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Native Son – July 2025: Just a Little Garden Bench

By Steven Chamblee • July 16, 2025

I was visiting a private garden one day, accompanied by two busloads of other garden writers—ironically, each of us trying to get photos of the garden with no one else ...

Gardening This Weekend: July 17, 2025

By Neil Sperry • July 16, 2025

If you can spend 15-30 minutes per day tending to your landscape and garden, I believe you can accomplish the tasks I’ve outlined below. To be honest, that does not ...

Q&A – Ask Neil: July 17, 2025

By Neil Sperry • July 16, 2025

(Please read these instructions carefully.)Before you post your question, please look at recent issues to see if someone else has already asked it. You might find your answer there. July ...

Beauties of the night

By Neil Sperry • July 16, 2025

Not all the plants that we grow act like sunflowers and daylilies. They don’t all greet the new days with bright, cheerful blooms. Some come out at night, and they’re ...

Armadillos are back

By Neil Sperry • July 15, 2025

They’re an icon of the Southwest. Unfortunately, they’re also native to the 11-acre Sperry pecan forest. They forage at night, and it’s not uncommon to have one run past you ...

Fairy rings – they have them in Scotland, too

By Neil Sperry • July 15, 2025

If you were watching the CBS broadcast of the Genesis Scottish Open golf tournament this past Sunday you might have noticed the curious circles in the fairways and greens. Is ...

What exactly is “root rot?”

By Neil Sperry • July 9, 2025

A lot of plant deaths are explained away casually as being “root rot.” People seem content with that broad-sweep explanation, but what does it really tell us? Certainly, most plants ...

Favorite Foliage

By Neil Sperry • July 9, 2025

Don’t get me wrong – I have no issue at all with plants that want to bloom in the heat. But it’s nice when there are also plants with colorful ...

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