As climate change makes South Texas' summers hotter and winters more likely to bring freezes, homeowners may want to reconsider their landscaping plants.

Known as one of the best heat tolerant perennials, Kassi tells us the Russian sage is yet another versatile drought tolerant plant. 'Its willowy features make it a top choice for drought-tolerant ...

Perennial ryegrass (Lolium perenne L.), widely cultivated in the cool-season for forage supply and turfgrass, is extremely ...

Brown University biologists identified when tomatoes are most vulnerable to heat and how some varieties resist it.

Most of the 180 varieties of honeysuckle shrubs and vines emit a sweet fragrance. Hummingbirds especially like any native varieties that are also heat tolerant. Most of the 180 varieties of ...

Here are some ways you can use these practices in your home garden. Unstressed or heat tolerant bean plants produce full-length pods with even seed development (left). Moderate heat stress can result ...

We grow several short-lived perennial herbs here as cool-season annuals because they are not heat tolerant. They include ...