Shopping in Seguin

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Rainbow Gardens specializes in native plants and water-shunning xeriscape plants, which thrive in the Texas heat and provide a more eco-friendly lawn by requiring less irrigation. The stunning garden shop offers a huge selection of annuals, perennials, and blue mooneries, as well as everything a gardener needs to create a vibrant plant-filled habitat despite poor soil conditions. Each nursery has a minimum of five acres of inventory-packed space teeming with autotrophic life forms. The stock rotates regularly according to planting times, with headliners such as cacti, succulents, roses, and geraniums making vibrant and lauded appearances. Spruce up your path to the mailbox with a front yard bespeckled by four-inch annuals ($1.49+), four-inch perennials ($2.49–$2.99), and gallon perennials (starting at $4.98 and generally costing $6.99). Three-gallon shrubs for landscaping ($16.99) and five-gallon trees for indoor tree farming ($26.99–$34.99) are also available. The addition of houseplants or hanging baskets of flowers does more than just transform the aesthetic setting of a room—some scientists argue that plants can improve health. From the standoffish paeonia to the enthusiastic, misunderstood barrel cactus, there’s a plant to match everyone's personality. Use your Groupon to bring some healthy color and green energy to your space, or give someone special a gift of renewal and life.

Dietz-McLean Optical stocks an ogle-worthy array of popular designer brands, including styles from Michael Kors, Nike, Calvin Klein, Adidas, Coach, Fendi, Oakley, Giorgio Armani, Disney, and Flexon. So you can see how cool you look, pair your fancy new pair of frames with top-of-the-line lenses. Dietz-McLean carries lightweight, impact-resistant lens technology from Phoenix, a variety of progressive lenses for smaller fashion frames, and super-high-vision lenses to help you see better over tall people sitting in front of you in the movie theater. All glasses from Dietz-McLean Optical come with a two-year unconditional warranty.

Krystalina applies a higher purification standard to its water than most conventional filters can provide. A nine-step process includes reverse osmosis and ultraviolet sterilization, cleansing your refreshing sips of everything but the smoothest, best-tasting bonds of hydrogen and oxygen. Krystalina's system is under careful 24-hour watch, ensuring every drip and drop is as pure as new-fallen snow or new-erupted lava.

Operated by the volunteer-based nonprofit Friends of the San Antonio Public Library, The Book Cellar houses an extensive collection of used fiction, nonfiction, reference books, magazines, and media for purchase at extremely low prices, usually $0.50 to $1. The wares themselves have been donated by the library, and proceeds from the sales support library programs and activities such as the Summer Reading program, satisfying patrons' philanthropic side while indulging their tendencies toward bibliomania.

The expert cycle surgeons at Bike World—one of whom was voted best bike mechanic by the San Antonio Current in 2010—are masters at nursing sick duocycles back to an optimal state of road-worthiness. The thorough tune-up involves adjusting the front and rear derailleurs and brakes, truing the wheels, lubing the cables and chain, and wiping down the frame with fancy white gloves. Once your bike is as finely tuned as an instrument made of baseball cards and spokes, feel free to blaze down trails, tracks, and undiscovered shortcuts to celebrities' houses with a renewed sense of fearlessness.