Sun or light shade. A leafy green vegetable, often with brightly colored neon stalks. In Texas chard is often used as a winter annual, alongside other ornamentals. Depending on conditions, it may [...]
Sun. Kale is a cool-season leafy green vegetable with high nutritional value. It’s considered much closer to the original wild form of cabbage, but unlike domesticated cabbage, kale’s [...]
Dappled shade or morning sun. Evergreen, with feathery, threadlike leaves on tall, hollow stems. Umbels of tiny yellow flowers appear with warm weather. \n\nA soft-textured perennial in any herb [...]
Full sun; a warm-season annual with a sweet, pungent flavor. Widely used in Italian and Asian dishes. The aroma adds magic to any outdoor space in summertime.\r\n\r\nBasil requires consistent [...]
Partial sun. Long-lived and enduring. An herbaceous perennial with a tidy mound of foliage and big, feltlike borage leaves. Like few other garden plants, comfrey’s is considered nearly [...]
Bright shade or part sun. Semi-evergreen in warm winters, though most years it will freeze to the ground. Cut back to 2-3\” as needed to refresh tired foliage. The hollow leaves are edible [...]
Full sun. A cool-season parsley with a fresh citrus-like taste; try growing it outside from mid-November to mid-March. The leaves are widely used in many Latin American and Asian dishes. [...]
Best in shade; in sun it will wither, but recovers with every rainfall. A big, herbaceous perennial with large, heart-shaped leaves and knotty stems forming spreading clumps during the warm [...]
Part or full sun. A large, weedy, woody-stemmed herb, with lance-like leaves and panicles of greenish flowers. Resinous, with a strong musky scent likened to both perfume and to gasoline. Epazote [...]
Full sun to very light shade; a short-lived, cool-season annual in South Texas, growing from October to early April; white flowers appear in umbels. Like other parsleys, dill is a larval host for [...]