Boerne & San Antonio

Boerne sits in zone 8b, which sounds gentle until a front comes through and drops us twenty degrees in six hours. Every year people lose plants not because the winter was harsh, but because the first freeze arrived before they were ready for it. Here is the timeline we work to in the greenhouse, and

Calatheas are sold in every garden centre in San Antonio with a tag that says “easy care.” They are not easy here. They are one of the hardest common houseplants to keep well in a Texas home, and it is worth understanding why before you buy a third one. The number nobody tells you Calatheas,

A lot of San Antonio apartments have one usable window, a north-facing patio door, and a lot of interior wall. Renters get told to buy a fiddle leaf fig, watch it drop every leaf, and conclude they cannot keep plants. The plant was wrong, not the person. Here is what actually works in a dim

Almost every week someone asks us for something that will not hurt a cat. It is the single most common constraint we get, and it is worth taking seriously: a curious cat will chew a pothos, and a bored dog will dig up a pot. The good news is that the pet-safe list is longer

Late September in the Hill Country is deceptive. The afternoons are still running in the nineties, so it does not feel like autumn, but the days are shortening fast and your houseplants have already noticed. What you do over the next six weeks decides whether they coast through winter or spend it slowly declining. Here

Brown, crispy leaf tips are the single most common problem we hear about from customers in Boerne and San Antonio. People assume they are underwatering, so they water more, and the tips keep browning. Then they assume root rot, so they water less, and the tips still brown. Usually it is neither. It is the

If you have killed a houseplant in San Antonio and quietly blamed yourself, it is worth knowing that the city fights you on three fronts at once: municipal water that runs hard and alkaline, air conditioning that strips indoor humidity down to desert levels for eight months of the year, and west-facing windows that behave