The Draw of Nature

How the act of creating foster community

A Place and a Promise

Reflections on our past, present and future

Grounded

On being in place and acknowledging what came before

Plant Some Rubber

Plant Some Rubber

An unassuming native shrub could change the future

Born to Rock

Born to Rock

Lithophilic plants don’t need no stinking soil, and don’t call them cute either

Falling Water, Thriving Plants

Falling Water, Thriving Plants

A famous Frank Lloyd Wright site embraces native landscapes

The Bees’ Needs

The Bees’ Needs

Creating habitat for native bees is as easy as one, two, three

Bloom, Set, Match

Bloom, Set, Match

What draws certain pollinators to particular plants

Burns Into Boons

Burns Into Boons

The phoenixlike adaptations of native plants

Planted

Planted

The challenge of finding one’s place and growing in it

Pull It or Plant It: Inland Sea Oats

Pull It or Plant It: Inland Sea Oats

A lively debate about inland sea oats

Centered: Fall/Winter 2020

Centered: Fall/Winter 2020

Center news that's close to home

Off-Center: Fall/Winter 2020

Off-Center: Fall/Winter 2020

News from outside the garden gate

Field Guided

Field Guided

Native plants and the local landscape in Texas art

Living Space

Living Space

Native habitat gardens provide for birds, pollinators and people

Still Life

Still Life

Drawing nature to soothe the inflamed mind

Plant and Parcel

Plant and Parcel

Get growing with a versatile, portable container garden

Pull It or Plant It: American Century Plant

Pull It or Plant It: American Century Plant

A lively debate about American century plant

LATEST ISSUE

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2021 | Volume 38, No. 2

A Different Light
Creative photography helps us see flowers with new eyes

The Life Below
The unseen and very important work of plant roots

Pull It or Plant It
A lively debate about our state plant, the prickly pear

Legume Room
Tips for discerning between yellow-blooming Fabaceae trees

Travel Agents
The multifarious ways plants get their seeds into soil

Wildflower Center News
The latest on our gardens and our work

In the Canopies
Treehouses bring adventure and serenity home

Grounded
Time travel via tallgrass prairie

Reflections and Reclamation
On Black Botanists Week and the power of representation

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