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Gardening This Weekend: June 26, 2025

By Neil Sperry • June 25, 2025

Next weekend will be a long holiday weekend. The more we can get done now the less we’ll have to worry about then. Here are the things I’d deem to ...

Wish we saw it more often…

By Neil Sperry • June 24, 2025

When I took the job as Dallas County Extension horticulturist in 1970, my office was on the top floor of the Records Building (across the street from the Texas School ...

The Roan garden-A haven for plants and pollinators – by Diane Morey Sitton

By Diane Morey Sitton • June 24, 2025

It’s not surprising that one of Mary Roan’s favorite quotes reads: “Creating a garden starts with an interest and soon becomes a lifetime’s obsession, one that can be engaged at ...

Q&A – Ask Neil: June 26, 2025

By Neil Sperry • June 24, 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. June ...

Who’s hiding in there?

By Neil Sperry • June 24, 2025

Every year of my life I’ve had these little guys in my Texas landscapes. I wasn’t sure what I had initially, but the most user-friendly university entomologist ever, H.A. Turney ...

Q&A – Ask Neil: June 19, 2025

By Neil Sperry • June 18, 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. June ...

Native Son: I Tried to Plant a Seed Today

By Steven Chamblee • June 18, 2025

I tried to plant a seed today,It seemed such a simple thing to do,But clueless me had no idea,Of the trouble I’s ‘bout to brew. First, I thought of a ...

Ornamental grasses – my feelings and my favorites

By Neil Sperry • June 18, 2025

My dad was a Professor of Range Science at Texas A&M. He was a PhD botanist who specialized in ranchland grasses of Texas. As I traveled across Texas in the ...

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