Neil Sperry’s Lone Star Gardening Holiday Special 2024 • 344 pages and 840 of my best photos. • Hardback, printed on high-quality paper. • I sign every copy as it …
Take a quick scan down this list and see if you were already aware… • All members of the Cactus family are native to the Western Hemisphere. Any that are …
This was the photo, probably from Facebook, that a friend sent me last weekend along with the simple word “Wow!” So you think to yourself, what kind of a tree …
We have a few days left before Thanksgiving. That means a little while to tidy things up. It’s not all that challenging. Here are some starters. PLANT• Winter color from …
Texas A&M and Texas A&M AgriLife entomologists have done a much better job of putting the spotlight on stinging caterpillars than I can do. I’m going to refer you to …
(Before I go any farther, let me mention that most of the photos I’ll share with you are not from the Sperry home landscape. They’re from gardens I’ve visited over …
There’s nothing ordinary about the gardens in Galveston’s East End Historic District. Most are small; some are tiny, squeezed in narrow, alley-like side yards and tucked under outdoor stairways. They …
This time of year, we garden with one eye focused on current activities and the other focused on the forecast 10 and 15 days into the future. Things can change …
I’ve always called them simply “woolly oak galls.” That filled my needs, but North Carolina State Entomologist Emeritus James Baker has a much better name. He says they’re the “detachable …
