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Summer Cosmos: Easy Color for the Hottest Days of the Year

Cosmos are some of the easiest color you can grow in a Texas summer. Here's how we plant them and keep them blooming through the heat.

How to Grow Texas Bluebonnets from Seed

Learn how to grow Texas bluebonnets from seed, including scarification, fall planting, sun and soil needs, and why patience pays off in the first year.

How to Grow Cornflowers (Bachelor's Buttons) in Texas

Learn how to grow cornflowers (bachelor's buttons) in Texas, from fall and spring sowing to sun, soil, water needs, deadheading, and reseeding blooms.

Sunflowers: The Field That Feeds the Bees

By late summer our sunflower rows are leaning east to west with the sun, and the pollinators haven't missed it. Here's why sunflowers earn a spot in every Hill Country garden.