Prepare yourself for a striking display of fall foliage as our Texas red oaks begin to trade their green canopies for a blaze of deep orange and red. As part 1 to our Texas Fall Foliage Series, SBCA is spotlighting one of our favorite native trees, the Texas red oak! Texas red oak’s scientific na...

Native to the arid stretches of the southwestern United States and northern Mexico, the sotol plant displays its rosette of long, linear leaf blades, growing out in all directions from a ground-level, central bulb. When the leaves die, they remain attached to the bulb, forming a skirt of dry, gre...