Prepping the garden for a spring explosion of color

There are only two requirements to gardening in the Texas Hill Country – adaptability and patience.

Unfortunately, adaptability and patience do not come in small, beautifully wrapped packages and cannot be purchased at your local nursery. Additionally, no amount of fertilizer will make them flourish. Like it or not, these traits are required characteristics to becoming a successful gardener in the Texas Hill Country.

Gardening in the Hill Country comes with its unique challenges, the first being the weather. We get teased in February when we have a few 70-degree days, then we start eyeing our favorite trowels only to have our gardening hopes of digging dashed by a cold snap that brings frost and more cold days.