Neil Sperry’s Lone Star Gardening • Covers all aspects of landscaping, lawns, flowers, fruit and vegetable gardening for every county in Texas. • 344 pages, 840 of my best photos. …
“Annual” flowers complete their life cycles in the garden within one growing season and then they’re gone. “Perennial” flowers come back year after year from their roots. With larkspurs you …
Here are your important goals for the second half of May. PLANT• Hot-weather annuals. Caladiums can be planted as soils warm. Coleus, begonias, angelonias, Dahlberg daisies, fanflowers, pentas, lantanas, purple …
Mid-May is prime time for starting new turfgrass. Soils have warmed enough that grass roots will grow well, yet it’s not hot yet, so it isn’t difficult to keep the …
February saw some of the coldest temperatures in decades in many parts of our state. And they came as trees were gearing up to start growing. Nurserymen, arborists, foresters, Extension …
In last week’s e-gardens I showed you examples of crape myrtles that were struggling to come back from the freeze. I also showed you plants that froze completely to the …
Yellow flowers against a bright pink wall, a purple and orange fence, maroon foliage atop a yellow Styrofoam head: when it comes to bold garden color, it’s fun to follow …
In a normal spring there could be 100 gardening things to get done in this Mother’s Day weekend. This year, add that many more because of the cold. But here …
I’ve driven (actually ridden) many miles looking at live oaks and red oaks and their erratic leafing patterns since the February deep freeze. I’ve spent many hours looking at, walking …
