During the record-breaking heat of summer 2023, some Texans put their hopes of rainfall in the flowering of a silvery-gray shrub. An evergreen native to West Texas, South Texas, and the Edwards ...

Texas purple sage (Leucophyllum frutescens) is a native Texas plant that has many outstanding characteristics. It can tolerate poor soils, has very low water needs, can take the heat and the cold and ...

If drops in barometric pressure, local rainfall and high humidity are triggers for getting a plant to come into bloom, Texas sage should have been flowering its branches off this past week. And it has ...

No plant takes the heat better than this beautiful blooming bush. Fact checked by Khara Scheppmann Texas sage is called barometer bush because it blooms after a rainfall, increase in humidity, or ...

The healthiest Texas sage I ever saw was a large specimen that, seemingly by a miracle, was blooming adjacent to a freeway ...