Spice up your autumn garden with warm hues, berry-bursting blooms and fragrant foliage. It’s the coziest backdrop for enjoying your preferred pumpkin-spiced beverage outdoors. Fall in South Texas always warms my heart with its beautiful weather and exhilarating snout butterfly explosions — it’s the perfect backdrop for enjoying the outdoors with a pumpkin-spiced drink in …

In Bexar County, water is the hot commodity. With our growing population, how we use this invaluable resource matters. Replacing some or all of your lawn with beautiful WaterSaver landscaping plants is an easy and effective way to reduce your water use, save money and create a more interesting yard! When maintained effectively, a WaterSaver …

Plant fall tomatoes now. Select varieties that are determinate or semi-determinate, so they grow their foliage quickly and then concentrate on maturing their fruit before the cold weather arrives. To extend the bloom period cut off the spent blooms or new seed pods on poinciana, vitex, crape myrtle, and zinnia if it is practical. Removing …

HOW TO PLANT PERENNIALS: Measure the fit. Check the plant tag to see how wide and tall your new plant will be at full size. Get out a measuring tape and make sure it fits in the area you plan to plant it. Imagine it growing in a circle and mark the center where you’ll …

How fierce is your flora? Pick party hearty plants and your landscape will sizzle in the summer scorch. Feel the heat! Though spring has just sprung, it’s not too early to think ahead to summer and how your landscape will fare in what will likely be a hot, dry season. I know what you’re thinking… …

New this month: a selection of poppy with a dark maroon bloom. Poppies are a cool weather blooming annual that reseeds itself. Great addition for winter color in your dormant perennial beds and butterfly gardens.

MILBERGER LANDSCAPE NURSERY HAS A WIDE VARIETY OF PRODUCTS TO HELP YOUR YARD AND LANDSCAPE SURVIVE IN THE FACE OF WATER RESTRICTIONS. REVIVE: Easy to use, organic based soil treatment designed to save water. REVIVE improves water penetration into soil making more water available to roots even in times of restrictive use and drought. Fortified with …

If you had grub damage in the lawn last year it is time to apply a soil insecticide to control this year’s grubs before they grow too large to control. The same soil insecticide will control chinch bugs. Some plantings of New Gold Lantana are attacked by lace bugs each year with the result that …

Get 20% off merchandise at Milberger’s After you are done enjoying your fresh-cut Christmas Tree bring it to Milberger’s for recycling. We will accept your discarded Christmas Tree for disposal from January 2 through January 13, 2108 and you will receive a coupon good for 20% off any regularly priced merchandise purchased by February 28, …

WATERSAVER LANDSCAPE COUPON PROGRAM ELIGIBILITY & HIGHLIGHTS COUPON Coupon recipients must meet these eligibility requirements: (a.) must be a SAWS residential water customer (b.) Must be the homeowner at the location where coupons will be utilized. Customers may only receive a maximum of eight (8) coupons (WaterSaver Landscape and Patioscape combined) per service address. Customers …