Texas Native Garden Tour — Year 3 Changes Everything (Spring)

A Texas native yard has a learning curve nobody warns you about. Year 3 is when it finally starts to click — when plants spread on their own, impossible spots fill in, and the landscape begins to tell you what it wants to become. Here's what that actually looks like. ⭐️ Free 7-Lesson Email Series — Texas-specific lessons covering what I wish I'd known before planting a single thing: https://coryames.com/txnative 📗 Texas Native Yard Guide — the decision-making framework built specifically for Texas, your ecoregion, your yard: https://store.coryames.com/pages/texa... 📍 CHAPTERS: 00:00 — Introduction 01:00 — Plants That Spread on Their Own 01:15 — Zexmania 01:45 — Flame Acanthus 02:45 — Coralberry 03:30 — Turk's Cap 04:15 — Mexican Buckeye 05:15 — Tackling Dry Shade Under Live Oaks 06:45 — Donald Gerber on Planting Under Oaks 07:45 — What's Growing in the Backyard Now 08:30 — The Full Sun / Hostile Corner 10:00 — What I Let Stay (and Why) 11:30 — Virginia Creeper on the Columns 14:45 — A Few More Favorites Right Now 18:30 — Texas Native Yard Guide 📚 RESOURCES MENTIONED: Pollinatives Nursery (Donald & Melanie Gerber) — https://maps.app.goo.gl/jhSPjnMvxTpZ1... 🌿 MY WORK: 📬 Texas Field Notes — a short Friday dispatch from the same desk-to-trail workflow that powers my essays, short films, and native plant guides: https://coryames.com 📬 The San Antonio Something — weekly newsletter for San Antonio locals: https://cory-ames.kit.com/cfc0c898b2 🛍️ Wild & Wise Texas Goods: https://store.coryames.com #TexasGardening #NativePlants #SanAntonio