Native Backyards

05/20/2026

New bird water feature is officially open for business! 🐤💦

05/07/2026

I’m digging this garden combo:
💛 Four Nerve Daisy
💜 Heartleaf Skullcap
🩷 Rock Rose

04/26/2026

04/16/2026

Garden Tour #2: Backyard Bed

Showing you the area where I removed 200 sq ft of St Augustine grass a few years ago and have replaced it with !

04/15/2026

April Garden Tour #1: Fence Garden Bed

Showing you all the plants in my narrow bed along the side fence in our back yard. This used to be all Asiatic Jasmine!

Now there is:
✅ Fall Obedient Plant
✅ Inland Sea Oats
✅ Cedar Sage
✅ White Mistflower
✅ Purple Coneflower
✅ Rock Rose
✅ Turks Cap
✅ Autumn Sage
✅ Pigeonberry
✅ Mealy Blue Sage

More tours of my garden beds to come!

04/12/2026

What plant in your garden are you loving right now?

03/24/2026

Packing up all the little baby plants from my garden to give away at tonight’s .sanantonio plant exchange at Brackenridge Park! I love how a native plant garden continues to produce new plants to share with others. 💕 Here’s what I am bringing:

✅ Rock Rose
✅ Fall Obedient Plant
✅ Inland Sea Oats
✅ Maximilian Sunflower
✅ Snakeherb

03/21/2026

This beauty was in full bloom on my neighborhood walking trail. Receives zero supplemental water throughout the year. 👍

03/18/2026

has Rattlesnake Master among its spring Texas native plant selections! 🎉 I have always wanted to try this cool looking… and funny named plant. I’m adding three to my wildflower bed as it is supposedly highly deer resistant. We’ll see how it goes! Leave any tips below. 😉

P.S. I’m offering my popular Design Your Dream Garden workshop LIVE on Zoom on April 8! Sign up here: https://nativebackyards.com/design-your-dream-garden-workshop/

03/15/2026

Bring on the hummingbirds! My feeder is officially up and open for business! Have you spotted any hummingbirds migrating north yet?

03/01/2026

My Carolina Jessamine is blooming and it smells amazing! This vine is a great native Texas plant to add to your garden - I saw some at my local HEB last week.