Now, about eight of these gently scented plants are starting to bloom in a wet depression in the front yard. As July ...

Picture the open grasslands of North America, alive with the chatter of prairie dogs—creatures so unassuming, yet so ...

Ever wonder what the Plains Indians used for food? If you answered bison or buffalo, you are partially correct. There's no ...

These prairie plants help improve the soil while also protecting his more fertile fields from bursts of heavy rain and severe storms, which are becoming more frequent.

In celebration of Jacksonville's bicentennial, Dr. Michael Woods is writing a series of articles on some of Jacksonville's ...

Stones Prairie raffling quilt at picnic ...

The Prairie Nursery online catalog, which offers woodland as well as prairie plants, groups species by their soil adaptation, which is a useful starting point for identifying a community. Diboll is ...

These prairie plants help improve the soil while also protecting his more fertile fields from bursts of heavy rain and severe storms, which are becoming more frequent.

Dark soils like we have are usually high in organic matter. That stands to reason, because the Blackland Prairie was the ...

Central Texas is  known as 'Flash Flood Alley.' Recent floods in San Antonio, Kerrville, Austin and elsewhere a reminder of a ...

(Prairie wildflowers and grasses like fungal-dominated soil, he said.) Within a few years, native seeds that laid dormant for years re-sprouted. Wildflowers now bloom there 10 months of the year ...