Garden guides
Black clay, alkaline soil, 100-degree summers and a freeze or two — North Texas is its own gardening climate. These guides are written for it, by the Nursery Professionals at Landscape Source.
🌿 Start here
Twenty straight answers about planting depth, watering, mulch, feeding, pruning and freezes — the questions we hear at the counter every day. If you read one page, read this one.
💧 Watering guide
Black clay, 100-degree Augusts and a two-day-a-week sprinkler schedule make watering in Rockwall its own skill. Here is how we water at the nursery, and how to keep what you buy alive at home.
🌷 Season guide · March–May
Rockwall goes from last freeze to 90 degrees in about ten weeks. Here is what to plant, what to do and what to buy, in order.
☀️ Season guide · June–September
A North Texas summer is a marathon for plants. The goal from June through September is not growth — it is survival with style.
🍂 Season guide · October–November
Cool air, warm soil and winter rain on the way. Anything you plant in October has six months to grow roots before it ever sees a summer.
❄️ Season guide · December–February
North Texas winters are mostly mild with a few hard freezes that do all the damage. Knowing what to protect — and what to leave alone — is most of the job.
🪨 Soil guide
Rockwall soil is heavy, alkaline Blackland Prairie clay. It is fertile and it holds water, but it fights you on drainage and it locks up iron. Here is how to work with it.
🌱 Lawn guide
Bermuda, St. Augustine and Zoysia all want the same handful of things at the same handful of dates. Miss the dates and you spend the year chasing weeds.
🌳 How-to
Most trees that fail in North Texas were planted too deep, watered wrong, or strangled by their own mulch. Ten minutes of doing it right is worth it.
🔍 Troubleshooting
Bring a leaf in a zip bag (or a photo) and we will tell you for sure. Until then, here are the usual suspects in Rockwall yards.
📅 Month by month
What to plant, feed, prune and watch for, every month of the year in North Texas.
🧮 Calculators
Work out how many yards, bags or plants you need before you come in.
❓ Questions
Hours, delivery, the plant warranty, contractor accounts, bulk materials and the Pumpkin Patch.