Feature Category Archive

The Case for Mowing Less: How Science Supports Lazy Lawnmowing - Research shows that reducing mowing frequency boosts flower diversity and supports more bees in everyday lawns.
After Reducing Your Lawn, Planning for New Plantings - After reducing your lawn, learn how to plan plantings and build a garden that grows with you.
Rest the Rake and Leave Some Leaves - Why easing up on the raking can create waves of benefits.
A Garden Grows at Ann Richards School - How one student got the courtyard blooming
Beyond the Blossoms: Where the Wild Things Hide - The team of volunteers documenting Wildflower Center fauna
Take It Outside - The benefits of hands-on, high-touch outdoor education
Not Cutting It - Why No Mow May isn't enough to change Texas lawn culture
Horticultural Heroes - Saving native plants from the bulldozer
The Draw of Nature - How the act of creating fosters community
A Place and a Promise - Reflections on our past, present and future
Big white bluestem prickly poppy blooms above purple blooms of prairie verbena along a concrete path. Grounded - On being in place and acknowledging what came before
The white seed of a stiff goldenrod hangs delicately from a spent flower which is also white and fluffy with brown parts in the center. Travel Agents - How seeds drop, fly, ride and float their way to new soils
A cross-section of a sunflower seedling sprouting up from the dirt. The tiny roots reach further into the soil. The Life Below - The unseen and very important work of plant roots

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