and small spaces with Jen McGuinness.
Tiny Plants for Big Tastes!
Grow a Bunch of Native Grasses
Native grasses add beauty, wildlife habitat, and rainwater control in sun and shade.
Grow a Bunch of Native Grasses
Find out how mushrooms grow, what they do, and why they matter to our ecology and plants.
What are Mushrooms?
Changing How We Grow: Barton Springs Nursery
Bernardine and Conrad Bering changed our philosophical landscape at their nursery.
Changing How We Grow: Barton Springs Nursery
Danielle Belleny: Co-founder of Black Birders Week
Racial injustice led wildlife biologist Danielle Belleny to co-found Black Birders Week.
Danielle Belleny: Co-founder of Black Birders Week
Top Tomato Tips for Hot Climates
Find out why tomatoes don’t produce when it gets hot.
Top Tomato Tips for Hot Climates
Slippery Slopes to Gardens and Outdoor Living Hangouts
Michael Harper and Jed Duhon turned harsh slopes into inviting living areas and outlooks.
Slippery Slopes to Gardens and Outdoor Living Hangouts
Great Shots from CTG Gardeners
See what fellow gardeners are growing and the wildlife that visit them.
Great Shots from CTG Gardeners
Austin Organic Gardeners: 75 Years of Growing Good
Austin Organic Gardeners’ Mary Kraemer explains how to grow soil health for healthy food.
Austin Organic Gardeners: 75 Years of Growing Good
From Drought to Deluge: The Resilient Central Texas Garden
Get your top tips for gardening in challenging soil and weather conditions.