About The Texas Riviera
A natural greenhouse with a window on the tropics, “The Texas Riviera” spans an arc of some 130 miles along the state’s middle Gulf Coast from Matagorda Peninsula to Baffin Bay and is one of America’s best kept secrets. Enter this exotic land of sunshine, palms and the gulf coast breeze, where time, Texans and life all merged together, creating this New World, style of South Texas living.
Recent Posts

Cycas Revoluta Sago Palms Propogating Pups
How to Harvest Sago Palms Removing and planting the pups or suckers that appear on and around the mother plant, is really quite easy. Remove

Musa Banana
Some people refer to bananas as trees or palms, but they are neither a tree nor a palm, but a giant clumping tropical herb. Bananas

Palms in our Garden
Here is a visual list of most of the palms in our garden. Acoelorrhaphe wrightii (Everglades Palm; Silver Saw Palm; Paurotis Palm) and Ravenea rivularis

Dwarf Rhapis Images
Here is a nice selection of Rhapis Excelsa Dwarf named varieties for your enjoyment…. If you’d like to purchase one or more of these for

Rhapis excelsa Taking the Pups
Lady palms are readily propagated by removing the pups and re-potting them in their own pot. The pups are the new shoots that grow through

Rhapis excelsa taiheiden
King of the Kannonchiku Rhapis excelsa Images The “king of the kannonchiku” Rhapis excelsa ‘taiheiden’ is perhaps the most sought after of the all-green Rhapis.