Amid the Flowers

Craft Meets Community in HCCC’s Artsy, One-of-a-Kind Garden

Learn where dyes, papers, basket-weaving fibers, and other natural craft supplies come from thanks to Houston Center for Community Craft’s incredible collection of over 70 plants.

08/26/2025 By Meredith Nudo

Happy Place

Houston Nurseries to Help Make Your Life a Little Greener

Check out our favorite local spots to buy trees, herbs, and flowers, as well as soil, pots, and gardening accessories. Did we mention all the animal friends?

04/22/2025 By Stephanie Bartels and Daniel Renfrow

Green Thumbs Unite!

Community Gardens to Grow Your Own Food in Houston

Here’s how to get involved with small farms across the city.

07/31/2024 By Uvie Bikomo

Shapes & Textures

Meet Discovery Green’s Color-Blind Horticulturist

With a unique perspective, Brian Wilmer has helped transform the park since its creation 16 years ago.

04/15/2024 By Uvie Bikomo

Garden Rescue

An Expert Shares Tips to Save Your Plants from the Hard Freeze

As an Arctic front descends, ensure that your garden emerges unscathed with tips from a pro at the Houston Botanic Garden.

01/12/2024 By Uvie Bikomo

City Guide

Challenge Yourself to Do These 12 Houston Things in 2024

Explore the city with this monthly calendar of traditions, events, and must-visit places.

12/27/2023 By Uvie Bikomo

Plantfluencer

This Social Media 'Plantfluencer' Offers More Than Just Gardening Tips

Here's how Garden Marcus became a viral sensation on Tik Tok.

09/15/2021 By Emma Schkloven

Get outside in the sunshine

5 Things to Do in Houston This Weekend, June 11–13

Save your dying flower beds, dance your tail off, then fly away.

06/11/2021 By Brittany Cristiano

Spruce Up

5 Tips for Perfecting Your Spring Greening Game at Home

Jemine and Matthew Oakes, founders of The Flora Culture, talk all things indoor plants.

03/23/2021 By Laura Furr Mericas

Bayou’s 11

The Art Heist That Wasn’t

Earlier this week, burglars broke into Bayou Bend Collection and Gardens. You won’t believe what happened next.

03/19/2021 By Catherine Wendlandt

New Living Museum Grows Where You Might Not Expect

Houston Botanic Garden transforms a former Hobby-area golf course into a world-class oasis.

09/03/2020

Patio Power

5 Ways to Vastly Improve Your Outdoor Space

Make your backyard the talk of the neighborhood.

06/09/2020 By Timothy Malcolm

What to know before you grow

What Should Beginning Gardeners Plant in Their Yards?

The secret to getting that Secret Garden look.

05/20/2020 By Catherine Wendlandt

Get Out

12 Activities to Do Outside While Still Social Distancing

There is so much you can do in the great outdoors.

05/01/2020 By Houstonia Staff

Stave off boredom

5 Hobbies To Fill Your Time During the Stay-Home Order

Our days continue to inch along in these uncertain times, but maybe you can learn a thing or two.

04/06/2020 By Ngozi Iloka

Flower power

Can Nature Help Make Chemo Easier to Endure?

A new garden lifts the spirits of cancer patients at Houston Methodist.

04/01/2020 By Gwendolyn Knapp

Staying Alive

Care for Trees with the Ancient Art of Bonsai

How Houston's bonsai artists are passing down their artful tradition.

04/01/2020 By Gwendolyn Knapp

Home Improvement Headlines the New HTown Home & Outdoor Living Show at Silver Street Studios

The event mixes home organization, color, design, floral ideas, tips, and White House stories with opportunities to meet one-on-one with local home improvement contractors in a smaller, boutique-like setting.

02/21/2020

The Buzz

How to Help Bees In Your Own Backyard

August 17 is National Honey Bee Day, but you don't need a hive to help.

08/16/2019 By Gwendolyn Knapp

Not-So-Secret Garden

Meet the Landscape Designers Transforming Houston's Prettiest Gardens

For Lanson B. Jones & Co., it's all in the details.

07/08/2019 By Dalya Mawlawi