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Did you know that there are about 15 snakes that call Texas Discovery Gardens home? Our Snakes of Texas Exhibit has venomous and non-venomous Texas natives. No worries, it’s all behind glass!…

There have been several single monarchs around the gardens. We’ve also seen many queen butterflies –they’re related to monarchs and feed on milkweed as caterpillars, but they do not migrate.…

It’s time for our Fall Plant Sale at Texas Discovery Gardens. We’ve moved our sale up by more than a month to give gardeners more time to plant their fall…

This summer Texas Discovery Gardens had a mural contest. The theme was Native to Texas. Artists were to submit designs that focused the plants insects and wildlife of two of…

What better way to wait out the Texas summer heat than from under a great big tree!  Trees actively cool the air through evapotranspiration. They pull water from the soil,…

Next Saturday August 12, Texas Discovery Gardens will be celebrating pollinators at our annual Pollinator Party! At Texas Discovery Gardens we like to focus on butterflies when it comes to pollinators,…

Do your plants look a little sad in the middle of hot summer days? Do those same plants look fine the next morning? This is a concern many new gardeners have…

They both fly, they both have six legs and four wings, and sometimes it’s really hard to tell them apart. That’s not surprising since moths and butterflies are related. They…

Well, it’s mid-July in Texas and it’s HOT. Gardening in this weather is really only safe in the morning so be sure to keep hydrated and don’t over do it. …