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Q&A – Ask Neil: March 6, 2025

By Neil Sperry • March 5, 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. February ...

Gardening This Weekend – March 6, 2025

By Neil Sperry • March 5, 2025

It’s been tough to be a tulip this spring in Texas. Or a pansy, or a daffodil. When the cold doesn’t get you, the 75 mph winds will. But we ...

Saucer Magnolias popping their blossoms

By Neil Sperry • March 5, 2025

We might have expected to see their rare beauty a few weeks before now, but two cold spells, one of them just a couple of weeks back, delayed the very ...

Choose the Best Mowing Height

By Neil Sperry • March 5, 2025

Success in lawnkeeping depends on following a few basic rules. One of those applies to mowing heights. Here are your guidelines. Our southern lawns are basically runner-producing grasses. If we ...

Calling all Buckeye fans – by Steve Huddleston

By Steve Huddleston • March 5, 2025

If you’re looking for a small tree for a landscape featuring native Texas plants, or if you’re planting a pollinator garden, Mexican buckeye deserves consideration. Native to southwestern, central, and ...

Q&A – Ask Neil: February 27, 2025

By Neil Sperry • February 25, 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. February ...

B.R.I.T. reaches a milestone

By Neil Sperry • February 25, 2025

My dad and my uncle were both PhD botanists from the University of Nebraska. Somehow, they both made their ways to the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas, now better ...

How do I celebrate the best father ever?

By Neil Sperry • February 25, 2025

Things could have turned out so differently for me. I was born in 1944 toward the end of WWII. In San Antonio. But I never knew my father. Actually, I ...

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